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Department of Energy, Environment and Climate Action
Fuel sampling ring
Used to sample fine fuels on the forest floor. The ring was pushed into the litter to sample 0.1m2Heavy metal ring with sharpened bottom edgeforests commission victoria (fcv), bushfire, forest measurement -
Lakes Entrance Historical Society
Photograph, Frank Price, Ninety Mile Beach Caravan Park Lake Tyers Beach Victoria, 1983 c
Building moved from Esplanade Lakes Entrance 1970 c. Floor plan in binderColour photograph of family residence of Frank and Wendy Price of Ninety Mile Beach Caravan Park Lake Tyers Beach Victoriaboats and boating, tourism, caravan parks -
Linton Mechanics Institute and Free Library Collection
Book - Novel, Elston, Allan V, The Marked Men by Allan V. Elston, 1957
One side called it a righteous crusade, the other side a murdering invasion.Hardcover book, 158 pages. Front cover of book has a colour image of a man holding a revolver in each hand, face covered. Man on horseback in background.fictionOne side called it a righteous crusade, the other side a murdering invasion.allan v. elston, westerns, fiction -
Kew Historical Society Inc
Clothing - Gold Silk Taffeta Wedding Dress with Silk Braid & Tassles, 1875-1880
Joseph Butterworth COOMBS (1842-1901), was an accountant who founded a successful mercantile trading company. At the time of his marriage to Caroline Mary MICHEL in 1869, Coombs had already purchased ten acres of Studley Park. The acreage included land on the west of Fenwick Street that extended along lower Stawell Street to the corner of Yarra Street, all of it connected directly to the Yarra environs. A right of way to Studley Park Road was on the title, though Coombs went on to purchase more land, some of which faced Studley Park Road. In addition to owning the Studley Park acreage, Coombs later acquired 1,201 acres of land abutting the Acheron River. While retaining the Kew property he became a Taggerty Councillor and was Shire President for a time. J.B. Coombs died at Acheron Station in 1901 (aged 59 years). A few months after, tenders were called to repair the Kew dwelling, the Fenwick Street property now appearing in records with the name ‘Hope Mansell’. Caroline Coombs remained at Hope Mansell until she died in 1924, survived by three sons and five daughters. Not long after her death, advertisements appeared for the sale of the Studley Park land. The sale seems to have been a mechanism for distribution of the Estate, as the following year the original ten acre holding was transferred to members of the family. The eldest daughter Mabel married William Younger who, with his brother Alexander, developed Younger and Mackie Courts, both south of Studley Park Road. [Research: Kerry Fairbank]In 1961, the granddaughter of Joseph and Caroline Coombs, Mabel Isola (Younger) Grattan, donated ten 19th century dresses and parasols to the Kew Historical Society. The costumes, now known as the 'Coombs Collection', are the earliest recorded items of clothing to enter the Society's collection. Each of the items in the Coombs Collection, of which this item forms a part, is historically, aesthetically and socially significant. As a collection, the costumes includes outstanding examples of morning wear, day dresses, wedding dresses, and clothing accessories, providing evidence of outstanding dressmaker skills in Victoria during the mid to late Victorian period. Single-piece, floor length, gold silk taffeta evening dress featuring the use of a very long fishtail train to which is attached a silk cord to allow the wearer to hold it above the floor. The dress includes a number of decorative features including the extensive use of box pleats on the sleeves and on the hem of the skirt; contrasting gold and cream braiding and tassles; and the extensive use of ruching on the bodice at the front. Due to the age and fine quality of the silk taffeta used, there is evidence of the degradation of the fabric on one shoulder and a tear in the rear of the skirt. Otherwise the dress is in excellent condition.fashion - 1870s, australian fashion, wedding dresses, costumes, women's clothing, coombs collection -
Bendigo Historical Society Inc.
Plan - SANDHURST BOYS CENTRE COLLECTION: SANDHURST TRAINING CENTRE BUILDING PLANS, 21/08/1969
Sandhurst Training Centre residential unit ground floor plan and elevations; prepared by Public Works Department for the Government of Victoria. 21/8/1969. Includes floor plan for residential units nos 1,4,5 comprising 12 bedrooms, 2 toilet blocks, living hall, crafts and tea room, laundry. The plan for units 2,3,6 is a mirror image. Also included are elevations for north, south, east and west views. Drawn Aug 1968 Senior Designing Architect John F Swan, Chief Architect D C Bradbury. .bendigo, institutions, sandhurst boys centre, sandhurst boys centre plans;, john f swan, d c bradbury -
Flagstaff Hill Maritime Museum and Village
Tool - Mortice Machine, Mathieson and Son, 1910-1940
In 1792 John Manners had set up a workshop making woodworking planes at 14 Saracens Lane Glasgow. He also had employed an apprentice Alexander Mathieson (1773-1851). But in the following year at Saracen's Lane, the 1841 census describes Alexander Mathieson as a master plane-maker now at 38 Saracen Lane with his son Thomas Adam working with him as a journeyman plane-maker. Presumably, Alexander must have taken over the premises and business of John Manners. Now that the business had Thomas Adam Mathieson working with his father it gradually grew and became more diversified, and it is recorded at the time by the Post-Office Glasgow Annual Directory that by 1847-1848 Alexander Mathieson was a “plane, brace, bit, auger & edge tool maker” In 1849 the firm of James & William Stewart at 65 Nicolson Street, Edinburgh was taken over and Thomas was put in charge of the business, trading under the name Thomas A. Mathieson & Co. as plane and edge-tool makers. Thomas's company went on to acquire the Edinburgh edge-tool makers “Charles & Hugh McPherson” and took over their premises in Gilmore Street. In the Edinburgh directory of 1856/7, the business is recorded as being Alexander Mathieson & Son, plane and edge-tool makers at 48 Nicolson Street and Paul's Work, Gilmore Street Edinburgh. In the 1851 census, Alexander is recorded as working as a tool and plane-maker employing eight men. Later that year Alexander died and his son Thomas took over the business. Under the heading of an edge-tool maker in the 1852/3 Post-Office Glasgow Annual Directory the firm is now listed as Alexander Mathieson & Son, with further entries as "turning-lathe and vice manufacturers". By the early 1850s, the business had moved to 24 Saracen Lane. The directory for 1857/8 records that the firm had moved again only a few years later to East Campbell Street, off the Gallowgate area, and that through further diversification was also manufacturing coopers' and tinmen's tools. The ten-yearly censuses report the firm's growth in 1861 stating that Thomas was a tool manufacturer employing 95 men and 30 boys; in 1871 he had 200 men working for him and in 1881 300 men. By 1899 the firm had been incorporated as Alexander Mathieson & Sons Ltd, even though only Alexander's son Thomas appears ever to have joined the firm so the company was still in his fathers' name. In September 1868 Thomas Mathieson put a notice in the newspapers of the Sheffield & Rotherham Independent and the Sheffield Daily Telegraph stating that his firm had used the trade-mark of a crescent and star "for some time" and that "using or imitating the Mark would be proceeded against for infringement". The firm had acquired its interest in the crescent-and-star mark from the heirs of Charles Pickslay, the Sheffield cutler who had registered it with the Cutlers' Company in 1833 and had died in 1852. The year 1868 seems also to be the one in which the name Saracen Tool Works was first adopted; not only does it figure at the foot of the notice in the Sheffield press, it also makes its first appearance in the firm's entry in the Post-Office Glasgow Annual Directory in the 1868/9 edition. As Thomas Mathieson's business grew, so too did his involvement in local public life and philanthropy. One of the representatives of the third ward on the town council of Glasgow, he became a river bailie in 1868, a magistrate in 1870, and a preceptor of Hutcheson's Hospital in 1878. He had a passion for books and was an "ardent Ruskinian". He served on the committee handling the bequest for the setting up of the Mitchell Library in Glasgow. When he died at Coulter Maynes near Biggar in 1899, he left an estate worth £142,764. Company's later years: Both Thomas's sons, James Harper and Thomas Ogilvie were involved in the continuing life of the firm. James followed in his father's footsteps in becoming a local public figure. He was appointed Deputy Lieutenant of the County of the City of Glasgow and was made a deacon of the Incorporation of the Hammermen of Glasgow in 1919. His brother Thomas Ogilvie was recorded as a tool manufacturer and employer in the 1911 census. Thomas Ogilvie's son Thomas Alastair Sutherland Ogilvie Mathieson was born in 1908 took a rather different approach to engineering, however, by becoming a racing driver. In 1947 he wed the French film actress Mila Parély. The firm had won many awards at world fairs for their goods. At the Great Exhibition, London, 1851. Prize medal for joiners' tools in the class of Cutlery & Edge Tools, Great London Exposition, 1862. Prize medal honoris causa. International Exhibition, Melbourne, 1880. Gold medal International Exhibition of Industry, Science and Art, Edinburgh, 1886 Prize medal. See note section for Thomas McPherson Australian Retailer information: The firm of Alexander Mathieson & Sons was one of the leading makers of hand tools and later woodworking machines in Scotland. Its success went hand in hand with the growth of the shipbuilding industries on the Firth of Clyde in the nineteenth century and the emergence of Glasgow regarded as the "second city of the Empire". It also reflected the firm's skill in responding to an unprecedented demand for quality tools by shipyards, cooperages, and other industries, both locally and throughout the world. McPherson's started as an Australian retailer of hardware products in Melbourne going on to become a company that supplied machinery and other items for the establishment of major infrastructure projects in Australia during the early days of the colony that assisted in linking the various states and territories which became a precursor of Federation. From a humble beginning McPherson's became one of Australia's leading retail, and later manufacturing businesses that is still in existence today.Mortice machine metal with long metal lever handle with counter weight & 3 adjustment wheels & metal crank with wood end. Has 4 feet that can be bolted to floor & vertical moving piece that a cutting bit would fit into.Imprinted Alex Mathieson & Son Trademark Saracen Tool works Glasgow' also a brass plate "Thomas McPherson & Son Machinery Importer Melbourne"flagstaff hill, warrnambool, shipwrecked-coast, flagstaff-hill, flagstaff-hill-maritime-museum, maritime-museum, shipwreck-coast, flagstaff-hill-maritime-village -
Bendigo Military Museum
Book, Louise Ryan, Turnour Family of Cohuna, September 2009
Their experience of World War One Transcribed and researched by Louise Ryan Loose lead book boumd with coil binding white cover page with centred photo of two men and a woman sitting on floor reading newspaper "The bulletin." 88 PP" Donated by Louise Ryan." written inside front cover pagebooks, military history -
Glenelg Shire Council Cultural Collection
Photograph - Photograph - Cape Grant Quarry, 09/01/1959
Port of Portland Authority ArchivesBack: Purple PHT stamp. '9 JAN 1959'port of portland archives, cape grant quarry -
Federation University Historical Collection
Photograph - Photograph - Black and White, The City of Ballarat Band, 1923, 1923
Frank Wright was a renown resident of Smeaton, where he was born on 2 August 1901. He lived at Laura Villa, and attended Smeaton State School. His father William was a gold miner and his mother's name was Sarah. Their family won many singing and instrumental awards. Frank was tutored by Percy Code and was awarded a gold medal for the highest marks in the ALCM examinations in the British Colonies at the age of seventeen years. He became the Australian Open Cornet Champion by the age of eighteen. A year later, Frank conducted the City of Ballarat Band, and later the Ballarat Soldiers’ Memorial Band. He formed the Frank Wright Frisco Band and Frank Wright and his Coliseum Orchestra. These bands won many South Street awards, and Frank as conductor won many awards in the Australian Band Championship contest. In 1933 Frank Wright sailed to England to conduct the famous St Hilda’s Band and was later appointed Musical Director of the London County Council, where he organized many amazing concerts in parks, in and around the London district. He was made Professor of Brass and Military Band Scoring and conducted at the Guildhall of Music and Drama. Frank was often invited to adjudicate Brass Band Championships around Europe, in Australia, including South Street and in New Zealand. The Frank Wright Medal at the Royal South Street competition is awarded to an individual recognized as making an outstanding contribution to brass music in Australia.A Black and White Photograph of a Brass Band with instruments. Included in the photograph are four gentlemen and a young boy sitting on the floor. It appears they are in a Concert Hall. The band is the City of Ballarat Band and Frank Wright can been seen in the centre front row.Brisbane 1923frank wright, conductor, brass band, city of ballarat band -
Port Melbourne Historical & Preservation Society
Photograph - West and rear wall balcony, first floor, Administration Building, J Kitchen & Sons, Port Melbourne, Lionel Layfield, 2014 - 2015
Photographs taken by ex-employee of Kitchen's, Lionel Hayfield (refer catalogue numbers 3411 and 3412) just before the building sold to "The Block" - a Channel 9 TV program. See also cat nos 3846, 3847 and 3848First floor series of colour photographs taken inside and from the J Kitchen & Sons Administration Building, Ingles St, Port Melbourne. Details where possible are on the back of the photographs. .12 -.16 West and rear wall balcony and windowsindustry - manufacturing, built environment - commercial, built environment - industrial, demolitions, j kitchen & sons pty ltd -
Northern District School of Nursing. Managed by Bendigo Historical Society Inc.
Photograph - School 81 - Group 1 - 5th February 1973
School 81 - Group 1 - 5th February 1973 - 31 NursesBlack and White photo - 3 rows of nurses - 2 top rows standing and front row seated. 1 male seated in the middle of the seated row. Dark curtained background and dark tiled floor at front - 31 nurses in totalnursing history, nursing training -
Queen Victoria Women's Centre
Photograph, August 1996
Colour photograph. Ground floor facin north west in what was to be the cafe. Entrances into the tower connected to access corridors to former hospital towers. New structure for cafe roof seen with black tarp on top. Taken during restoration inspection.building construction, historic buildings -
Queen Victoria Women's Centre
Photograph, c.1995
Colour photograph. Possibly in the ground floor corridor during restoration works. Three women facing the camera in white hard hats. Left to right: Architect Yvonne von Hartel, Chair Janet England, Minister for the Arts Lorraine Elliot. parliamentary representatives, historic buildings, building construction, architects -
Queen Victoria Women's Centre
Photograph, December 1997
Colour photograph. Shilling Fund Christmas function. Two women stand beside Christmas tree adorned with dollar notes in Northern foyer on ground floor. Left to right: General Manager Glenys Sharma and Trust Chair Janet England. official events, fundraising events, historic buildings -
Canterbury History Group
Ephemera - 5 Monomeath Avenue Canterbury, [2004]
Real estate advertisement for the sale by auction of "Langley" 5 Monomeath Avenue Canterbury c1936 on Saturday 15 May {2004].Includes coloured photographs of the interior and exterior of the house and floor and site plans. Includes a covering letter from the agents.canterbury, monomeath avenue, langley, mcilwraith family, golden mile, stairs, swimming pools, tennis courts -
Canterbury History Group
Ephemera - Realisation auction 200a Canterbury Road Canterbury, 1/05/2003 12:00:00 AM
Two copies of the real estate advertisement for the auction of 200a Canterbury Road, Canterbury on Wednesday 7 May 2003.Incudes a coloured photograph of the exterior of the shop and floor plan. Both have notes on the back by Robin Kelly of the result of the auction.canterbury, canterbury road, canterbury railway station, fish shops, shops -
Old Gippstown
Building - Livery Stable
Used by general carriers in Warragul from the late 1880sA large, two-storey stables of timber with a corrugated iron roof. Internally there are four horse stalls on the ground floor and a loft above. The loft is accessed via steep internal stairs and a trapdoor, with an outside door and hoist point. Build in the 1880s warragul, general carriers, stables, old gippstown, west gippsland, gippsland, gippsland heritage park, goldfields, coal mine, victorian era, moe, historical village, baw baw shire, transport, latrobe valley, old gippstown heritage park, latrobe city council -
Lakes Entrance Historical Society
Photograph - Harbeck's Store, 1964c
Store was opened 1890c by Peter Harbeck, ancestor of the people standing at the front of the store. Photo taken after sale of the store in 1960's. In the photo are Mrs Northrope (Cross), Charlie Hancock, Tommy Harbeck, Eva Harbeck. Black and white photograph of Harbecks Store, Esplanade, showing old style general store. Built of weatherboard, with iron roof. Situated on the corner of Carpenter Street, a veranda with wooden floor shelters front and side of store. Lakes Entrance Victoriatownship, retail trade -
Canterbury History Group
Ephemera - A charming period house in a prime position, 1998
Real estate advertisement for the auction on 15 August 1998 of 44 Balwyn Road Canterbury. Includes coloured photographs of the interior and exterior of the house and floor and site plans. Includes note by Robin Kelly of purchase price $450, 000 approx.canterbury, balwyn road, californian bungalows -
Melbourne Tram Museum
Photograph - Set of two Colour Prints, Melbourne & Metropolitan Tramways Board (MMTB), 1974
Series of 2 colour print of training classes at the Hawthorn depot. .1 - class in a room, possibly on the first floor. .2 - group of 8 men on a stairway with a lady standing alongside. Prints were in an envelope marked "Hawthorn School '74"trams, tramways, hawthorn tram depot, training, personnel -
National Wool Museum
Sheet, Instruction
Instruction sheet for mill floor operator, Table XIII Scouring Machine Auxiliary Details - continued.Other side of sheet.textile mills, collins bros mill pty ltd -
Stawell Historical Society Inc
Photograph, Mr Jens Kofoed’s home in Armstrong
Jens Kofoed’s Home Armstrong Balcony on first floor with wire fence and white gate in frontstawell ararat house -
Heidelberg Golf Club
Photograph, Heidelberg Golf Club: Clubhouse renovations 1997-98 - Eaglemont Room floor, 1997
Heidelberg Golf Club: Clubhouse renovations 1997-98 - The new Eaglemont Room gets a floorColour photographs x 2 and caption, in albumclubhouse redevelopment 1998, hgc clubhouse 1997, eaglemont room -
Heidelberg Golf Club
Photograph, Heidelberg Golf Club: Clubhouse renovations 1997-98 - Eaglemont Room, 1997
Heidelberg Golf Club: Clubhouse renovations 1997-98 - Preparation of the floor in the new Eaglemont Room Colour photograph and caption, in albumclubhouse redevelopment 1998, hgc clubhouse 1997, eaglemont room -
Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Obstetricians & Gynaecologists (RANZCOG)
Photograph - Reproduction photograph, Charles Nettleton (1826-1902), The Lying In Hospital, circa 1870, c. 1868
This a cropped reproduction of a photograph taken by Charles Nettleton in c. 1868. Founded in 1856, the Lying-in Hospital was the second hospital to be established in Melbourne, after the Melbourne Hospital. It was, however, the first lying-in hospital in the Australasian colonies. The hospital was founded in a converted private house "Fairmont", which was located at 41 Albert Street, Eastern Hill (now East Melbourne). In 1858, the 'Lying-in Hospital' was relocated and opened in Madeline St, North Melbourne (now known as Swanston St, Carlton)." (The Women's) The building pictured here was eventually demolished in 1938 to make way for further extensions to the building. The original site in Albert Street was demolished in 1960, and the site is now occupied by the Melbourne Fire Brigade. A section of the wrought iron gates from the original site in Albert Street is held in RANZCOG's historical collection.Reproduction photograph of the front of a building. The building is three stories high. The lowest floor has eight large windows, with a door at centre, on the front side. One side window can also be seen at bottom right. There is a small flight of stairs leading up to the door. The second floor has eight windows in the same locations as the first floor, plus one additional window at centre instead of a door. The top floor is much smaller, with three small windows facing the front of the building. There are trees in the grounds in from of the building. House and grounds are enclosed behind a fence. There is a gate in the fence opposite the front door. Three figures are visible on the path outside the fence. One is at the centre of the image, and the other two are in the right hand corner. Text printed below image reads 'THE LYING - IN HOSPITAL circa 1870'. The image has been mounted and framed in a black wooden frame. An old display label for this image is attached to the back of the frame. handwritten text on backing board at back of work reads 'Probably prior to 1867 (J. Nattrass, 1968). Tape residue visible on backing board at upper right. A chain and two hooks have been added to the frame for hanging. -
Glen Eira City Council History and Heritage Collection
Newspaper, The Sun News Pictorial, 18 August 1930, 1930
This newspaper was found under the floor during works on Town Hall in Caulfield. It was published in the same year (1930) that the portico was added to the Town Hall. The newspaper publication month coincides with the commencement of works in August 1930. It is possible that this object was deliberately placed underneath the floor at the time. The Sun News Pictorial was established in 1922 and published Monday to Saturday.Copy of The Sun News Pictorial, 18 August 1930. Pages are numbered to 36, but only 24 pages intact. Missing inserts. -
Ballarat Clarendon College
Framed photograph, c1907
Clarendon Ladies College class photograph with Sophie Bell top left and Chrissie Bell on floor at leftGray-scale photograph, neutral mount and carved varnished, natural wood frame -
City of Moorabbin Historical Society (Operating the Box Cottage Museum)
Building Equipment, floorboard clamps, 20thC
Builders used these clamps to lay and secure floor boards when building houses in the Moorabbin area in 20thCThese floor board clamps are typical of the type used by builders in the new housing estates of City of Moorabbin in the 20thC2 Long pieces of wood with space holes, in which steel wedge plates are inserted and large steel screws at the top of wood. -
Robin Boyd Foundation
Functional object - Rug
The Boyd's saw this type of floor covering at the Shelmerdine's house and liked it and purchased it. See also item F071.Cream wool with fringe."Woods Carpets Cleaning" 2 labels. Cleaned 11/9/96 and "1960".walsh st furnishings, robin boyd -
Robin Boyd Foundation
Functional object - Rug
The Boyd's saw this type of floor covering at the Shelmerdine's house and liked it and purchased it. See also item F064.Cream wool with fringe.Cleaning labelwalsh st furnishings, robin boyd