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Tatura Irrigation & Wartime Camps Museum
Photograph, Alan Brown, Tatura Tree Group, c1990s
... brown a ...Tatura Tree Group, Alan Brown surveying seedlings, c1990s. Alan Brown is a retired manager of Rosella.tatura, locals, tree group, brown a, rosella, costume, male, rural, industry, horticulture -
Bendigo Historical Society Inc.
Book - BOOK: CONSECRATION OF THE CHURCH OF ST. PAUL BENDIGO 1944, 12th November, 1944
... H A Brown ...Buff coloured booklet titled consecration of the Church of St. Paul Bendigo' November 12th, 1944. Title printed in black with red capital letters. Photos in the book are: St. Paul's Church, The Interior, The Childrens' Corner, The Sanctuary, The Chapel and The West Door. Contains date and times of the Service of Consecration, names of the Rector, Rev. Canon E. H. Pickford, Th.L.; Churchwardens: Messrs. B.F. Lamb, O. Williams and H.H. Allen (Treasurer). Vestrymen: Messrs. D. McCauley, W.A. Draper (Secretary), J. Friswell, A. Hocking, H. A. Brown, B. F. Pidgeon, P. Willis, H. George, H. Wilson. Organist and Director of Choir: Mr. R. A. Anderson. Book has the Service, Prayers and Hymns with the photos amongst them. Printed by Cambridge Press, Bendigo.Cambridge Press, Bendigoevent, official, celebration, book - consecration of the church of st. paul bendigo 1944, the most reverend joseph john booth, rev canon e h pickford, b f lamb, o williams, h h allen, d mccauley, w a draper, j friswell, a hocking, h a brown, b f pidgeon, p willis, h george, h wilson, r a anderson, cambridge press -
Bendigo Historical Society Inc.
Book - JOHN JONES COLLECTION: ST PAUL'S RED CROSS BRANCH MINUTE BOOK
... A Brown ...Black covered exercise book with red edges on the pages. Book contains handwritten minutes of the St Paul's Red Cross Branch between the years 1939 to 1945. List of members in the back of the book: Mrs Trembearths, Nellor, R Wallace, W Webster, Wynd, J M Winterbottom, Watts, Wilson, A Gittens, N Richardson, Miss Leslie, Nuttall, Mrs Roxburgh, Burridge, A Brown, T Cambridge, Corner, W Draper, H Euring W Euring, Gall, Magee, Gibbon, Hampson, S L Reed, F Jones, J Jones, Killian, Malloy, Mansell, Marshall, Palmer, Pidgeon, Putman, Redin, G Rumboldt Jun, O Williams, A E Wallace, G Wright, Wooltorton, Yeo, Allat, Starkey, Goyne, Fabrian, Fox,book, bendigo, bendigo organisations & businesses, john jones collection - st paul's red cross branch minute book, mrs trembearths, nellor, r wallace, w webster, wynd, j m winterbottom, watts, wilson, a gittens, n richardson, miss leslie, nuttall, mrs roxburgh, burridge, a brown, t cambridge, corner, w draper, h euring w euring, gall, magee, gibbon, hampson, s l reed, f jones, j jones, killian, malloy, mansell, marshall, palmer, pidgeon, putman, redin, g rumboldt jun, o williams, a e wallace, g wright, wooltorton, yeo, allat, starkey, goyne, fabrian, fox -
Whitehorse Historical Society Inc.
Ceremonial object - Rotary Guest Speaker badge & box, Guest speaker Rotary International 'Dean'. Box - W.L Brown Camberwell & Ringwood- Jewellers
Rotary International, W. L. BrownRed covered Jewellery box lined with satin & velvet. Badge - round wheel shaped with Rotary International & guest speaker also name holder with 'Dean'Box has 'W.L. Brown, Jewellers, Camberwell & Ringwood.w. l.brown, clibs, rotary international, jewellery -
Linton and District Historical Society Inc
Photograph, Mrs. Emma Brown, 1870-1954
Emma Mercer was born in 1870 and lived at Spring Vale (now Pittong) at the Mercer property "The Pines". Emma worked as a teacher and head teacher at several schools, including Mortchup, Chepstowe, Kiata and Tarilta. In 1916, after she had retired from teaching, she married James Brown, a widower, one of a large farming family at Chepstowe. They had no children. James' brother David was married to Emma's sister Elizabeth (Bessie), and after James Brown died in 1931, Emma moved to live near her sister at Pittong. Emma Brown died in 1954. Emma and her sister Bessie were very involved with the war effort during World War I, and after the war they were presented with certificates of appreciation by the Linton "Diggers". (Copies of certificates in the LDHS collection.)Black and white copy of a studio portrait showing a lady standing behind a wooden gate. She is wearing a white high collared blouse with brooch and pendant, and a dark coloured jacket and long skirt. (nee Mercer)"Emma Brown nee Mercer"emma brown née emma mercer -
Brighton Historical Society
Clothing - Coat, Fur coat, circa 1940s
This coat was made by Kallman Feitel (1877-1947), an Austrian-born furrier who emigrated to Australia around 1899. His shop was situated at 102-103 Beach Street, Port Melbourne.Long dark brown astrakhan coat with a brown fur collar and brown silk lining. Embroidered in the lining near the hem is the monogram "M.E.C."Label, woven, gold text on brown: "K. FEITEL / MELBOURNE"fur coat, fur, astrakhan, kallman feitel, k feitel, 1940s -
Tatura Irrigation & Wartime Camps Museum
Box, Tatura & District Co-Operative Housing Society Ltd, 1964 - 1981
Applications for Co-Operative Housing Loans. - 1964 - 1981Dark brown and white archival boxandrews r, bear r, baldwin e, batey l, beer m, beqir t, boccabella a, boschetti p, brown j, bunn j, caiafa g, callaghan j, cassidy j, cleary p, clement r, corrigan v, cross d, doller h, downie t, draper r, elliott s, gale d, gledhill j, gledhill k, glover a, green d, greenaway i, gregory w, hepworth r, hoelter c, iorio c, kiss j, letizia f, lockwood r, matheson r, mcardle b, mcintyre f, mcleod b, mcmahon f, muto d, nash b, oliver r, pinner l, rogers a, ross s, serra a, sinclair j, trevaskis j, wall f, whiteacre g, willaton a, williams r, tatura, housing loans, documents, agreements -
City of Moorabbin Historical Society (Operating the Box Cottage Museum)
Equipment - Barbers’ Equipment, hair clippers steel 'Brown & Sharpe", c1940
1833 Brown & Sharpe was founded in Providence, Rhode Island by David Brown and his son Joseph R. Brown. David Brown retired in 1841 and Joseph Brown formed a partnership with Lucian Sharpe in 1853. During the 19th and 20th centuries, Brown & Sharpe was one of the best-known and most influential machine tool builders and was a leading manufacturer of instruments for machinists (such as micrometers and indicators ) and helped establish: The American wire gauge (AWG) standards for wire; The Brown & Sharpe taper in machine tool spindle tapers; and The Brown & Sharpe worm threadform for worm gears. .Like most machine tool builders, Brown & Sharpe rode a business cycle roller coaster during 1920- 40. After being kept very busy during World War I, builders suffered a slump in the post–World War I recession and depression of 1920–21. The Roaring Twenties brought renewed sales, but then the Great Depression slashed them. The armament-build-up period of 1936 to 1940 again renewed machine tool activity, and then the World War II materiel effort exploded demand, pushing it to record heights and employed 11,000 workers. Brown and Sharpe machine tools were a mainstay of American metal manufacturing until the late 20th Century and could be found in most machine shops and factories that worked with metal. Brown and Sharpe made callipers and micrometers that were essential to products built to fine tolerances. Shortly after World War II, Henry D. Sharpe, Jr. succeeded his father as president of Brown & Sharpe Manufacturing Company, at which point it evolved into a new and modern company built, or at least designed, to last. The firm stopped producing its old stalwarts: sewing machines, hair clippers, and certain categories of machine tools and employment dropped to 3,500 in 1976. Due to industrial disputes in the 1980’s B&S started focusing more on developing Coordinate-Measuring Machines. The company began to lose money as it shifted production away from machine tools and toward advanced metrology equipment, losing $14.6 million in 1990 and employed only 700. In 1994 Brown & Sharpe acquired DEA of Italy, an established manufacturer of CMMs. In 2001, substantially all of the assets of the Brown & Sharpe Manufacturing Company, including the intellectual property, designs, trademarks, facilities and inventory, were acquired by Hexagon AB, Switzerland, without the acquisition of the Brown & Sharpe Manufacturing Company itself. A set of manual barbers’ hair clippers with an adjustable wing screw, from Brown and Sharpe, Manufacturing Company Ltd., Providence, Rhode Island, USA. Chrome plated, in fair condition, c1940on Right handle; MADE BY BROWN & SHARPE MFG. CO. POV. R.I. / PAT'D IN GREAT BRITAIN, EN FRANCE, S.G.D.G. / U.S.A. PATENTS JULY 1-79, JUNE 3-84, AUG 23- 92 on top blade ; BRESSANT / TRADEMARK on base of lower blade ; No. 2* barbers, hairdressers, hair clippers, brown and sharpe manufacturing company, providence rhode island, hexagon ab, switzerland, great britain, france, ww1 1914-1918, ww11 1939-1945, great depression 1930, micrometers, tools, precision instruments, brown david, brown joseph r , sharpe lucian, sharpe henry d jnr, american wire gauge standard, sewing machines, metrological tools, worm gears, spindle tapers, screw machines, moorabbin, bentleigh, cheltenham, city of moorabbin industries, -
City of Moorabbin Historical Society (Operating the Box Cottage Museum)
Manufactured Glass, bottle 'Sanolen' asthma tablets, mid 20thC
A medication for the treatment of Asthma made by J.L Brown Chemist Pty Ltd Melbourne c 1950A brown glass bottle with a plastic screw lid for 'Sanolin' asthma tablets Front: 25 TABLETS/ SANOLEN / BRAND / ASTHMA / TABLETS/ Original Formula / of / D. DeLancy DSc. / LONDON / Caution: Do not / exceed the stated / dose. Back: SANOLEN / BRAND / ASTHMA TABLETS / give instant relief and positive / relief from Asthma, Hay / Fever, …. etc. / J.L. BROWN & Co. / 123 Williams St., Melbourne. Left Side: INGREDIENTS……….. “POISON”…… / Reg. Vic. No. 388 . Right Side : DIRECTIONS pharmacy, medicines, asthma, respiratory diseases, early settlers, market gardeners, moorabbin, bentleigh, cheltenham, manufactured glass, bottles, j l brown & co ltd melbourne -
Mission to Seafarers Victoria
Photograph - Photograph, Black and white, Associated Photo Services, Reverend C.J Brown and his wife embarking at Liverpool for their Australian and Far East Tour, 1952
This photograph was probably sent to be used for advertising purposes to the mission. Here is the program of the tour published in the Age on Saturday 22 November 1952, page 16: "Australia's 15 stations of the world-famous Missions to Seamen are being visited by the general superintendent of the parent body in London, Rev. C. J. Brown, and. Mrs. Brown, who will arrive from Adelaide today. This is the first visit of the world head of the organisation to this country. Mr; Brown will attend the triennial Australasian chaplains' conference at the Central Club, Flinders-street Extension, next month. A full programme will include visits to the three clubs at Central. Port Melbourne and Williamstown, and to Geelong and Balla-rat, a tour of the Bay, an inspection of the work of a sister organisation, the British Sailors' Society, Geelong, and then on , to Geelong Grammar School. Mr. and Mrs. Brown will be the guests of the Governor and Lady Brooks at lunch at Government House tomorrow, and of the Lord Mayor at a reception on Tuesday. On Friday afternoon Archbishop and Mrs. Booth will hold a reception at Bishopscourt to enable the visitors to meet heads of the churches. Mr. Brown will preach at St. Paul's Cathedral tomorrow morning, and at St. Peter's Mariners' Church at 7 p.m. On December 7 he will preach, at Ballarat Cathedral, afterwards meeting workers of the Missions to. Seamen. He will address a Rotarians' luncheon on Wednesday. On Thursday evening he will meet the Company of Master Mariners. At a reception by the chairman of the Harbor Trust (Mr. A. D. Mackenzie) on December 8, Mr. Brown will meet the heads of Melbourne shipping firms."This was the first visit of the world head of the organisation to Australia since the beginning of the Missions to Seamen in this country.Black and white photograph depicting Reverend C.J Brown and his wife embarking at Liverpool for their Australian and Far East Tour.Written at the back in black ink: Missions to Seamen/Australasian and Far East Tour of General Superintendant (Rev. C.J. Brown, M.A. and Mrs Brown/Arriving in Melbourne by air from Adelaide on Saturday next (22/11). This will be the first visit of the world chief of the Missions to Seamen in the nearby 100 years history of the Society in Melbourne/The photograph shows the visitors embarking at Liverpool when setting out on their tour. In pencil: Padre+wife/2 vol./Pg 5 One black ink stamp from Associated Photo Services , 12A, Mount Pleasant, Liverpool 3 / one purple ink stamp emptyreverend c.j. brown, liverpool -
Linton and District Historical Society Inc
Photograph, Bessie Brown, 1938
Elizabeth Mercer, born 23/8/1873 at Spring Hill, married David Brown of Chepstowe. She died at Skipton on 19/1/1940.Black and white copy of original photograph of a lady standing outside in front of a fence and a tree. She is wearing a dark coloured long sleeved dress with a light coloured tie at the neckline and two round buttons on the lapel."Bessie Brown nee Mercer 1938"elizabeth (bessie) brown, elizabeth (bessie) mercer -
Glenelg Shire Council Cultural Collection
Book - Bible, Reverend John Brown, Brown's Self-Interpreting Family Bible, n.d
Large bible. Leather bound with brass clasps engraved with a decorative pattern. Gold decorations on front cover, on spine, and a gold decorative border on back cover with embossed pattern in centre. Cover bears words "THE HOLY SCRIPTURES WHICH-MAKE-WISE UNTO SALVATION", within a decorative pattern. Incised brass edges to front and back cover. Gold paint and hand-coloured decorative title page. (see Object File).bible, religion -
Federation University Historical Collection
Postcard - Postcard Booklet, Maubeuge Cartes Vues, c1918
This book was purchased by a World War One Australian solder on the Western Front.Small brown covered booklet containing 10 postcards. Maubeuge embossed light brown on darker brown on front right hand side top of cover. Maubeuge embossed light brown on darker brown on front right hand side top of cover. "Cartes Vues Detachables" on LHS bottom corner of front cover, Nels on RHS bottom corner (in a circle border of dark brown). Verso: Back cover; "Cartes Vuews Exiger la marque" printed in a circular style on centre back with Nels in a brown bordered circle inside it. maubeuge, cartes vues, postcard, nels, la sambre, place d'armes, monument, monument carnot, les remparts, porte de mons, l'eglise, caserne joyeuse, calsse d'epargne, cercie militaire, la mairie, maubeuge, cartes vues, postcard, nels, la sambre, place d'armes, monument, monument carnot, les remparts, porte de mons, l'eglise, caserne joyeuse, calsse d'epargne, cercie militaire, la mairie -
Robin Boyd Foundation
Functional object - Lamp, Don Brown from Brown Evans and Co. - BECO in Australia
This Beco lamp is by Suzy's bookcase and desk. It was designed by Donald Brown, a pre-eminent Australian lighting designer in the '50s and '60s. Robin Boyd often specified BECO lighting, including elsewhere in his own home. There was a similar lamp in Penleigh's room as a bedlight near the bookcase at one time.Beco 720 wall lamp, with black shade and articulated armBrown Evans & Cowalsh st furnishings, robin boyd -
Wangaratta RSL Sub Branch
Memorabilia - Identification Tags
Five dog tags, one brass, one homemade silver metal, one silver metal and two brown leather belonging to Private William West 1268 5th Pioneer Battalion who served during WW1. He enlisted in 1915 was wounded in 1917 and returned to Australlia in 1918One gold and two silver metal and two brown leather identification tags Brass wrist tag: W. West 1268 5th Pioneers Batt. A.I.F. Homemade silver metal wrist tag: W. West 5th Poineer BTN AIF Silver metal tag: Front; Next of Kin Mrs A.M West VIC Nt Creswick Aust. Back; 1268 W. West D 29 AI CE Brown leather tag: West. W 1268 5 PNRS AIF CE Brown leather tag on neck string: West. W 1268 5 PNRS AIF CEdog tags, wwi, world war 1, 5th battalion, aif -
Robin Boyd Foundation
Book, Philip Roth, Portnoy's Complaint, 1969
Hardcover w/ Brown Paper WrappingWrapped in Brown paper with Robin Boyd's Initials on the frontwalsh st library -
Federation University Historical Collection
Book, Geological Gossip or Stray Chapters on Earth and Ocean, 1860, 1860
Brown hard covered book. Chapter 16 is on gold deposits and discusses the discovery of gold in California and Australia.Brown hard covered book geology, water, rivers, the atlantic, great deep, africa, australian interior, eyre's expedition, murray river, darling river, earthqaukes, leichardt, moreton bay, volcanos, darwin's theory, evolution, egyptian race, human remains in caverns and gravel, rocks, metamorphism, iron ores, coal, coal fields, gold deposits, california, water-glass, artificial stone, porous stones, cements -
Robin Boyd Foundation
Functional object - Lamp, Don Brown from Brown Evans and Co. - BECO in Australia
This Beco lamp was designed by Donald Brown, a pre-eminent Australian lighting designer in the '50s and '60s. Robin Boyd often specified BECO lighting, including elsewhere in his own home. This was originally a bedside reading lamp in the upper living room, as seen in the Mark Strizic 1958 photograph in Robin Boyd's book Living in Australia p129.Beco 720 lamp, with black stand base with switch and white glass shadeBrown Evans & Cowalsh st furnishings, robin boyd, ohm2022, ohm2022_25 -
Robin Boyd Foundation
Functional object - Lamp, Don Brown from Brown Evans and Co. - BECO in Australia
This Beco lamp is attached to Penleigh's wardrobe and lights the sink and mirror area. It waslamp was designed by Donald Brown, a pre-eminent Australian lighting designer in the '50s and '60s. Robin Boyd often specified BECO lighting, including elsewhere in his own home. There was possibly a similar lamp in Suzy's's room as a bedlight near the bookcase at one time.Beco 720 wall lamp, with white shadeBrown Evans & Cowalsh st furnishings, robin boyd -
Glenelg Shire Council Cultural Collection
Domestic object - Plate - "Willow pattern plate", n.d
Displayed in History House (Cabinet, South wall)Willow-pattern plate with brown design.Front: Base: Willow/AF & S (brown print, centre) -
Stawell Historical Society Inc
Book, Allan Nelson & Leslie & Carl Loeliger, Lubeck School Centenary 1983, 1983
History of the Lubeck School and "Back to Lubeck" Weekend Sept 11-12 2004. Lubeck School Centenary book compiled August 20th 1983. 687.1 Back To Lubeck Weekend Sept. 11 & 12 2004. 681.2 A Poat Script to Lubeck School Centenary Dec. 17.1989White booklet with map on cover in Green Ink, Title in Brown Printin Brown Print: Lubeck School Cnetenary 1983stawell education -
Flagstaff Hill Maritime Museum and Village
Ceramic - Stoneware Container, 1900 to 1940
Stoneware is a rather broad term for pottery or other ceramics that is fired at a relatively high temperature. A modern technical definition is a vitreous or semi-vitreous ceramic made primarily from stoneware clay or non-refractory fire clay. Whether vitrified or not, it is non-porous, it may or may not be glazed. Historically, across the world, it has been developed after earthenware and before porcelain and has often been used for high-quality as well as utilitarian wares. As a rough guide, modern earthen wares are normally fired in a kiln at temperatures in the range of about 1,000°C (1,830 °F) to 1,200 °C (2,190 °F); stoneware's at between about 1,100 °C (2,010 °F) to 1,300 °C (2,370 °F); and porcelains at between about 1,200 °C (2,190 °F) to 1,400 °C (2,550 °F). Historically, reaching high temperatures was a long-lasting challenge, and temperatures somewhat below these were used for a long time. Earthenware can be fired effectively as low as 600°C, achievable in primitive pit firing, but 800 °C was more typical. Stoneware also needs certain types of clays, more specific than those able to make earthenware, but can be made from a much wider range than porcelain. A domestic item used to store food products as glazing makes the container non-porous, often used for pickling. Or larger containers for kitchen flour. Items age is difficult to determine given the same techniques for making stoneware are in use today. Stoneware containers were made by many potteries in Australia and England. They were in common domestic use before plastics were invented around 1940 to store goods so this subject item is probably from around 1900 to the 1940s. Item's significance is difficult to determine given it is not associated with a place, person, historic event, or manufacturer. Its significance lies with its use as a domestic object giving today a view into our social past.Stoneware circular container with wide opening, brown top and off white base glazed finish Marked "1" on brown glazed rimflagstaff hill, warrnambool, shipwrecked coast, flagstaff hill maritime museum, shipwreck coast, flagstaff hill maritime village, great ocean road, container, stoneware container, kitchen storage, kitchen ware -
Bendigo Historical Society Inc.
Document - CORRESPONDENCE: HODGSON (FAMILY OR BUSINESS)
Correspondence re Hodgson (family or business). Enquiry from L Brown 15/4/1967 re Hodgson Bros. Some handwritten notes re J W Hodgson and claim owned by Cattlin & Hodgson (1857).Les Brownperson, family, hodgson, hodgson bros, sailors gully, j.w. hodgson, phillips and burrowes claim, new chum, cattlin & hodgson, new chum hill, new chum & victoria, victoria hill, sterry & co, murdock & hodgson. -
Melbourne Tram Museum
Photograph - Black & White Photograph/s, Keith Kings, 20/09/1994 12:00:00 AM
... A. Brown ...Photograph, Black and White, Photo of the formal launch of Hawthorn Tramways Trust No. 8 (HTT) a Princes Bridge on 20/9/1994 by the Minister for Transport, Alan Brown, following the completion of the work by the PTC at Preston Workshops.In ink on the rear: Keith Kings stamp and number 365-25 "TMSV / PTC, Society Tram restored as HTT No. 8, ready to be "launched" by Mr. A. Brown, Minister for Transport, at Batman Ave Terminus 20/9/1994"trams, tramways, batman ave, htt, restoration, tram 8 -
Wangaratta Urban Fire Brigade
Photograph - marching team at Swanhill
Showing the participates of the Discipline March at the State Championships held at Swanhill in 1974. All the marchers were members of the Wangaratta Urban Fire Brigade. Steven Brown is the son of Les Brown. Les Brown passed away in 2011. Peter Graham and Tom Philp went on to be long serving members of the Brigade. John Briese also was a long serving member who moved to Melbourne around 1995. A black and white photograph of the Marching Team at Swanhill Championships 1974.Left to Right: Ian Moscrop, Tom Philp, John Spence, Peter Graham, Steven Brown, Les Brown, John Plecter, G Robinson, Bill Forge. Leader: John Briese Swanhill 1974photograph, marching team, swanhill -
Ringwood and District Historical Society
Document - Collection of memories and anecdotes, Brown families with settlement connections to Ringwood, Victoria
Charlie Brown (1870-1952) was one of the eleven children in the Brown family of Ringwood although he lived most of his life in Waratah Bay.One typed page of Brown family history and a photocopied newspaper cutting - Charlie Brown 1870-1952. -
Linton and District Historical Society Inc
Photograph, Shearers at or near Linton
Photograph was donated by Claire Flowers, a granddaughter of George Brown.Black and white copy of original photograph which shows shearers grouped together for a photograph inside(?) an unidentified shearing shed. Nearly all of them are wearing sun-hats and most are holding cups or plates. The only person identified is George Brown, in front row with pipe in mouth.On printed slip of paper with photograph: "Photo of shearers at Linton, Front row, first left with pipe in mouht is my grandfather george Brown who was the pund keeper and lived on 16 acres on the Geelong Road behind Gillets. He married Annie Meredith Nicholls." Signed "Claire R. Flowers".shearers, shearing sheds, woolsheds, rural activity, george brown -
Linton and District Historical Society Inc
Share certificate, Jubilee Consols Gold Mining Company, Browns, Near Scarsdale, 1899, 1899
Jubilee Consols Gold Mining Company located at Browns, near Scarsdale.Pale blue-grey Jubilee Gold Mining Company Share Certificate, Issue No. 53. Certifies that R. Gilpin is a member of the Company and owns one hundred shares (nos. 5201 to 5300). Dated 22nd July 1899, signed "R. Gilpin, Manager". "R. GILPIN, Manager, 7 Lydiard Street, Ballarat" printed inside decorative border down left side of certificate. "Jubilee Consols Gold Mining Company" stamped in purple ink in top right corner.Text: " Jubilee Consols Gold Mining Company / NO LIABILITY / BROWNS, NEAR SCARSDALE. "jubilee consols gold mining company, r. gilpin, gold mining, mining share certificates, mining leases -
Glenelg Shire Council Cultural Collection
Photograph - Photograph - Alan Brown Minister for Public Transport, n.d
Port of Portland Authority ArchivesBack: Alan Brown - Minister & Theo Jarrettport of portland archives, alan brown -
Linton and District Historical Society Inc
Photograph, Mrs. Bessie Brown and Daughter Vera
Elizabeth (Bessie) Mercer, a daughter of Henry Boyd Mercer and Deborah Mercer née Sinclair, was born 23/8/1873 at Spring Hill (near present-day Pittong). She attended Spring Vale State School where she achieved her Merit Certificate. She registered as a teacher in 1891 and completed further training to become a teacher of gymnastics in 1896. Bessie married David Brown of Chepstowe, and they farmed at Pittong. They had two children, Vera and Roy. Bessie Brown died in 1940. Bessie and her sister Emma were very involved with the war effort during World War I, and after the war they were presented with certificates of appreciation by the Linton "Diggers". (Copies of certificates in the LDHS collection.)Black and white copy of original photograph of a seated lady wearing dark skirt and blouse with a high neck and ruffles. Standing beside her is a girl wearing a light coloured knee length dress and black shoes and socks. She is also wearing glasses, a cameo necklace and a white bow in her hair."Mrs Bessie Brown + daughter Vera".elizabeth (bessie) brown née elizabeth mercer, vera brown