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Kiewa Valley Historical Society
Book - A History of the Kiewa Valley, Kiewa Valley Historical Society, A History of the Kiewa Valley by Esther Temple and David Lloyd, Circa 1991
This book was compiled by Esther Temple and David Lloyd with illustrations by Betty Barberis and additional material provided by Clare Roper, Joan Macdonald, Wilma Davies and Nell Bateman. The book was first penned in 1971. It briefly covers the period from the indigenous tribes(broken down into family groupings) known as the "first Australians" who lived in the valley well before English settlers arrived. first white settlement (graziers, miners, stockmen) to smaller settlements.The development or transformation from a pristine(hunter/gatherer) valley environment to one that has been gradually changing to a more commercial rural/industrial landscaped valley. This transformation was made within a time span of two hundred years. The book details the first pioneers and their descendants, along with the changes to their environments both domestic and commercial. The book highlights dates and events that shaped the "feel" of the valley. The extreme hardships faced by pioneer families during the extremely isolated times away from "civilisation".This publication provides an insight to the struggles and victories against the harsh Australian bushland by people who had not been raised in such a sometimes inhospitable environment. It was this transformation which instilled into the Australian psyche of self sufficiency and the ability to grasp onto ideas or "bush" remedies to overcome enormous difficulties. It is is ability that has produced the many inventions useful in the 20th and 21st centuries.This book has a 250 g/m cream coloured cover with print and drawings of rural aspects of historical significance ( Aboriginal and early white settlers). The book contains 124 pages of black and white photographs(139), black and white sketches(75), two pages of sketches and freehand drawings, two freehand maps one county lease /subdivision plan and black and white printing. See KVHS 0237 (B) for the official invitation to the launch of the book.The front top cover heading(in shaded print and enclosed in a banner form) "A HISTORY OF THE KIEWA VALLEY" The bottom printing "BY ESTHER TEMPLE & DAVID LLOYD ILLUSTRATIONS BY BETTY BARBERIS" and at the very bottom "KIEWA VALLEY HISTORICAL SOCIETY" oN THE BOOK SPINE "A HISTORY OF THE KIEWA VALLEY.....BY ESTHER TEMPLE & DAVID LLOYD"early settlers, dederang, tawonga, mount beauty, sec vic hydro electricity, falls creek early settlers, bonegilla -
Phillip Island and District Historical Society Inc.
Photograph, Anderson Family, 1869
Brickworks situated on large farming area. Built soon after his arrival on Phillip Island in 1868.Brickworks in rural setting. Slender tree trunks in foreground alongside river. Post and wire fence with slip-rail gate. Large brick building and pavilion-type sheds with canvas awnings. Wood piled up outside.local history, photography, photographs, slides, film, buildings, historic, brick works of robert anderson snr, at phillip island, black & white photograph, mrs emma anderson jacobs -
Orbost & District Historical Society
board game, 1930-1950
The National Bicycle Game is an Australian-made and designed board game for 2, 3 or 4 players made by The National Game Company of Ballarat and Melbourne between 1930 and 1950. The earliest board games date from the mid-18th century and were printed on copper or steel plates and coloured by hand. By 1839 lithography was first used, making it possible for publishers to produce larger quantities of all types of toys. By the 1890s the games were mounted on to a folded board. Popular subjects were of an historical or geographical nature, as well as transport including motoring, aviation and railways and various sports. The board game 'A Motor Ride' ,made by The National Game Company, was possibly the first large-scale manufacturer of locally-designed board games in Australia. The firm was established in Ballarat, Victoria, at the beginning of the twentieth century by W. Owen. Other board games made by National include the 'Victory-United Nations" game, 'Fairyland', 'Yacht Race', 'Golf Game', 'Bicycle Game', Steeple Chase', 'Our Great Game' about football, 'Courtship and Marriage', 'Around the Commonwealth by Aeroplane', and 'Dugouts and Trenches' as well as the more traditional games such as Ludo, Snakes and Ladders, and Noughts and Crosses. This game board has been well-used. The game is significant because it uses scenarios familiar to Australian children in the first half of the twentieth century. This game board reflects the experience of being a child in the twentieth century. Toys were how children were socialised and taught. Most toys mimic the adult world, and looking at them can tell us something about how the world has changed. A folding game board for The national Bicycle Game for 2,3 or 4 players. It has a yellow spiral track on which the player progresses at the throw of the die, starting at the clubhouse until reaching home. In the background are pictures of rural scenes.board-games recreation cycling national-game-company -
Bendigo Historical Society Inc.
Document - GERTRUDE PERRY COLLECTION: CARDS FROM JAPAN, 1946
Document. 2 cards sent to Gertrude Perry from Doreen Moore serving in Japan for the British Commonwealth Occupation Force. R.A.A.F. One hand painted Japanese rural scene. One postcard of Tokyo. Plus envelopes.organization, military, air force, gertrude perry collection, cards from japan, moore doreen, british commonwealth occupation force r.a.a.f. -
Lakes Entrance Regional Historical Society (operating as Lakes Entrance History Centre & Museum)
Photograph, 1993
Photograph taken and competition played at Lakes Entrance Recreation Centre..Black and white photograph of seven named children from Johnsonville Primary School Basketball Team Runners-Up, in Tambo Rural Schools Cluster competition each child is holding a pennant flag. Lakes Entrance Victoriaschools, sports -
Kiewa Valley Historical Society
Photographs- 1 old black and white photograph of a wooden bridge over a river possibly Ryders Bridge in Tawonga. 2 –Enlargement of the original photograph showing the gentleman leaning on the bridge. Taken off the original photo
The bridge is not definitively identified, but is of similar construction style to other bridges built in rural areas around this time. Circa 1930”s and may be Ryders Bridge (Old Tawonga Bridge) which crosses the Kiewa River on Mountain Creek Rd Tawonga The first Tawonga bridge was built in 1884- destroyed by floods in 1916. New bridge constructed 1923 and destroyed in 1953. Present concrete bridge constructed in 1986 and named Ryders Bridge These wooden bridges were the only method for transporting stock and produce to market, transporting timber to the mills, sending and receiving mail and for local people to cross the many rivers in the area to go about their daily business. 1- Black and white photograph is glued onto heavy cardboard, which is yellowing with age. Top right hand corner has a tear in the cardboard. Photograph depicts a wooden bridge on wooden piles with 2 white wooden railings along the length of both sides. 2- Original photo has been digitally enlarged to show a gentleman in a light coloured suite and wearing riding boots leaning on the rails of the bridge. The bridge is not definitively identified, but is of similar construction style to other bridges built in rural areas around this time. Circa 1930”s may be Ryders Bridge (Old Tawonga Bridge) which crosses the Kiewa River on Mountain Creek Rd Tawonga bridge; tawonga bridge; kiewa valley -
Orbost & District Historical Society
book / document, Shire of Orbost Planning Schemes March 1989, 1989
This document was produced in 1989 for Orbost Shire Council. It ccovers the area s of Orbost, Mallacoota, Cann River and Newmerella and includes urban and non-urban areas.This document is a useful reference tool.A book with a brown front cover with a plastic over-sheet and plastic binding.On the cover are b/w drawings of rural landscapes, trees and the coast. It is titled SHIRE OF ORBOST PLANNING STUDY Part 1 Strategic Overviews, March 1989.orbost-planning -
Bendigo Historical Society Inc.
Book - ALEC H CHISHOLM COLLECTION: BOOK ''A SHANTY ENTERTAINMENT'' BY 'MILKY WHITE'
Book. ALEC H CHISHOLM COLLECTION. 114 page softcover booklet of poetry and prose about rural Australia. Published in 1904 by Gordon & Gotch, Melbourne and printed by Ford & Taylor, Melbourne. Catalogue sticker ''2261 MIL'' on spine.Unknown - ''Milky White''books, collections, short stories, alec h chisholm collection, milky white, poetry, prose, rural australia -
Bendigo Historical Society Inc.
Document - LANDS OFFICE: SANDHURST LAND SALES 1865 - 1869, 1865 - 1869
Document: green hard cover journal. Red spine and corners. Contains name index to areas in Sandhurst region, including rural areas. LH page: allots. secs., locality, page book. RH page: same information.Lands Officeplace, bendigo, land sales, bendigo, sandhurst, land sales, land surveyed -
Bendigo Historical Society Inc.
Document - BASIL WATSON COLLECTION: AIRMAIL PARCEL STICKER, c. 1930's
Coloured sticker with an illustration of an aircraft flying over an Australian rural scene. Around the border: Australian Aerial Services Limited - Larkin Aircraft Supply Co Ltd' . Section (blank) for addresses (to and from). No obvious connection with Watson era.person, individual, basil watson -
Bendigo Historical Society Inc.
Administrative record - Work program
BHS CollectionA set of thirty-seven drawing of mainly of animals done by children. The sketches are in a green folder called the revised new curriculum work programme for rural schools 1943, school no. 2396, name McKenzie Creek, Teache Maya McKebery.mckenzie creek, drawing -
Maldon Vintage Machinery Museum Inc
Sewing Machine, 1883 - 1885
Treadle sewing machine with metal base, wooden table and leather drive belt. The base plate is decorated with a rural scene featuring a 3 storey house, male & female figures in Victorian dress, horse and buggy painted in colour.Name printed on arm of machine, hard to decipher - appears to be "New Home Treadle Serial No 404879"dometsic items sewing machinery -
Cockatoo History & Heritage Group
Cardboard Box, Cockatoo Primary School Centenary Shortbread Box
Cockatoo Primary School Centenary Memorial Shortbread BoxEmpty cardboard box which originally contained shortbread biscuits. Box includes the primary school logo and images of the old rural school when it was situated in Ivy St. -
City of Greater Geelong
Painting - Watercolour, John Sterchele, Surf Fishing, Ocean Grove, 1991
Beach scene looking along water line towards a vegetated area in background with two figures fishing.On plaque: Bellarine Peninsula Art Show 1991 Best Watercolour or Other Medium "Surf Fishing Ocean Grove" by John Sterchele Purchased by Bellarine Rural City Councilsurf, fishing, ocean grove, john sterchele, geelong -
NMIT (Northern Melbourne Institute of TAFE)
Booklet: Historic Aradale [NMIT Site Plan and Introduction 2003], HiBooklet: Historic Aradale [NMIT Site Plan and Introduction 2003]
Twenty-seven page colour booklet, with introduction and site plans for the Ararat Campus of NMIT, 2003. One large A3 copy and one smaller A4 copy. Also Program for Official opening of Aradale Campus Sunday 17 November 2002. Also large aerial photograph of Aradale campus 2003. Also VHS video Ararat Rural City Council celebrates rebirth of Aradale, Ballarat Win TV State television news 15/3/2002. Bill Braithwaite, Ararat Rural City Council, Peter Ray, NMIT.aradale, nmit ararat, aradale site plan, program for official opening 2002, nmit -
Ballarat Tramway Museum
Document - Report, Legislative Assembly of Victoria, "Progress Report on the Select Committee on Electricity Supply", Nov. 1922
Sixteen page printed report titled "Progress Report on the Select Committee on Electricity Supply" and subtitled "The Provision of the State Electricity Commission Bill and the Purchase of the North Melbourne Electric Tramways and Lighting Company's works and undertakings" Published by the Order of the Legislative Assembly 21 November 1922." Folded and stapled along left hand edge. Sheets have rounded corners. Looks at the purchase of the NMETL and rural power. Has an Appendix titled "The Powers of the Commission and how they are being exercised" signed by John Monash and and other "The Problem of Retail Distribution of Electricity in Rural Districts".Stamp of ESCo in top right hand corner dated "28 Nov. 1922" and throughout the report, many pencil marks highlighting or underlining aspects.trams, tramways, sec, nmetl, power supply, councils -
Glenelg Shire Council Cultural Collection
Photograph - Photograph - Borthwicks, 1960s
Glenelg Shire Council records.Aerial photograph of Thomas Borthwick and Sons abattoir, Portland.Back: Photographers stamp - not complete.borthwicks, abattoir, rural, industry -
Bendigo Historical Society Inc.
Book - BENDIGO TO MURRAY RIVER RAILWAY
Bendigo to Murray River Railway 1864 - 2014, celebrating the sesquicentenary of the Bendigo to Murray river railway September 2014. Soft cover with 198 pages with black & white and colour photos, compiled by the Historical & Genealogical Societies of Northern Victoria, edited by esma Turner.Esma Turnerbook, rural, railway, bendigo-railways-murray river railways-transport -
Tatura Irrigation & Wartime Camps Museum
Folder, Research Material on John West, 2003
Research material for a Thesis on John West, Pioneer Irrigation and orchardist, Ardmona. Contains, also a map of Ardmona irrigation information from local newspapersBlue plastic cover, black binding on spine. Hand written labelirrigation, books, rural, industry -
Tatura Irrigation & Wartime Camps Museum
Folder, Waranga Basin, 1998
Historic photographs of stages in Waranga Basin constrcution. Written description of same. Photographs by Inspector J. Binks, Alan Whiting plus those donated by Goulburn Murray Water.Black folder. Handwritten title. Spiral spine. Included are copied photos of the works.documents, irrigation, rural, industries -
Tatura Irrigation & Wartime Camps Museum
Book, Register of Lands, 1953
List of names of farmers in Rodney Irrigation & Water Supply District and their apportioned Water Rights 1952-1953Blue cover, black writing on front. Beige cloth spine. Irrigation season 1952-1953irrigation, books, rural, industry -
Tatura Irrigation & Wartime Camps Museum
Book, Water Ledger, 1928
Ledger used at State Rivers & Water Supply Commission - Rodney District, showing water discharges from Waranga and Goulburn Reservoir and Weir and channels. Also rainfall. 1928 to 1950Large book.Green cardboard cover. suede leather spine and cornersirrigation, rural, industries, irrigaiton -
Tatura Irrigation & Wartime Camps Museum
Archival Box, Tatura Milk
Collection of material relating to Tatura Milk Industries and Sno BrandBlue archival boxdairying, rural, industries, agriculture -
Broadmeadows Historical Society & Museum
Flag - Flag Broadmeadows
City of BroadmeadowsFlag used by City of BroadmeadowsYellow Loose weave Flag with applique city of Broadmeadows logo of various colours flag, city of broadmeadows, rural, logo -
Clunes Museum
Tool - SEED SOWER
THIS SMALL MANUAL SEED SOWER WAS USED IN THE SEBASTOPOL GARDEN, THE SEED BOX HAS THREE SETTINGS ALLOWING THE OPERATOR TO SOW VERY FINE, MEDIUM OR LARGE SEEDS.PLANET J Rlocal history, tools, rural, tools -
Bendigo Historical Society Inc.
Book - BENDIGO THEATRE COMPANY PROGRAMME FOR OKLAHOMA, 2007
16 page soft cover programme for the Bendigo Theatre Company's performance of 'Oklahoma' in Aug/Sept 2007 at the Capital Theatre. Lists and B&W photos of cast, crew, orchestra and producers etc. Coloured rural picture on front coverBendigo Theatre Company -
Lakes Entrance Regional Historical Society (operating as Lakes Entrance History Centre & Museum)
Photograph, 1994
Competition played at Lakes Entrance Recreation Centre.Black and white photograph of eightnamed children from Johnsonville Primary School Basketball Team B Grade Runners-Up, from the Tambo Cluster Rural Schools competition, each child is holding a pennant flag. Lakes Entrance Victoriaschools, sports -
Lakes Entrance Regional Historical Society (operating as Lakes Entrance History Centre & Museum)
Photograph, 1994
Photograph taken and competition played at Lakes Entrance Recreation Centre.Black and white photographof nine named children from Johnsonville Primary School Basketball team A Grade winners Rural Schools Tambo Cluster competition each child has medal on a ribbon around their neck. Lakes Entrance Victoriaschools, sports -
Lakes Entrance Regional Historical Society (operating as Lakes Entrance History Centre & Museum)
Photograph, 1995
Photograph taken and competition played at Lakes Entrance Recreation Centre.Black and white photograph of seven named children from Johnsonville Primary School students, A Grade Basketball team Tambo Cluster Rural Schools competition each child has medal on a ribbon around their neck. Lakes Entrance Victoriaschools -
Bayside Gallery - Bayside City Council Art & Heritage Collection
Map - print, Melbourne and Metropolitan Board of Works, Interim development order: Brighton, Moorabbin and Sandringham, 1959
The Melbourne and Metropolitan Board of Works (now Melbourne Water) was established in 1891. From that time, as part of their work laying water and sewerage connections, they created detailed plans of houses and other buildings in the Melbourne metropolitan area. In 1956 it acquired powers to construct and maintain highways and bridges, protect and improve the foreshores and create and maintain parks within the metropolitan region. This Interim development order comprises part of the municipalities of Brighton, Moorabbin and Sandringham and was made on 20 October 1959.brighton, moorabbin, sandringham, melbourne and metropolitan board of works, map, town planning, cartographic material, interim development order, bayside