Diggers & Mining: The Digging - The Diggers. Slide; When a Gold field shows signs of permanency, the Government surveyed a site for a township on the field. The story of the rise of these towns is told in Unit II of this series. Smalll businesses - some of them conducted by diggers who had done well on the fields - were established in these towns. The following frames contain pictures of some of these early goldfields towns. Black and white side. Markings: 40 994.LIF:6. Used as a teaching aid.hanimounteducation, tertiary, goldfields

Diggers & Mining. Stores at the diggings. The pictures we have of the diggings stores show only individual stores of small groups of stores. But contemporary writers speak of almost continuous ''streets'' of hastily erected stores in the centres of most of the important goldfields - even before the establishment of goldfields towns. We have been unable to find a contemporary picture of these ''Canvas Towns''. Markings: 30 994.LIF. 5. Used as a teaching aid.hanimounteducation, tertiary, goldfields

Pages 1 - 18 of The Bendigonian, dated 25 June, 1907. Contains Mining Intelligence, News, Court News, Sport, Crime, and Advertisements. Also has photos of Mr. W. Gibbs (Mendelssohn, Photographer), Mr. G. F. Hunter (Talma, Photographer), Miss Wilby's Athletic Class (Boys), Miss Wilby's Athletic Class (Girls), and two pictures of Port Said - The Min Promenade & The Inner Harbour showing the Landing Pier.newspaper, bendigo, the bendigonian, the bendigonian 25/6/1907, w gibbs, g f hunter, mendelssohn, talma, miss wilby, bendigo advertiser, bendigo independent, mcconnell - harrison wedding party, vincent kelly

Diggers & Mining. Getting the Gold. Slide: (S.T. Gill) 'Hole on the Gravel Pits'. Top right corner: 2 words illegible - of candles x water (x in the pictures shows where the water is laying). Bottom right; Hole in the gravel pits. Well for drainage (if you look closely at the sketch there is a mark on the boards that matches the mark beside the wording to show you where the drainage is). Markings: 36 994.LIF:4. Used as a teaching aid.hanimounteducation, tertiary, goldfields

A hardcovered book titled 'Our Darlings' the Children's Treasury of Pictures & Stories. London. John F Shaw & Co, 48 Paternoster Row. 425 Pages.John F Shaw & Cobook, childrens' picture story book

Coloured booklet of various scenes and buildings in and around Bendigo, titled Bendigo Victoria's Golden City. The front cover has a scene of Charing Cross looking towards Pall Mall. Inside the front cover is a very brief history and some Historical Buildings are mentioned. They are: Fortuna, Shamrock Hotel, Gold Mines Hotel, City Hall, Post Office, Law Courts, the Home for the Aged, Sacred Heart Cathedral, St. Paul's, Specimen Cottage, Log Lock-up and the Chinese Joss House. The coloured pictures inside are: The Central Deborah Gold Mine, Fortuna, Miner's Cottage, The Gold Mines Hotel, Victoria Hill, Bendigo Law Courts, Eaglehawk Log Lock-up, Look-out Tower Rosalind Park, Alexandra Fountain - Charing Cross, Conservatory Gardens with Law Courts in background, Inside the Conservatory, Bendigo Home & Hospital for the Aged - Victoria's 'White House', Sacred Heart Cathedral, Chinese Joss House, Chinese Joss House - Interior of the Main Temple, Bendigo Pottery - Potter at work, Bendigo Municipal Offices, Bendigo Institute of Technology at Flora Hill, Mt. Alvernia Hospital, Cobb & Co Coach, R Class Locomotive, Bendigo Tramcar, Lake Weeroona and Lake Eppalock Pumping Station. Some more attractions are mentioned inside the back cover. On the back cover is the Cenotaph - the only scale replica of the Whitehall Cenotaph - and Alexandra Fountain by night.Nucolorvue Productions Pty Ltdbendigo, tourism, photographs of bendigo icons, bendigo - victoria's golden city, fortuna, shamrock hotel, gold mines hotel, city hall, post office, law courts, home for the aged, victoria's 'white house', sacred heart cathedral, st paul's, specimen cottage, log lock-up, chinese joss house, charing cross, cenotaph, alexandra fountain, centra deborah gold mine, army cartographic unit, miner's cottage, harvey town, victoria hill, look-out tower rosalind park, conservatory gardens, conservatory, bendigo pottery, bendigo municipal offices, bendigo institute of technology, mt alvernia hospital, cobb & co coach, r class locomotive, bendigo railway station, bendigo tramcar, lake weeroona, lake eppalock pumping station, art gallery, historical museum eaglehawk, melville's caves, whitehall cenotaph, nucolorvue productins pty ltd, national library of australia

19 page history of Sho Noboru Takasuka. A Great Australian. Accompanied by various pictures of Sho and his family. Mr. Isaburo (Jo) Takasuka. Ichiko. Rice growers. Japanese. House of Representatives Rikken Seiyukai Party Japan. Shire President of Huntly, Victoria.person, individual, sho takasuka

A box with a picture of trees on the front. It contains cuttings of articles relating to trees taken from 'The Bendigo Advertiser' 1955-1963. It also includes pictures of trees from magazines in the 1960s and a book titled 'Australian Eucalyptus.' The book was compiled by B.G. Mulllins. Published by Horwitz Int.'Australian Eucalyptus. By B.G. Mulllins. Published by Horwitz Intsciences, general, trees, lydia chancellor, collection, trees, environment, heritage, nature, place, sciences

Diggers & Mining. Diggers and miners. Walhalla - Gold Town. Some idea of the difficulties which faced the early inhabitants may be gauged by the following pictures, which show the nature of the surrounding country. Markings: 15 995 WAL. Used as a teaching aid.hanimounteducation, tertiary, goldfields

Diggers & Mining. Diggers and miners. The following four pictures illustrate hw one digger moved from one diggings to another between 1852 and 1855. At each diggings he tried, he put up a tent up hut; and before he left, he made a drawing of his quarters. These drawings are now kept in the Faulder - Watson collection at Castlemaine. Markings: 41 994:LIF I. Used as a teaching aid.hanimounteducation, tertiary, goldfields

Queenscliffe Maritime Museum construction.Historical photos of the early days of the QMM construction c1984Colour & Black & White photos of the early phases of the QMM construction, c1984.Reverse " NIL ".historical references

Soft cover, sepia pictures on back and front cover. 105 pages, 20 chapters, indexed.Author; Michael P Garnett First published 2013 Published by Historical Publications, Romsey, Victoria

A box with a picture of cats on the front. It contains pictures of cats in various sources - postcards -there is a Kruger label on the back , Made in Western Germany, and artist initials E.K.on the front , cards, books, albums, pictures, calendars and magazines. C. 1960's.CATS 3person, individual, lydia chancellor, lydia chancellor, collection, animals, cats, pets, cards, card album, magazines, ephemera

Diggers & Mining. The Diggings The Diggers. Slide: Others were unlucky, working hard and getting little gold. Pictures Depicts 2 diggers having found no gold. Markings: 79 994.LIF:4 S. T. G. Bad Results. Used as a teaching aid.hanimounteducation, tertiary, goldfields

Black & white 35mm negative strip containing three pictures of the Bendigo Deutschen Verein 1871. Small Sepia photo of 114 small oval bust photos of men. The name, first word unknown, Bendigo Deutschen Verein 1871. Printed on the back of the photo - Photographed by Chevalier, Pall Mall, Sandhurst. Contained in a buff envelope with - 'Negs & Original Photo of Deutschen Verein'. Written on the back of the envelope is 'German Heritage Society, Bendigo'. Also a small yellow card with 'Negs - (22/9/95) Photo - original of Deutschen Verein. Small card with typed note - The Deutscher Verein met at the European Hotel (now demolished) in High St. There, in later years it had a library of over 5000 volumes.Chevalier, Pall Mall, Sandhurstnegative, bendigo, german heritage society, german heritage society collection - photograph deutschen verein & negative, chevalier

The Dardanelles, an epic told in pictures, published by The Alfieri Picture Service Fleet Street London, 111 pages in a spring bound binder with photographs and description of the operations.books, military, the dardanelles

Diggers & Mining: Diggers & Mining.Silde reads: The artists of the Victorian gold era - Gill, Strutt, von Guerard and others - drew nearly all of their pictures of the diggings in the first half of the gold decade: con-sequently this unit of these filmstrips deals mainly with life and work on the diggings only between 1851 and 1855. Markings:54/ 994:LIF1. Used as a teaching aid.hanimounteducation, tertiary, diggers & miners

The student's atlas of physical geography consisting of twenty maps, constructed and engraved by Edward Weller F.R.G.S. with descriptive letterpress by James Bryce L.L.D F.R.G.S. Published by William Collins, Sons & Company, London, Glasgow and Edinburgh 1871. Brown cover with the title of the book in gold letters. to the left of the title, also in gold, three circles with different pictures inside. the first of two boats on the sea, a volcanic eruption and a mountain peak.On first page in pencil the name Carrie Van Damme.geography, atlas, 1871

BHS CollectionTwelve pages pictorial lift out from Bendigo Advertiser. the pages are full of pictures divided into sections: Early days, Views of Bendigo 1905, Hargreaves Street, Eaglehawk, The Doney collection, Great old pics.bendigo advertiser, pictorial

BHS CollectionTwelve pages pictorial lift out from Bendigo Advertiser. Turning back the clock, 1989 pictorial lift out. Sections are: Early days, Maidens watch as the years pass by, Pall Mall our historic Centre, Bendigo's beautiful historic landmarks, Pictures worth a thousand words, first lady of the Capital recalls the good times. bendigo advertiser, pictorial

BHS CollectionCut out of the front page of the Bendigo Advertiser from Thursday, October 13, 1988. Article titled "the great walk is on again" by Wayne Gregson, pictures by Peter Hyett. The article describes the walk undertaken by writer underground from the Central Deborah mine remerging at the North Deborah mine. bendigo advertiser, 1988, central deborah, north deborah

George Edwin Wells was born in Oxford in 1826. He served an apprenticeship as a coachbuilder and in 1841 he went to New Zealand. He was returning to England in 1848 when he changed his mind in Singapore and turned around and came to Melbourne. He operated a store with Mr W Gibbs and when gold as discovered they left their wives in Melbourne and went to the gold fields of Ballarat in 1851. At this time George was newly married to Catherine Kiely. In 1852 the two men were at the Golden Gully area of the Fryers Creek gold fields, they then move to Bendigo, initially to White Hills before settling in Long Gully. They then brought their patient wives, who had only had visits from their husbands, to Bendigo. George had several successful mining ventures in Bendigo. He died in 1898. One of his sons, Alfred, married Margaret Rotherham in NSW where he was living. Alfred died in 1911 leaving Margaret with a young family. She moved to Bendigo to be nearer to family support. Alfred and Margaret's daughter, Elma Winslade Wells 91904 - 19/1/1988) became a teacher and was posted to Camp Hill Primary School. She was also heavily involved in the Scout movement in the Bendigo area.Blue hardcover scrapbook belonging to the Wells family. (Elma Wells). The cover has gold, black and blue flowers and birds on it. The word "scraps" in red within a gold rectangular box completes the cover. Inside all the pages are filled with drawing and pictures of people, animals, flowers and landscapes. Also, various poems are transcribed on the pages. Newspaper cuttings are also glued to pages and in two yellow envelopes.Inside cover in pencil: The Wells Family scrap book donated to the Royal Historical Society Bendigo Branch by Miss Elma W. Wellsfamily history, wells family

Map of Australia printed for the Centenary of Federation 1901-2001. Description of the footsteps to federation and starting at left pictures of: John Forrest (first premier of Western Australia) - Edmund Barton (Australia's first Prime Minister) - Charles Kingston (premier of South Australia) - Catherine Helen Spence (first woman to run for political office) - Alfred Deakin ( Australia's first deputy Prime Minister) - John Quick (Force behind the people convention) - Andrew Inglis Clark (Attorney General of Tasmania) - Henry Parkes (Premier of New South Wales) - Robert Garran (helped draft the final version of the Constitution) - George Reid (Premier of New South Wales) - Maybanke Wolstenholme (leading women' s suffrage and Federation campaigner) - Samuel Griffith (former Queensland Premier) - The Exhibition Building, Melbourne - Vaiben Louis Solomon (represented the Northern Territory). On the right the evolution of the colonies and the states from 1788 to 1915.australia, history, centenary of federation

Article from the Bendigo Advertiser dated Thursday, December 27, 1990. ''Municipal band raises funds''. Two pictures of some of the members of the brass band performing: Russell Bovaird, Jillian Boivard, Mark Ford and Tracy Garrett.entertainment, music, strathfieldsaye brass

The Sun from Wednesday April 14, 1976. A two pages article titled: A one family town about the Sandhurst Town tourist village. Article by Roger Sanders with pictures by Bill Tindale.newspaper, sun news -pictorial, a one family town

Twelve pages document titled: ''Theatrical traditions - stage and screen in Bendigo. The document details the history of theatres in Bendigo from the early days. Paragraphs titles are: The Shamrock Hotel, The Criterion Theatre, Abbott's Lyceum, St. James Hall, The Royal Princess Theatre, The Masonic Theatre, Open air picture Theatres, The Lyric Theatre, Plaza Theatre, Eaglehawk pictures. The Golden drive-in Picture Theatres in decline, Contemporary cinemas, Community traditions, Bendigo Regional Arts Centre, Ulumbarra Theatre. The document was prepared for the Post Office Gallery exhibition and is marked Confidential.entertainment, theatre, post office gallery

The Child's Education magazines were published for British teachers between 1924 and 2007 to help them plan activities for the season ahead. The internal pages contain a variety of lesson ideas in the form of a music, art or craft activities. This copy was donated to the Kew Historical Society's collection by the Preshil archives.This 1958 periodical, sourced from the Preshil School. is interesting as it represents the continuing influence of English education and culture in the Australian curriculum in the late 1950s.20 page newsletter containing artwork and articles on the theme shipping and boats. Text on page 3 describes the subject of the issue as 'Around our Coasts'. This is amplified by the text as: "In preparation for the children's seaside holiday, descriptions and pictures of ships, boats and lighthouses, and their work are contained in this issue. Suggestions for handwork are also given. The wall picture [not included with this item] in full colour illustrates many different ships which the children might see at the seaside or on a river estuary."periodicals -- child education uk, themes -- shipping and boats, messrs evans bros ltd