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Warrnambool and District Historical Society Inc.
Book, Hodder and Staughton, The New Testament, 1934
The new testament is the second part of the Bible and records the teachings of Christ through the four gospels as well as the Acts of the Apostles and letters of St Paul as well as book of Revelations. It is commonly used as a book of inspiration and study within all Christian Churches. This particular copy was presented to James Cook in 1940 by the Hamilton Church of Christ Sunday School. The Cook family was also connected with the Warrnambool Church of Christ.This item has only a tenuous connection to Warrnambool and its history but is retained because of its connection to the Cook family.Dark grey cloth covered card cover with symbol of lamp in circle on front cover. Title in red on spine of book.388 pagesPresented to James Cook from the Church of Christ Sunday School Hamilton February 1940warrnambool, church of christ sunday school, james cook, -
Melbourne Tram Museum
Negative, Wal Larsen, 6/05/1940 12:00:00 AM
Negative of a photograph of a cable tram set in Queens Parade Clifton Hill, passing under the railway bridge at Clifton Hill 6-5-1940. The tram has the destination of Northcote. The bridge has an advert for Kraft Cheese. Road lowered in preparation of closure. Photo Wal Larsen In the background is the cabin for turning trams at the Clifton Hill depot or car sheds.on rear of negative in album "Getting ready for the double-decker buses at Clifton Hill. Road has been lowered on either side when cable goes rest of road will be lowered. Trailer 506 is shown. 1145am 6th May 1940 and camera settings. Photo by W. H. Larsen."trams, tramways, cable trams, queens parade, closure, clifton hill, bridges, railways -
Bendigo Military Museum
Photograph - PHOTOGRAPHS WW2, C.1940
.1) Photo, sepia tone, showing Australian soldiers and convoy marching through main street. .2) Photo, sepia tone, showing Australian soldiers and convoy marching through a suburban street. .1) on rear in pen: "Marching through Bendigo from Pucka 1940". .2) on rear in pen: "Bendigo 1940 from Puckapunyal".photographs, bendigo, puckapunyal -
Federation University Historical Collection
Photograph - Photograph - Black and White, Frank Wright at King's Park, Western Australia, 2/1940
Frank Wright was a renown resident of Smeaton, where he was born on 2 August 1901. 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.A black and white photograph of a gentleman in a suit holding a hat in a park like setting. The man is Frank WrightAt King's Park, Perth W.A. Feb 1940frank wright, brass band, conductor, king's park western australia -
Federation University Historical Collection
Photograph - Black and White, Frank Wright riding a camel, May 1940
Frank Wright 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 man riding a camel and being led by a dark skinned man in flowing robes.In the background are other more indistinct people and animals. The man is Frank Wright and the place is near the Pyramids in Egypt.Handwritten on back - Near Pyramids, May 1940frank wright, cornet, conductor, camel, pyramid, egypt -
Tatura Irrigation & Wartime Camps Museum
Document, "Aus Der Enge in Die Weite", 1940 - 1945 approx
Made in Camp 1, Tatura to contain written poems by, and collected by, Dr. Neumann, who, from Germany had been appointed lecturer at Sydney University c 1937 until interned in 1939. It remained in the possession of his daughter Ingrid until she brought it and presented it to the Museum.Scrap book made and bound in Camp 1 with poems written and collected during Dr. Neumann's internment. Dedicated to his wife PeggyGreen cardboard covers with green binding secured by black shoe lace, containing paper pages with typed poems, mainly in German.G.Neumann on cover. Tatura 1940 - 1945 (inside)camp 1 tatura, books,, scrap books, collections -
Tatura Irrigation & Wartime Camps Museum
Painting - Painting - Watercolour, Mitte December, Tatura, Victoria, December 1940
Dr Leonhard Adam was a Dunera internee in Camp 2RomanticismL.A 1940 Mitte December, Tatura, Victoria -
Phillip Island and District Historical Society Inc.
Photograph, 1940's
RACV Garage in Thompson Avenue. "Thompson's Garage".Black & White photograph of community of Cowes with tyres collected for the war effort in front of Thompson's Main Garage.Tyres collected for the war effort - 1940'swar effort collection, thompson's garage cowes phillip island, sue payne -
Warrnambool and District Historical Society Inc.
Magazine - Magazine monthly journal, The Australian Home Beautiful, 1/5/1940
4 page article & photos on Warrnambool home called 'Shipley' situated on the Hopkins. Dawson family1920's Century architecture Keith Cheetham. Owners Mr & Mrs A. G. Dawson50 page monthly journal. Showing housing, house hold tips. Black print on cream paper. Reasonable condition slightly water damagedVol 18 No 5. May 1 1940. journal. magazine. home beautiful. australia. household. recipes, shipley, hopkins river, home beautiful, dawson -
Port Melbourne Historical & Preservation Society
Photograph - Princes Pier, Port Melbourne, 1940 - 1941
Small sepia photograph of Princes Pier with gantry to left of gatehouse. Ship at inner East. Crowd on gantry and on wharfPort Melbourne 1940-41 (in ballpoint on reverse)piers and wharves - princes pier -
Tatura Irrigation & Wartime Camps Museum
Painting - Painting - Watercolour, Portrait of unknown Internee, 1940
Dr. Leonhard Adam was an internee in Camp 2.Original painting depicting an internee during the artist's time in Internment at Tatura.Portrait of unknown 'Camp 2 Internee', by Leonhard Adam. Cream coloured painted old-fashioned frame (plaster?), with decorative scrollwork on corners. Male subject, brown hair & goatee, blue eyes. Blue/ white background. White shirt.Leonhard Adam Tatura / Vic Weiten 1940tatura, dunera, internee camps, leonhard adam -
Tatura Irrigation & Wartime Camps Museum
Cradle, January 1940
Creator Walter Kiessling was interned in September 1939, leaving his pregnant wife, Rosa, alone in Melbourne. After visiting Walter in Dhurringile Interment Camp and then Camp 1, wife Rosa then appealed to Camp 1 Commandant Major Schrader for permission to have Walter visit her and the baby in hospital under guard escort. Soon after, permission was given to take the baby to Camp 1 for a christening with a Lutheran Pastor. While inside Camp 1, Walter and his internee friend Rudolf Schultz crafted the cradle for the baby.Wooden cradle with painted floral decorations and heart shaped holes in the ends.INTERNMENT CAMP TATURA AUSTRALIA JANUARY, 1940kiessling, cradle, woodwork, internment camp woodwork, major schrader, walter kiessling, rudolf schultz -
Stawell Historical Society Inc
Photograph, Cato Lake diving platform -- Postcard
Diving Tower Valentine Series Card No. 1815. Post card is a view of the diving platform with the change rooms at the lake. On the verandah of the change room are people in swimming costumes and one person about to dive into the lake. There is also an enlarged photo of the post card. c 1930-1940.Valentine Series Post Card No 1815 of the Diving Tower and Change rooms at Lake c 1930 - 1940. The post card is black & white with trees along the lake and behind the change room. Valentine Series No. 1815 THE SWIMMING POOL, STAWELL on the back Published by the Valentine Publishing Co. Pty. Ltd., Queen St., Melb.stawell -
Wangaratta RSL Sub Branch
Sketch - Football Team, 7-12-1940
Aussie Rules football match between D Coy and C Coy of the 2/5 Australian Infantry Battalion played at 1.30 on 7-12-1940 at unknown location possibly Egypt/North Africa List of team players, officials and umpire names and nicknames including AR Wills ("Gaza Kid")Light blue lined note paper with oval shape marked with names written in pencil. On reverse side in pencil list of names under heading of Team. Alongside seven names are signatures in black ink.1.30 D Coy V C Coy 7-12-1940 Two columns marked "President and Officials" followed by names Reverse side - "Team"- followed by two columns of nicknames and names some with signatures in ink. 2/5 aust. infantry battalion, d & c coy, ww2, football match, 7/12/1940, north africa -
Bendigo Military Museum
Booklet - DRIVERS HANDBOOK, 1940
Item issued to W.H.GREENMAN VX126789. Refer Cat No 81 for his service details and other.Paper covered book of Standing Orders for Drivers of Mechanical Vehicles, 1940/ 20 pages.Handwritten on top left inside cover: VX126789 DVR Greenman W H Handwritten on top centre 1st page: DVR Greenman W H VX126789booklets, drivers, vehicles -
Bendigo Historical Society Inc.
Book - MCCOLL, RANKIN AND STANISTREET COLLECTION: LEDGER - GOLDEN CARSHALTON N.L. MINE, 1940/41
Book; Ledger with pages indexed alphabetically in front with calls and ledger entries for 1940 and 1941.MCCOLL RANKIN & STANISTREETorganisation, industry, ledger, mccoll rankin & stanistreet -
Ballarat Clarendon College
Book, The collected poems of John Mansfield
Book prize awarded to Margery Ramsay for proficiency in English 1940. Margery attended Clarendon PLC 1929 - 1940. Blue fabric covered book with gold lettering on spine and front cover; school crest embossed on front cover.Boom plate inside front cover: Clarendon Presbyterian / Ladies College / Ballarat / school crest / Awarded to / Margery Ramsay / Prize Lady Robinson / English Prize / Form Honours VI / Helen I Mathieson / Principal / December 1940margery-ramsay, clarendon-presbyterian-ladies-college, book-prize, lady-robinson-english-prize -
Wangaratta High School
WHS Student Workbook- Joan Tripp, 1939-1940
Joan Tripp Workbooks 1940- Lodger, Cashbook, Journal, Music book, Cookery, Home Management, Domestic Science, The Jungle book (dux prize), the merchant of Venice 1939-1940-Pupil Record book Undated- Arithmetic and Algebra, Art -
Charlton Golden Grains Museum Inc
Photograph, Charlton Tribune Office c. 1947
John Richardson, proprietor and editor of the Charlton Tribune, at the entrance to the Charlton Tribune Office. Formerly the Wylie Building then the Charlton Tribune Office c. 1940 - 1950.Black and white photo of John Richardson standing outside the Charlton Tribune office. Typed notice stuck to bottom of photo reads 'John Richardson Editor of the Charlton Tribune outside the office at the west end of High St in the late 1940's"John Richardson Editor of the Charlton Tribune outside the office at the west end of High St in 1947john richardson, charlton tribune, newspaper, editor, wylie building -
Healesville Sanctuary Heritage Centre
silver tea pot
This tea pot was used in the original Kiosk at Healesville Sanctuary during the 1940'sParamount medium-sized 2 pint silver teapot; functional classic design is similar to ones used in hotel dining rooms during the 1940's - quite plain with no markings or embellishment. Long spout, handle with swirl on upper side and marble-sized knob on lid. Larger in diameter at bottom than at the top. Stamped on base - "PARAMOUNT / PLATE / BEST QUALITY / EP NS AI /WARRANTED / HARD SOLDERED / K G LUKE MELB / 2 PT" teapot, k-g-luke, -
Phillip Island and District Historical Society Inc.
Photograph, 1940's
Photograph by Country Roads Board.Black & White Photograph of the Suspension Bridge between San Remo and Newhaven constructed 1938 - 1940.local history, photography, photographs, slides, film, civil engineering, bridges, history of the phillip island bridge, black & white photograph, phillip island bridge -
Phillip Island and District Historical Society Inc.
Photograph, 1940's
Photograph by Country Roads Board.Black & White Photograph of the Suspension Bridge between San Remo and Newhaven constructed 1938 - 1940.local history, photography, photographs, slides, film, civil engineering, bridges, history of the phillip island bridge, black & white photograph, phillip island bridge -
Tatura Irrigation & Wartime Camps Museum
Carving, sandstone, 1940
Item carved by a German Internee who was held in Camp 1 in WW2. Came into the possession of one of the guards, whose nephew donated it to Tatura MuseumSandstone piece with carved map of Austraiia, Tatura 1939-1940, and a 1939 penny inserted in the stone."Tatura Vic.1939-40." Map of Australia/Bird.internment camp 1, tatura, german internee.. -
Coal Creek Community Park & Museum
Framed photo, Cope Brothers Tailors Shop Korumburra, 1935 - 1940
Wooden framed photo of the interior of Cope Brothers Tailor shop Korumburra, c. 1935 - 1940.Back of frame states Çope Brothers Shop'. -
Wangaratta High School
WAHS Magazine sample papers, 1940-1960
Extract pages from a range of WAHS sample magazine papers from the years 1940-1960 -
Tatura Irrigation & Wartime Camps Museum
Sandstone Rock, 1940
This rock was found by a Year 3 boy, Beanie Cockram-Russell, in the Dhurringile Primary School garden bed.Piece of sandstone which has a, 1940, a map of Australia, a Rosella and the word Tatura Vic. carved into it.Australia, Rosella and Taturadhurringile primary school, carved sandstone rock -
Rutherglen Historical Society
Photograph - Image, The Leader, 1940 (Approximate)
Page 28 of the Leader newspaper March 9, 1940. Photograph of the 2nd Cavalry Division Signallerscavalry, signallers, world war ii, world war 2 -
Glenelg Shire Council Cultural Collection
Newspaper, 'Heywood Mirror', 28/06/1940
A3 size 4 page newspaper 'Heywood Mirror' No. 1, Friday June 28, 1940. -
4th/19th Prince of Wales's Light Horse Regiment Unit History Room
Booklet, Maj W J Pendlebury, The King's Regulations and Manual of Military Law, 1940's
Soft covered booklet - a precis of King's Regulations and Manual of Military Law written for Officers by Maj W J Pendlebury late RFA (T) and Staff Captain, Kantara EEFSixth Edition revised in accordance with KR 1940, 1941military law -
Tatura Irrigation & Wartime Camps Museum
Document, "Aus Der Enge in Die Weite", 1940-1945
Made in Camp 1, Tatura to contain type written poems by, and collected by Dr. Neumann, who, from Germany, had been appointed lecturer at Sydney University c.1937, until interned in 1939. Remained in possession of his daughter Ingrid until she brought it and presented to the Museum.Green cardboard covers with green binding secured by black shoe lace, containing paper pages with typed poems, mostly in German. Scrap book made and bound in Camp 1 with poems written and collected during Dr. Neumann's internment. Dedicated to his wife Peggy.G. Neumann on cover, Tatura 1940-1945 (inside)camp 1 tatura, books, scrap, collections