Article stating that The Royal Australian Institute of Architects will launch an appeal to restore a church hall in South Melbourne to Robin Boyd's memory. Several months before, Robin Boyd was president of the Victorian chapter and arranged for the purchase of the hall plus other buildings for its new headquarters.walsh st library

Robin Boyd conceived the idea of a satellite city in Sunbury, formulated through the Royal Australian Institute of Architects, Victorian chapter.A and date in red pen.sunbury, walsh st library

Robin Boyd’s desk cupboard contained two exercise books (item D482.1-D482.2) and assorted articles, essays and other material regarding the building of the Sydney Opera House, inserted inside the front cover of Walkabout magazine, July 1966 (item P1377). This publication is one of those inserts. Many of these were collected by Boyd’s eldest daughter, Mandie, who recalls that her father was writing a book, but was very disillusioned with the way the entire Opera House saga unfolded.Newspaper clipping, torn edgessydney opera house, utzon, sydney opera house project, walsh st library

Robin Boyd’s desk cupboard contained two exercise books (item D482.1-D482.2) and assorted articles, essays and other material regarding the building of the Sydney Opera House, inserted inside the front cover of Walkabout magazine, July 1966 (item P1377). This publication is one of those inserts. Many of these were collected by Boyd’s eldest daughter, Mandie, who recalls that her father was writing a book, but was very disillusioned with the way the entire Opera House saga unfolded.Newspaper clipping, torn edges, page 3. Discolouredsydney opera house, utzon, sydney opera house project, walsh st library

Article stating that The Royal Australian Institute of Architects will launch an appeal to restore a church hall in South Melbourne to Robin Boyd's memory. Several months before, Robin Boyd was president of the Victorian chapter and arranged for the purchase of the hall plus other buildings for its new headquarters.walsh st library

This is a column with three stories. The third pays tribute to Robin Boyd. Hutton says that 'The Australian Ugliness' is the most important book of the era and he thinks it will become the Bible to improve Australia's quality of life.walsh st library

This describes the feel of a 1961 Robin Boyd designed house, which shows a strong Japanese influence.Illustrated article. (2 copies)Keep for Trish' in blue penwalsh st library

Liftout commemorating The Queen's Silver Jubileewalsh st library

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The first of two articles that look at inner and outer Melbourne area. This one is about Collingwood.walsh st library

MagazineCover article about Lady Potter's daughter's marriage to a princewalsh st library

non-fictionA property in Forest Hill has been purchased and equipped to house 20 city kindergarten children.kindergarten, forest hill

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Photocopy of newspaper clipping.The publication and date in pencil and pen respectively.walsh st library

This article announces that Robin Boyd had been awarded the Gold medal by the Australian Institute of Architects. It is a comprehensive biographical piece.Photocopy of newspaper clipping.walsh st library

Article about a former Congregational Church and Hall and Dr James Barrett's house, all in Howe Crescent, South Melbourne. The connection to Robin Boyd not yet known.In pen "Robin Boyd Hall"walsh st library

This is a book review by David Martin of 'The Great Great Australian Dream' by Robin Boyd was published by Pergamon Press in 1972, after Robin Boyd's death.A and date handwrittenthe great great australian dream, walsh st library

This reports on the posthumous honour of the 1973 Architecture Critic's medal awarded to Robin Boyd by the American Institute of Architects. Patricia Boyd was invited to receive the medal at the AIA annual convention in San Francisco in May 1973.A and date handwrittenwalsh st library

List of awardees. One is Arthur Merric Bloomfield Boyd, of London, for services to art. Arthur Boyd is Robin Boyd's first cousin.A and date handwrittenarthur boyd, walsh st library

The Melbourne artist Alma Agnes Marion Figuerola, was the daughter of Juan Pedro Narciso Figuerola (1869-1919) and Alice Lucinda Walker Hanson (1889-1969). Each of their three daughters grew up to be involved in the arts: Alma as a painter; Carmen Irene (1906-1993) as a short story writer, poet and teacher of dancing; and Sylvia (also Silvia) Lyla Alice (1911-1992) as a composer and cellist. The first art lessons Alma Figuerola received were with Oscar Binder. Later she attended the art school established by the Melbourne 'tonalist' [Duncan] Max Meldrum (1875-1955). She graduated from his school in 1920, participating in her first group exhibition in the same year. Solo exhibitions of her work were to be held in 1933 at the Meldrum Gallery in Elizabeth Street, in 1937 and 1945 at the Athenaeum Gallery at 188 Collins Street, and in 1951 at Georges Gallery in Collins Street. Throughout her extensive career she participated in group exhibitions, usually with artists of the Meldrum School, and as a member of the Twenty Melbourne Painters, of which she was invited to become an associate in 1935. In 1953, her portrait of Professor ES Hills was entered in the Archibald Prize Competition of the Art Gallery of New South Wales. A resident of Kew from the 1930s - 51 Studley Park Road, often with her mother, her sister Carmen, or both - from c.1942 until her death she lived at 'D’Estaville', 7 Barry Street. From the late 1930s she is recorded as actively contributing to the arts at a local level. In 1939 and 1940 she participated in art exhibitions at the Hawthorn Municipal Library organised by Jessie Carbines. From 1944 to 1951 she co-organised successive Kew Arts Festivals, initially in the Presbyterian Church Hall in Highbury Grove and later at the Recreation Hall in Wellington Street. A foundation member of the Kew Historical Society in 1958, Alma Figuerola remained an active member of the Society until her death on 8 December 1970. She predeceased her two sisters who both died in the 1990s and who are buried at Andersons' Creek Cemetery in Warrandyte.An undated photograph of Alma Figuerola and an as yet unidentified man hanging paintings for an art exhibition at one of the Kew Arts Festivals held between 1944-51.arists - kew (vic), art exhibitions - kew (vic), alma figuerola

First Graduation Ceremony of Commonwealth Reconstruction Training Scheme Students. Note by T.H. Kneen 13 May 1992, "The occasion was the graduation of the C.R.T.S. students, August 1948, who had undertaken the two-year course for the Certificate of Competency in Horticulture. They commenced training in Oct 1946. The course was shortened slightly." (Names of students are in paper catalogue.)Black and white photograph. First Graduation Ceremony of Commonwealth Reconstruction Training Scheme Students 1948. Student seated on chairs on the lawn with a staff seated on chairs in front of them. T. H. Kneen, Principal, standing addressing them.graduation ceremony, commonwealth reconstruction training scheme, students, c.r.t.s., 1948, certificate of competency in horticulture, staff, t. h. kneen, publicity

A group of widows at Legacy House preparing trays of rosemary to be given to the public on Anzac Day and worn as a sign of remembrance. Names unknown. In The Answer in 1995 an articles says: "Operation Rosemary. Since 1982 Legacy ladies have volunteered to make rosemary sprigs for the Anzac Day marchers. At a later date they also made sprigs for the Schools Shrine Service. . . don't worry, there are ladies here to show you how to make them and it's a chance to hav a chat and cuppa whilst you work together. Any day day that you can spare . . . please ring Joan Miller." A note on yellow paper from 01046 explains the source of the rosemary. It says the rosemary donated to Legacy each year for the sprigs of rosemary handed out to the public comes from nurseryman, Peter Hannah, who sourced a cutting from a bush in Frankston which was said to come from a cutting brought home from Gallipoli by a wounded soldier. Photos were in a scrapbook of photos spanning 1983 to 1991.A record of widows preparing rosemary as gifts for the public. Rosemary is sign of remembrance. Black and white photo of widows preparing trays of rosemary.widows, legacy promotion, rosemary