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Greensborough Historical Society
Domestic object - Doilies, Crochet doilies, 1950s
Set of three cotton doilies, possibly hand made in the 1950s for domestic use. Doilies like this were used to protect furniture from scratches and for ornamental use.3 round doilies (small ornamental mats), cream cotton fabric centre with hand crochet design.doilies, soft furnishings, table linens -
Greensborough Historical Society
Domestic object - Doilies, Crochet doilies (small), 1950s
Set of three cotton doilies, possibly hand made in the 1950s for domestic use. Doilies like this were used to protect furniture from scratches and for ornamental use.3 round doilies (small ornamental mats), cream cotton fabric centre with hand crochet design.doilies, soft furnishings, table linens -
Greensborough Historical Society
Photographs, Harold Fraser's store Bundoora, 1950s
Harold Fraser and family ran the Bundoora general store in the 1950s. Photographs from the collection of Shirley Fraser (nee Black). The Blacks were substantial landowners in the area.Shows the transition from 'corner store' in house at front to 'supermarket' at rear of premises. 2 black and white photographs of the general store and Post Office at Bundoora. Photo 1 depicts the store from the front showing the “Herald” and “The Sun” advertisements; photo 2 is taken from the right of the old store and shows the newer “4 square food store” behind. Photo 1, 11.5x16.5cm; photo 2, 16x21cm.On back of each photo: "Harold Fraser's store Bundoora" and "Shirley Fraser"shirley fraser, shirley black, howard fraser, frasers store, bundoora, supermarket, grocers, grimshaw street, bundoora post office, 4 square food store -
Ballarat Tramway Museum
Photograph - Ballarat 34 at Stones Corner, Bob Lilburn, Late 1950s
Photo shows Ballarat bogie tram 34 at the intersection of Main Road and Victoria St, at a location known as Stones Corner. Has the Rimmington Bros butcher in the background. Late 1950sYields information about Stones Corner late 1950s.Black and White photograph of Ballarat 34 at Stones Corner.Has in ink on rear " R Lilburn"ballarat, tramways, trams, stones corner, victoria street, main road, tram 34 -
Ballarat Tramway Museum
Photograph - Tram 17 Wendouree Parade, 1950s
Photograph of SEC tram 17 in Wendoure Parade at depot junction. Tram has the destination of Victoria St. Photographer unknown, during 1950s before the fitting of dash canopy lighting.Yields information about tram 17 during the 1950s and Wendouree Parade.Black and white photograph, with adhesive remnants on the rear.trams, tramways, tram 17, depot junction, wendouree parade. -
Kiewa Valley Historical Society
Kiewa Hydro Electric Scheme - Extract from 'Water Power' June 1962 & 'Kiewa Keynotes' from SEC Magazine
The SECV produced a magazine from the 1930s describing each of their locations where their employees were working. Bogong and Mt Beauty were the towns where the workers on the Kiewa Hydro Electric Scheme lived as well as in camps on the Bogong High Plains. The magazines kept everyone up to date on the SEC work and social activities at all locations creating a Work Community for all employees as they moved from one job to another.Photocopied pages 213 to 221 from the book 'Water Power' June 1962 and photocopied pages from SEC Magazine - Kiewa Keynotes circa late 1940s-early 1950skiewa hydro electric scheme, secv magazine, kiewa keynotes, water power -
Bendigo Historical Society Inc.
Ephemera - LYDIA CHANCELLOR COLLECTION: DOGS
A folder covered with paper decorated with pictures of dogs. Contains stories about dogs taken from magazines - 'Woman's Realm,'Woman's Journal' and 'Good Housekeeping. Dated 1950s'-60s'.lydia chancellor, collection, animals, dogs, short stories, stories, literature, magazines, ephemera -
Mt Dandenong & District Historical Society Inc.
Photograph, Group Outside Quamby Cafe Olinda, c1950s
Older woman with two young girls posed in front of hydrangea bush outside the Quamby Café at Olinda c 1950s. Sennitt's Ice Cream sign visible upper RHS.quamby, quamby cafe, olinda, sennitts icecream -
Bendigo Historical Society Inc.
Slide - FLEMING COLLECTION: 1950S BENDIGO SLIDE, 1957
Bendigo 1950s. Bendigo Easter Fair 22/4/1957. Bendigo Post Office Float. Post Box in back ground and Grocery store selling Sennitts Ice Cream.event, easter fair, bendigo easter fair, 1950s. bendigo easter fair 22/4/1957. post office float. post box grocery store sennitts ice cream -
Bendigo Historical Society Inc.
Slide - FLEMING COLLECTION: 1950S BENDIGO SLIDE, 1957
Bendigo 1950s. Bendigo Easter Fair 22/4/1957. Easter Fair Procession entrants Chinese Princesses ready and waiting outside the Bedford Chevrolet Dealer in Myer Street.event, easter fair, bendigo easter fair, bendigo 1950s. easter fair 22/4/1957. easter fair procession entrants chinese princesses bedford chevrolet dealer myer street. -
Ringwood and District Historical Society
Mixed media - Video, RDHS Guest Speaker Presentation - "Shadow of a Bulldozer" - Heathmont History Group
Digitised video (4.05GB). Duration: 40 minutes. Recorded June, 2019. (Video is available for viewing at Ringwood & District Historical Society Archives by appointment)Presentation: Members of Heathmont History Group address a meeting of RDHS with a reading of a play telling of destruction of orchards in the 1950s/60s and the resistance of change to the landscape and family lifestyles with the onset of residential developments. -
Northern District School of Nursing. Managed by Bendigo Historical Society Inc.
Photograph - Nursing staff "Eurella"
The Northern District School of Nursing opened in 1950 in to address the issues around nurse recruitment, training and education that had previously been hospital based. The residential school was to provide theoretical and in-house education and practical training over three years. The students would also receive practical hands-on training in the wards of associated hospitals. The Northern District School of Nursing operated from Lister House, Rowan Street, Bendigo. It was the first independent school of nursing in Victoria and continued until it closed in 1989.Three (unnamed) off duty nurses relax on the cast-iron lace verandah of "Eurella", the NDSN school's first hostel, View StreetOff duty nurses relax find time for a chat on the cast-iron lace verandah of "Eurella", the NDSN school's first hostel, View Street (late 1950s). Opposite Barkly Street.ndsn, nursing, uniforms -
Greensborough Historical Society
Book - Digital Image, Semco, Semco smocking instruction book, 1950s
Front cover of "Semco smocking instruction book". An example of 1950s advertising through sewing and homemaker books. In this book, instructions are given for smocking of garments. Smocking is an embroidery technique used to gather fabric. An example of mid 20th century advertising through 'how-to' books.Digital copy of front cover of a bookhistoric advertisements, smocking, embroidery, hand sewing, semco -
Kew Historical Society Inc
Clothing - Blue Figured Rayon Day Dress with Full Pleated Skirt, 1950s
The Fashion & Design collection of the Kew Historical Society includes examples of women’s, men’s, children’s and infants’ clothing from the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries. Items in the collection were largely produced for, or purchased by women in Melbourne, and includes examples of outerwear, protective wear, nightwear, underwear and costume accessories.This day dress conforms to the V&A's description of fashion in the 1950s in that: 'The 1950s continued the late 1940s style with very full skirts, cinched waists and sloping shoulders. Dresses with pencil or full skirts were seen in either plain fabrics or floral prints.'Sky blue ballerina length dress with pleated skirtaustralian fashion - 1950s, day dresses, women's clothing -
Melbourne Legacy
Slide, Government House Christmas Party, 1950s
Colour slide of children playing on a slide at Government House. Melbourne Legacy held an annual Christmas Party for Junior Legatees and Widows at Government House for many years. The year is unknown but likely to be during the 1950s. A group of slides in glass mounts with green tape are probably from a couple of consecutive years. They will be catalogued separately. Was with many other slides taken in the 1950s and 1960s. The slides have been photographed to make digital images and moved to archive quality sleeves. In many cases the original images were not well focussed and the digital image is the best available.A record of a Legacy Christmas party held at Government House.Colour slide of children playing on a slide at a Legacy Christmas Party at Government House, in a glass mount with green tape.christmas party, government house party -
Melbourne Legacy
Slide, Government House Christmas Party, 1950s
Colour slide of mothers and children on the steps of Government House. Melbourne Legacy held an annual Christmas Party for Junior Legatees and Widows at Government House for many years. The year is unknown but likely to be during the 1950s. A group of slides in glass mounts with green tape are probably from a couple of consecutive years. They will be catalogued separately. Was with many other slides taken in the 1950s and 1960s. The slides have been photographed to make digital images and moved to archive quality sleeves. In many cases the original images were not well focussed and the digital image is the best available.A record of a Legacy Christmas party held at Government House.Colour slide of mothers and children coming down the steps of Government House for a Legacy Christmas Party, in a glass mount with green tape.christmas party, government house party -
Melbourne Legacy
Slide, Government House Christmas Party, 1950s
Colour slide of people at the Christmas party at Government House. Melbourne Legacy held an annual Christmas Party for Junior Legatees and Widows at Government House for many years. The year is unknown but likely to be during the 1950s. A group of slides in glass mounts with green tape are probably from a couple of consecutive years. They will be catalogued separately. Was with many other slides taken in the 1950s and 1960s. The slides have been photographed to make digital images and moved to archive quality sleeves. In many cases the original images were not well focussed and the digital image is the best available.A record of a Legacy Christmas party held at Government House.Colour slide of people near a tent at a Legacy Christmas party at Government House, in a glass mount with green tape.christmas party, government house party -
Melbourne Legacy
Slide, Government House Christmas Party, 1950s
Colour slide of children playing on a slide at Government House. Melbourne Legacy held an annual Christmas Party for Junior Legatees and Widows at Government House for many years. The year is unknown but likely to be during the 1950s. A group of slides in glass mounts with green tape are probably from a couple of consecutive years. They will be catalogued separately. Was with many other slides taken in the 1950s and 1960s. The slides have been photographed to make digital images and moved to archive quality sleeves. In many cases the original images were not well focussed and the digital image is the best available.A record of a Legacy Christmas party held at Government House.Colour slide of a boy playing on a slide at a Legacy Christmas Party at Government House, in a glass mount with green tape.christmas party, government house party -
Melbourne Legacy
Slide, Government House Christmas Party, 1950s
Colour slide of mothers and children on the steps of Government House. Melbourne Legacy held an annual Christmas Party for Junior Legatees and Widows at Government House for many years. The year is unknown but likely to be during the 1950s. A group of slides in glass mounts with green tape are probably from a couple of consecutive years. They will be catalogued separately. Was with many other slides taken in the 1950s and 1960s. The slides have been photographed to make digital images and moved to archive quality sleeves. In many cases the original images were not well focussed and the digital image is the best available.A record of a Legacy Christmas party held at Government House.Colour slide of mothers and children coming down the steps of Government House for a Legacy Christmas Party, in a glass mount with green tape.christmas party, government house party -
Melbourne Legacy
Slide, Government House Christmas Party, 1950s
Colour slide of people at Government House. Melbourne Legacy held an annual Christmas Party for Junior Legatees and Widows at Government House for many years. The year is unknown but likely to be during the 1950s. A group of slides in glass mounts with green tape are probably from a couple of consecutive years. They will be catalogued separately. Was with many other slides taken in the 1950s and 1960s. The slides have been photographed to make digital images and moved to archive quality sleeves. In many cases the original images were not well focussed and the digital image is the best available.A record of a Legacy Christmas party held at Government House.Colour slide of people at Government House for a Legacy Christmas Party, in a glass mount with green tape.christmas party, government house party -
Melbourne Legacy
Slide, Government House Christmas Party, 1950s
Colour slide of people at Government House. Melbourne Legacy held an annual Christmas Party for Junior Legatees and Widows at Government House for many years. The year is unknown but likely to be during the 1950s. A group of slides in glass mounts with green tape are probably from a couple of consecutive years. They will be catalogued separately. Was with many other slides taken in the 1950s and 1960s. The slides have been photographed to make digital images and moved to archive quality sleeves. In many cases the original images were not well focussed and the digital image is the best available.A record of a Legacy Christmas party held at Government House.Colour slide of people at Government House for a Legacy Christmas Party, there is a car with PA sound system on top, in a glass mount with green tape.christmas party, government house party -
Mission to Seafarers Victoria
Photograph - Photograph, Black and white, Mid 20th C
Subjects: Contemporary friends of David Conolly, Lay Reader at the MTS, possibly members of the Harbour Light Guild and dance hostesses at dances for seafarers staged at the Mission on a weekly basis.Visual Record of Ladies Harbour Light Guild member and dance hostesses of the 1950sBlack and White Gloss print photograph of two young women in dirndle skirts and blouses, circa 1950s, standing in the outer porch of the Mission to Seafarers Building at 717 Flinders St, Melbourne.Hand written in black texta; Catherine Herron, a member of the Ladies Harbour Light Guild and a friendlay reader, david conolly, catherine herron, lhlg, lhlg hostesses, flinders street -
Bendigo Historical Society Inc.
Newspaper - JENNY FOLEY COLLECTION: PLAY BALL
Bendigo Advertiser ''The way we were'' from Monday, July 15, 2002. Play ball: the Provincial Baseball Club in the early 1950s. Photo supplied by Barry Boxshall. The clip is in a folder.newspaper, bendigo advertiser, the way we were -
Port Melbourne Historical & Preservation Society
Clothing - Jacket, Port Melbourne Fooball Club 3rd XVIII, Undefeated Premiers, 1945
Port Melbourne Football Club 3rd XVIII 1950s blazer; embroidered pocket includes "Undefeated Premiers" 1946 to 1952, blue wool with red ribbon trim, owned by Ted McCARTHY.PM on sewn in labelsport - australian rules football, ted mccarthy, port melbourne football club, pmfc -
Port Melbourne Historical & Preservation Society
Photograph - Albert MOWLAM's 1940 Ford Prefect outside 35 Cruikshank Street, 1940s
Congues and Mowlam families Images of two families who lived in Cruikshank Street from the 1930s to 1950s. .10 - Albert MOWLAM's 1940s Ford Prefect outside 35 Cruikshank Streetfamiles, congues family, mowlam family, albert 'tich' mowlam -
Kew Historical Society Inc
Album - Art therapy sketchbook, Kenneth Bailey, Moderne Drawing & Scribbling Book, Kew Mental Hospital, 1952-1969
Herbert Joseph Chambers was born in 1912 in Clifton Hill, Victoria. Later he was to live in Clark and Charles Streets in Northcote, in South Caulfield, and finally in Mentone. While he may have worked at the Kew Asylum before 1945, that year was when he was presented with a Certificate issued by the Department of Mental Hygiene (Victoria) declaring that he had completed training and passed the examinations required to work as a 'Mental Attendant’. The document is dated 19th December 1945 and signed by the Director of the Department and by the Co-Examiners. From at least 1945, he was to work as a member of the male staff of the Asylum, mainly in the Refractory Ward. A donor gifted to the Kew Historical Society in February 2019 a number of items collected by Herbert Chambers in his work at the Asylum. These include his Certificate of Registration, a photograph taken of him with two colleagues at Circular Quay in Sydney, a notebook containing ‘SP’ betting records of male asylum staff, and five sketchbooks with artwork created by Kenneth Bailey, a patient of the Asylum. Herbert Chambers’ period of employment at the Kew Asylum coincided with the employment of the English psychiatrist Dr Eric Cunningham Dax (1908-2008) as Chairman of the Mental Hygiene Authority in 1952. Dr Dax introduced an art therapy program into Victorian psychiatric hospitals, including Kew, where it is likely that the five sketchbooks were created. The sketchbooks are believed to have been presented to Chambers by **** as a “gift for looking after him”. Herbert Chambers retired from the Kew Asylum in c.1970 after working there for almost thirty years.The Kew Historical Society has been the recipient of a number of important collections relating to the Kew Mental Hospital and the Children's Cottages, Kew, including their former incarnations. This is an important donation in this context as it includes five sketchbooks by a patient in an art therapy program at the Hospital. Art therapy programs were introduced by Dr Eric Cunningham Dax to Victorian asylums in the 1950s. The sketchbooks contain incomplete drawings and finished artworks. The donor believes that the patient who created the sketchbooks suffered from Schizophrenia. The sketchbooks are historically significant as representative examples of works created by patients in the program and for what they reveal about how mental illness may be manifested in a patient's artworks. The most significant repository of comparable works is held by the Dax Centre at Melbourne University.One of five sketchbooks with illustrations by ******, a patient of the Kew Mental Hospital in an art therapy program, during the 1950s or 1960s. No work is dated although a number of the drawings/paintings are signed with the artist's name. art therapy, kew mental hospital, herbert joseph chambers, dr eric cunningham dax -
Kew Historical Society Inc
Photograph - Men on the bank of the Yarra River, circa 1953
This is one of a series of 17 black and white undated photographic proofs donated to the Kew Historical Society in 2013 by the Queenscliffe Historical Museum. The series includes images of individuals, tea rooms, ferries, motor launches, ocean liners and tugs. The subject of the photograph is a Hicks Bros ferry, which from circa 1921 operated a ferry service from Princess Walk (Melbourne) to Studley Park.Very faded and degraded photograph of a group of men walking down pathways on the bank of a river in Melbourne. The location may be the Hawthorn Tea Rooms. The undated photographic positive was probably taken in the 1950s.melbourne, tourism -
Warrnambool and District Historical Society Inc.
Programme - Warrnambool Little Theatre "Present Laughter", Collett & Munday, Early 1950s
This is a programme of a play "Present Laughter" staged by the Warrnambool Little Theatre in the early 1950s The playwright Noel Coward was very popular at that time .We have not found much information on the role of the Warrnambool Little Theatre. This programme is retained as a memento of a Warrnambool stage production in the mid 20th century.This is cream coloured piece of lightweight card folded in two to make four pages with black printing. The front page has a small stain.Warrnambool Little Theatre Presents " Present Laughter" IN THREE ACTS By Noel Coward PROGRAMME warrnambool little theatre, theatre productions -
Greensborough Historical Society
Book - Digital Image, Semco, Semco smocking instruction book: sample pages, 1950s
Sample pages from "Semco smocking instruction book". An example of 1950s advertising through sewing and homemaker books. In this book, instructions are given for smocking of garments. Smocking is an embroidery technique used to gather fabric. An example of mid 20th century advertising through 'how-to' books.Digital copy of ample pages from a bookhistoric advertisements, smocking, embroidery, hand sewing, semco -
Greensborough Historical Society
Doilies, Cut-work doilies (small), 1950s
Set of two cotton doilies, possibly hand made in the 1950s for domestic use. Doilies like this were used to protect furniture from scratches and for ornamental use. These doilies are embroidered using the cutwork method.2 cotton doilies (small ornamental mats), cream cotton fabric cut into the shape of a leaf with a small embroidered bunch of grapes.doilies, cutwork embroidery, soft furnishings, table linens