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Glenelg Shire Council Cultural CollectionPrint - Linocut Admella Rescue Series No. 15, There was much celebration when the survivors were taken off the 'Lady Bird', 2009
Part of suite of 16 Linocuts created for an exhibition at the Portland Arts centre for the Admella 150th Festival.Linocut. Fifteenth in a suit of 16 in the Admella Rescue Series. Printed in black on white archival paper. Depicts band playing in street, by standers each side.Front: 'Linocut Bob Stone 2009 There was much celebration when the survivors were taken off the 'Lady Bird' - Hand written, black pen.admella, shipwreck, portland lifeboat -
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Print - Linocut - Admella Rescue Series No. 14, Bob Stone, on arrival at Lady Bird some 3 or 4 were in the last stage of existence 'Portland Guardian 15th August 1859', 2009
Part of suite of 16 Linocuts created for an exhibition at the Portland Arts centre for the Admella 150th Festival.Linocut. Fourteenth in a suite of 16 in Admella Rescue Series. Printed in black on white archival paper Depicts a man with a rope around his chest and under his arm pits, being hauled up the side of the 'Lady Bird'. Two members of the Portland life boat also visible, watching procedure from lifeboat.Front: 'Linocut Bob Stone 2009 ... on arrival at Lady Bird some 3 or 4 were in the last stage of existance. Portland Guardian 15th August 1859' - hand written in black ink.admella, portland lifeboat, shipwreck -
Glenelg Shire Council Cultural Collection
Print - Linocut - Admella Rescue Series No. 8, During the night the Portland lifeboat was launched, 2009
Part of suite of 16 Linocuts created for an exhibition at the Portland Arts centre for the Admella 150th Festival.Linocut print. Eighth in a suit of 16, of the Admella Resue Series. Depicts a man with a lantern, standing in the bow of the Portland Lifeboat, as it is being launched by several men with ropes. Printed in black on white archival paper.Front: Front - Linocut, Bob Stone 2009 'During the night the Portland lifeboat was launched.' - hand written, black penadmella, portland lifeboat, 150th anniversary, linocut -
Glenelg Shire Council Cultural Collection
Print - Linocut - Admella Rescue Series No 2, Bob Stone, Poor George Fisher was one of the first swept away.... SA Advertiser 20th August 1859, 2009
Part of suite of 16 Linocuts created for an exhibition at the Portland Arts centre for the Admella 150th Festival.Linocut print. Second print in suite of 16 in the 'Admella Rescue Series. Depicts a hand rising from the sea. Printed in black on white Archival paper.Front: Front - 'Linocut Bob Stone 2009 - Hand written, black pen. 'Poor George Fisher was one of the first swept away.... SA Advertiser 20th August 1859' -
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Print - Linocut - Admella Rescue Series No. 11, Our telegrams were passed from hand to hand being read aloud.' SA Advertiser 9th August 1859.', 2009
Part of suite of 16 Linocuts created for an exhibition at the Portland Arts centre for the Admella 150th Festival.Linocut. Eleventh in a suite of 16 in the Admella Rescue series. Printed in black on white archival paper. Depicts man reading telegram to group of men and women.Front: 'Linocut, Bob Stone Our telegrams were passed from hand to hand being read aloud.' SA Advertiser 9th August 1859.' - hand written, black penadmella, portland lifeboat, shipwreck -
Glenelg Shire Council Cultural Collection
Print - Linocut - Admella REscue Series No. 9, Bob Stone, 'She (The Portland Lifeboat) rode most splendidly over the high waves' Portland Guardian 2nd September 1859, n.d
Part of suite of 16 Linocuts created for an exhibition at the Portland Arts centre for the Admella 150th Festival.Linocut print. Ninth in a suite of 16, in the Admella Rescue Series. Depicts Crew rowing the Portland lifeboat through rough seas. Printed in black on white archival paper.Front: Front - Linocut, Bob Stone 2009 'She (The Portland Lifeboat) rode most splendidly over the high waves' Portland Guardian 2nd September 1859 - hand written, black pen.admella, portland lifeboat, shipwreck -
Glenelg Shire Council Cultural Collection
Painting - Watercolour, Coast North of Portland, n.d
Watercolour, view of coastline north of Portland; off-white mount, matte black wooden frame, reflective glass, silver hanging wire on backFront: 'COAST NORTH OF PORTLAND' - hand written, black ink, bottom left hand corner 'K. Jack' (signature) bottom right hand corner Back: Black stamp 'KWD Jack P/L P.O. BOX 1, Doreen, Vic, 3754kenneth jack -
Glenelg Shire Council Cultural Collection
Artwork, other - Drawing, Kenneth Jack, Lagoon Near Bridgewater, 28/01/1948
Drawing, pencil, multi-coloured, off-white mount, black frame, reflective glass, hanging wire across width of frame on back.Front: 'Lagoon near Bridgewater' - hand written, black ink Lower Left Hand corner 'K Jack, 28.1.48, hand written, black ink, lower Right Hand corner -
Glenelg Shire Council Cultural Collection
Financial record - Passbook - State Savings Bank of Victoria, Portland Free Library, 1921-1922
Front: 'Portland Free Library' hand written, black ink, purple stamp 'Cancelled carried forward to new passbook' 2 purple stamps 'PFL & LI' Back: 2 'cancelled ' stamps, 1 PFL&LI stampportland free library, savings, administration, glenelg shire council archives -
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Painting - Watercolour Painting, Kenneth Jack, Portland From Battery Point, n.d
Watercolour, view of Portland from Battery Point, white mount, matt black wooden frame, rflective glass, gold metal hanging wire on backFront: 'Portland from Battery Point' - hand written, in black ink, bottom left hand corner of painting. 'K. Jack (signature) 18.1.48' - hand written in black ink, bottom right hand corner of painting Back: Black stamp centre. 'KWD Jack P/L P.O. BOX 1, Doreen, Vic, 3754 No '27' in pencil bottom left hand corner -
Glenelg Shire Council Cultural Collection
Book, The Bible, n.d
The Bible - written in Gaelic -
Glenelg Shire Council Cultural Collection
Book, Virgil et al, Bell's Illustrated Classics: Aeneid and Caesar De Bello Gallico, 1903
Light green cloth-covered board covers and spine. Black text on front cover and spine. Free Library label on inside front cover. Bell's Illustrated Classics: Vergil's Aeneid Book 2 and Caesar De Bello Gallico Book 2poetry, history, ancient rome, caesar, virgil -
Glenelg Shire Council Cultural Collection
Book, Rose Hartwick Thorpe, Curfew Must Not Ring Tonight, 1867
The story involves Bessie, a young woman whose lover, Basil Underwood, has been arrested, thrown in prison by the Puritans and sentenced to die that night when the curfew bell rings. Knowing that Oliver Cromwell will be late in arriving, the young woman begs the old sexton to prevent the ringing of the curfew bell. When he refuses, she climbs to the top of the bell tower and heroically risks her life by manually stopping the bell from ringing. Cromwell hears of her deed and is so moved that he issues a pardon for Underwood.Illustrated book with carboard cover. Front cover has a central colour illustration of a church, a bell and a fir tree bough. 28 pp. Gilt edges to pages.The story involves Bessie, a young woman whose lover, Basil Underwood, has been arrested, thrown in prison by the Puritans and sentenced to die that night when the curfew bell rings. Knowing that Oliver Cromwell will be late in arriving, the young woman begs the old sexton to prevent the ringing of the curfew bell. When he refuses, she climbs to the top of the bell tower and heroically risks her life by manually stopping the bell from ringing. Cromwell hears of her deed and is so moved that he issues a pardon for Underwood.poem, narrative, puritans, civil war -
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Book, WARD LOCK AND CO LIMITED LONDON, The Holy bible, 1905
The Canterbury Emerald Teacher's Bible. Bound in black leather. Contains a section of black and white and coloured photos and maps of Biblical sites. 'Holy Bible ' in gold print on spinereligious text, religion, bible, teacher -
Glenelg Shire Council Cultural Collection
Book, Hugh Ruttledge, Everest 1933, 1934
Grey cloth bound spine and covers. Gold text on spine. Portland FLM&LI label on outside (damaged) and inside front cover.exploration, mountaineering, everest, 1933, hugh ruttledge -
Glenelg Shire Council Cultural Collection
Book - Book - War Correspondent, c. 1964
Book, hardcover, dark green, gold print on spine, written from typescripts, recordings and dispatches made by author while he served as an ABC war correspondent. Contains black and white photos -
Glenelg Shire Council Cultural Collection
Book - Book - Bible - The comprehensive Teacher's Bible Containing the Old and the New Testaments, London : S. Bagster & Sons LimitedNew York : James Pott & Co, n.d
Leather bound Bible, Gold lettering on spine. Hand written label inside presented to Henry Phillips of Portland in 1896, for 41 years service to teaching Sunday School at Portland Wesleyan Sunday School. Gilding on edges of pages. Pages stitched together. -
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Document - The Experiences and Bound Document - Impressions of a Chairman, Keith S Anderson, The Experiences and Impressions of a Chairman, 1969
Presented and bound document -The Experiences and Impressions of a Chairman ' by K.S. Anderson 1950 -1961. Printed single sided, written by Keith Anderson in 1969 -
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Administrative record - Administrative record - Essay 'A Major Structural Rural Change To The Economy of Western Victoria', c. 1960
Handwritten 10 page essay, by an unknown author. Written in fountain pen on lined foolscap paper. Writing on one side of paper only. -
Glenelg Shire Council Cultural CollectionEphemera - Ephemera - With compliments card, n.d
Records Department Glenelg Shire CouncilWith compliments ephemera Henty plough and painting, signed by A.C. Pearse, (donor of plough). Made from light card, there is a picture of the Henty plough in the top right hand corner of ephemera. Main picture below has two men, one holding the plough being pulled by cows, and the other holding a shepherds crook.Hand written copied message in black writing 'Souvenir of the old Henty Plow. This Old Plow was brought out from Scotland by Edward Henty and turned the first sod of Victorian soil at Portland in the year 1834. With the Compliments of HUDSONS STORES PTY. LTD. 655 BOURKE STREET, MELBOURNE'. Blue ink signature located at the lower middle part 'A.C. Pearse'. The word 'Director' hand written in black next to the signature.henty plough -
Glenelg Shire Council Cultural CollectionBook - Book - Bible owned by Neil McLean, 1851
Black leather-bound bible. Simple embossed line border on covers and 7 lines on spine. "HOLY BIBLE" on spine in gold, with gold edging on pages. Decorative gold embossed vine-leaf pattern on inside of covers at edges. -
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Book, Standard Ready Reckoner, 1920
Standard Ready Reckoner. Hard cover book red with black printing. Spine missing, sticky tape in place of. Inscription on fly leaf 'K.B. Campbell 1929'. Letters and numbers written on back fly leaf.accounting, ready reckoner, standard units and measure, measurement -
Glenelg Shire Council Cultural Collection
Magazine, The Youth's Magazine, 1834, n.d
Book ' The Youth's Magazine or evangelical Miscellany for the year 1834, Vol VII, third series'. Hard cover, brown, brown leather spine, gold print, contains black and white imagesmagazine, 1834, 1800s -
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Book, George L. Chalk and Charles MacFarlane and other contributors, The Pictorial History of England, Vol. VI, 1785-1791, 1846
Light brown coloured leather-bound spine and cover corners. Paper-covered board covers with greens red and ochre marbling. Gold lettering and gold graphics on spine. -
Glenelg Shire Council Cultural Collection
Newspaper - Newspaper - Portland's 150th Anniversary, c. 1984
4 page stand-alone newspaper advertising Portland's 150th anniversary -
Glenelg Shire Council Cultural Collection
Administrative record - Ledger book -Chemist, Book - Ledger, Chemist, 1904-1906
Suttons Chemist, "Martell" Building, 79 Bentinck Street, Portland.Front: Hand written on cover, 15 April 04 - 16 January 06 On spine 04/06 -
Glenelg Shire Council Cultural CollectionArtwork, other - Illustration, Richmond Hotel, n.d
Illustration. Taken and cut from a book. A page of text including three illustrations. The largest is a view of front of Richmond Hotel and gardens. Woman in a wicker chair with small girl. The woman is holding a parasol and the girl is wearing a hat. To the top right of main image is an image of a weatherboard building with two men outside. Underneath is written - First House Built in Victoria. To the bottom right of main image is an image showing a weatherboard building. Underneath is written - First Hotel in Victoria. Front: 'RICHMOND HOTEL The First Built Residence in Portland' - printed, beneath illustration -
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Painting - Watercolour, Beyond Cape Grant, n.d
Small watercolour, unframed, mounted on the front of a cream coloured card. Inside the card is a watercolour sketch. "Beyond Cape Grant'' Rita M. McLean (pencil). Inscription in aqua pen 'With Happy Memories of a Portland holiday from Rita M McLean to a friend I made'Front: 'Beyond Cape Grant' - hand written in pencil beneath painting -
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Photograph - Studio Portrait - K.S. Anderson, Bardwell Clarke Studios, Hay st. Perth, W.A, Apr-29
Mounted black and white studio portrait of K.S. Anderson. Head and shoulders view. 'Flight-Lieut. Keith Anderson April, 1929', written in ink across bottom of photo'. -
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Artwork, other - Wooden Carving, The Polly Woodside, 1974
The Polly Woodside was built in Belfast in 1885, the three-masted cargo vessel carried coal and wheat between England and South America.Wooden wall plaque - a carving of the 'Polly Woodside. It is stained, gold with brown tones. In a frame which is painted gold, 3 strips of timber screwed to back of plaque, top bottom and centre. Two eyelets and string for hanging.Back: 'The Polly Woodside carved by W.L. Dusting 1974' - hand written, black birocarving, artwork, polly woodside
