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Flagstaff Hill Maritime Museum and Village
Surgical Instrument, early 20th century
This Doyen forceps was once used to hold larger organs during surgery and has now been donated to Flagstaff Hill Maritime Village by the family of Doctor William Roy Angus, Surgeon and Oculist. It is part of the “W.R. Angus Collection” that includes historical medical equipment, surgical instruments and material once belonging to Dr Edward Ryan and Dr Thomas Francis Ryan, (both of Nhill, Victoria) as well as Dr Angus’ own belongings. The Collection’s history spans the medical practices of the two Doctors Ryan, from 1885-1926 plus that of Dr Angus, up until 1969. ABOUT THE “W.R.ANGUS COLLECTION” Doctor William Roy Angus M.B., B.S., Adel., 1923, F.R.C.S. Edin.,1928 (also known as Dr Roy Angus) was born in Murrumbeena, Victoria in 1901 and lived until 1970. He qualified as a doctor in 1923 at University of Adelaide, was Resident Medical Officer at the Royal Adelaide Hospital in 1924 and for a period was house surgeon to Sir (then Mr.) Henry Simpson Newland. Dr Angus was briefly an Assistant to Dr Riddell of Kapunda, then commenced private practice at Curramulka, Yorke Peninsula, SA, where he was physician, surgeon and chemist. In 1926, he was appointed as new Medical Assistant to Dr Thomas Francis Ryan (T.F. Ryan, or Tom), in Nhill, Victoria, where his experiences included radiology and pharmacy. In 1927 he was Acting House Surgeon in Dr Tom Ryan’s absence. Dr Angus had become engaged to Gladys Forsyth and they decided he further his studies overseas in the UK in 1927. He studied at London University College Hospital and at Edinburgh Royal Infirmary and in 1928, was awarded FRCS (Fellow from the Royal College of Surgeons), Edinburgh. He worked his passage back to Australia as a Ship’s Surgeon on the on the Australian Commonwealth Line’s T.S.S. Largs Bay. Dr Angus married Gladys in 1929, in Ballarat. (They went on to have one son (Graham 1932, born in SA) and two daughters (Helen (died 12/07/1996) and Berenice (Berry), both born at Mira, Nhill ) According to Berry, her mother Gladys made a lot of their clothes. She was very talented and did some lovely embroidery including lingerie for her trousseau and beautifully handmade baby clothes. Dr Angus was a ‘flying doctor’ for the A.I.M. (Australian Inland Ministry) Aerial Medical Service in 1928 . Its first station was in the remote town of Oodnadatta, where Dr Angus was stationed. He was locum tenens there on North-South Railway at 21 Mile Camp. He took up this ‘flying doctor’ position in response to a call from Dr John Flynn; the organisation was later known as the Flying Doctor Service, then the Royal Flying Doctor Service. A lot of his work during this time involved dental surgery also. Between 1928-1932 he was surgeon at the Curramulka Hospital, Yorke Peninsula, South Australia. In 1933 Dr Angus returned to Nhill and purchased a share of the Nelson Street practice and Mira hospital (a 2 bed ward at the Nelson Street Practice) from Dr Les Middleton one of the Middleton Brothers, the current owners of what previously once Dr Tom Ryan’s practice. Dr Tom and his brother had worked as surgeons included eye surgery. Dr Tom Ryan performed many of his operations in the Mira private hospital on his premises. He had been House Surgeon at the Nhill Hospital 1902-1926. Dr Tom Ryan had one of the only two pieces of radiology equipment in Victoria during his practicing years – The Royal Melbourne Hospital had the other one. Over the years Dr Tom Ryan had gradually set up what was effectively a training school for country general-practitioner-surgeons. Each patient was carefully examined, including using the X-ray machine, and any surgery was discussed and planned with Dr Ryan’s assistants several days in advance. Dr Angus gained experience in using the X-ray machine there during his time as assistant to Dr Ryan. When Dr Angus bought into the Nelson Street premises in Nhill he was also appointed as the Nhill Hospital’s Honorary House Surgeon 1933-1938. His practitioner’s plate from his Nhill surgery is now mounted on the doorway to the Port Medical Office at Flagstaff Hill Maritime Village, Warrnambool. When Dr Angus took up practice in the Dr Edward and Dr Tom Ryan’s old premises he obtained their extensive collection of historical medical equipment and materials spanning 1884-1926. A large part of this collection is now on display at the Port Medical Office at Flagstaff Hill Maritime Village in Warrnambool. In 1939 Dr Angus and his family moved to Warrnambool where he purchased “Birchwood,” the 1852 home and medical practice of Dr John Hunter Henderson, at 214 Koroit Street. (This property was sold in1965 to the State Government and is now the site of the Warrnambool Police Station. and an ALDI sore is on the land that was once their tennis court). The Angus family was able to afford gardeners, cooks and maids; their home was a popular place for visiting dignitaries to stay whilst visiting Warrnambool. Dr Angus had his own silk worm farm at home in a Mulberry tree. His young daughter used his centrifuge for spinning the silk. Dr Angus was appointed on a part-time basis as Port Medical Officer (Health Officer) in Warrnambool and held this position until the 1940’s when the government no longer required the service of a Port Medical Officer in Warrnambool; he was thus Warrnambool’s last serving Port Medical Officer. (Masters of immigrant ships arriving in port reported incidents of diseases, illness and death and the Port Medical Officer made a decision on whether the ship required Quarantine and for how long, in this way preventing contagious illness from spreading from new immigrants to the residents already in the colony.) Dr Angus was a member of the Australian Medical Association, for 35 years and surgeon at the Warrnambool Base Hospital 1939-1942, He served with the Australian Department of Defence as a Surgeon Captain during WWII 1942-45, in Ballarat, Victoria, and in Bonegilla, N.S.W., completing his service just before the end of the war due to suffering from a heart attack. During his convalescence he carved an intricate and ‘most artistic’ chess set from the material that dentures were made from. He then studied ophthalmology at the Royal Melbourne Eye and Ear Hospital and created cosmetically superior artificial eyes by pioneering using the intrascleral cartilage. Angus received accolades from the Ophthalmological Society of Australasia for this work. He returned to Warrnambool to commence practice as an ophthalmologist, pioneering in artificial eye improvements. He was Honorary Consultant Ophthalmologist to Warrnambool Base Hospital for 31 years. He made monthly visits to Portland as a visiting surgeon, to perform eye surgery. He represented the Victorian South-West subdivision of the Australian Medical Association as its secretary between 1949 and 1956 and as chairman from 1956 to 1958. In 1968 Dr Angus was elected member of Spain’s Barraquer Institute of Barcelona after his research work in Intrasclearal cartilage grafting, becoming one of the few Australian ophthalmologists to receive this honour, and in the following year presented his final paper on Living Intrasclearal Cartilage Implants at the Inaugural Meeting of the Australian College of Ophthalmologists in Melbourne In his personal life Dr Angus was a Presbyterian and treated Sunday as a Sabbath, a day of rest. He would visit 3 or 4 country patients on a Sunday, taking his children along ‘for the ride’ and to visit with him. Sunday evenings he would play the pianola and sing Scottish songs to his family. One of Dr Angus’ patients was Margaret MacKenzie, author of a book on local shipwrecks that she’d seen as an eye witness from the late 1880’s in Peterborough, Victoria. In the early 1950’s Dr Angus, painted a picture of a shipwreck for the cover jacket of Margaret’s book, Shipwrecks and More Shipwrecks. She was blind in later life and her daughter wrote the actual book for her. Dr Angus and his wife Gladys were very involved in Warrnambool’s society with a strong interest in civic affairs. He had an interest in people and the community They were both involved in the creation of Flagstaff Hill, including the layout of the gardens. After his death (28th March 1970) his family requested his practitioner’s plate, medical instruments and some personal belongings be displayed in the Port Medical Office surgery at Flagstaff Hill Maritime Village, and be called the “W. R. Angus Collection”. The W.R. Angus Collection is significant for still being located at the site it is connected with, Doctor Angus being the last Port Medical Officer in Warrnambool. The collection of medical instruments and other equipment is culturally significant, being an historical example of medicine, administration, household equipment and clothing from late 19th to mid-20th century. Dr Angus assisted Dr Tom Ryan, a pioneer in the use of X-rays and in ocular surgery. Surgical instrument, Doyen forceps, part of the W.R. Angus Collection. Stainless steel forceps, curved. Paper label attached. Forceps were used to grasp larger organs.Paper label attached, no inscription.flagstaff hill, warrnambool, shipwrecked coast, flagstaff hill maritime museum, maritime museum, shipwreck coast, flagstaff hill maritime village, great ocean road, dr w r angus, dr ryan, surgical instrument, t.s.s. largs bay, warrnambool base hospital, nhill base hospital, mira hospital, flying doctor, medical treatment, doyen forceps -
Flagstaff Hill Maritime Museum and Village
Surgical Instrument, early 20th century
This pair of bowel forceps was donated to Flagstaff Hill Maritime Village by the family of Doctor William Roy Angus, Surgeon and Oculist. It is part of the “W.R. Angus Collection” that includes historical medical equipment, surgical instruments and material once belonging to Dr Edward Ryan and Dr Thomas Francis Ryan, (both of Nhill, Victoria) as well as Dr Angus’ own belongings. The Collection’s history spans the medical practices of the two Doctors Ryan, from 1885-1926 plus that of Dr Angus, up until 1969. ABOUT THE “W.R.ANGUS COLLECTION” Doctor William Roy Angus M.B., B.S., Adel., 1923, F.R.C.S. Edin.,1928 (also known as Dr Roy Angus) was born in Murrumbeena, Victoria in 1901 and lived until 1970. He qualified as a doctor in 1923 at University of Adelaide, was Resident Medical Officer at the Royal Adelaide Hospital in 1924 and for a period was house surgeon to Sir (then Mr.) Henry Simpson Newland. Dr Angus was briefly an Assistant to Dr Riddell of Kapunda, then commenced private practice at Curramulka, Yorke Peninsula, SA, where he was physician, surgeon and chemist. In 1926, he was appointed as new Medical Assistant to Dr Thomas Francis Ryan (T.F. Ryan, or Tom), in Nhill, Victoria, where his experiences included radiology and pharmacy. In 1927 he was Acting House Surgeon in Dr Tom Ryan’s absence. Dr Angus had become engaged to Gladys Forsyth and they decided he further his studies overseas in the UK in 1927. He studied at London University College Hospital and at Edinburgh Royal Infirmary and in 1928, was awarded FRCS (Fellow from the Royal College of Surgeons), Edinburgh. He worked his passage back to Australia as a Ship’s Surgeon on the on the Australian Commonwealth Line’s T.S.S. Largs Bay. Dr Angus married Gladys in 1929, in Ballarat. (They went on to have one son (Graham 1932, born in SA) and two daughters (Helen (died 12/07/1996) and Berenice (Berry), both born at Mira, Nhill ) According to Berry, her mother Gladys made a lot of their clothes. She was very talented and did some lovely embroidery including lingerie for her trousseau and beautifully handmade baby clothes. Dr Angus was a ‘flying doctor’ for the A.I.M. (Australian Inland Ministry) Aerial Medical Service in 1928 . Its first station was in the remote town of Oodnadatta, where Dr Angus was stationed. He was locum tenens there on North-South Railway at 21 Mile Camp. He took up this ‘flying doctor’ position in response to a call from Dr John Flynn; the organisation was later known as the Flying Doctor Service, then the Royal Flying Doctor Service. A lot of his work during this time involved dental surgery also. Between 1928-1932 he was surgeon at the Curramulka Hospital, Yorke Peninsula, South Australia. In 1933 Dr Angus returned to Nhill and purchased a share of the Nelson Street practice and Mira hospital (a 2 bed ward at the Nelson Street Practice) from Dr Les Middleton one of the Middleton Brothers, the current owners of what previously once Dr Tom Ryan’s practice. Dr Tom and his brother had worked as surgeons included eye surgery. Dr Tom Ryan performed many of his operations in the Mira private hospital on his premises. He had been House Surgeon at the Nhill Hospital 1902-1926. Dr Tom Ryan had one of the only two pieces of radiology equipment in Victoria during his practicing years – The Royal Melbourne Hospital had the other one. Over the years Dr Tom Ryan had gradually set up what was effectively a training school for country general-practitioner-surgeons. Each patient was carefully examined, including using the X-ray machine, and any surgery was discussed and planned with Dr Ryan’s assistants several days in advance. Dr Angus gained experience in using the X-ray machine there during his time as assistant to Dr Ryan. When Dr Angus bought into the Nelson Street premises in Nhill he was also appointed as the Nhill Hospital’s Honorary House Surgeon 1933-1938. His practitioner’s plate from his Nhill surgery is now mounted on the doorway to the Port Medical Office at Flagstaff Hill Maritime Village, Warrnambool. When Dr Angus took up practice in the Dr Edward and Dr Tom Ryan’s old premises he obtained their extensive collection of historical medical equipment and materials spanning 1884-1926. A large part of this collection is now on display at the Port Medical Office at Flagstaff Hill Maritime Village in Warrnambool. In 1939 Dr Angus and his family moved to Warrnambool where he purchased “Birchwood,” the 1852 home and medical practice of Dr John Hunter Henderson, at 214 Koroit Street. (This property was sold in1965 to the State Government and is now the site of the Warrnambool Police Station. and an ALDI sore is on the land that was once their tennis court). The Angus family was able to afford gardeners, cooks and maids; their home was a popular place for visiting dignitaries to stay whilst visiting Warrnambool. Dr Angus had his own silk worm farm at home in a Mulberry tree. His young daughter used his centrifuge for spinning the silk. Dr Angus was appointed on a part-time basis as Port Medical Officer (Health Officer) in Warrnambool and held this position until the 1940’s when the government no longer required the service of a Port Medical Officer in Warrnambool; he was thus Warrnambool’s last serving Port Medical Officer. (Masters of immigrant ships arriving in port reported incidents of diseases, illness and death and the Port Medical Officer made a decision on whether the ship required Quarantine and for how long, in this way preventing contagious illness from spreading from new immigrants to the residents already in the colony.) Dr Angus was a member of the Australian Medical Association, for 35 years and surgeon at the Warrnambool Base Hospital 1939-1942, He served with the Australian Department of Defence as a Surgeon Captain during WWII 1942-45, in Ballarat, Victoria, and in Bonegilla, N.S.W., completing his service just before the end of the war due to suffering from a heart attack. During his convalescence he carved an intricate and ‘most artistic’ chess set from the material that dentures were made from. He then studied ophthalmology at the Royal Melbourne Eye and Ear Hospital and created cosmetically superior artificial eyes by pioneering using the intrascleral cartilage. Angus received accolades from the Ophthalmological Society of Australasia for this work. He returned to Warrnambool to commence practice as an ophthalmologist, pioneering in artificial eye improvements. He was Honorary Consultant Ophthalmologist to Warrnambool Base Hospital for 31 years. He made monthly visits to Portland as a visiting surgeon, to perform eye surgery. He represented the Victorian South-West subdivision of the Australian Medical Association as its secretary between 1949 and 1956 and as chairman from 1956 to 1958. In 1968 Dr Angus was elected member of Spain’s Barraquer Institute of Barcelona after his research work in Intrasclearal cartilage grafting, becoming one of the few Australian ophthalmologists to receive this honour, and in the following year presented his final paper on Living Intrasclearal Cartilage Implants at the Inaugural Meeting of the Australian College of Ophthalmologists in Melbourne In his personal life Dr Angus was a Presbyterian and treated Sunday as a Sabbath, a day of rest. He would visit 3 or 4 country patients on a Sunday, taking his children along ‘for the ride’ and to visit with him. Sunday evenings he would play the pianola and sing Scottish songs to his family. One of Dr Angus’ patients was Margaret MacKenzie, author of a book on local shipwrecks that she’d seen as an eye witness from the late 1880’s in Peterborough, Victoria. In the early 1950’s Dr Angus, painted a picture of a shipwreck for the cover jacket of Margaret’s book, Shipwrecks and More Shipwrecks. She was blind in later life and her daughter wrote the actual book for her. Dr Angus and his wife Gladys were very involved in Warrnambool’s society with a strong interest in civic affairs. He had an interest in people and the community They were both involved in the creation of Flagstaff Hill, including the layout of the gardens. After his death (28th March 1970) his family requested his practitioner’s plate, medical instruments and some personal belongings be displayed in the Port Medical Office surgery at Flagstaff Hill Maritime Village, and be called the “W. R. Angus Collection”. The W.R. Angus Collection is significant for still being located at the site it is connected with, Doctor Angus being the last Port Medical Officer in Warrnambool. The collection of medical instruments and other equipment is culturally significant, being an historical example of medicine, administration, household equipment and clothing from late 19th to mid-20th century. Dr Angus assisted Dr Tom Ryan, a pioneer in the use of X-rays and in ocular surgery. Surgical instrument, bowel forcep, (2 items), part of the W.R. Angus Collection. Stainless steel, curved forcep end with hinged tip. Made by Mayer & Meltzer of London. Impressed "MAYER & MELTZER LONDON" and "rR"flagstaff hill, warrnambool, shipwrecked coast, flagstaff hill maritime museum, maritime museum, shipwreck coast, flagstaff hill maritime village, great ocean road, dr w r angus, dr ryan, surgical instrument, t.s.s. largs bay, warrnambool base hospital, nhill base hospital, mira hospital, flying doctor, medical treatment, bowel forceps, surgical instrument, abdominal surgery -
Glenelg Shire Council Cultural Collection
Decorative object - Doily, n.d
Doily, round curved edges, white cotton embroidered with small salmon pink flowers and green leaves. Whit hand crocheted border. Measures 20.5 cm in diameter -
Kiewa Valley Historical Society
Bottle - Medical
This bottle was used in the Tawonga District General Hospital which was built in the 1950's specifically for the increase in population due to the Kiewa Hydro Scheme.Clear brown glass bottle with rectangular base with curved edges. Straight edges and almost horizontal shoulder to short neck. Front is heavily embossed as are the two sides and base.Front: From top to bottom 'Not to be Taken' with 4 vertical lines from top to bottom. Both sides have 4 vertical lines down them. Base: 'A 10 oZ?'medical, hospital, poison, medicine -
Learmonth and District Historical Society Inc.
Photo - Wheeler.H.J, Thornton Richards & Co, H.J.Wheeler, Councilor,1942-43, Circa 1943"
In 1932 Councilor H.J.Wheeler was elected as a member of Ballarat Shire Council and served until 1946. He served two terms as Shire President in 1937-38 and 1943-44.Original Historic Photo of Councilors for the year 1942-43.Rectangular with curved top,Sepia photo on brown mount, of Councilor H.J.Wheeler, top row ,left hand side of collection of photos of all councilors for the year 1942-43.Presented to the Ballarat Shire Council by Councilor R.T. White (J.P.) President 1942-43. wheeler, ballarat shire council, h j councilor, 1942 43 -
Learmonth and District Historical Society Inc.
Photo - Spittle S.G, Thornton Richards & Co, Spittle. S.G. Councilor 1942-43, Circa 1943"
In 1931 Councilor S.G.Spittle was elected as a ,member of the Ballarat Shire Council,serving until 1943. He served a term as Shire President in 1934-35.Original Historic Photo of Councilors for the year 1942-43.Photo is Sepia on Brown mount, of Councilor S.G.Spittle, situated top right hand corner of collection of photos of all councilors for the year 1942-43. It is rectangular with a curved top.Presented to the Ballarat Shire Council by Councilor R.T.White,President, 1942-43.spittle, s g councilor, ballarat shire council 1942 43 -
Learmonth and District Historical Society Inc.
Photo - M.Ryan, Richards & Co. Photos Ballaarat, M.Ryan, Councilor 1906, "Circa 1906"
Councilor M. Ryan was elected as a msmber of council in 1873-77,1897-1915,1918-53. He served as President in 1908,1914,1923,1932, Original Historic Photo.Photo of Councilor M.Ryan, sepia colour,rectangular with curved top and grey mount. It is at right side of top row,forming part of collection of photos of all councilors for 1906.Presented by the President to the Ballarat Shire Council.1906.ballarat shire council, ryan m, 1873, 1897 1918 -
Learmonth and District Historical Society Inc.
Photo - Mitchell, Richards & Co. Photos Ballaarat, J.Mitchell,Councilor 1906
Councilor J Mitchell was elected to council in1871 until 1875 and 1898 until 1915.He served two terms as Shire President,1903-04 and 1909-10.Original Historic Photo.This photo of Councilor J.Mitchell, is in sepia with grey mount cut rectangular and curved top.It is placed left side of third row of set of photos showing all councilors for 1906. Presented by the President to the Ballarat Shire Council.1906.ballarat shire council, mitchell j, 1871 1875, 1898 1915 -
Bright & District Historical Society operating the Bright Museum
Tin Box
Rectangular metal box with a sliding lid. One end of the box is curved. Lid is ridged with a raised elongated knob. Ridges on one side of the box ,probably for striking matches.goldfields, box, matchbox, buckland valley -
Flagstaff Hill Maritime Museum and Village
Domestic object - Pewter Mug, ca 1878
This mug is one of many artefacts recovered from the wreck of the sailing ship Loch Ard during the 1970s. The ship was wrecked in 1878 on the southwest coast of Victoria. Only two of the 54 people on board survived.The mug is significant for its association with the wreck of the LOCH ARD, which is listed on Victoria's Heritage Register.Pewter mug, encrusted and dented body, with a hole near the handle. Mug's sides curve inwards at the centre. A large handle is attached. It was recovered from the wreck of the Loch Ard. flagstaff hill, warrnambool, shipwrecked-coast, flagstaff-hill, flagstaff-hill-maritime-museum, maritime-museum, shipwreck-coast, flagstaff-hill-maritime-village, pewter mug, pewter, mug, loch ard, tableware, drinking vessel, tankard -
Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Obstetricians & Gynaecologists (RANZCOG)
Glass vaginal irrigator associated with midwife Mary Howlett, c. 1866 - 1920
The object has been identified as a vaginal (douche) irrigator. The glass tube is similar in appearance, however, to one of the four types of Brewer's glass cannula used in direct blood transfusion. (Reference Down Bros, page 958A)Mary Howlett (1840-1922) began practising as a country midwife in 1866 in the western district of Victoria. She qualified as a 'ladies monthly nurse' in 1887 and continued to practise as a nurse and midwife until 1920.She began her six months training at the Melbourne Lying-In Hospital. She was known by many as 'Auntie', and her career spanned more than 50 years. Mrs Howlett's midwifery box and contents were given to Dr Frank Forster, and he donated them to the museum collection in 1993.Glass tube, which functions as a vaginal irrigator. There is a curve in the tube, and it gets wider at proximal (far) end. The distal (near) end is round and blunt for attachment to rubber tubing.irrigation, midwifery -
National Vietnam Veterans Museum (NVVM)
Uniform - Epaulette and buttons
Worn by National Serviceman, Corporal K J Baker, Medical Corps, 8th Field Ambulance and 1st Australian Field Hospital, Vietnam, 1968Five round gold buttons featuring a snake wrapped around a staff with a crown at the top and laurel around the edges. And two curved silver epaulette badges with the word Australia.insignia, badges, epaulette, medical, ken baker, baker, 1967-8, geelong vietnam veterans sub-branch, 8th field hospital, button -
Southern Sherbrooke Historical Society Inc.
butter curler
Tool for creating butter curls from a larger block. It has a wooden handle and a serrated metal blade which curves in a semicircle at the end and which has a sharp point. -
Nagambie Historical Society Inc
Weapon - Gunpowder flask, Metal flask and rammer, c1910
donated by M. SmithCurved or horn shaped flask with trigger release, attached to metal rammer by knotted and plaited string, with leather clamp. Also leather-bound string through loop of rammer. -
Mont De Lancey
Tool - Meat Chopper, Unknown
A small vintage handmade metal rectangular meat chopper with a short metal handle attached to the very sharp blade. It has a turned, patterned curved wooden handle joined to this.cutters, cutting tools, butchers tools, meat chopper, cleavers, butchers knives -
Alfred Hospital Nurses League - Nursing Archive
Functional object - monel metal female urinal, K.G.Luke
used by nursing staff to assist women to void when bed riddenan essential item in providing care to non ambulant womenSilver coloured metal female urine collector, funnel shaped neck with rolled metal opening, bulbous collecting chamber with flat base, curved handle to upper surface176-024 black texta on base and sticky label blue ink to base, engraved - PARAMOUNT/STAINLESS STEEL/K.G.LUKE/63, WARD 4/AH engraved to superior surfacemonel metal, female urinal, k.g.luke, nursing care, alfred hospital, alfred hospital nurses league, ward 4 -
Warrnambool and District Historical Society Inc.
Cross cut saw
This saw is used for cutting curved edges of timber. It could have been used in the home or for commercial building purposes. The hand-held saw has largely now been replaced by electrically-operated machines. This item has no known local provenance but it is an interesting example of a hand-held tool of the past.This is a hand saw with a thin serrated metal blade. The blade is affixed to the bottom end of a wooden frame with two upright pieces and a cross piece affixed to the upper part of the frame. The top part of the frame has a piece of plaited rope stretched across. The top part of the frame has two wooden handles. The blade is somewhat rusted and the wooden parts and the rope are stained. vintage tools, history of warrnambool -
Vision Australia
Equipment - Object, Sailmakers sewing palm, 198-?
The sewing palm was used by visually impaired workers in the mat making workshop at the Royal Victorian for the Blind Institute during the binding of mats to protect their palms from the 17cm-long curved mat making needle.1 leather folded band with indented metal square attached and leather lacing fastening at back assistive devices, employment -
Warrnambool and District Historical Society Inc.
Serving dish, Fish Dish, Early 20th century
This fish dish is an attractive household item which would have been used in the early to mid 20th century when the more affluent families in society were entertaining. It is not a common item and most likely would not be seen in households today. This dish has no known local provenance but is of considerable interest as a household item not seen today. It will be useful for display.This fish dish has an electro-plated nickel silver holder with two curved pieces of metal joined at the centre to form a base. There are four round metal balls at each end of the curved metal to stabilise the stand. Four curved metal pieces are attached to the base and hold a rectangular-shaped piece of metal and a handle. Fitting into this piece of metal is a cut glass container which is heavily patterned on the sides and base. The lid of this container is rectangular with rounded edges and silver-plated. The top of the lid has a silver-coloured free-standing fish model attached to the lid by a metal stud. The fish is a little loose on its stand. The handle can be folded down. ‘E P N S 62’ household items, history of warrnambool -
Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Obstetricians & Gynaecologists (RANZCOG)
Bowman's eye speculum used by Dr Lorna Lloyd-Green
Very similar in appearance to a Sumner lid retractor. The handle of the speculum has a curve to accommodate the index finger, whilst the ball of the thumb rests on the spring. This speculum is used for 'Smith's operation' of the eye, which treats cataracts. Eye retractor. Made of fine metal wire and gold plate, with retractor arm and one screw. -
Hume City Civic Collection
Photograph
In the 1970s the bluestone bridge over Jackson's Creek ceased to be used and a wider bridge was constructed to its north. The curved approach to the bridge was taken out of the road and the old approach area was redeveloped and is now Apex Park.A black and white photograph of the old stone bridge over Jackson's Creek in Macedon Street. A utility is in the distance approaching the bridge.macedon street, jackson's creek, bridges, transport, apex park, sunbury, jackson's creek bridge, george evans collection -
Ballarat Tramway Museum
Photograph - Black and White - tram 17 Victoria St and East St, A T Miles, 30/1/1968
Black and White - tram 17 (Victoria St) at the intersection with East St, looking west. Shows the curve in Victoria St, just before the descent to Bridge St, Taken by A T Miles 30/1/1968.Yields information about the Victoria St route.Photograph - black and white print with notes on rear. Printed on Ilford paper.A T Miles stamp and location and date notes.tramways, trams, tram 17, victoria st, east st -
Ballarat Tramway Museum
Photograph - Geelong - Ryrie Street, Melbourne Electric Supply Co. (MESCo), c.1911
Tram tracks being laid in Ryrie St., just west of the Moorabool intersection. Tracks curving towards the photographer are for the turn to join the South Route, 1911. This connection was removed in 1922. The tower with clockface is the Post Office.Yields information into the early streetscape of Geelong's Ryrie St., and tram track development.Black and white print on paper8-8 written in pencil on the back of the photographgeelong tramtrack laying, ryrie street streetscapoe 1911, geelong post office clock tower -
Glenelg Shire Council Cultural Collection
Print - Lithograph, Early View of Town of Portland, 1890-1905
Displayed in History House. Removed from frame and rehoused, January 2007. Previously owned by Murray Wilson, 1923-1989.Donated by Mrs Betty Wilson in memory of her husband, Murray Wilson (1923 - 1989)Lithograph of a drawing of Portland, viewed from an elevated position. Cliffs on foreground right curve towards a series of piers. To right is a church and a series of houses on blocks, with a wide street in front. Couta boats, row boats and steam ships are in the harbour, one steamship is berthed at the end of a long pier with a railway track leading from it. In background the coastline curves around the harbour, with a lighthouse evident on a bluff at upper left of image.Front: (no inscriptions) Back: Murray F. Wilson/from E. Wilson (on backing board, now removed) -
Glenelg Shire Council Cultural Collection
Photograph - Photograph - J.J. Couch, c. 1925
Hand-tinted black and white photograph of a man in a suit. He has dark hair parted on his right and a dark moustache. His suite is black and he is wearing a white shirt with short pointed collar and a black bow tie. Portrait is of head and upper body. Framed in a oval frame, mounted on a curved board mount, behind curved (convex) glass. Frame is wood and decorative plaster moulding in gold paint.Front: (no inscriptions) Back: J.J. Crouch (pencil, centre) 10/1/25 (pencil, centre). -
Melbourne Tram Museum
Sign, Melbourne & Metropolitan Tramways Board (MMTB), "Notice to Tram Crews", 1950s
Sign, metal - machine inscribed, with black paint infill, black edge and four screw holes in corners largely covered in tramway green paint. Has been curved to fit the curved section above the windows which is rounded - the top rail. Titled "Notice to Tram Crews", advising the crews which numbers to ring or call in the event of a delay to service. Gives both the track and public telephone numbers. C1950.trams, tramways, signs, delays, accidents, incidents, control centre, crews -
Geoffrey Kaye Museum of Anaesthetic History
Tool - Blade, Laryngoscope
Curved laryngoscope blade with light bulb only. It has visible scratches on top and back side of the blade. A rusty washer under the handle joint. Is also present in the blade base back side a curved shaped lamina attached by a screw. This blade correspond to a large size (adult) laryngoscope blade. It has stamped on the base inscriptions about: trade mark (PENLON), place where it was made (ENGLAND) and its material (Stainless).Stamped on the blade base, REGD. TRADE MARK / PENLON / MADE IN ENGLAND Stamped on the back edge of the blade, STAINLESSblade, penlon, light bulb, laryngoscope -
Melbourne Tram Museum
Administrative record - Report, Tramway Board, Tramway Board - Special Work, 1916
Report prepared by the Tramway Board, the intermediate body between the Melbourne Tramway and Omnibus Co. (MTOC) and the Melbourne and Metropolitan Tramways Board (MMTB), examining the status of the special work (points and crossings), curves, depot entry tracks and other worn tracks for wear. This report looks at the northern half of the cable system. Prepared May 1916 with a second inspection during July 1916. Provides detailed layout drawings of each junction, crossings with other cable lines, railway tracks, curves, depot entry, and locations where cable pick up points were - a "wiggle" in the track. Yields information about the examination of the cable tram special work prior to the end of the MTOCo franchise.Digital image - scan of the 1916 Report by the Tramway Board - approx 200 pages within a heavy cardboard folder secured with two interscrews or Chicago screws. Typed quarto sheets interleaved with foolscap drawings of each location. Folder by Sands & McDougall - dated 24/7/1917 No. D6350. tramways, trams, cable trams, tramway board, mtoco, track repairs, trackwork, points, level crossings -
Warrnambool and District Historical Society Inc.
Bottle, H O Wilkinson Chemist, Early 20th century
This bottle was used in the pharmacy business of H.O.Wilkinson. He had a chemist’s shop in Liebig Street, Warrnambool (number 119 Liebig Street today) early in the 20th century. The dates found for this business are from 1906 to 1914. Wilkinson also had pharmacies in Melbourne and Maryborough. His cough mixture, Wilkinson’s Pectorine, selling at two shillings and sixpence a bottle, was advertised as ‘the finest preparation for the cure of stubborn coughs and colds’. This bottle is of considerable interest as it is one of the few items in our collection associated with an early 20th century Warrnambool chemist, H.O.Wilkinson. This is a clear glass bottle with a rectangular body with curved edges, a circular-shaped neck and a moulded circular top. The stopper is made of cork. The name of the chemist is embossed on the front in an indent in the glassOn base: ‘M’ On front of bottle: ‘Z ( or 2) 3 X’ ‘Chemist, H.O.Wilkinson, Warrnambool’ wilkinson,, warrnambool chemist, history of warrnambool -
Warrnambool and District Historical Society Inc.
Household, Cup Fragment
This fragment is a piece of a cup that came from the Criterion Hotel in Warrnambool. This hotel, on the western side of Kepler Street near Lava Street, Warrnambool, was opened in 1872 with John Tate as the first licensee. Two notable families associated with the Criterion Hotel were the Humm family, (late 19th and early 20th centuries) and the McGennan family ( from the late 1920s on) The name on the fragment is that of Theresa Lynch who was the licensee of the hotel from 1919 to 1926 and the owner for most of that time. The hotel was closed in 2008 and, following a fire, the building was demolished in 2013.This fragment is of interest as it is one of the few items we have that date from the time of Theresa Lynch and the Criterion Hotel.This is a curved piece, one half of a white china cup. The fragment has been broken and mended. The fragment has imprinted on it in a red circle the name of a Warrnambool hotel and its proprietor. ‘Lynch’s Criterion Hotel Warrnambool’ theresa lynch, warrnambool