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Ballarat Heritage Services
Photograph - Image, Colonel William Mair
William Mair arrived in Australian in 1842 on the 'Richard Webb' as a lieutenent in charge of convicts. he died in 1904 aged 98 and is buried in Poowong. Black and white image William Mair.william mair, portrait, ballarat, mair street -
Bendigo Historical Society Inc.
Book - STRAUCH COLLECTION: PORT ARTHUR 1830 - 1877
... convicts ...Port Arthur 1830 - 1877 by Ian Brand published by Jason Publications Tasmania, soft cover 77 pages with black & white photographs, illustration and maps.Ian Brandhistory, australian, convicts, tasmania-history-convicts-port arthur -
Ballarat Heritage Services
Photograph, Port Arthur Town Hall (Originally Port Arthur Asylum)
... convicts ...Black and white image of Port Arthur Penitentiary, Commandants Quarters and Powder Magazineport arthur, convicts, port arthur town hall, port arthur asylum -
Ballarat Heritage Services
Photograph, Departure of Governor George Arthur
... convicts ...Black and white image of a poster relating to the departure of Governor George Arthur from Tasmania.port arthur, convicts, poster, george arthur -
Ballarat Heritage Services
Photograph, Flogging a Prisoner at Port Arthur
... convicts ...Black and white image of the Prison Hulk "Success" at Hobartport arthur, convicts, flogging, punishment -
Seaworks Maritime Museum
Model Ship, Friendship
Friendship was a convict transport ship of 276 tons, which was built in Scarborough England, in 1784, for her owners Hoppers of Scarborough. Aboard on the voyage to Botany Bay, were the Master, Captain Francis Walton, Assistant Surgeon Thomas Arnell and Marines, Captain James Meredith, Lieutenant Ralph Clark, and Lieutenant William. As the smallest of the transports Friendship probably carried a crew of around 20. Her 76 male and 21 female convicts were loaded at Plymouth. Model of "The Friendship" -
Federation University Historical Collection
Instrument - Scientific Instruments, Abbott, Boxed Theodolite, c1850-1860s
This item was used at the Ballarat School of Mines. Francis Abbott was a watchmaker from Manchester. He arrived in Tasmania as a convict in 1845, and was granted a ticket of leave in 1849. He died in 1883.A theodolite in a timber boxEngraved Abbott Hobart Town Varley Londontheodolite, scientific instruments, francis abbott, abbott hobart town, varley london, convict -
Unions Ballarat
Australian history: The occupation of a continent, Mellor, Suzanne, 1978
Australian history includes coverage of: Indigenous matters; white settlement; Macquarie; convicts; immigration; pastoral era; politics; gold rush; unions; identity; federation; wars; the great depression.Treatment of issues relating to the Ballarat Reform League and the Eureka Stockade. One chapter covering craft unions, unskilled workers, Trades Halls, women's issues, industrial action, and ALP and unionism.Paperback; yellow with black lettering; 411 pages.Front cover: title and authors' names Title page: the name CULNANE has been written in red.btlc, ballarat trades hall, ballarat trades and labour council, history - australia, history - ballarat, history - indigenous, gold mining - ballarat, eureka stockade, ballarat reform league, unions - history -
Tatura Irrigation & Wartime Camps Museum
Book, Optima Press et al, From East to West You Gather a People, 2003
Contains information on the Hartman's of Tatura (see chapter 13).A green hardcover book with gold book and title and authors name (same on dust cover). The paper dust jacket is green back ground with a photograph of a cross and chain in the centre. The book title is in gold at the top of the page. Below picture is "Being Catholic in Australia through eight generations from the convict era to the new millennium. The authors name is at the bottom in gold. as aboverussell hugh hardiman -
Glenelg Shire Council Cultural Collection
Pamphlet - Brochure, Steam Packet Inn, n.d
The Steam Packet Inn is the second oldest building in Portland. It was licensed to an ex convict from Van Diemens Land (Tasmania) in 1841. Later became a police barracks. It is a heritage listed buildingYellow card, tri-fold brochure, containing history of Steam Packet Inn, Bentinck St. Portland. Photo of steam Packet Inn on front of brochure, floor plans on the back.steam packet inn, bentinck street, portland -
Eltham District Historical Society Inc
Photograph - Digital Photograph, Alan King, The barn at Culla Hill, Sweeneys Lane, Eltham, 30 January 2008
The barn of former convict Thomas Sweeney at Culla Hill remains almost in its original condition. Published: Nillumbik Now and Then / Marguerite Marshall 2008; photographs Alan King with Marguerite Marshall.; p19This collection of almost 130 photos about places and people within the Shire of Nillumbik, an urban and rural municipality in Melbourne's north, contributes to an understanding of the history of the Shire. Published in 2008 immediately prior to the Black Saturday bushfires of February 7, 2009, it documents sites that were impacted, and in some cases destroyed by the fires. It includes photographs taken especially for the publication, creating a unique time capsule representing the Shire in the early 21st century. It remains the most recent comprehenesive publication devoted to the Shire's history connecting local residents to the past. nillumbik now and then (marshall-king) collection, culla hill, eltham, sweeney's cottage, sweeneys lane -
Warrnambool and District Historical Society Inc.
Book, Price warung - Barry Anderews, 1976
This is a biography of Price Warung by Barry Andrews. Price Warung (1854-1911), whose real name was William Astley, has a place in Australia’s history as a journalist, writer and campaigner for Federation. He worked for a great number of newspapers throughout Australia and began an association with the Sydney ‘Bulletin’ in 1890. At this time he wrote the powerful works for which he is best remembered – ‘Convict Days’, four volumes of stories about Australia’s convict period. The major theme of these stories is the sordid nature of the convict system. Astley became heavily involved with the Federation campaign, firstly as the Secretary of the Bathurst Federal League and then as the organizing Secretary of the 1896 Bathurst Convention. This convention is considered by historians to have given the Federation campaign a new and vigorous vitality. In 1898 Astley wrote most of the official articles publicizing the ‘Yes’ vote in the Federation referendum. Astley lived and worked in Warrnambool in 1883/4 (for about twelve months) as a journalist for the Warrnambool ‘Standard’. This book is of great interest as it documents the life of Price Warung (William Astley) who features in the history of Warrnambool journalism as an Australian writer of note who also wrote for the Warrnambool Standard. Examples of Astley’s journalism can be found in the Warrnambool Standards of 1883/4. He wrote lengthy articles in a free-flowing and attractive but verbose style. His two articles on the well-known horse stud and hop farm called ‘Bryan O’Lynn’ appeared in the Standard in October 1884. This is a hard cover book of 197 pages. It has a dark green cover with an image of a world globe and a Pegasus on the front. The printed title, the author’s name and the images are in gold print. The cover has a plastic overlay and a library label had been mostly removed from the bottom section of the spine. The book has notes on the author, a photograph of Price Warung, a Preface, Acknowledgements, Chronology, eight chapters on Price Warung, Notes and References, a Bibliography and an Index. Inside front page: ‘Jane Carpenter’ Stamp: ‘Withdrawn from Library’ price warung (william astley), warrnambool and federation, federation movement in australia, history of warrnambool, warrnambool standard -
Lakes Entrance Regional Historical Society (operating as Lakes Entrance History Centre & Museum)
Book, PD Gardner author editor, The Exploration of Gippsland, 1976
... Convicts ...An account of available reports of the confrontation between Gippslands early settlers and the Kurnai Tribeaboriginals, convicts, gippsland, heritage, settlers -
Ballarat Heritage Services
Photograph, Iron Punishment Band on the Prison Hulk "Success"
... convicts ...Black and white image of the Prison Hulk "Success" at Hobartport arthur, convicts, prison hulk, success, punishment band -
Lara RSL Sub Branch
Framed Print of Naval Review,Sydney Harbour, 1st October,1988, Naval Review,Sydney Harbour, 1st October,1988, 12/01/1990
The bicentenary of Australia was celebrated in 1988. It marked 200 years since the arrival of the First Fleet of British convict ships at Sydney in 1788. This aerial photo shows naval and pleasure craft in Sydney Harbour for the bicentennial celebrations.The bicentennial year marked Captain Arthur Phillip's arrival with the 11 ships of the First Fleet in Sydney Harbour in 1788, and the founding of the city of Sydney and the colony of New South Wales. 1988 is considered the official bicentenary year of the founding of Australia. Rectangular shaped glass covered picture frame showing photo of Naval Review, Sydney Harbour, 1st October,1988Naval Review, Sydney Harbour, 1st October,1988 This 140 degree panoramic photograph was taken from a helicopter by Phil Gray. It shows the visiting warships in the harbour including the USS New Jersey, FNS Colbert and HMS Ark Royal in the foreground.This print is the fourth in the Sydney Harbour Panorama series by Phil Gray who uses Kodak film.Printed in Australia.prints, naval photos, hms ships, sydney harbour, lara r.s.l. -
Victoria Police Museum
Corkscrew
The corkscrew was discovered in a box with a 1906 newspaper article concerning the Victoria Police Museum and its collection. In it Inspector Cawsey speaks of the corkscrew as being the same given to him by convicted serial killer Frederick Deeming in 1892.Metal corkscrew on turned wooden handle. A small knife is attached in one end of the handle. The corkscrew worm has a cylindrical shape frame attached to the central stem. A small pin is inserted above this, and can be made loose to allow the cylinder to move further up the stem to remove the corkfrederick deeming, inspector cawsey, murders, emily mather -
Ballarat Heritage Services
Photograph - Image, Thomas F. Meagher
Thomas Francis Meagher was an Irish nationalist and leader of the Young Irelanders in the Rebellion of 1848. After being convicted of sedition, he was first sentenced to death, but received transportation for life to Van Diemen's Land in Australia. (Wikipedia)Portrait of Thomas F. Meagher who was associated with the Young Ireland movement.young ireland, thomas f. meagher, convict, tasmania, van dieman's land -
Bendigo Historical Society Inc.
Book - ALEC H CHISHOLM COLLECTION: BOOK 'SELECT LETTERS OF JAMES GROVE' BY JOHN EARNSHAW
Book . ALEC H CHISHOLM COLLECTION 22 page booklet of letters by James Grove a convict from Port Phillip and the Derwent 1803-4 First published in papers and proceedings of the Tasmanian Historical Research Association. Printed by Foot & Playsted P/L , Launceston, Tasmania in 1959. Cat.No. 2181 EAR on front cover. Handwritten on title page 'To Alex Chisholm with regards John Earnshaw'John Earnshawbooks, collections, letters, alec h chisholm collection, john earnshaw, james grove, convict -
Unions Ballarat
Eureka : The songs that made Australia, 31 cm
... convicts ...Songs of Australian heritage for voice. Melody line only with chord symbols. Includes guitar tablature for chords. Convicts, transportation and sea shanties. Pioneering, goldrush days and bushrangers. Shearers, drovers and bush life. Swagmen, Victorian expansion, sporting life and disasters. Contents: • According to the Act • The Albury ram • Another fall of rain • Australia's on the Wallaby • The bald-headed end of the broom • The ballad of Ben Hall • The ballad of the Kelly Gang • The banks of the Condamine • The big-gun shearer • The black velvet band • The blackboys Waltzing Matilda • Bluey Brink • Bold Jack Donohue • Bound for Botany Bay • Brisbane ladies • Cain killed Abel • The cane-cutter's lament • The carrier's song • The Catalpa • Charlie Mopps • Click go the shears • The cockies of Bungaree • Colonial experience • Coming down the flat • The convict maid • The currency lasses • The death of Alec Robertson • The death of Ben Hall • The death of Willie Stone • Denis O'Reilly • The drover's dream • The dying aviator • The dying stockman • Eight little cylinders • The Eldorado mining disaster • The exile of Erin • Farewell to Greta • Flash Jack from Gundagai • The flash stockman • Frank Gardiner • The freehold on the plain • The gaol song • The girls of the Shamrock Shores • The golden gullies of the Palmer • The gumtree canoe • The Hamfat man • Heenan and Sayers • Henry's downfall • Here's adieu to all judges and juries • I've been to Australia, Oh • Jim Jones at Botany Bay • Jog along til shearing • John Kanaka • The Lachlan Tigers • Leave her, jollies, leave her • Les Darcy • The limejuice tub • Look out below • Maggie May • Maids of Australia • Man of the Earth • The Maryborough miner • Moreton Bay • The morning of the fray • Morrisey and the Russian sailor • Musselman • The mustering song • My name is Edward Kelly • Nails • The new chum Chinaman • Nine miles from Gundagai • The nose on my old man • Oh, give me a hut • The old bark hut • The old bullock dray • One of the has-beens • The overlanders • Pint Pot and Billy • Pity poor labourers • Radcliffe Highway • The rigs of the time • Rolling home • The Ryebuck shearer • Sam Holt • Sign-on day • Sixteen thousand miles from home • South Australia • The springtime it brings on the shearing • The stockman's last bed • The Sunshine Railway disaster • Tambaroora Ted • The tattooed lady • Ten thousand miles away • The tent poles are rotten • Travelling down the Castlereagh • Tumba-bloody-Rumba • The two professional hums • Van Diemen's Land • The wallaby brigade • When we get our tuppence back • The wild colonial boy • Woolloomooloo Australian culture, folklore and history in songs.Paper; paperback book. Front cover: multicoloured background; picture of swaggy with guitar; picture of Eureka flag; black and green lettering. Back cover: red, orange and white background; Eureka flag; picture of a shearer with sheep; picture of a person in Ned Kelly armour playing a guitar on a horse; picture of woman facing the Ned Kelly figure; brand with the message "unsurpassed Australian made".Front cover: author's name and title. Back cover: author bio; praise from Jack Pobar, swagman.songs, btlc, ballarat trades and labour council, ballarat trades hall, convicts, transportation, sea shanties, pioneering, gold, goldrush, bushrangers, shearers, drovers, bush life, sporting life, disasters, music -
Orbost & District Historical Society
ticket, 1987
This ticket was for an entertainment at Brodribb for the celebration of the incoming bi-centennial year, 1988. The bicentenary of Australia was celebrated in 1988. It marked 200 years since the arrival of the First Fleet of British convict ships at Sydney in 1788. Many events were organised to celebrate the occasion.The Apex Club of Orbost was a volunteer service club which contributed to the Orbost community. A declining population has led to the demise of many social groups in the area. The Apex Club, like other groups in Orbost have organised social events for the local community for many years.A rectangular shaped cardboard ticket coloured white/cream. On the front in brown print is " APEX 'Up the Broddy' new Year's Eve - '87/88 WElcome in the Bi-Centennial Year BYO barbecue and drinks. 50/50 dancing - prizes and games. Light supper provided. Entertainment for all the family. $10 per family/couple". In red is 000052.celebration bicentennial-celebration-orbost -
Ballarat Heritage Services
Photograph - Photograph - Black and White, Gervasoni Family, c1965
George Gervasoni was the Australian born son of Luigi Paolo Gervasoni of San Gallo, and Australian born Eliza Ritzau . Anne Pedretti was the Australian born daughter of Martino Pedretti of Brusio, Switzerland, and Australian born Regina Ind, daughter of Pentonvillian convict George Ind.Black and white photograph of seven of the eight children of George Gervasoni and Anne Pedretti. .Back left to right: Bert, Jim, Jack. Mick, Tom. Front left to right: Larry, Ivy, Gus. Missing Una.bert gervasoni, gus gervasoni, ivy gervasoni, tom gervasoni, mick gervasoni, michael paul gervasoni, larry gervasoni -
City of Greater Geelong
Artwork, other - Oil on Canvas, Frederick Strange, William Weire - First Town Clerk of Geelong 1850 -84", 1845
Both William Weire and Frederick Strange were originally sentenced to be transported to Van Dieman’s Land from England making the painting likely to be a portrait of a convict by a convict. Gaining his ticket of leave for good behaviour in 1841, Strange became recognised for his portraiture and landscapes although he also remains known for his mysterious demeanour. He rarely signed his works which is the case with the portrait of William Weire. Having served his time, William Weire was granted unconditional freedom and successfully worked his way into influential local Launceston business and society circles ahead of leaving for Geelong in 1848 and being made the first Town Clerk for the newly formed Town of Geelong Council in 1850. He oversaw an incredible period of the earliest development of the Town of Geelong including the first migrant arrivals and the dramatic change that came with the discovery of gold in Victoria in the 1850s. The ex-convict turned Town Clerk was to read the formal welcome address to HRH Alfred the Duke of Edinburgh and Princess Alexandra on the occasion of Geelong’s first royal visit. The portrait of William Weire was originally gifted to the City of Geelong by the Weire family in 1961.convict, geelong, town clerk, frederick strange, william weire -
Eltham District Historical Society Inc
Document - Folder, Prior, Jonas
Jonas Prior was transported to Hobart in 1821, later moving to Victoria and died at Ferny Hill near Eltham in 1878. Contents Newspaper article: "Jonas Prior, convict, 1802-1878", Australian Family Tree Connections, February 2000. Biography of Jonas Prior and his family.Newspaper clippings, A4 photocopies, etcjonas prior, thomas prior, mary prior, fichard finey, john pillo, prison hulk justicia, ship malabar, mr fleximoreof tasmania, dr garrett of pittwater tasmania, christina jane gregg, mary elizabeth prior, thomas john prior, margaret jane prior, harriet ann prior, amelia prior, caroline prior, susannah prior, johan prior, william prior, charlotte prior, ferny hill eltham -
Orbost & District Historical Society
peephole
This is a peephole from a solitary confinement cell cell at Port Arthur. There were 12 cells, measuring 3m x 1.5m, used for solitary confinement. Convicts there would sleep on a narrow wooden shelf, the only furnishing in the cell, and were watched through a peephole in the cell door.A rectangular iron peephole from a prison door. it has a bolted metal flap that can be pushed aside to allow an outside person a view of the inside of the cell.peephole port- arthur convict -
Orbost & District Historical Society
leg irons, early 19th century
Iron leg shackles were worn by convicts to both punish inmates and prevent escape. Combined with physically exhausting labour, they helped control prisoners. The shackles weighed a considerable amount (there were differing sizes) which made it difficult to walk easily, resulting in a shuffling gait.A pair of very heavy leg irons. They are made of iron with holes at each side so they can be bolted around the legs. There is a long iron chain connecting the two D-shaped pieces.leg-irons shackles convicts -
Greensborough Historical Society
Book, Random House Australia Pty Ltd, 1788: The Brutal Truth of the First Fleet, 1788_
... convicts ...Details conditions of the First Fleet in 1788.About the founding of the penal colony in Sydney Town.Paperback, multi coloured outer covers and spine. Front cover illustration of 3 ships of the first fleet. 392 p., ill.Name of original owner on first page.1788, first fleet, convicts, sydney town, new south wales, david hill -
Ballarat Heritage Services
Photograph, Port Arthur Penitentiary, Commandants Quarters and Powder Magazine
... convicts ...Black and white image of Port Arthur Penitentiary, Commandants Quarters and Powder Magazineport arthur, convicts, model prison, port arthur penitentiary, commandant's quarters, powder magazine -
Ballarat Heritage Services
Photograph, Prison Hulk "Success" at Hobart
... convicts ...Black and white image of the Prison Hulk "Success" at Hobartport arthur, convicts, prison hulk, success, hobart, sailing ship -
Orbost & District Historical Society
calendar, 1988 200 YEAR CALENDAR, 1988
The bicentenary of Australia was celebrated in 1988. It marked 200 years since the arrival of the First Fleet of British convict ships at Sydney in 1788. The event triggered debate on Australian national identity, Aboriginal rights, historical interpretation and multiculturalism. The calendar was one of many types of souvenirs created to celebrate the occasion.The bicentenary of Australia was celebrated in 1988. It marked 200 years since the arrival of the First Fleet of British convict ships at Sydney in 1788. The calendar was one of many types of souvenirs created to celebrate the occasion.1988 200 YEAR CALENDAR. It has a cream and red cover with a large photo of an old painting of a coach and bushranger. Inside are photos of events and paintings.1988 200 YEAR CALENDARcalendar bicentenary 1988 -
Unions Ballarat
Builders' Labourers' Song Book, Australian Building Construction Employees' and Builders' Labourers' Federation, 1975
Contents page: 1. Black resistance 2. Convict revolt 3. Eureka uprising 4. Rebellion in the bush--the small farmers 5. The working class develops 6. Women, we were there 7. Same enemy, same fight--people of the world units! 8. Yankee go homeUnion songs and campaigns.Book; paperback.btlc, ballarat trades and labour council, unions ballarat, blf, builders labourers federation, unions, anthems/songs, australia -- republic, eureka stockade, the great depression, constitutional crisis -- the dismissal