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The Beechworth Burke Museum
Sculpture - Carving, c1977
Carving of a small female head made by a patient of Mayday Hills Asylum. The sculpture as been roughly hewn from a tree limb with multiple branches.Mayday Hills Asylum was one of the three largest psychiatric hospitals in Victoria, and played an important role in the treatment of mental health illnesses from its establishment in 1867 to its closure in 1995. As part of prescribed treatment, many patients participated in craft activities were they were able to create an array of objects. A limb of a tree roughly carved into the shape of a face, featuring a wide nose, protruding eyes, and flat mouth. On a limb section that extends above the head is a carving of a small totem-like face. Two small limb sections protruding from the back. Pen lines and figures on nose and ears.beechworth, burke museum, mayday hills asylum, sculpture, wood carving -
Flagstaff Hill Maritime Museum and Village
Photograph - Military group, Warrnambool Artillery Members on Parade - Nicholson Street [Warrnambool], Early 1900s
Photograph is a point in time with local Militia parading in an area now filled with houses. It show the means by which the cannon carriages were moved between locations, the uniforms of the soldiers and the development of the Warrnambool location.Photograph, landscape, sepia, mounted on card. Image of the Warrnambool Artillery Members on parade in Nicholson Street, Warrnambool. Figures are marching in groups with a steam driven gun carriage pulling several other gun carriages. A house is in the foreground and Lady Bay in the background. A typed label is attached to the bottom of the card."WARRNAMBOOL ARTILLERY MEMBERS ON PARADE - NICHOLSON STREET'flagstaff hill, flagstaff hill maritime museum and village, warrnambool, maritime museum, maritime village, great ocean road, shipwreck coast, warrnambool location, militia, steam driven gun carriage, nicholson street warrnambool -
Warrnambool and District Historical Society Inc.
Accessory - Fob Watch, early 20th century
A watch of this type would have been a common item for a man to carry on his person in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Wrist watches became common after this time frame. This item has no known local provenance.This item is retained for display purposes onlyThis is a round silver watch with a white face with roman numeral figures and gold hands.The face has a glass front which is loose in its mountings. The watch has a round clip at the top to which is attached a silver chain. At the end of the chain is a metal badge with a space to engrave a name but this is blank. vintage accessories, warrnambool history -
Bendigo Military Museum
Badge - BADGE, RSL, Stokes, Post 1945
Item in the collection re J.C.W.LEDEUX, refer Cat No 2378 for his service details.Shield shaped enamelled RSL MERIT Badge. Gold coloured, central shield in red enamel with figures of a Sailor, Soldier & Airman in gold. Top & bottom royal blue enamel banners with gold writing. Fine chain attached to fastening pin with brass safety fastener pen on end.Written on reverse: “MRS R LEDEUX / VIC” Imprinted on reverse “STOKES / 9 ct”numismatics-badges, societies-service clubs, rsl -
Bendigo Historical Society Inc.
Document - YOUNG, INVITATION OPENING OF PARLIAMENT, 1901
An invitation to Mr & Mrs J B Young to the 1901 opening of the Parliament of the Commonwealth from Edmund Barton Prime Minister, framed under glass in an ornate gold frame, showing a female figure on a white horse & other figures in period costume. Printed by Sands & McDougall Limited Melbourne.event, official, civic -
Bendigo Historical Society Inc.
Document - COHN BROTHERS COLLECTION: HANDWRITTEN MANILLA ENVELOPE
[a] Cohns printed manilla envelope handwritten June-Sept 1942, 'Stocks of Crown Seals, Sundry papers & Figures relating thereto. [b] Pinned documents relating to above. [c] Pinned documents relating to above. One document contains a 1940's Letterhead for Carlton and United Breweriesbendigo, industry, cohn bros brewery -
Bendigo Historical Society Inc.
Document - AULSEBROOK COLLECTION: DAI GUM SAN WAX MUSEUM ADVERTISEMENT BOOKLET
Aulsebrook Collection: Dai Gum San wax Museum Advertisement booklet -temporary location booklet (Temperance Hall, View St., Bendigo) -A5 booklet, 2 pages, -price, opening times, contact details and extensive description on how the wax figures came about and what is at the museum -
Kew Historical Society Inc
Certificate, Independent Order of Rechabites, Sister Richardson : Member of the Star of Kew Tent, 1915
RECHABITES. The Star of Kew Tent, No. 260. This branch of the Independent Order of Rechabites was founded in September, 1882, when the following members were installed as the first officers by the district officers, viz. Chief Ruler, Bro. W. H. Bardwell; Deputy Ruler, Bro. C. Viney; Past Chief Ruler, Bro. J. V. Morgan; Treasurer, Bro. R. Eyre; Money Steward, Bro. A. Brown; Levite, Bro. W. H. Richardson; Guardian, Bro. J. Wathen; Secretary, Bro. T. J. Eaton. Bros. W. H. Bardwell, T. J. Eaton, and F. J. Legge were appointed as trustees. It is interesting to note that three of the foundation members, Messrs. Bardwell, Eaton, and Richardson, and still members of the tent. The first meetings were held in the Mission Hall, but for many years the meeting place of the tent has been the Kew Town Hall. The funds of the tent have gradually accumulated until at the last audit they amounted to £2,097. For many years past the interest on the funds has been more than sufficient to meet all claims for sick pay. The total membership is now 140. The following past secretaries have been mainly instrumental in placing the tent in its present position:-Bros. T. J. Eaton, W. H. Bardwell, C. B. Gray, and C. L. Churcher. The present officers are :- C.R., Bro. R. M. Jones; D.R., Bro. T. H. B. Williams; P.C.R., Bro. C. H. Green; Treasurer, Bro. W. J. Thornton; Secretary, Bro. F. C. W. Hurrell. Junior Branch. A junior branch was founded in 1883, and while its membership has fluctuated considerably according to the enthusiasm of the management, it has been the means of introducing many members to the senior tent. Its membership is now 41. Female Branch. Lily of Kew Tent, No. 20. This branch was formed in October, 1904, and has accomplished good work. Its membership is 38. Much of its success is due to the untiring energy of its secretary, Mrs. J Jaycock. Source: FGA Barnard, Jubilee History of Kew, Victoria, 1910This document forms part of a large collection of material assembled by the Rogers family of Kew and donated by the family to the Kew Historical Society by Dorothy Rogers or by her sons. The items in the collection have social and spiritual significance and are also historically significant. Items such as this coloured lithograph have a degree of artistic and aesthetic significance as representative examples of the certificate designers art in the 19th Century.A colour lithograph, following a standard Rechabite design recording that Sister Richardson (later the historian Dorothy Rogers) joined the Junior Section of the Star of Kew Tent of the Independent Order of Rechabites on 17 February 1915. The certificate features biblical scenes and figures exhorting ‘Truth and Temperance’ and ‘Love and Purity’.independ, independent order of rechabites, dorothy (richardson) rogers, membership certificates, rogers collection, lily of kew tent, no. 20 -
National Wool Museum
Book, [untitled]
List of figures in columns headed "Wool type" "Style" "Quality".wool sales wool brokering woolclassing, wool sales, wool brokering, woolclassing -
Eltham District Historical Society Inc
Photograph, Drawing by James Wigle
James Wigley (1917-1999) is an Australian painter known for his sensitive depictions of aboriginal camp scenes and desert landscapes. He served in the army in WW2. On his discharge he built himself a stone house at Warrandtye where he lived for some years before moving to Port Hedland in 1957, where he studied the "aboriginal and half-caste" life for which his work is perhaps best known. He returned to the Eltham and Warrandyte districts from time to time between making many tours into outback Australia.This photo forms part of a collection of photographs gathered by the Shire of Eltham for their centenary project book,"Pioneers and Painters: 100 years of the Shire of Eltham" by Alan Marshall (1971). The collection of over 500 images is held in partnership between Eltham District Historical Society and Yarra Plenty Regional Library (Eltham Library) and is now formally known as 'The Shire of Eltham Pioneers Photograph Collection.' It is significant in being the first community sourced collection representing the places and people of the Shire's first one hundred years.Digital imagesepp, shire of eltham pioneers photograph collection, james wigley, aboriginal australians, painters, warrandyte, drawing, figures -
Benalla Art Gallery
Painting, George W. LAMBERT, Shearer's Sunday, 1899, 1899
Born: St Petersburg, Russia 1873; Arrived: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia 1887; Lived and worked: England, France, Wales, Egypt, Palestine 1900-1921; Died: Cobbity, New South Wales, Australia 1930NationalismGift of Mrs E.E. Ledger, 1982Rural landscape with four horses and riders jumping a fence. Image is in black and white colour. Dark stained, gold and grey brushed timber frame.Recto: Signed "GEO.W.LAMBERT" in black watercolour in l.r.c of composition; Not dated; Not titledpainting, rural, horses, animals, figures, fence, jump, tree -
Bayside Gallery - Bayside City Council Art & Heritage Collection
Sculpture - sandstone, Junee Gurney et al, Quartet, 2002
‘Quartet’ is designed by the late Junee Gurney (1909-1984), who lived in Bayside for many years and was the wife of Alex Gurney, creator of the 'Bluey and Curley' cartoons. The work made posthumously based on her design and was carved by David Glyn Davies.Junee Gurney, Sculpted by David Glyn Davis, Quartet 2002, sandstone, 185 x 90 cm. Bayside City Council Art and Heritage Collection. Commissioned 2002Sandstone Public Art Commission located in Landcox Park, Brighton Eastsculpture, public art, landcox park, family, figures, junee gurney, david glyn davis, quartet -
Bayside Gallery - Bayside City Council Art & Heritage Collection
Painting - oil on linen, Kevin Chin, Less than white, 2015
Winner of the Bayside Acquisitive Art Prize, 2015.oil on linen (diptych)snow, landscape, trees, figures, kevin chin, winter, bayside acquisitive art prize, pig -
Flagstaff Hill Maritime Museum and Village
Container - Tin, McKenzies Foods, circa 1930s
This tin once contained McKenzie’s baking powder, a cooking ingredient. It was donated with other similar tins that were used by the donor’s mother who was married in 1932. It those times in Australia all manner of household items, including food and drink, were sold by hawkers (salesmen) who travelled from door to door in both suburban and rural areas. The donor remembered the bicarb soda tin on her mother’s pantry shelf. The McKenzie’s Baking Powder label adds the information that the ingredients were “Prepared with Aerophos, Regd. Trade Mark, the finest raising ingredient. A product of Albright & Wilson, Australia Pty. Ltd.” It also says that it “Excels all others in use”. The Australian family business, McKenzie’s Foods, began in Melbourne in 1852 and continues today, now run be the fifth generation of descendants from the original owners. Its baking and cookery products are well recognised by Australians. This tin originates in the early 1900s from an Australian company that is now managed by fifth generation descendants of the original family after its inception in 1852. The tin increases in significance for its use as a recognised object found in many Australian kitchens since early days. It gives a snapshot into domestic life and social norms of the pre and post war period in Melbourne The tin is significant for its association with a local family in the 1930s for the preparation of family meals. Tin container, cylindrical, with cream paper label with gold highlights, motif and text. Used for selling McKenzie’s Excelsior baking powder. Container has push-on lid. Quantity of 1/2 LB. NETT. Made in Australia by Jas. F. McKenzie & Co. Pty Ltd. Text includes “JAS. F. McKENZIE & CO. PTY. LTD. / AUSTRALIA“ “McKENZIE’S EXCELSIOR / BAKING POWDER”. Motif: man’s portrait within oval frame with wheat sheaf border, placed below figures of sun, moon and stars. Information and instructions. flagstaff hill asset, baking powder tin, container, flagstaff hill museum, kitchen item, cookery, baking, grocery, mckenzie, rising agent, food container, flagstaff hill, warrnambool, shipwrecked coast, flagstaff hill maritime museum, maritime museum, shipwreck coast, flagstaff hill maritime village, great ocean road, tin, cooking ingredient, baking powder, mckenqie -
Dutch Australian Heritage Centre Victoria
Small wooden souvenir box (houten souvenirdoosje uit den Bosch)
Light timber square box with hinged lid. Lid: first line of popular song relating to place this box commemorates, viz den Bosch (s’Hertogenbosch) capital of province Brabant. Same line repeated on two sides of box. Illustration on lid shows male and female figures, female with basket. dutch souvenir -
Warrnambool and District Historical Society Inc.
Book, The dissident guru, 2004
The author of this book, Allan Scarfe, was a Warrnambool resident. He was a graduate of the University of Melbourne. He taught in India, England and Australia (including several years at Warrnambool High School) and was the joint author with his wife Wendy of 12 non-fiction books published in Australia, India, England and the U.S.A. He and Wendy were twice awarded Australia Council Literature Board grants. The Dissident Guru was one of several crime and adventure novels written by Allan Scarfe. This book is one of many books written or co-written by Allan Scarfe, a resident of Warrnambool for many years and one well-known for his literary output. He died in 2016. This is a soft cover book of 328 pages. It was written by Allan Scarfe. The cover is black, grey and white and the lettering is white on the front cover and black on the spine. The front cover has an illustration of masked figures and a body and the back cover has excerpts from critics’ remarks about other Scarfe books. allan scarfe -
Bendigo Military Museum
Badge - ASSOCIATION MEMBERSHIP BADGES, Post 1960
The items belonged to Peter James Dodd. “TPI” means “Totally & Permanently Incapacitated”. Refer Cat Log No 2436.2P for his service details..1) Badge RSL with three central figures and crown on top. On the crown is “06” denoting member of the RSL in 2006. Rear has an pin attachment for a jacket. .2) Badge, TPI Association, round central piece with a scroll at the bottom, top has a crown, on the rear is a long pin for Jacket attachment..1) The front has “Returned Sailors, soldiers and Airman’s Imperial League of Australia”. On the rear,”36363”. .2) “TPI Association”.badges, membership, associations -
The Cyril Kett Optometry Museum
Book, Optice: sive de Reflexionibus, Refractionibus, Inflexionibus & Coloribus Lucis Libri Tres, 1706 (exact)
This 300 year old book deals with the theory of light and colour and with investigations of the colours of thin sheets, 'Newton's rings', and diffraction of light. Newton uses a wave theory of light and his corpuscular theory to explain his observations. Sir Isaac Newton (1643-1727) was a great figure in the history of optical science. His classic 'Opticks' was first published in English in 1704. This Latin edition of 1706 was published to satisfy a wider scientific audience in Europe. Newton was Lucasian Professor at Cambridge 1669-1693 and a fellow of Trinity College. He achieved fame as a creative mathematician and for his law of universal gravitation which explains planetary motions. He retired from research in 1693 to become a government official in London.This book is highly significant as a milestone in the study of optics. Although not a very rare book, only one other copy is listed by WorldCat in an Australian institution.Latin edition of Newton's 'Optics' translated by Samuel Clarke. This copy is bound in full calf leather of the period, 348 pages, with fold-out figures plus a 24 page appendix 'Enumeratio linearum tertii ordinis' and a 43 page appendix 'Tractus de quadratura curvarum'. It is in outstandingly good condition.Inscribed on the fly leaf in pencil is that this is the 2nd edition, the first in Latin, and that Newton gave Clarke 500 pounds for the translation.refraction, optics, newton, reflection -
Bendigo Historical Society Inc.
Book - COHN BROTHERS COLLECTION: INDEX BOOK
Index book containing recipes, statistics, sales figures etc. relating to Cohn Bros. Bendigo. Book was supplied by Bolton Bros. Bendigo. Written on the first page in ink is R.N. Levy, February 1947'. Information dates from 1930's to 1950's On display Bendigo Library 21.2.2019bendigo, industry, cohn bros., cohn brothers , recipes -
Whitehorse Historical Society Inc.
Leisure object - Indian Doll
This type of toy was often brought back from overseas as a novelty for grandchildren, nieces and so on.Red plastic doll dressed in Indian dress made from cream flannel tunic with five red, blue and black motifs and tied at the waist with red cord. The neck, sleeves and hem are fringed. Her hair is black and a plastic band with red and blue figures is tied around her head.toys, dolls -
Tennis Australia
Page from newspaper, 1881
Page 13 of The Queen, The Lady's Newspaper issue July 2, 1881. Features reproduced lithograph entitled: 'LAWN TENNIS COSTUMES' which depicts seven vignettes of figures playing tennis and wearing tennis attire. UV glass. Materials: Paper, Ink, Cardboard, Metal, Wood, Adhesive labeltennis -
Clunes Museum
Functional object - CLOCK, Jerome & Co
Wooden striking alarm clock with white face and clock numbers and hands, brass mechanism, glass door in front with three figures, 2 x female, 1 x male and bird transfer on lower part of door Clock face has brass centre with numbers 1-12 imprinted Pencil marking on back 2339.M Paper on back of inside of clock with printing; "E Pluribus Unum Small Sharp Gothic One Day Time Piece Alarm" NOTICE "If the clock should go too fast, lower the ball; if too slow, raise it" "The figure on brass dial, indication time wanted to alarm should be turned forward under short hand"time piece, clock -
Clunes Museum
Book, DESIGNED BY PETER BUCKMASTER, WOOL PAST THE WINNING POST: A HISTORY OF THE CHIRNSIDE FAMILY, 1978
A BIOGRAPHY WRITTEN BY HEATHER B. RONALD OF THE HISTORY OF THE CHIRNSIDE FAMILY SOME OF WHO SETTLED ON LAND NEAR CLUNES, VICTORIA A SUMMARY OF THE CHIRNSIDE FAMILY'S MOVE TO THE AUSTRALIAN COLONIES AND THEIR CONTRIBUTION TO THE WOOL INDUSTRY IN THE 1800'S AND ONWARDSHARDCOVER BOOK BOUND IN BLUE LFABRIC WITH A GOLD EAGLE EMBOSSED ON THE FRONT COVER, COMPLET WITH DUST COVER. THE DUSTCOVER FRONT COVER HAS A COLOUR IMAGE OF A COLONIAL HOMESTEAD IN THE BACK GROUND WITH A LOADED DRAY PULLED BY OXEN TWO FIGURES WITH BULL WHIPS AT EITHER SIDE OF THE THE ANIMALS 203 PAGESnon-fictionA BIOGRAPHY WRITTEN BY HEATHER B. RONALD OF THE HISTORY OF THE CHIRNSIDE FAMILY SOME OF WHO SETTLED ON LAND NEAR CLUNES, VICTORIA A SUMMARY OF THE CHIRNSIDE FAMILY'S MOVE TO THE AUSTRALIAN COLONIES AND THEIR CONTRIBUTION TO THE WOOL INDUSTRY IN THE 1800'S AND ONWARDS book, chirnside family, clunes first sheep run -
Bendigo Military Museum
Badge - BADGE RSL, Stokes & Sons, Possibly post 1945
RSL membership badge, made of enamelled brass. Centre circle has 2 figures of soldiers with text "Returned Sailors & Soldiers Imperial League Australia" in blue enamelled section. Top of badge has a red crown with "75", indicating paid membership for that year. Rear has pins for attaching to clothes."V6878" on rear.numismatics-badges, societies-service clubs, military history, rsl -
Flagstaff Hill Maritime Museum and Village
Painting - Maritime, 19th century
This handmade picture has been painted on a cast plaster or composition frame. Plaster frames were popular in the e19th century. The material is quite fragile and many pictures from this era suffer from damage such as chips and cracks.This simple handmade painting on cast composite frame is typical of 19th century art work found in middle and upper class Victorian homes of that era. It cannot be attributed to a particular artist due to lack of inscriptons.Painting, oil on composite material, handmade Pink coloured cast composite oval frame with decorative border. Painting depicts two figures in a small green boat on the shore, sandy beach, rocks nearby, small surf waves, mild sea, two sailing vessels in background. No inscription on front of painting. flagstaff hill, warrnambool, maritime village, maritime museum, flagstaff hill maritime museum & village, shipwreck coast, great ocean road, victorian art work, maritime scen, composite material, plaster, cast frame, oval frame, victorian era -
Bendigo Historical Society Inc.
Photograph - WIEGARD COOPER COLLECTION: MARY ANN WIEGARD AND THERESA WEIGARD
Photograph. Captioned figures 'Mum' [Mary Ann Weigard] and Theresa [Weigard]. Also Harriet & Edwin Stevens captioned. Group of dressmaking assistants standing with the Weigard sisters at the rear of their Kangaroo Flat dressmaking business. 6740.2 shows front of building. Wooden tiled roof. Date approximately mid 1880's.handcrafts, dressmaking -
University of Melbourne, Burnley Campus Archives
Plan - Sketch, School of Horticulture - Burnley, 1957
A,B,C,E paper copies, D, tracing paper copy of plan. Hand drawn sketch of central area of grounds. Figures given for acreage of ornamentals, crops and grazing although only 1 acreage is shown on plan. (E) has further annotation. Scale 1 inch:40 ft.burnley gardens, ornmental, crops, grazing, burnley school of horticulture -
Melbourne Tram Museum
Document - Report, Melbourne & Metropolitan Tramways Board (MMTB), "CBD Passenger Survey - August 1977", Aug. 1977
Report - A4, 58 pages + card coves with brown comb bound, titled "CBD Passenger Survey - August 1977". Has table of contents, tables, figures and notes on the cards. Provides origin and destination information on passengers entering the CBD. Conducted over a two week period using university students.Has "3-10-78" on inside front cover.trams, tramways, surveys, city of melbourne, passengers, mmtb -
Bendigo Military Museum
Financial record - FINAL PAY STATEMENT, Aust Army, 1946
Refer to Cat 5556.2 and 2481.2 "J.A. McDonald".Army form WF88. No.8089 for Mr. J.A. McDonald, 63 green St, Windsor. dated 17/1/46. Army NR VX79511. Plain white quarto size, black printing, handwritten in a "purple" pencil are the figures. The balance due to the member was 179 Pounds, 6 shillings, 7 pence.Rubber stamp at bottom - 22 Jan 1946. A circular stamp with OHE & KIN & Staff 3rd M.D.pay statement, army form, ww2 -
Bendigo Military Museum
Accessory - NAVY CLOCK, Smiths Astral, Possibly pre WW2
Circular brass clock, Naval, has hour, minute & second hands. The face is white with 12 hr figures in black, the 24 hr numerals are in white. The glass front has a hinge on the right side. A small brass knob on the left side acts as the handle. The clock is mechanical, wound up from the front.“Smiths Astral, Made in Great Britain”horology - clocks, military history - navy