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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 -
Ringwood and District Historical Society
Book, Niall Brennan, The History of Nunawading, 1972
Sepia coloured dust cover on green hardcover book covering European settlement and development of Nunawading as a Parish, Rural Shire, and part of the City of Whitehorse. Loose A4 size typewritten page enclosed - My Country by Dorothea Mackellar. -
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 -
Bendigo Historical Society Inc.
Book - BOOK - THE IRISH CHIEFTAN
1. Patterned green cloth over cardboard cover. Titled The Irish Chieftan or the isles of Life and Death, by Edward Maturin, Esq. Inscribed inside book on flyleaf: Presented to James Adamson, by his youngest sister Sarah Adamson. June 9, 1862, Sunderland.book, rural, the irish chieftan., historical -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
Linton Mechanics Institute and Free Library Collection
Book - Novel, Black, Hermina, Love's cross-roads, 1953
Romance fiction set in Rhodesia.176 p. : blue-green cover. section of original dust jacket has been pasted to front. Image shows a rural setting which suggests Africa, a woman is in the foreground with a man (possibly holding a gun) standing behind her.fictionRomance fiction set in Rhodesia.fiction, hermina black -
Lakes Entrance Historical Society
Photograph - Johnsonville School, Lakes Post Newspaper, 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 Historical Society
Photograph - Johnsonville School, Lakes Post Newspaper, 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, sports -
Phillip Island and District Historical Society Inc.
Photograph, Picnic at Nobbies, 1917
The double-storey homestead with 1920s Arts and Crafts styling was built by A.K.T. (Albert Keaston Trenavin) Sambell, the the island’s first shire president. It sits just above the original site of the homestead of the pioneering McHaffie brothers, the Island’s first settlers.HistoricalLarge black and white photograph of a flat topped cart with no sides, pulled by 2 draught horses. Water tank on stand in rural background & people sitting on the cart. 3 women wearing hats and 4 boys, one holding a cricket bat.Off to the Nobbies for a day's picnic - 1917 from "Trenavin Park". Keaston Sambell driving. Sitting behind him - Betty Parker and on side of vehicle from left.-May Lambert, Jim Patterson, Jim Blake, Carmen Sambell, Bill Sambell.trenavin park phillip island, a.k. t. sampbell, betty parker, jim patterson, jim blake, carmen sambell, bill sambell, may lambert -
Glenelg Shire Council Cultural Collection
Photograph, 1890-1910
Original black and white photo mounted on white card overlaid with grey/green indented card. Image is of two women in a rural setting, holding handles of a group of several furled umbrellas. Dress is late 19th, early 20th century style. -
Bendigo Historical Society Inc.
Photograph - HARRY BIGGS COLLECTION:CESSNA AEROPLANE
Photograph of an early model Cessna Aeroplane at a rural airport, there are portions if two other planes visible beside it. A fence is in the background and a sign behind that which is Partially obscured, '--men', a man is standing in front of the sign. The registration letters on the plane are VH - KWMplace, transport, aeroplane, cessna , vh- kwm -
Lakes Entrance Historical Society
Photograph - Johnsonville State School, Lake Post Newspaper, 1994
Competition played at Lakes Entrance Recreation Centre.Black and white photograph of eight named 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 -
Bendigo Military Museum
Souvenir - PLATTER
Souvenir collected by a member of BCOF in Japan Post War WW2. Items re collection of "RICHARD WILLIAM McGILVERY" RAAF. Refer Cat No. 7287P for his service details, photos and awards.Silver coloured metal platter. Raised edges engraved with decorative flowers and leaves, mostly silver but some red. Small hole at each end. Base engraved with series of rural images. Back engraved with speckled image and each corner slightly raised.bcof, souvenir -
Federation University Historical Collection
Book, Education Department of Victoria Publications Branch, The Educational Magazine: Centenary of the Education Department of Victoria, Vol 30, No 1, c1973
This book was a special edition to celebrate 100 years of the Victorian Education Department. White soft covered magazine featuring the title of the book on the cover 'The Educational Magazine: Centenary of the Education Department of Victoria'. Contents include a timeline, Naming Schools, The Rural School, School Architecture, Early Teachers, the School Paper, Olympic Village, Secondary Education.victorian education department, william dargie, lindsay thompson, koallah, robert craig, james andrews, arthur davitt, shirley baker, james bonwick, isaac isaacs, charles lowe, frank beaurepaire -
Federation University Historical Collection
Notebook, Alex Ball, Notes of Lessons, 1964
Alex Ball attended the Ballarat Teachers' College This notebook contains details regarding Alex Ball's teaching rounds at the following schools around Ballarat. They were the Wendouree state school, Wendouree west state school, Pleasant street state school, Macarthur street rural school, and Alfredton state school.Included throughout the notebook are various handwritten images which were noted as a copy of that day's lesson taken off the blackboard.They were kept in place with metal holders. The registration no. "11733" is included on the front page in pencil.alex ball, lesson plan, notebook, wendouree state school, wendouree west state school, pleasant street state school, macarthur street rural school, alfredton state school -
Bendigo Historical Society Inc.
Magazine - AILEEN AND JOHN ELLISON COLLECTION: BETTER RURAL LIVING
Better Rural Living from March 22, 1961 a supplement to weekly Times. On the cover: a man with rifle taking aim, he is standing near a lake, a car is parked nearby and a female is setting a picnic next to him. The magazine has 47 pages.books, magazines, weekly times