The butter stamp rolling pin was used in The Orbost Butter factory.It was rolled across the butter in a wooden box, lined with a wax paper.Bicarbonate of soda was added to the butter to stop it from going rank.The first shipment in about 1893 to England went rank and was only good for axle grease on wagons and carts.The milk was brought to the factory by horse and dray.Most people would take the whey home for their pigs,which were abundant on the farms in the Orbost district. The Orbost Butter and Produce Co. Ltd was registered on June 1st 1893 and was an important source of income to the Orbost district. Large, hand carved, round wooden roller with handle at each end. There is a central carved word, with a pattern of raised squares either side of the carved word and an uncarved area at either end of the roller. The stamp rests on a wooden plinth. "AUSTRALIA" carved in reverse around the width.orbost-butter-factory dairy butter

Alex Wright travelled to England in 1930 and was known as the Prince of Mimic although his stage name was Navarre. He died in an air raid in the Hippodrome Birmingham in 1940. Alex was the brother of Frank Wright who was a renown resident of Smeaton, where he was born. He lived at Laura Villa, and attended Smeaton State School. His father William was a gold miner and his mother's name was Sarah. Their family won many singing and instrumental awards. Frank was tutored by Percy Code and was awarded a gold medal for the highest marks in the ALCM examinations in the British Colonies at the age of seventeen years. He became the Australian Open Cornet Champion by the age of eighteen. A year later, Frank conducted the City of Ballarat Band, and later the Ballarat Soldiers’ Memorial Band. He formed the Frank Wright Frisco Band and Frank Wright and his Coliseum Orchestra. These bands won many South Street awards, and Frank as conductor won many awards in the Australian Band Championship contest. In 1933 Frank Wright sailed to England to conduct the famous St Hilda’s Band and was later appointed Musical Director of the London County Council, where he organized many amazing concerts in parks, in and around the London district. He was made Professor of Brass and Military Band Scoring and conducted at the Guildhall of Music and Drama. Frank was often invited to adjudicate Brass Band Championships around Europe, in Australia, including South Street and in New Zealand. The Frank Wright Medal at the Royal South Street competition is awarded to an individual recognized as making an outstanding contribution to brass music in Australia.Black and white photograph of a standing man, leaning his elbow onto his leg which is resting on a fence rail. He is dressed in shirt, trousers and braces. In the background is a grassy paddock. He is most probably Alex Wright.Printed on back - Printed at Scott's, Veloxalex wright. frank wright, navarre, smeaton, ballarat

Plastic bag with yellow folder titled 'Lonely Last Resting Places of Old Australian Pioneers.' 1937-1968. Another one titled: 'Joss House Bendigo.' 1950-1973. And an assortment of newspaper articles relating to early Australia'YESTER-YEAR'australia, history, general item of interest, lydia chancellor, collection, australia, bendigo, history, famous people, male, female, person, goldfields, chinese, joss house, walhalla, melbourne, pioneers, australian pioneers, buildings, houses, homes, australian history

Small full length portrait of a man standing beside a chair with his right hand resting on the back of the chair. He is wearing a three piece suit and a watch chain. He has a beard. Behind the chair is a garden scene.T. M. Cleaves, Eaglehawkphotograph, portrait, male, portrait of a man, t m cleaves

Small, full length portrait of a lady standing beside a table with her right hand resting on the table with a book on it. Her dress is long with the back of the skirt longer than the front. It has wide gathered sleeves with lace on the cuffs.Bent late Batchelder, Centre of Pall Mall, Sandhurstphotograph, portrait, female, portrait of a lady, bent late batchelder

Small, full length portrait of a lady standing next to a pedestal with her right arm resting on it. She is wearing a long, high neck dress with dark coloured buttons down the front and four dark bands around the hemline.T. M. Cleaves, Eaglehawkphotograph, portrait, female, portrait of a lady, t m cleaves

Small portrait of a lady standing beside a chair with her right hand resting on it. She is wearing a long dress with a high neckline and a small white collar. The skirt is very wide at the hemline. She has curls in her hair.photograph, portrait, female, portrait of a lady

Portrait of a Lady. She is standing with her left hand resting on a small piece of furniture. Behind her is a chair. She is wearing a full skirt with a jacket and a hat with a feather. Sepia portrait on a black mount board. No details on photo.photograph, portrait, female, portrait of a lady

Churchill Island Heritage Farm has a large photograph collection dating from the mid-nineteenth century to the last decade.This series of photographs were taken in the late 1890s and show scenes from around the island while it was owned by Samuel Amess and his family.Black and white reprint of a photograph from the late nineteenth century showing two men resting in a paddock with a line of trees dividing the field from the water. One man is reclining on the grass while another stands. Copy of 0658.3Catalogue number written in pencil on reverse. 'VICTORIAN DEPT OF AGRICULTURE' written in pencil on reverse Stamp on reverse: 'Photograph by Information Branch Victorian Dept. of Agriculture Ref. No 1978(541-8)'amess house, churchill island, samuel amess, moonahs

Bendigo Advertiser "The way we were" from 1999. Final resting place: the Sandhurst cemetery in Bridge Street, Sandhurst, circa 1880s. NOTE: Photo incorrectly labelled. This chapel is at the Back Creek Cemetery in Carpenter Street Bendigo.newspaper, bendigo advertiser, the way we were

A black and white photograph of the three daughters of the Province Chief at Hue enjoy the afternoon breeze on the balcony of their Father's house. The three girls were later murdered, along with the rest of the family, during the 1968 Tet Offensive by local VietCongphotograph, hue, tet offensive (1968), gibbons collection catalogue, province chief

Six postcards of Blackburn - sepia coloured. Five cards describing the postcards: 1. Lake Road bridge Blackburn 2. Blackburn Road 3. Blackburn Primary School 4. Travelers Rest Hotel 5. Blackburn Station blackburn

These domestic kitchen bags were donated to the National Wool Museum by Lila Gore. Lila donated Children’s Clothing (RGE 8324) to the museum in 2022 and at her time of donating, inquired as to whether the museum would also be interested in these bags she had been collecting. Lila said there was no reason as to why she was saving the bags, other than she liked the art works and thought they were too good to end up in landfill. She had thought perhaps she would make something out of the bags, or perhaps give the bags to a friend to make something. When Lila was donating the Children’s Clothing to the museum, she thought that the National Wool Museum would be the perfect home for the bags. Domestic kitchen bags such as these date from the late 19th century through the mid-20th century. They were used at home, usually by women, containing household items which would not spoil, such as flour, sugar, animal feed, seeds, and other commodities. In modern times a trip to the supermarket is a daily chore, in the past however, these trips happened far less often, with big sacks such as these a large reason why. In the rural US and Canada, Feed sack dresses and Flour sack dresses, were an iconic part of rural life from the 1920s through the Great Depression, World War II, and post-World War II years. Australia also reused these sacks, typically for making wagga style blankets, but re-use for clothing was not unusual.Calico oat bag with graphic blue and yellow image and text on front. Image shows head and shoulders of person resting on forearms surrounded by flora. Back of bag shows blue and white image of a cube with text and star graphics.Front: HARPER'S \ STAR \ AVENA \ BRAND \ ROLLED OATS \ ??INCORPOR?? ??STORIA?? \ ????? \ AUSTRALIA Back: THE \ SILVER STAR \ RICE \ STARCH \ ROBERT HARPERS AND CO LIMITED \ AUSTRALIA \ THE \ BEST \ IN \ THE \ WORLD \ WONT \ STICK \ TO THE \ IRON \wagga, flour, oats, bag, calico, lila, gore, depression, war, kitchen

J. R. Pope officially began operating his pharmacy at 102 High Street, Wodonga on 1 October 1967. The pharmacy was purchased from John T. McSwiney who had operated his business from the same site from 1901. Mr. McSwiney was born in Chiltern in 1875 and qualified as a pharmacist in 1896 when he was apprenticed to David James McEwen, father of future Prime Minister Sir John McEwen. By October 1901 Mr. McSwiney was running his own business in High Street where he practised until he sold the business to J. R. Pope exactly 66 years later. Although he went into semi-retirement John McSwiney was still working at the age of 92 and was considered to be Victoria’s – if not Australia’s oldest practising chemist. These jars were part of the transfer of the pharmacy and its equipment in 1967 but date back to the earlier years of John McSwiney’s pharmacy in the early 1900s. These jars come from a Wodonga business which operated for over 70 years.A set of 9 blue and white lidded apothecary jars with gilt lettering depicting latin names of the contents. Also a mortar and and two pestles. The mortar has a groove on the side for the smaller pestle to rest. There is also a blue glass jar.apothecary jars, pharmacies wodonga, pope pharmacy, mcswiney chemist

A small booklet with a white top with back writing with the word Uniforms. Under this the rest of the booklet is blue with whote writing. There is a map with Australia, Repulbic of Kores, New ZXealand, Repulblic of the Philippines, Thailand, United States of America and Republic of Vietnam.Contains pictures of uniforms of Aust. NZ, Repub.of Korea, Repub. of the Phillipines & Thailandmilitary uniforms, us army, commonwealth of australia, republic of korea, new zealand, republic of the philippines, thailand, republoic of vietnam

Model of ship from Crimean War. She now rests at a breakwater near Black Rock Vic.Model of H..M.V.S.Cerberus.H.M.V.S. Cerberus.

John Blanch rests in a hospital or nursing home bed, whilst his wife(?) looks towards the camera.Col. photograph of John Blanch and wife(?)association for the blind, john blanch

These birds’ eggs were collected by Charles Brittlebank before 1910 but at this stage it is not known from which area they came. English-born Charles Brittlebank was a naturalist interested in ornithology, geology and mycology. He was the Government Plant Pathologist for Victoria from 1913 to 1924. He was the first to discover evidence of glaciation in the Werribee Gorge and published many papers on this subject and other aspects of natural history. It is not known when Charles Brittlebank was in the Warrnambool area or the origin of the birds’ eggs but it a very interesting (and perhaps rare) historical collection. .1 Birds’ Eggs - There are 27 eggs, either whole or partial specimens, contained in a box with home–made cardboard partitions. Ten are intact and the rest are broken. Eight are white and the remainder are speckled. The eggs are resting on a turquoise-coloured piece of material .2 Nest – This is woven from hair and fine twigs and is filled with white wool-like fragments .3 Letter – These are two sheets of writing paper with handwritten information in blue ink. .4 Envelope - This is a small envelope which contained the sheets of paper (.3 above) and the front has handwritten material in blue ink..3 ‘To whom it may concern – I hereby declare that these eggs were collected before 1910, and were part of a collection of the late Charles Brittlebank which is now in the Melbourne Museum. Fred. A. Shirrefs.’ .4 ‘To whom it may concern’ charles brittlebank, history of warrnambool

Photograph of AIF Codford Camp No. 7. R.H. Baron was stationed here in 1918 during WW1. He later transferred to Herdcott Camp. Part of the Robert H. Baron (No. 3596) and Cooper Collections. See Catalogue No. 1981P for details of Baron's service.Black and white photograph featuring three buildings fronting a gravel road. Two signs appear in the foreground. One is labelled 'No. 7 Camp', the other taller one is labelled 'Salvation Army Rest Hut'. A tree lined hill is in the background.On back, handwritten in black ink: 'Dear Mother, this is the entrance to our camp, the 3rd hut down on the outside is our hut, Robert H. Baron.robert h. baron, cooper collection, postcard, codford aif camp

Ostrich eggs were a novelty item found in many homes in the 19th and early 20th centuries, though in Australian homes they were more likely to be emu eggs. Some ostrich eggs may have been brought to Australia from South Africa after the Boer War or purchased by travellers to foreign lands at other times. This ostrich egg has no known provenance.This ostrich egg has been in the collection of the Warrnambool and District Historical Society for 45 years and the only known connection it has to Warrnambool is seen in the fact that the donor was Mrs Uebergang and the Uebergang name is well-known in our district as the Uebergangs were pioneering settlers in the Allansford/ Warrnambool area. This is a cream-coloured ostrich egg resting in a circular cavity in the centre of a rectangular wooden frame. The egg has a small hole on the top and has paintings of an African woman and child on one side of the egg and huts with palm trees on the other side. history of warrnambool, ostrich eggs, painted ostrich egg

A framed formal photograph of a man wearing what appears to be either a graduation robe or a mayoral robe. It is trimmed with fur and he has a frilled ruffle (a jabot?). One hand is resting on a small table and the other holds a scroll.The frame is wooden.

School magazine, 44 Pages. Full Colour Cover, rest of magazine is Black and White. Reflects the transition from Ringwood Technical School to Eastern Secondary College. (24/6/22: still to be scanned to pdf and pdf loaded to this record)rts, ringwood tech

Two small portrait photographs by N.White Photographer Mitchell Street Sandhurst opposite St Pauls Tower, one of a small child with arm resting on a book on chair with initials MB written on back, the other of a woman seated at a Davenport with book.N.White.photograph, portrait, lady & child

Small portrait of a lady standing beside a table with a large cloth on it. Her right hand is resting on the table. She is wearing a long, high neck dress with a lace collar and darker pieces added to the bodice. The skirt has five layers.The Parisian Photographic Company. 45 Ludgate Hill London. E.C.photograph, portrait, female, portrait of a lady, photo

Bendigo Advertiser "the way we were'' from Wednesday, December 8, 2004. Rest time: taking a breather from action during the 1914-1918 war was this group of Australian soldiers. Included among them are several Bendigo men.newspaper, bendigo advertiser, the way we were