John Gartner was a fine printer and publisher, an author, a noted philatelist, and also collector of Australian banknotes and coins. He was born on 16 July 1914 and was largely self-educated, leaving school at fourteen for work following the death of his father. Gartner developed a strong interest in the history of typography and printing and was apprenticed at the Advocate where his father had been a linotype operator. Aged 17, Gartner bought a hand press and some fonts of type, and in 1937 acquired a platen press from which he set and printed his private press books, published under the imprint of The Hawthorn Press. Gartner had a strong collection of Australian bookplates. He also looked at the work of artists overseas and commissioned personal plates. He subsequently built an international collection with preference for artists who printed from wood. His initial searches were in Belgium and Holland.(http://www3.slv.vic.gov.au/latrobejournal/issue/latrobe-84/t1-g-t7.html) View of a tropical island with tall palms on the beach and low hills in the background beneath a blue skySignature with the number 15bookplate, australian bookplate design award, keith wingrove memorial trust, printmaking

Interview used in contribution to the book "They can Carry me Out"Laura McGill discussing growing up in Port Melbourne, local dances, beach, piers and moreDuration side 01:10:44domestic life, social activities, laura irving mcgill

Bathing boxes view from waterBlack and white Photograph of a group of people in a dingy in South Beach showing Bathing boxes to the rightBathing Port Fairy Return Port Fairy Gazette - Borough of Port Fairy Town Clerk 194beach, bathing boxes, south beach, sea, dingy, people, group, ocean

Black and white photo, white border. View of Henty Beach Portland, looking north to water tower, Whaler's Bluff, spire of the All Saints Catholic Church. Cars on beach in foreground, numerous people on sand / in water, Railway Pier and Baths visiblephotography, henty beach, portland, whalers bluff

Part of Ron Laing's collection of photographs recording Port Melbourne over a thirteen year period. Donated to the PMH&PS by the photographer.A set of 22 colour photographs on flight, including Whitman's air ship, aircraft over Avalon Air Show, helicopters - both flying advertising flags and on the ground at the beach, and several hot air balloons and their near misses at the beach in Port Melbourne, 1990stransport - aviation and aerodrome, celebrations fetes and exhibitions, ron laing

Port of Portland Authority ArchivesBack: 'Henty Beach area 'slip' and infill August 89' - black biroport of portland archives

Front page - "D-Day 1944 Fifty Years Since the Fighting on the Beaches"literature, ballarat rsl, ballarat

Traffic census 6th March 1947 showing intersections at Ingles Street and Williamstown Road (no 84), Lorimer Street and Salmon Street )no 90) Beach Street and Bay Street (no 113) Williamstown Road and Beach Road (no 112), Railway Crossing Graham Street (no 77)engineering - roads streets lanes and footpaths