Among his collection of film and historical memorabilia housed in the 'katoi' (basement) of his North Balwyn home, Stathi Raftopoulos had a reproduction copy of the painting of 'Chloe'. A black and white photograph of man holding a beer bottle in one hand and a beer mug in the other while toasting the portrait of 'Chloe' of Young and Jacksons fame. The following dedication in French is on the base of the frame: IL VISITE SOUVENT VOS PLAISIBLE RIVAGES SOUVENT J'ECOUTE ET L'AIR QUI GEMIT DANS VOS BOIS A MON OREILLE OU LOIN VEINT APPORTER SA VOIX.

Original photograph by William Bardwell, with the original image held by the State Library of Victoria. Edited by Richard Conn. Purchased by the Museum.Provides information about the appearance of Sturt St Ballarat, looking from the Town Hall. Shows the topography of the area, along with many buildings, including the London Chartered Bank of Australia (later the Commonwealth Bank), the Unicorn Hotel, J. Dodds Bucks Head Hotel, road works in Bridge St, Albion House Drapery, Bryce & Chalmers Produced Merchants, a fenced central median strip and two horse-drawn carriages parked in Lydiard St.Black & White copy photograph aerial view A4 size, titled ""Ballarat looking east from the Town Hall ca 1872" looking along Sturt St towards Grenville St. Original photo by William Bardwell.ballarat, sturt st, grenville st, lydiard st, bucks head hotel, bryce & chalmers, london chartered bank, albion house, bridge st

A5 size publication of the Gipps-Land Gate, February - May 1981, 16 pages, featuring an old picture of Dandenong on the cover. Keeping Posted An Interesting Query About Stud Depot Burials The Preservation Of Historic Buildings Personalities Behind The Headstones The Dandenong Methodist Circuit's Early History Harking Back 75 Years Ago An interesting group of Early Dandenong Personalities, Places and Eventshotel history, early education in dandenong, interesting milestones, family histories

A5 size publication of the Gipps-Land Gate, June - August 1981, 16 pages, featuring an old picture of Dandenong on the cover. Keeping Posted A Guarantee of 105 Pounds Brought The English Cricketers To Dandenong! Harking Back 75 Years Ago Personalities Behind The Headstones The Dandenong Methodist Circuit's Early History An interesting group of Early Dandenong Personalities, Places and Eventshotel history, early education in dandenong, interesting milestones, family histories

A5 size publication of the Gipps-Land Gate, January - June 1982, 16 pages, featuring an old picture of Dandenong on the cover. Keeping Posted Tit-Bits From The Past The Dandenong Methodist Circuit's Early History Eminent Pianist Was Dandenong Girl More About The Sewering Of Dandenong Harking Back 75 Years Ago Bowman's Track Earned Dandenong's Janet Bowman A Meagre £300 Reward "Old Granny " - Dandenong's Old Stone Bridge When They Raced For Love! An interesting group of Early Dandenong Personalities, Places and Eventshotel history, early education in dandenong, interesting milestones, family histories

A5 size publication of the Gipps-Land Gate, January - June 1983, 16 pages, featuring an old picture of Dandenong on the cover. Keeping Posted Personalities Behind The Headstones Opening Of The Gippsland Road A Herculean Task Historical Snippets Harking Back 75 Years Ago Mouth-Watering Prices of 100 Years Ago Amusing, Pathetic And Tragic Entries From Dandenong Police Day Book, 1845-1853 When The Black-Trackers Left Dandenong An Unusual 500-Year Lease At Berwick Historical Society Started In 1920 An interesting group of Early Dandenong Personalities, Places and Eventshotel history, early education in dandenong, interesting milestones, family histories

A5 size publication of the Gipps-Land Gate, July - December 1982, 16 pages, featuring an old picture of Dandenong on the cover. Personalities Behind The Headstones Snippets Remember When Blacks Camped Near Mason Street Dusty Main Street An Old Landmark Disappears Town Hall Clock Heading For Golden Jubilee How Did Noble Park Get It's Name? Some More Noble Park Memories Harking Back 75 Years Ago Keeping Posted An interesting group of Early Dandenong Personalities, Places and Eventshotel history, early education in dandenong, interesting milestones, family histories

A5 size publication of the Gipps-Land Gate, July - September 1983, 16 pages, featuring an old picture of Dandenong on the cover. Keeping Posted A Snippet Of St. James History Harking Back 75 Years Ago Cricketers Started Baseball Association The Lysterfield Hall It's True! Personalities Behind The Headstones Dandenong Fire Brigade Is Delving Into It's Past An interesting group of Early Dandenong Personalities, Places and Eventshotel history, early education in dandenong, interesting milestones, family histories

A5 size publication of the Gipps-Land Gate, July - September 1984, 16 pages, featuring an old picture of Dandenong on the cover. Keeping Posted Book Launch Was A Big Success The Bowman Family An Early Dandenong Tramway Harking Back 75 Years Ago The Building Of The Lysterfield Reservior Old Market Identities Recalled Mrs. R. A. Titcher, A Dandenong Songster Of The Past The Winds Of Change Personalities Behind The Headstones Dressing Sheds Erected On Creek Bank Keysborough Veteran Hailed From Norway Flashback On The Local Scene An interesting group of Early Dandenong Personalities, Places and Eventshotel history, early education in dandenong, interesting milestones, family histories

A5 size publication of the Gipps-Land Gate, April - June 1984, 16 pages, featuring an old picture of Dandenong on the cover. Keeping Posted Geoff Skidmore - A Tribute Personalities Behind The Headstones Harking Back 75 Years Ago Snippets From The Past "Novar" Estate Blocks For No Deposit And £1 A Month Bought In 1880's "Strippers" Of The Early Days Final Installment Of Early History Of The Dandenong Cricket Club When Stoddart's English XI Was Beaten By Dandenong District! Ladies Club Formed An interesting group of Early Dandenong Personalities, Places and Eventshotel history, early education in dandenong, interesting milestones, family histories

A5 size publication of the Gipps-Land Gate, October - December 1983, 16 pages, featuring an old picture of Dandenong on the cover. Personalities Behind The Headstones Harking Back 75 Years Ago Robert Caldicott Walker - A Research Challenge The Origin Of "Strangers Hill" Taxis First Introduced In 1909 Member Dave Mickle Achives A Goal Titcher's Pharmacy Celebrates Centenary "The Walkers And Their Kin" Dandenong Cricket Club Was Formed Back In 1872 Harking Back 75 Years Ago An interesting group of Early Dandenong Personalities, Places and Eventshotel history, early education in dandenong, interesting milestones, family histories

A5 size publication of the Gipps-Land Gate, January - March 1984, 16 pages, featuring an old picture of Dandenong on the cover. Keeping Posted Harking Back 75 Years Ago Springvale Blocks For £2.10 Each Annual Dinner On June 27th A "Long-Shot" Comes Off! All Was Not Plain Sailing For Dandenong's Early Cricketers Personalities Behind The Headstones Local Auctioneering Firm Approaches It's Centenary "Merlin" Is 100 Years Old This Year Sold Out! An interesting group of Early Dandenong Personalities, Places and Eventshotel history, early education in dandenong, interesting milestones, family histories

A5 size publication of the Gipps-Land Gate, October - December 1984, 16 pages, featuring an old picture of Dandenong on the cover. Keeping Posted An Old Lonsdale Street Store When Nellie Melba's Horse Won The Dandenong Steeplexhase Harking Back 75 Years Ago Personalities Behind The Headstones Superintendent's Home At Police Paddocks Described An interesting group of Early Dandenong Personalities, Places and Eventshotel history, early education in dandenong, interesting milestones, family histories

A5 size publication of the Gipps-Land Gate, January - March, 1985 featuring an old picture of Dandenong on the cover. Keeping Posted Personalities Behind The Headstones 120 Years Of Local News-Gathering Berwick Doctor Offered Accommodation For Patients Outspoken Oakleigh Toll Critic The Journals Five Owners Over The Years Malcolm Macpherson Long Cattle Droves All In A Days Work For Gippsland Pioneers Our Munixipal Background Descendants Of Early Dandenong Families To Hold Re-Union Here Dandenong Snippets Almost A Century Of Gas In Dandenong An interesting group of Early Dandenong Personalities, Places and Eventshotel history, early education in dandenong, interesting milestones, family histories

A5 size publication of the Gipps-Land Gate, July - September, 1985 featuring an old picture of Dandenong on the cover. Keeping Posted Delving Into Dandenong Market History Topics Ahead Another Old Landmark Disappears Snippets Ordish Nearly Had a Fire-Clay Rival Across Stud Road Harking Back 75 Years Ago Keysborough-Dandenong Reminiscences Alex Scott - A Strong Personality Personalities Behind The Headstones The Sport Of Kings - And Pioneers - Was Tough In The Early Days Lively Elections! An interesting group of Early Dandenong Personalities, Places and Eventshotel history, early education in dandenong, interesting milestones, family histories

A5 size publication of the Gipps-Land Gate, April - June, 1985 featuring an old picture of Dandenong on the cover. Keeping Posted Rare Dandenong Roads Board Document Unearthed Housing Commission Major Role In Local Housing The Griffins Of "Kent Park" Harking Back 75 Years Ago Robert Caldecott Walker - Resurrected Setting An Example Many More Could Follow Dunbar-Dobson Re-Union Created Interest An interesting group of Early Dandenong Personalities, Places and Eventshotel history, early education in dandenong, interesting milestones, family histories

A5 size publication of the Gipps-Land Gate, October - December, 1985 featuring an old picture of Dandenong on the cover. Keeping Posted When A Block Of Land Cost £3/10/- Dandenong In More Leisurely Days Harking Back 75 Years Ago Personalities Behind The Headstones "The Grange" Bees Landed Two Suspects In Court Theft Of R.C. Walker's Bees An interesting group of Early Dandenong Personalities, Places and Eventshotel history, early education in dandenong, interesting milestones, family histories

A5 size publication of the Gipps-Land Gate, September 1971. 20 pages, featuring a drawing of The Old Stone Bridge (1867-1919) on the cover. Birds-eye View of Dandenong Show On The Clow St. Ground Before The Move To Greaves Reserve Few Changes In Office Bearers Change in Membership Fees To Mark a Vanished Settlement Intriguiging Early Plans Displayed Just For The Record Old Burial Ground Located We Mourn Them Did You Know? The Dandenong Show Committee's First 100 Years Keeping Posted Interesting Milestones Turning Back The Pages 75 Years The Native Police Corps Dandenong Flashback Market A Distinguishing Feature An interesting group of Early Dandenong Personalities and eventshotel history, early education in dandenong, interesting milestones

A5 size publication of the Gipps-Land Gate, March 1971. 20 pages, featuring a drawing of The Old Stone Bridge (1867-1919) on the cover. Jump Aboord the Dog Cart and Travel Back To The Dandenong of 115 Years Ago A Place Called Dandenong Last Post Office this side of Melbourne A Century of Dandenong Agricultral Shows A Red Letter Day Ninety Years Ago Official Opening of Foster Street State School Contractor Lost £300 On The Job Dandenong Football Team Back In 1918 Harking Back to 1856 Interesting Milestones The Dandenong Cemetery First Burial An Aboriginal? Another Landmark Disappears Looking Back 75 Years Ago Origin of Dandenong Street Names An interesting group of Early Dandenong Businesses and Personalities back in the 1870'shotel history, early education in dandenong, interesting milestones, origin of street names

A5 size publication of the Gipps-Land Gate, December 1971. 20 pages, featuring a drawing of The Old Stone Bridge (1867-1919) on the cover. Police Paddocks Obelisk To Be Dedicated Our Early Architecture An Interesting Realy Directory Turning Back The Pages 75 Years Dandenong From The Air in the Early 1940's Looking Across The Then Showgrounds To The Town Clash With Natives Interesting Milestones Origin of Dandenong Street Names An interesting group of Early Dandenong Personalities and eventshotel history, early education in dandenong, interesting milestones

A5 size publication of the Gipps-Land Gate, May 1973. 16 pages, featuring an old picture of Dandenong on the cover. Dandenong's First Initiation Into The Ways Of Local Government Delving Into "Laurel Lodge's" Past Some Dandenong Property Sales Turning Back The Pages 75 Years Official Opening of "Laurel Lodge" An interesting group of Early Dandenong Personalities, Places and Eventshotel history, early education in dandenong, interesting milestones

A5 size publication of the Gipps-Land Gate, June 1974. 16 pages, featuring an old picture of Dandenong on the cover. Keeping Posted History of "Laurel Lodge" O.B.E. For Life Mamber Early Family Footprints The Stone Bridge Takes Shape Threat To Cancel Bridge Contract They Had To Be Tough in 1878 An interesting group of Early Dandenong Personalities, Places and Eventshotel history, early education in dandenong, interesting milestones, family histories

A5 size publication of the Gipps-Land Gate, December 1974. 16 pages, featuring an old picture of Dandenong on the cover. Keeping Posted The Story Of Kirkham, Dandenong Pioneer (1828-1905) Early Family Footprints The Swords Family - Over A Century Of 'Inky-wayfarers' An interesting group of Early Dandenong Personalities, Places and Eventshotel history, early education in dandenong, interesting milestones, family histories

A5 size publication of the Gipps-Land Gate, December 1974. 16 pages, featuring an old picture of Dandenong on the cover. Keeping Posted Turning Back The Pages 75 Years Local Government 1870 Roads Board Style This Was Dandenong "Laurel Lodge Recollections" An interesting group of Early Dandenong Personalities, Places and Eventshotel history, early education in dandenong, interesting milestones, family histories

A5 size publication of the Gipps-Land Gate, December 1974. 16 pages, featuring an old picture of Dandenong on the cover. Keeping Posted Local Government 1870 Roads Board Style Origns of The Name 'Yarraman' and some Yarraman History This Was Dandenong An interesting group of Early Dandenong Personalities, Places and Eventshotel history, early education in dandenong, interesting milestones, family histories

A5 size publication of the Gipps-Land Gate, December 1974. 16 pages, featuring an old picture of Dandenong on the cover. Keeping Posted Local Government 1870 Roads Board Style Origns of The Name 'Yarraman' and some Yarraman History This Was Dandenong An interesting group of Early Dandenong Personalities, Places and Eventshotel history, early education in dandenong, interesting milestones, family histories

A5 size publication of the Gipps-Land Gate, January - April 1978. 16 pages, featuring an old picture of Dandenong on the cover. Keeping Posted "Laurel Lodge" Notes "Sweet Little Mary From Dandenong" Local Government 1870 Roads Board Style Harking Back 75 Years Ago An interesting group of Early Dandenong Personalities, Places and Eventshotel history, early education in dandenong, interesting milestones, family histories

A5 size publication of the Gipps-Land Gate, April - June 1978. 16 pages, featuring an old picture of Dandenong on the cover. Keeping Posted Garner and Sons Wheelrights and General Blacksmiths Harking Back 75 Years Ago Sixty-Five Years In Local Transport With The Paydons An interesting group of Early Dandenong Personalities, Places and Eventshotel history, early education in dandenong, interesting milestones, family histories

A5 size publication of the Gipps-Land Gate, March 1971. 18 pages, featuring a drawing of The Old Stone Bridge (1867-1919) on the cover.non-fictionOur new baby - The Gipps-Land Gate Message from "The Royal" First Honorary Member Dandenong Show 100 Years Old Interesting Milestones Started the First Store in Dandenong History of Dandenong to be Written Splendid Historical Library Available to Members In Print Again Robert Kidd Our First Smithy? "The Wessex" Built In The Sixties The Beginning of Education in Dandenong James Clow of "Tirhatuan" Our Emblem The SEHA Jimmy - The Last of the Mordialloc Tribe The "Mystery" of Ballyshanassy Solved Little Quirks of History Origin of Dandenong Street Names hotel history, early education in dandenong, interesting milestones, origin of street names