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Whitehorse Historical Society Inc.
Leisure object - Doll, Norah Wellings, c1930s-1950s
Probably made in the 1940s as the eyes are painted not made of glass as the earlier dolls made in the 1930s. Norah Wellings' company made dolls from1926-1959. Brown velvet Doll, known as a Sammy Minstrel number 126 doll, with flocked velvet covered moulded head and hands. The soft body is dressed in a black vest with four pearl buttons, bow tie, pants and hat is mustard yellow.toys, dolls -
Hymettus Cottage & Garden Ballarat
Book - Victorian Railways Timesheet carbon book
This book provides an important record of the movements of staff across the Victorian Railway system in the 1930s.michael taffe, ballarat, maryborough, donald, watchem, beaufort, mildura, rockbank, creswick, north creswick, burrumbeet -
Hymettus Cottage & Garden Ballarat
Container - Spectacle Case, Wastell & Cutter spectacle/glasses case
Wastell & Cutter were Ophthalmic Opticians at Ballarat, Victoria from the 1930s until the 1970s. Small metal plaque on cover with Optometrist's name Wastell & Cutter embossed against medieval townscape image.optometrist, ballarat, glasses case -
Melbourne Tram Museum
Photograph, Melbourne & Metropolitan Tramways Board (MMTB), MMTB Bus 91 Leyland Tiger TS8 chassis with Cheetham & Borthwick body at 26 Mar 1955, 1930
The MMTB operated buses as well as trams. This was one of the early ones built during the 1930sYields information about an early MMTB BusPhoto of MMTB Bus 91 at unknown location.tramways, mmtb buses, leyland, cheetham & borwick, bus 91 -
Hume City Civic Collection
Functional object - Electric Jug
Although electric jugs were initially developed in England for quick tea-making, the fear of electrocution delayed their production in that country. Australia during the 1930s Depression went ahead and produced fancy ceramic electric jugs, which became status symbol in Australian homes. This jug is one of the earliest designs manufactured in the 1930sThe design of this jug is in contrast to later electric jugs which either gradually sloped up from the base to the neck and/or had curved sidesA dark cream ceramic electric jug with a black bakelite lid. The lower part of the jug is cylindrical with the upper part sloping to the spout. The bakelite lid opens with a hinge. household containers, electric jug, domestic food and drink -
Royal District Nursing Service (now known as Bolton Clarke)
Photograph - Digital Image, c.1935
This digital image shows the sun roof on the Melbourne District Nursing Society After-Care Hospital, 45 Victoria Parade, Collingwood. It shows some of the children nursed at the home. Many children were nursed there long term during the Poliomyelitis epidemic in the 1930s. It also shows uniforms worn by nurses and Sisters in the 1930s. The Melbourne District Nursing Society After-Care Home was originally established to provide nurse-managed convalescent care to poor and underprivileged patients who could not look after themselves at home due to illness, or on release from hospital. Opening in 1926 following a public appeal for funds, at a cost of £27,000, the Home included maternity, children’s and adult wards as well as accommodation for Matron, twelve Sisters and four domestic staff. Many children were nursed there, some long term, during the Polio epidemic and the Society employed two School Teachers. The Society now ran two divisions, the After-Care with its own Sisters and nurses and the District division. The Society were the first in Melbourne, in early 1928, to recognize some patients leaving the After-Care, and many at home, needed further social care and they set up ‘Almoners’ from their committee to visit these patients and be intermediaries in getting them social assistance. It was late the following year before the first training of Almoners took place in Melbourne. In 1930 the Society employed a full time kindergarten teacher to visit poor children in their homes. That year the Society were pioneers in opening an Ante-Natal Clinic at the After-Care, setting a high standard with equipment, keeping records and providing leaflets with instructions in how to keep healthy during pregnancy, what complications to look for and what to do when labour commenced. In 1934 the Society were pioneers again when they opened the first Women’s Welfare Clinic, including at the time a very controversial Family Planning Clinic, the first of its kind in Australia which was opened to support women at risk following multiple and difficult pregnancies, giving advice on birth-control. At first the clinic was attended by their own patients, but then accepting patients from public hospitals until their own clinics were opened. . Major extensions in 1934 led to the After-Care 'Home' having a name change to 'Hospital'. A trained Almoner was employed in 1934 but she resigned after twelve months due to the work load. Unable to procure another due to a shortage of trained Almoners, a Social Service Officer was employed at the After-Care who successfully gained better housing from the Housing Commission for families living under unsuitable conditions. Following Government intervention, the After-Care Hospital was separated from the Melbourne District Nursing Society in 1957. The After-care Hospital continued to operate at the same address until 1985 when it became the Melbourne Geriatric Centre. This digital Image shows two nurses and two Trained nurses (Sisters) supervising convalescing children in the roof garden of the Melbourne District Nursing Society After-Care Hospital . The two nurses are with the rear children, one on the left and one on the right. Both are wearing long white aprons over their long sleeved dark grey uniforms, and both are wearing white caps over their dark hair. On the right rear, in front of a row of glass windows, the upper portion of a Sister can be seen wearing a white uniform and white veil. In the right front is another Sister who is wearing glasses and is wearing a white uniform and dark coloured cape. She is wearing a white veil over her short dark hair. There are three boys and four girls resting on cane lounges; some are reading books and one girl is holding a doll. Another boy, who is wearing a dressing gown, is sitting on a cane chair. There is a trellis and a wall of windows on the left of the image and some brick work and a wall of windows on the right hand side behind the Sisters.. Some pots with low and tall plants can be seen.A tiled hip roof of a building can be seen in the rear of the image.mdns, melbourne district nursing society, after- care hospital, nurses uniforms -
Kew Historical Society Inc
Photograph - Boy on a bike, 1930s
The Melbourne artist Alma Agnes Marion Figuerola, the daughter of Juan Pedro Narciso Figuerola (1869-1919) and Alice Lucinda Walker Hanson (1889-1969) was born in Carlton in 1902. Alam and her two sisters grew up to be involved in the arts: Alma as a painter; Carmen Irene (1906-1993) as a short story writer, poet and teacher of dancing; and Sylvia (also Silvia) Lyla Alice (1911-1992) as a composer and cellist. The first art lessons Alma Figuerola received were with Oscar Binder. Later she attended the art school established by the Melbourne 'tonalist' [Duncan] Max Meldrum (1875-1955). She graduated from his school in 1920, participating in her first group exhibition in the same year. Solo exhibitions of her work were to be held in 1933 at the Meldrum Gallery in Elizabeth Street, in 1937 and 1945 at the Athenaeum Gallery at 188 Collins Street, and in 1951 at Georges Gallery in Collins Street. Throughout her extensive career she participated in group exhibitions, usually with artists of the Meldrum School, and as a member of the Twenty Melbourne Painters, of which she was invited to become an associate in 1935. In 1953, her portrait of Professor ES Hills was entered in the Archibald Prize Competition of the Art Gallery of New South Wales. A resident of Kew from the 1930s - at 'Mount Edgecombe' 51 Studley Park Road, often with her mother, her sister Carmen, or both - from 1939 until her death she lived at 'D’Estaville', 7 Barry Street. From the late 1930s she is recorded as actively contributing to the arts at a local level. In 1939 and 1940 she participated in art exhibitions at the Hawthorn Municipal Library organised by Jessie Carbines. From 1944 to 1951 she co-organised successive Kew Arts Festivals, initially in the Presbyterian Church Hall in Highbury Grove and later at the Recreation Hall in Wellington Street. A foundation member of the Kew Historical Society in 1958, Alma Figuerola remained an active member of the Society until her death on 8 December 1970. She predeceased her two sisters who both died in the 1990s and who are buried at Andersons' Creek Cemetery in Warrandyte.Undated photograph of a boy, possibly the Figuerola sisters' cousin 'Bert', astride a tricycle in a trellised yard. The photo is from the personal photo album of the artist. alma figuerola album, arists - kew (vic), artists - meldrum school, occupants - 7 barry street - kew (vic) -
The Beechworth Burke Museum
Postcard
This postcard depicts Lake Kerferd during the winter season. With the photograph possibly been taken in the 1930s.The postcard holds Historic significance due to its connection to Beechworth and its Lake Kerford. It demonstrates the interactions between nature and colonialists, especially how the lake is surrounded by man made fencing and roads. It also shows that there was frequent human interaction with the area, due to the small snow slopes where vehicles would travel across. Black and white rectangular postcard, printed on card.Reverse: 56. / A03092 / 97.2205 POSTCARD / AUSTRALIA / KODAK CORRESPONDENCE / ADDRESS ONLY / KODAK / AUSTRALIA 84 - 134 - 1beechworth, lake, postcard, burke museum, black and white photograph, lake kerford -
Greensborough Historical Society
Envelope, Air Mail envelope (Australia), 1950s
Australian air mail envelopes with Aboriginal motif based on 1930s photograph of "One pound Jimmy"Air Mail envelopes, printed in red-brown on off-white. "By AirMail, Par avion" with aboriginal motif. "Sender's name and address" on gummed flap on back.envelope, air mail -
Eltham District Historical Society Inc
Photograph, Peter Pidgeon, Derelict house, 528 Main Road, Eltham, 13 November 2017, 13/11/2017
House dates back to early 1930s. Situated adjacent to intersection of Main Road and Fitzsimons LaneBorn Digitaleltham, streets, main road, fitzsimons lane -
Eltham District Historical Society Inc
Photograph, Peter Pidgeon, Derelict house, 528 Main Road, Eltham, 13 November 2017, 13/11/2017
House dates back to early 1930s. Situated adjacent to intersection of Main Road and Fitzsimons LaneBorn Digitaleltham, streets, main road, fitzsimons lane -
Eltham District Historical Society Inc
Photograph, Peter Pidgeon, Derelict house, 528 Main Road, Eltham, 13 November 2017, 13/11/2017
House dates back to early 1930s. Situated adjacent to intersection of Main Road and Fitzsimons LaneBorn Digitaleltham, streets, main road, fitzsimons lane -
Eltham District Historical Society Inc
Photograph, Peter Pidgeon, Derelict house, 528 Main Road, Eltham, 13 November 2017, 13/11/2017
House dates back to early 1930s. Situated adjacent to intersection of Main Road and Fitzsimons LaneBorn Digitaleltham, streets, main road, fitzsimons lane -
Eltham District Historical Society Inc
Photograph, Peter Pidgeon, Derelict house, 528 Main Road, Eltham, 13 November 2017, 13/11/2017
House dates back to early 1930s. Situated adjacent to intersection of Main Road and Fitzsimons LaneBorn Digitaleltham, streets, main road, fitzsimons lane -
Eltham District Historical Society Inc
Photograph, Peter Pidgeon, Derelict house, 528 Main Road, Eltham, 13 November 2017, 13/11/2017
House dates back to early 1930s. Situated adjacent to intersection of Main Road and Fitzsimons LaneBorn Digitaleltham, streets, main road, fitzsimons lane -
Eltham District Historical Society Inc
Photograph, Peter Pidgeon, Derelict house, 528 Main Road, Eltham, 13 November 2017, 13/11/2017
House dates back to early 1930s. Situated adjacent to intersection of Main Road and Fitzsimons LaneBorn Digitaleltham, streets, main road, fitzsimons lane -
Eltham District Historical Society Inc
Photograph, Peter Pidgeon, Derelict house, 528 Main Road, Eltham, 13 November 2017, 13/11/2017
House dates back to early 1930s. Situated adjacent to intersection of Main Road and Fitzsimons LaneBorn Digitaleltham, streets, main road, fitzsimons lane -
Eltham District Historical Society Inc
Photograph, Peter Pidgeon, Derelict house, 528 Main Road, Eltham, 13 November 2017, 13/11/2017
House dates back to early 1930s. Situated adjacent to intersection of Main Road and Fitzsimons LaneBorn Digitaleltham, streets, main road, fitzsimons lane -
Eltham District Historical Society Inc
Photograph, Peter Pidgeon, Derelict house, 528 Main Road, Eltham, 13 November 2017, 13/11/2017
House dates back to early 1930s. Situated adjacent to intersection of Main Road and Fitzsimons LaneBorn Digitaleltham, streets, main road, fitzsimons lane -
Eltham District Historical Society Inc
Photograph, Peter Pidgeon, Derelict house, 528 Main Road, Eltham, 13 November 2017, 13/11/2017
House dates back to early 1930s. Situated adjacent to intersection of Main Road and Fitzsimons LaneBorn Digitaleltham, streets, main road, fitzsimons lane -
Eltham District Historical Society Inc
Photograph, Peter Pidgeon, Derelict house, 528 Main Road, Eltham, 13 November 2017, 13/11/2017
House dates back to early 1930s. Situated adjacent to intersection of Main Road and Fitzsimons LaneBorn Digitaleltham, streets, main road, fitzsimons lane -
Port Melbourne Historical & Preservation Society
Document - Photocopy, Invitation/ticket, bay trip to Portarlington per PS Weeroona, 1932
Copied for us by Tom Hills (Central Unemployed Committee president in the 1930s), from his originalPhotocopy of an invitation/ticket: bay trip to Portarlington per PS Weeroona, provided by the Central Unemployed Committee for 21 March 1932. 'Committee' ribbon attached by safety pin; this was probably Tom Hill's ticket, as President of the Committeesarah jane 'jennie' baines nee hunt, depression, societies clubs unions and other organisations, tom hills, p watkins, central unemployed committee -
St Kilda Historical Society
Photograph, Ruskin, Band Leader Joe Aronson
Bandleader Joe Aronson who played at the Wattle Path, Palais, St Kilda in 1920s and 1930sblack and white photograph, original, unmounted, good conditionOn front signed: Yours in Rythmn Joe Aronson Wattle Path, Palais St Kilda. On back: Miss Vivia? No 1 Blanche St St Kilda -
Geelong Cycling Club
Programme - Program, Race, c. 1930
The race program contains details of a competitive cycling race day put on by the GWCC, circa 1930s.Provides insight into the many races on the program gel on one day. This is an indicator of the popularity of cycling races during the 1930s.6 pages of a cycling race program. 2 pages of the original program are adhered to a white foolscap sheet and protected by plastic. Pages 1 and 2 are missing.geelong cycling club; geelong west cycling club; gwcc; race program; circa 1930; -
Creswick Campus Historical Collection - University of Melbourne
Sample, 1877-1970
The VSF herbarium contains an estimated 10,000 specimens representing 2,500-3,000 species. It was established in the 1930sHerbarium -
Hume City Civic Collection
Petticoat, Inmate's
Worn by patients at Sunbury Asylum. The calico/flannel petticoats were standard issue up to the 1930s.Bodice unbleached cotton, sleeveless, fastened at back with four metal buttons (one missing), skirt grey flannel.Partially legible "F7" in black ink on left front shoulder - stamp or stencil.costume, sunbury asylum, george evans collection -
National Wool Museum
Sample, Cloth
Sample of fabric produced by Collins Bros Mill for use in Physician brand blankets, c.1930s.TRADE MARK / PHYSICIAN / REG NO 16997 / SPOTLESS FINISH / FREE FROM FILLING / GUARANTEED PURE VIRGIN WOOLtextile production, collins bros mill pty ltd -
National Wool Museum
Sample, Cloth
Sample of fabric produced by Collins Bros Mill for use in Physician brand blankets, c.1930s.TRADE MARK / PHYSICIAN / REG NO 16997 / SPOTLESS FINISH / FREE FROM FILLING / GUARANTEED PURE VIRGIN WOOL "PHYSICIAN" Regd.textile production, collins bros mill pty ltd -
National Wool Museum
Sample, Cloth
Sample of fabric produced by Collins Bros Mill for use in Physician brand blankets, c.1930s.TRADE MARK / PHYSICIAN / REG NO 16997 / SPOTLESS FINISH / FREE FROM FILLING / GUARANTEED PURE VIRGIN WOOL "PHYSICIAN" Regd.textile production, collins bros mill pty ltd -
Whitehorse Historical Society Inc.
Domestic object - Lemon Squeezer, 1920s
Lemon Squeezer donated by Donor and used by grandmother through 1920s and 1930s on farm 'CLEBYARRA' in Gippsland.17cm x 9cm Glass Lemon Squeezerdomestic items, food & drink consumption