Port of Portland Authority ArchivesBack: Adelaide - blue biro Portland - pencil Blue photographers stamp 69/1681- pencilport of portland archives, tug, tarragal, adelaide

Photograph of a group of 5 men and 3 women at function, Tom Hills at centresocieties clubs unions and other organisations, piers and wharves - waterside workers, transport - shipping, tom hills, waterside workers federation of australia

Used in "They Can Carry Me Out" and in Historic Port Melbourne calendar for 1998Small colour print of Women's Welcome Home Committee Rotunda, Beach Streetbuilt environment - civic, memorials, women's welcome home committee, women's welcoming committee, band rotunda

Certificate issued to Vietnamese women to be signed before having sex with an Australian soldieraustralia - armed forces - social life and customs

This laser print is a copy of a photo which has been in the Congues/McKenzie family collection since early this century. Mrs Marie Vernon of Doncaster showed the photo to her cousin, Elva Mason, also of Doncaster but formerly of 35 Cruikshank Street. Elva had the copy done and passed it on to Barbara Gardiner. Mrs Vernon was unable to give us much information but could tell us that her mother, Mrs Mary Jane Congues (known as Ruby) was a tailoress who started her apprecticeship at age 13 and later established the shop which was next to Earl's hardware shop. We think that she was born in the 1880s. The Congues family lived at 36 Cruikshank Street, and their landlord in later years was Mr Sullivan, who supplied horse and drays for rubbish collection for the Council. Simon McKenzie was the loca policeman who patrolled up and down Bay Street and became interested in Ruby. She later visited a fortune teller who told her she would marry a man with numbers on his hat. They married and lived in Brunswick East, Carrum Downs and later Calligee (near Traralgon). LIfe was tough but Mrs Vernon remembers that her talented mother was able to teransform garments and hats so that her daughters always felt that they had a new dress for each special occasion. Mrs Vernon also remembers when a member of the famly needed dental care, they wee put on the train to stay with Grandma at Port Melbourne, who took them to Frost the Dentist (on the corner of Graham and Bay Strees), who pulled teeth for one shilling each. Miss Gongues is the lady in skirt and blouse on the right; other people unknown.Laserprint of four women in entrance to Miss Congue's Costumier shop in Bay Streetbusiness and traders - tailors and clothing, mary jane (ruby) congues, mary jane (ruby) mckenzie, simon mckenzie, mr sullivan, frost the dentist

PRINTED INVITATION TO A CLUNES WOMEN'S NIGHT WHICH WAS ORGANISED BY THE CLUNES HEALTH SERVICE

38 pages of correspondence, newspaper articles, etc. on Burnley School women studentsburnley school of horticulture, women, students

Report following Affirmative Action (Equal Employment Opportunity for Women) Act 1996employment equality, women

LETTER FROM MRS. JENNIFER HULL, SECRETARY, CLUNES COUNTRY WOMENS' ASSOCIATIONlocal history, document, letter

ALBUM OF PHOTOGRAPHS OF EVENTS ATTENDED BY MEMBERS OF THE FORMER COUNTRY WOMENS ASSOCIATION IN CLUNESlocal history, photography, photographs, clunes cwa

PHOTOGRAPH WAS DONATED BY EILEEN MAXWELL, A GRAND-DAUGHTER OF LAURA HUDSON; FROM THE MCHUTCHISON HOUSE IN BATH STREET, CLUNES.PHOTOGRAPH OF A LARGE GROUP OF MEN, WOMEN AND CHILDREN ATTENDING A CLUNES CLUB GATHERINGON BACK - DONATED BY EILEEN MAXWELL 5.9.93 GRANDDAUGHTER OF LAURA HUDSON FROM THE MCCUTCHISON HOUSE BATH STphotographs, events and celebrations, clunes club gathering