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Ballarat Clarendon College
Book, Claud Notman, Of sheep and men: a story of the flocks, the founders and descendants of Victoria's Western Plains over a period of almost 200 years in Australia's history, 1981
... Sheep Industry -- Victoria -- Western District -- History.... beginnings. Claud Notman Sheep Industry -- Victoria -- Western ...Claud Notman served on the Ballarat College council 1958 - 1973. An old Geelong College collegian he wrote several books relating to the history of Skipton. This book indexes the families or individual associated with Ballarat College from its earliest beginnings. Small hardback bookHandwritten on endpage: From Skips Bookshelves / 30/3/1992 / to the young folks of the future Handwritten on inside flyleaf: Claud Notman / 10/10/81 Handwritten on title page: For, the boys of today, / to learn of the, hard times / of years ago / Skipper / 24/4/1993 / Boys noteclaud notman, sheep industry -- victoria -- western district -- history. -
Federation University Historical Collection
Journal - Booklet, Royal Historical Society of Victoria Journal, Volume 56, No 3, 1985, 1985
Journal of the Royal Historical Association of Victoria Incorporated.Grey covered journal including a review on the book "The History of the School of Mines and Industries, Ballarat". Contents * The Bicentenary 1988: A Celebration or An Apology (Ken Baker and John B. Reid) * Methodist Missionary in the Pacifice (Keith B. Mather) * Policemen on Bucycles (Robert Haldine) * Thanksgiving at St Paul's (James Grant) * Western and Chinese Medicine (Morag Loh)non-fictionJournal of the Royal Historical Association of Victoria Incorporated. warren perry, ballarat school of mines history, ballarat school of mines, methodist misionaries, police, st paul's, medicine, isaac rooney, western medicine, chinese medicine, louis roller, ah sue, lo kwoi sang, yee quock ping, william ah ket -
Flagstaff Hill Maritime Museum and Village
Craft - Scrimshaw, Bringing in the Whale
When scrimshaw is mentioned, most people think of carving on sperm whale teeth only. But scrimshaw also includes engravings on skeletal whale bone–such as the jaw bone, called pan bone and ivory from other marine mammals such as walrus. Although scrimshaw is widely associated with nautical themes and designs of the 19th century whaling industry, vintage scrimshaw was also produced as tribal art in many cultures. Today, scrimshaw is recognized as a unique medium in which present-day artists have developed their own modern themes. Scrimshaw reproductions may take several forms. There are - New carvings on genuine ivory or bone with the deliberate intent to create an "antique” - New carvings on genuine ivory or bone sold as signed and dated contemporary art - Clearly marked synthetic museum reproductions and mass marketed - Unmarked synthetic replicas This scrimshaw work is done on a sperm whale's tooth. It is one of two pieces by artist Gary Tonkin in Flagstaff Hill’s collection. Sperm whales can live for 60 or even 70 years, so the tooth could be quite old. It came from the whaling station in Albany, Western Australia, which ceased processing whales in 1978 and is now a whaling museum. The two works were commissioned by Flagstaff Hill in the 1980s. Tonkin could spend from a few days to a few months in intensive work on each piece of scrimshaw. He is a world-renowned Master Scrimshander and a Fellow of the Australian Society of Marine Artists (FASMA), and lives in Albany, Western Australia. Gary Tonkin, FASMA – Tonkin was born in 1949 in Portland, Victoria, and grew up there with a history of whaling and related industries. He moved to Albany in southwest WA in 1971 and worked as an Export Meat inspector for the Federal Government. This small town also had a historical connection to whaling. The Cheynes Beach Whaling Station was still operating, and there were even three whaling ‘chaser’ vessels at the old jetty. In 1975, his employment now permanent, Tonkin bought an old cottage near the bay, purchased some whales’ teeth, and began learning the sailors’ art of scrimshaw, combining this with his artistic skills and knowledge of history. His job gave him access to buy as many whale teeth as he could afford, straight from the whaling station. Tonkin gained further marine knowledge as he sailed on the schooner ‘Esperance’ from Fremantle to Mauritius in 1988. He watched the sailors at work and experienced the rough and stormy sea conditions first-hand. Tonkin later visited whaling museums, galleries and libraries in England and America to gather reference materials and information on all aspects of whaling and scrimshaw. In 1993 he was Commissioned to engrave six large whale teeth, from the Albany whaling station, for the USA Gallery at the Australian National Maritime Museum in Sydney. This work is now in the museum’s permanent collection. From that time, Tonkin began working full-time as a Scrimshander. Tonkin’s work is now in galleries and museums in America and Australia, as well as in private collections. He is the founder of the Albany Maritime Heritage Association and was the inaugural President. In the 1990s he actively and successfully campaigned for the preservation of the Cheynes Beach Whaling Station in Albany, which is now Whale World, an open-air whaling museum. His continuing work as a Scrimshander contributes to the preservation of the art of scrimshaw and the history of whaling. This scrimshaw represents the ancient craft of scrimshaw, associated with mariners in the whaling trade in the early 19th century. The work is also Nationally significant for being created by world-renowned Scrimshander, Gary Tonkin, from Albany, Western Australia. Scrimshaw; whale tooth carved with an image of two whaleboats hauling a dead whale back to the mother ship. Inscribed Title and signature of artist Gary Tonkin.Inscribed "Bringing in the whale". Signature "G Tonkin"flagstaff hill maritime museum and village, warrnambool, great ocean road, shipwreck coast, maritime museum, flagstaff hill, perth, whaling, whales, australia, scrimshaw, scrimshander, gary tonkin, g tonkin, bone, tooth, craft, albany, western australia, cheynes beach whaling station, whale world, portland, engraving, maritime art, sperm whale's tooth, albany whaling station, albany whaling museum -
Phillip Island and District Historical Society Inc.
book, Ruth Gooch, Seal Rocks and Victoria's primitive beginnings, 2008
ix, 166 p. : ill., maps, ports. ; 25 cm. Includes index. Bibliography: p. 151-159. Stamped Phillip Island & District Historical Societyseal rocks, local aboriginal history, sealing, western port -
Phillip Island and District Historical Society Inc.
Book, HORTON, Thomas et al, Andersons of Western Port: the discovery and exploration of Western Port, Victoria, and the life of the first settler in Eastern Victoria, Samuel Anderson, and his two brothers, Hugh and Thomas. From 1797 to 1903, 1983
... explorers port victoria western port wonthaggi pioneers victoria ...Signed by Thomas Horton.anderson family, crime, settlement, explorers, port victoria, western port, wonthaggi, pioneers, victoria, biography, history -
Phillip Island and District Historical Society Inc.
Book, Stockton, Beryl, Hastings : People and Places. Vol.1,Vol.11, Vol.111, 2004
... -island-and-the-bass-coast Historical hastings victoria history ...HistoricalLarge, glossy soft covered book including large sepia photographs with brief explanationIncludes index. Edited by Shirley Davies, Beryl Stockton and Edith Torokfalvy. Published by Hastings-Western Port Historical Society Inc.hastings, victoria, history, 19th century, western port, families, -
Phillip Island and District Historical Society Inc.
Book, EDGECOMBE, Jean, Phillip Island and Western Port, 1989
... -island-and-the-bass-coast Natural history victoria phillip island ...natural history, victoria, phillip island, western port region, history, description, travel -
Phillip Island and District Historical Society Inc.
Photograph, 3/10/1920
This postcard is contained in an album presented to the then Governor of Victoria, The Earl of Stradbroke, by the fathers of soldiers & returned soldiers of Phillip Island, on 16/02/1923. The history of the album is noted on Reg. No 85-00Postcard of view of Thompson Avenue looking north to HMAS Australia in Western Port Bay, 3-10-1920; a gas lamp, the first cypress trees and the first motor garage.local history, photography, photographs, slides, film, hmas australia, thompson avenue, shipping, sepia photograph, cypress trees first planting -
Phillip Island and District Historical Society Inc.
Photograph, 20/02/1923
This postcard is contained in an album presented to the then Governor of Victoria, The Earl of Stradbroke, by the fathers of soldiers & returned soldiers of Phillip Island, on 16/02/1923. The history of the album is noted on Reg. No 85-00Photograph of unveiling of Cairn at Rhyll to commemorate the discovery of Western Port by George Bass. it was unveiled by the Earl of Stradbroke on 20th February, 1923local history, photography, photographs, slides, film, cairn, rhyll, george bass, western port, sepia photograph, broadwater guest house, mrs florence oswin roberts -
Phillip Island and District Historical Society Inc.
Reports, c 1890
Report of Board appointed to enquire into the claims of Richard Davis of Cape Paterson to the reward of £1,000 offered by the Government in the year 1952 to the discoverer of "an available coal field" in the colony of Victoria.Report - Richard Davis and the first Western port coal.local history, documents, reports, coal mines, westernport coal, black and white type print., miss elms san remo, richard davis -
Phillip Island and District Historical Society Inc.
Book, BENNETT, Bruce, Sandy Point : the history of Sandy Point, Western Port, 1999
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Phillip Island and District Historical Society Inc.
Book, GOOCH, Ruth Victoria, Seal Rocks and Victoria's primitive beginnings, 2008
... -island-and-the-bass-coast aboriginal australians victoria history ...Stamped 'Phillip Island & District Historical Society'.aboriginal australians, victoria, history, aboriginal tasmanians, sealing, western port, seal rocks -
Phillip Island and District Historical Society Inc.
Book, COLE, Valda, Western Port chronology 1798-1839 : exploration to settlement, 1984
... -island-and-the-bass-coast Western Port History victoria Stamped ...Stamped 'Phillip Island & District Historical Society'.western port, history, victoria -
Phillip Island and District Historical Society Inc.
Book, COLE, Valda, Western Port chronology 1798-1839 : exploration to settlement, 1984
... -island-and-the-bass-coast Western Port History victoria Signed ...Signed by the author. Shelved in bookcases.western port, history, victoria -
Greensborough Historical Society
Book, Australian Publicity Council, The Western horizon of Victoria Australia, 1960c
... in Victoria's Western District. victoria - history western district (vic ...A glossy publicity publication for the state of Victoria.111 p., illus. (some col.), maps.non-fictionA glossy publicity publication for the state of Victoria.victoria - history, western district (vic.), melbourne - history -
Mission to Seafarers Victoria
Journal (item) - Periodicals-Annual, Shiplovers' Society of Victoria, The Annual Dog Watch
This journal provides the reader with glimpses of the adventures and hardships of a seaman's life. Many of the stories are of sailing ships.Contributes to our knowledge of the importance of shipping and places on record those stories of the sea which would otherwise be lost.Contents Foreword - P. C. Kelly, F.C.I.T. - 9 The Pamir's Last Australian Voyage - Ross Osmond - 13 Store of the "Wyatt Earp" - - 19 The Old Ship - C. E. Bonwick - 24 Rescue From Skull Rock - Jane Brett Hilder, F.R.G.S - 25 The End of H.M.A.S. Canberra - D. J. Bull - 31 Monkey Business - Constance Gurd Taylor - 37 The s.s. Great Britain Comes Home - L. W. Rogers - 41 Pearling Off the Aru Islands - Capt. W. J. Cowling - 47 The Wreck of the Jane Lovett - J. M. MacKenzie - 59 Captain Dale's Torpedo - C. Halls - 61 After Thoughts - - 71 Two Incidents - 73 More Light On The Early P.P. Pilots - 74 Lighthouses of U.S.A. - N. S. Smith - 78 Voyage In The s.s. Orange Branch -- 1918 - I. L. Barton - 85 A Dramatic Rescue - - 98 A New Record Discovered In Australia / America Passages - W. G. Watson - 99 Some Highlights of Western Ports Maritime History - Arthur E. Woodley - 103 Going To Sea In The Last Of The British Sailing Ships - Lionel Adams - 108 More About Willemein - E. W. R. Peterson - 119 Piracy On The China Coast - Capt. W. E. Eglen - 123 Book Reviews - - 125 Glossary - - 129sailing ships, steamships, shipping, seafaring life, shiplovers' society of victoria, dog watch -
Phillip Island and District Historical Society Inc.
Photograph, The Rocks at Cape Woolamai
Part of a collection of 'Rose & Valentine' series of Post Cards. Copied by John Jansson 1984View on Cape Woolamai of rock formation on western side of Cape."The Rocks" Cape Woolamai, Phillip Island Victorialocal history, photography, photographs, postcards, cape woolamai, phillip island, black & white postcard copy, rock formation -
Phillip Island and District Historical Society Inc.
Photograph, 1865
One of a collection of over 400 photographs in an album commenced in 1960 and presented to the Phillip Island & Westernport Historical Society by the Shire of Phillip IslandPhotograph of the ship "Victoria" which surveyed Western Post in 1865. The first Victorian Man-o-War.local history, photography, photographs, maritime technology, boats, steam sailing ship "victoria", black & white photograph, ships, man-o-war, western port, survey, john jenner, bryant west -
Glenelg Shire Council Cultural Collection
Administrative record - Survey - Industrial and Commercial Potential of Portland, Victoria, Apr-71
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Glenelg Shire Council Cultural Collection
Administrative record - Administrative record - Essay 'A Major Structural Rural Change To The Economy of Western Victoria', c. 1960
Handwritten 10 page essay, by an unknown author. Written in fountain pen on lined foolscap paper. Writing on one side of paper only. -
Greensborough Historical Society
Folder, Greensborough Historical Society, Black family - wills and probate, 1892o
Material relating to the history of the Black Family in the Watsonia area.Folder containing copies of wills and probate documents for eight members of the Black Family between 1892 and 1952; with copies of electoral rolls from Victoria and Western Australia, listing members of the Black Family and their addresses. black family, watsonia -
Glenelg Shire Council Cultural Collection
Flag - Flag - Royal Visit to Hamilton, 1954, c. 1954
Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Phillip visited Hamilton on February 26 1954. It was the first time a reigning monarch had visited regional Victoria. More than 13000 children were said to have listened to a speech by the Queen in Melville OvalFlag, Royal visit to Hamilton, 1954, blue, red and gold print and coat of arms, attached to wooden stick. Pennant style.royal visit, hamilton, western district, queen elizabeth ii, prince phillip, post war -
Glenelg Shire Council Cultural Collection
Certificate - Certificate - Historic Buildings, Portland Town Hall, 1974
From the Victorian Heritage Register: The foundation stone of the original Portland Town Hall was laid by William Learmonth on 21st September, 1863 following a competition and subsequent public controversy over the permitted entry of architect John Barrow. The conservative classical design of municipal surveyor Alexander Ross was preferred and this axially planned design with central council chamber and side offices fronted by a fine axed pedimented gable entablature of basalt and Tuscan Doric pilasters was completed by 24th may 1864. The old Town Hall is one of a distinguished group of public buildings in Portland and an interesting example of conservative classical architecture of the first years of settlement in western Victoria. The basalt structure was partially erected of stone from the Portland stockade and has significant historical associations with local Government administration in the district. The Town Hall is the most impressive work of Alexander Ross, a surveyor architect whose career remains largely undocumented. The old Town Hall at Portland has been discreetly extended at the rear to provide additional meeting room accommodation. The premises are no longer used for local government administration.A4 sized certificate demonstrating Portland Town Hall's special significance to the state of Victoria & inclusion on the Historic Building Register. Singed by Robert Maclellan, Minister for planning & Historic Buildings Council Chairperson. Red seal attached, bottom right.portland town hall, history house, heritage register, historic buildings, certificate -
Glenelg Shire Council Cultural Collection
Booklet - Booklet - South Western Victoria, n.d
Forty-two page tourist brochure of South Western Victoria, produced by Victorian Railways. Contains black and white photos of cities and towns in the south west with a short description of each. Centre page full colour map of area. Blue cover, red print, image of man in bathers on a beach.Front: 'B.W. Vivian', ink, faded -
Glenelg Shire Council Cultural Collection
Map - Map - Western Victoria, n.d
Fold-out map of the western section of Victoria- Melbourne to Mt. Gambier and north to NSW border. Has been detached from its cover and glued to brown paper.map, western victoria, melbourne, mount gambier, victoria, south australia -
Glenelg Shire Council Cultural Collection
Accessory - Blanket Badge - Pot of Gold, Western Border, Portland Victoria 1998, c. 1995
Blanket badge, Pot of Gold, Western Border region leaders' meeting held annually, 17 June 1998, held in Portland. Yellow woven fabric, black print, 'Pot of gold' -
Glenelg Shire Council Cultural Collection
Photograph - Photograph - Glenelg Shire Offices, Portland Victoria, 1996-1998
Black and white photo, Glenelg Shire Offices foyer. MLA for Western Province. Bruce Chamberlain, Member Vic Parliament. Dennis Napthine and unknown representative for the Glenelg Shire standing beside model of the SS Clan MacDougalBack: '2005 / 2' - hand written, biro. White sticker, black print 'COPYRIGHT PORTLAND OBSERVER' -
Glenelg Shire Council Cultural Collection
Flag - Flag Pennant - Western Victoria and South-East South Australia Welcome our Future Queen. Royal visit to Portland, 1952, 1952
Visit of Princess Elizabeth and Phillip to Portland, 1952.Red cloth (satin) pennant attached to dowel stick. White and blue words. Coat of Arms on left.Front: See title -
Glenelg Shire Council Cultural Collection
Souvenir - Bumper Sticker - McDonald's & Mix FM, n.d
Oblong bumper sticker, Left hand quarter black with yellow McDonald's arches and 'i'm lovin' it' in white print. Other ¾ sticker white with red and black print and blue horizontal lines and red Southern Cross; '88.9 MIXX FM Western Victoria'.souvenir, sticker, car accessory -
4th/19th Prince of Wales's Light Horse Regiment Unit History Room
Book, The Royal Australian Survey Corps, Never Forget Australia. N'Oublions Jamais L'Australie. Australia and Villers-Bretonneux 1918-1993, 1994
Soft covered book. Written in English and FrenchInscribed: Presented to the 4/19th PWLH Regiment Library by Ross Bastiaan 30/10/95 ISBN 0 642 20141-2book, world war one, army, history, western front, commemorations, villers bretonneux, blankfield, corfield, royal victoria regiment