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Bendigo Historical Society Inc.
Book - 'WIPPLEGONG IN SPRING' DOROTHY R. WELLS
Booklet, 2 pages with lemon cover and brown text. On front: ''Wipplegong in Spring' by Dorothy R. Wells, a factual text detailing what Dorothy experiences in her garden with the coming of Spring. ...'the name of the place is happily chosen, for wipplegong is the aboriginal word for magpie. The liquid warbling of these birds in the early morning and late afernoon is one of the joys which no one who has stayed at this home will ever forget' Wipplegong is the aboriginal word for magpie, the word being evocative of the warbling of a magpie.Dorothy R. Wellsbook, rural, wipplegong in spring, axedale, knowsley, farming, magpie -
Bendigo Historical Society Inc.
Book - BURRABUNGLE MT KORONG, 1988
Burrabungle Mt Korong compiled by the Korong Historical Society Inc, a Bicentennial edition of '' Nuggets or Nothing '' issues 15 and 16 1988. Published by The Korong Historical Society Inc, contains 57 pages with black and white photographs and maps, blue cover with group photograph picnic at Mt Korong 1912.Betty Ling, Judy Lorraine, Keith Ringbook, rural, shire of korong, shire of korong - history, early settlers, gold discovery, mt korong. -
Bendigo Historical Society Inc.
Book - MALLEE PIONEER, 1981
Mallee Pioneer The Recollections of James Barrett Mann founder of Morningquest. 104 pages with black and white photographs. Inscribed To Bendigo.H.Soc with compliments Bruce R Mann 25.4.83B R Mannbook, rural, mallee, mallee district, morningquest, mann family history, quambatook. -
Bendigo Historical Society Inc.
Map - PORTION OF ELMORE ESTATE, 19/10/1920
Map: Portion of Elmore Estate, Parishes of Warragamba and Diggorra, County of Bendigo. Parish plan Canvas backed ( number 143 in Map Cupboard 1)map, bendigo, rural, elmore estate , warragamba, diggorra , county of bendigo. -
Bendigo Historical Society Inc.
Map - MAHER'S AND PRETTY'S ESTATE, 8/02/1926
Map: Maher's and Pretty's Estate, Parish of Toolamba West, County of Rodney. Parish plan Canvas backed. ( number 131 in Map Cupboard 1)map, rodney, rural, maher's , pretty's, toolamba west, county of rodney -
Bendigo Historical Society Inc.
Map - DINGEE SUBDIVISION, 25/11/1913
Map: Dingee Subdivision, Parishes of Talambe and Yallook, County of Bendigo, Parish Plan, Canvas Backed ( number 128 in Map Cupboard 1)map, bendigo, rural, dingee subdivision, talambe, yallook, county of bendigo -
Bendigo Historical Society Inc.
Map - BURNEWANG PARK ESTATE, circa 1920
Map: Burnewang Park Estate, Parishes of Diggorra and Minto, County of Bendigo, Parish Plan ,Canvas backed ( number 127 in Map Cupboard 1)map, bendigo, rural, burnewang, diggorra, minto, county of bendigo -
Tatura Irrigation & Wartime Camps Museum
Photograph, Thrashing the wheat
Thrashing wheat; horses; children in old style dresstatura, rural, industry, agriculture, livestock, costume, children -
Tatura Irrigation & Wartime Camps Museum
Photograph, Terry Court c1990s
Goulburn Murray Water engineer Terry Court, c1990s.tatura, court t, costume, male, rural, industry, irrigation -
Tatura Irrigation & Wartime Camps Museum
Book, Rodney 4, State Rivers & Water Supply Commission, 1914
Lists names of farmers and their irrigation rights and charges of Rodney and District, including Girgarre East, Merrigum, Kyabram East and MooroopnaLarge book. Originally green. Patches peeling off thick cardboard cover, suede leather spinewater rights, irrigation charges, rodney district, tatura, irrigation, rural, industries -
Tatura Irrigation & Wartime Camps Museum
Book, Water Ledger - No. 1 - Rodney. State Rivers & Water Supply Commission, 1910
List of names of farmers giving their water rights and charges. Rodney District including Tatura, Toolambe and MurchisonLarge book. Cardboard cover, suede leather spine and corners. Faded labels. Gold letteringwater rights, irrigation charges, rodney district, tatura, irrigation, rural, industries -
Tatura Irrigation & Wartime Camps Museum
Book, Register of Lands, 1966-67
Register setting out Water Rights apportioned and Rating Divisions 1966-67 season for Goulburn Murray Irrigation DistrictRed linen card covered book. 3 brass screws holding pages. Register of Lands written on cover.irrigation, rating divisions, water rights apportioned, books, accounts, rural, industry -
Tatura Irrigation & Wartime Camps Museum
Book, Soils and Land Use, 1963
Advice to land holders on how to use the Soil Survey Report. Soils and land use in the deakin Irrigation area, Vict, Technical Bulletin No. 16, Melb. Includes maps for Deakin Irrigation AreaCream cover, black writing, Techical Bulletin No. 16soils and land use, tatura, irrigation, books, technical, rural, industry -
Tatura Irrigation & Wartime Camps Museum
Magazine, Dairy Week, 1997
International Dairy Week, Tatura is featured in this Supplement with the Weekly Times. Dairy Week began in 1990 with an idea from Brian Leslie and David BlackmoreAmusing sketch of cows and Tatura on map of Australia and Elderes advertisement on front cover. Elders Dairy Division ad and photo of Auctioneers on back covertatura dairy week, international dairy week, tatura, dairy cattle, newspapers, rural, industry -
Tatura Irrigation & Wartime Camps Museum
Folder, Water Bailiff's Manual, 1969 revised
Water Bailiff's Manual for information of duties. First Edition, 1963, revised 1969Green cover, gold lettering, metal clips. SR&WSC Vic logo and writingwater bailiff's manual, irrigation, tatura, sr&wsc, water bailiff, rural, industry -
Tatura Irrigation & Wartime Camps Museum
Wire Cutters, Japanese wire cutters
Japanese army wire cuttersWire cutters - wooden detachable handles. Metal mechanical cutting wire cutters with curved blade like structures at topcutters - wire, japanese, tatura, ww2, rural, industry, fencing -
Bayside Gallery - Bayside City Council Art & Heritage Collection
Work on paper - watercolour, Margaret Baskerville, Farm fences, 1903
watercolourfence, farm, landscape, watercolour, margaret baskerville, rural, tree -
National Wool Museum
Photograph - Types of Birth Coat in Welsh Lambs, c.1928
This item is part of a group of five green display boards with photographs of sheep. This item is associated with the New South Wales Graziers Association world tour of merino sheep 1928/9.Five black and white photographs and printed paper mounted on green display board. Photographs depict sheep and men. The display board has pin holes in each corner.Front: [handwritten] Types of Birth Coat in Welsh Lambs. / [printed] The coats of Welsh lambs at birth fall into three classes. / Fig. 1 shows the type that is thick and hairy all over, Fig. 5 that / which is composed of curly wool. Figs. 2-4 are the intermediate / type with a fine curling coat on the forepart of the body. Fig. 3 / is typical of the intermediate type. Back: [handwritten] Types of Birth Coat / in Welsh Lambs / [printed] PHOTOGRAPH COPYRIGHT / BY / THE ANIMAL BREEDING RESEARCH DEPT., / THE UNIVERSITY, EDINBURGH. / PLEASE RETURN TO :new south wales graziers association, world tour, england, sheep, farm, rural, agriculture -
National Wool Museum
Photograph - Typical Badgerface Ewe and Ram, c.1928
This item is part of a group of five green display boards with photographs of sheep. This item is associated with the New South Wales Graziers Association world tour of merino sheep 1928/9.Six black and white photographs and printed paper mounted on green display board. Photographs depict sheep and men. The display board has pin holes in each corner.Front: [handwritten] Typical Badgerface Ewe and Ram. / [printed] This pattern crops up in many breeds all over the world. It behaves / as a simple recessive to white. The typical pattern in very character- / istic, but many modifications are found so that badgerface sheep may range / from those that are almost white to those that are almost black. Back: [handwritten] Typical / Badgerface / ewe and ram / 4 / [printed] PHOTOGRAPH COPYRIGHT / BY / THE ANIMAL BREEDING RESEARCH DEPT., / THE UNIVERSITY, EDINBURGH. / PLEASE RETURN TO :new south wales graziers association, world tour, england, sheep, farm, rural, agriculture -
National Wool Museum
Photograph - Black Sheep, c.1928
This item is part of a group of five green display boards with photographs of sheep. This item is associated with the New South Wales Graziers Association world tour of merino sheep 1928/9.Three black and white photographs and printed paper mounted on green display board. Photographs depict sheep and men. The display board has pin holes in each corner.Front: [handwritten] Black Sheep. / [printed] There are two kinds of black in sheep. The / usual one is recessive to white, while in the Kar- / akul (Persian), the Piebald, and Black Welsh / Mountain breeds the black colour is dominant to / white. The first photograph shows a recessive / black Wensleydale, the middle a dominant Welsh black. / Sometimes the black is modified into a grey as / the sheep gets older. This is seen in the last / photograph of a Black Welsh Sheep. Back: [handwritten] Black / Sheep / [printed] PHOTOGRAPH COPYRIGHT / BY / THE ANIMAL BREEDING RESEARCH DEPT., / THE UNIVERSITY, EDINBURGH. / PLEASE RETURN TO :new south wales graziers association, world tour, england, sheep, farm, rural, agriculture -
Wodonga & District Historical Society Inc
Functional object - Camp Oven c. 1900s
A metal camp oven with handle. wodonga, camp oven, camp, camping, outdoor, cooking, rural -
Bendigo Historical Society Inc.
Document - PRINTED REMINISCENCE: LOOKING BACK WITH TOM ROWE
Printed reminiscence ''Looking Back with Tom Rowe'' with Appendices. 27 stapled pages and 28 - 42 loose sheets of Appendix. Loose sheets (7) of Select Bibliography and (poor quality) copies of photos including portraits of un-name male and un-named female; also picnic gathering of approx 20 hatted/suited men in rural setting. No author, no date of authorship.bendigo, history, autobiography tom rowe, the great depression, mr t rowe, world war 2, central deborah gold mine. mr charles robert searle rowe, new chum railway company, north old chum syndicate, list of mine managers, golden square school, big hills gold mine, henry gibs, new chum synline, school of mines, cr. g d garvin, central deborah mine, golden square fire station, the fife shire hotel, the rose of australia hotel, hicks spurs, red white and blue mine -
NMIT (Northern Melbourne Institute of TAFE)
Book: Furniture and equipment layouts for TAFE colleges Victoria. 1981
A4 size loose pages published by the Public Works Department and the Education Department Victoria in 1981. The contents cover the following Colleges: Moorabin, Dandenong, Collingwood, Newport, Box Hill, Sunraysia, Yallourn, Footscray, RMIT, Preston, School of Mines & Industries Ballarat, McMillan Rural Studies, Loddon Valley Bendigo, Wangaratta and Latrobe Street Complex. Plans and diagrams included.manuals, tafe colleges, preston technical college, collingwood tedhnical college, nmit -
Uniting Church Archives - Synod of Victoria
Banner - Banners
The letters of the completed banner were made by different churches within in the presbytery and spelled a sentence, presumably "BUILD YOUR CHURCH LORD!" Orbost was one of the churches that had the finished banner on display. 24 small banners with tabs at the top of each for hanging on a rod. 19 have large blue letters appliqued on them. Twenty two of the banners are roughly square and two are smaller and oblong. Three have no letters and are used as spacers in the four word sentence that the letters make. The banners are decorated with rural and coastal images. BN068.14 "C" with appliqued boat, sky and sun "C"uniting church adult fellowship -
Uniting Church Archives - Synod of Victoria
Banner
The letters of the completed banner were made by different churches within in the presbytery and spelled a sentence, presumably "BUILD YOUR CHURCH LORD!" Orbost was one of the churches that had the finished banner on display. One of 24 small banners with tabs at the top of each for hanging on a rod. 19 have large blue letters appliqued on them. Twenty two of the banners are roughly square and two are smaller and oblong. Three have no letters and are used as spacers in the four word sentence that the letters make. The banners are decorated with rural and coastal images. BN068.18 "R" with cows, hills, sheep and a sack "R"uniting church adult fellowship -
Uniting Church Archives - Synod of Victoria
Banner
The letters of the completed banner were made by different churches within in the presbytery and spelled a sentence, presumably "BUILD YOUR CHURCH LORD!" Orbost was one of the churches that had the finished banner on display. One of 24 small banners with tabs at the top of each for hanging on a rod. 19 have large blue letters appliqued on them. Twenty two of the banners are roughly square and two are smaller and oblong. Three have no letters and are used as spacers in the four word sentence that the letters make. The banners are decorated with rural and coastal images. BN068.20 "!" with fabric brown cow in grass " ! "uniting church adult fellowship -
Uniting Church Archives - Synod of Victoria
Banner
The letters of the completed banner were made by different churches within in the presbytery and spelled a sentence, presumably "BUILD YOUR CHURCH LORD!" Orbost was one of the churches that had the finished banner on display. One of 24 small banners with tabs at the top of each for hanging on a rod. 19 have large blue letters appliqued on them. Twenty two of the banners are roughly square and two are smaller and oblong. Three have no letters and are used as spacers in the four word sentence that the letters make. The banners are decorated with rural and coastal images. BN068.21 spacer with appliqued house, bushes and barn. uniting church adult fellowship -
University of Melbourne, Burnley Campus Archives
Newspaper - Newspaper Cutting, Gardening Experts, 1957
Two identical photos from two different newspapers on May 31, 1957. Burnley College staff member Bill Nicholls (1946-1979), Rod Kefford (Department of Agriculture, 1957) and Graham White (ABC Rural Dept), in the ABC Feature " In Your Garden," The three men are sitting alongside one another, while considering some flowers on the table in front of them. staff, bill nicholls, rod kefford, graham white, abc, in your garden, dept of agriculture -
South Gippsland Shire Council
Artwork, other - Quilt and accompanying book, South Gippsland Community Quilt, 2004
Local women made this quilt and book in 2004 over a period of four months. Meg Viney fibre artist and then director of Meeniyan Art Gallery initiated the project. Handmade and machine embroidered quilt with 16pp handmade book. The quilt celebrates the lives of local women in our rural environment. The quilt features cyanotype printed images of the women surrounded by blue floral-patterned fabric and gold/brown patterned trim. The book features handmade paper pages with images and stories on each of the women who were involved in the making of the quilt. -
Greensborough Historical Society
Slide - Photograph, John Ramsdale, Whittlesea to Wallan Road: Slide 89, 1990s
Photograph shows road and rural scene. this is the Whittlesea to Wallan Road north of Whittlesea.Part of the John Ramsdale collection of slides and audio visual material.Colour photograph scanned from slide.No maker's marks. No caption on slide.whittlesea, wallan, whittlesea to wallan road