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Eltham District Historical Society Inc
Negative - Photograph, Jimmy Hayes planting vegetables the hard way, c.1920
Reproduced on p51 of 'Pioneers & Painters'This photo forms part of a collection of photographs gathered by the Shire of Eltham for their centenary project book,"Pioneers and Painters: 100 years of the Shire of Eltham" by Alan Marshall (1971). The collection of over 500 images is held in partnership between Eltham District Historical Society and Yarra Plenty Regional Library (Eltham Library) and is now formally known as the 'The Shire of Eltham Pioneers Photograph Collection.' It is significant in being the first community sourced collection representing the places and people of the Shire's first one hundred years.Digital image 4 x 5 inch B&W Neg B&W Print 20 x 25 cmsepp, shire of eltham pioneers photograph collection, kinglake, jimmy hayes, pioneers and painters -
Eltham District Historical Society Inc
Photograph, Queenstown State School, c.1905
Reproduced on p34 of 'Pioneers & Painters'This photo forms part of a collection of photographs gathered by the Shire of Eltham for their centenary project book,"Pioneers and Painters: 100 years of the Shire of Eltham" by Alan Marshall (1971). The collection of over 500 images is held in partnership between Eltham District Historical Society and Yarra Plenty Regional Library (Eltham Library) and is now formally known as the 'The Shire of Eltham Pioneers Photograph Collection.' It is significant in being the first community sourced collection representing the places and people of the Shire's first one hundred years.Digital image 4 x 5 inch B&W Neg Prints B&W 20 x 25 cm (2) and 9 x 12.5 cmsepp, shire of eltham pioneers photograph collection, queenstown, queenstown state school, pioneers and painters, school, st. andrews -
Eltham District Historical Society Inc
Photograph, James and Robert Ness, Garden Hill Farm, Kangaroo Ground
Reproduced on p49 of 'Pioneers & Painters'This photo forms part of a collection of photographs gathered by the Shire of Eltham for their centenary project book,"Pioneers and Painters: 100 years of the Shire of Eltham" by Alan Marshall (1971). The collection of over 500 images is held in partnership between Eltham District Historical Society and Yarra Plenty Regional Library (Eltham Library) and is now formally known as the 'The Shire of Eltham Pioneers Photograph Collection.' It is significant in being the first community sourced collection representing the places and people of the Shire's first one hundred years.Digital image B&W Print 20 x 25 cm B&W Prtint 12.5 x 17.5 cm sepp, shire of eltham pioneers photograph collection, kangaroo ground, garden hill farm, james ness, robert ness, pioneers and painters -
Eltham District Historical Society Inc
Negative - Photograph, Mr. Glower, Caretaker Cottage on Aitken's property
Reproduced on p42 of 'Pioneers & Painters'This photo forms part of a collection of photographs gathered by the Shire of Eltham for their centenary project book,"Pioneers and Painters: 100 years of the Shire of Eltham" by Alan Marshall (1971). The collection of over 500 images is held in partnership between Eltham District Historical Society and Yarra Plenty Regional Library (Eltham Library) and is now formally known as the 'The Shire of Eltham Pioneers Photograph Collection.' It is significant in being the first community sourced collection representing the places and people of the Shire's first one hundred years.Digital image 4 x 5 inch B&W Neg B&W Print 19 x 25 cmsepp, shire of eltham pioneers photograph collection, kinglake, aitken, caretaker cottage, glower, pioneers and painters -
Eltham District Historical Society Inc
Photograph, The Snake Run, Bulleen Skatepark, Swanston Street Reserve, 96 Swanston Street, Bulleen, c.1985, 1985c
One of the pioneering skateparks in Victoria.Roll of 35mm colour negative film, 2 stripsFuji 100bullen skatepark, skate park, snake run -
Eltham District Historical Society Inc
Photograph, The Snake Run, Bulleen Skatepark, Swanston Street Reserve, 96 Swanston Street, Bulleen, c.1985, 1985c
One of the pioneering skateparks in Victoria.Roll of 35mm colour negative film, 2 stripsFuji 100bullen skatepark, skate park, snake run -
St Kilda Historical Society
Photograph, Exhumation of Glen Huntly Pioneers, 27/08/1898
Exhumation of Glen Huntly Pioneers, black and white photograph fair conditionlifting 1st coffin -
City of Moorabbin Historical Society (Operating the Box Cottage Museum)
Book - Family History, Marriott, Ralph, The Marriott family in Australia, 1871-1986, 1986
The History and family tree of John Marriott and his wife Emma Kitchen and their descendants in Australia, 1871-1986371 p. : ill., facsims., geneal. tables, maps, plans, ports.: includes indexnon-fictionThe History and family tree of John Marriott and his wife Emma Kitchen and their descendants in Australia, 1871-1986marriott, family history, market gardening, moorabbin, bentleigh, pioneer -
Port Fairy Historical Society Museum and Archives
Photograph, Bostock, George
Early Settler George BostockEarly SettlerPortrait Black and white photograph of gentleman clean shaven with hair parted on right pioneer, settler, portrait, people, family, george bostock -
Port Fairy Historical Society Museum and Archives
Photograph, MacKnight, Charles
MacKnight, CharlesBlack and white photograph of profile of gentleman with dark hair and curly beard. he has his arms crossedpioneer, settler, portrait, people, family, charles macknight -
Port Fairy Historical Society Museum and Archives
Photograph, Mills, Charles
Mills, CharlesBlack and white portrait photograph of man with hair parted on left and a full outline beard wearing a wide collared jacket and a watch chain is visible on his chestpioneer, portrait, settler, people, family, sailor -
Bendigo Military Museum
Document - DOCUMENTS, DISCHARGE, MEDICAL, 1) 14.8.1919; .2) 8.11.1916
Herbert Edgar Hewston No 40 AIF, refer Cat No 2759.2 for his service records. Part of the HEWSTON collection WW1 & WW2..1) Certificate of discharge from the AIF form No 176469 re H.E HEWSTON No 40, 3rd Pioneer Battalion. Parchment paper double sided with details on name, rank, regimental No, enlistment, personal details. .2) Document, blue paper, re The Prevention of Trench Feet and Frostbite, 8 points.military history - service records, documents - medical, certificates, trench feet -
Federation University Historical Collection
Document, Ken Clements, Peterborough Puzzles, 2009, 2009
Massacre Bay is located on Victoria's Great Ocean Road, and is in the centre of the Bay of Martyrs. The bay consists of 20 m high, red limestone bluffs. This paper by Ken Clements considers the origin of the term martyr in connection to this location, and where the Aboriginal massacre may have taken place. Thirteen page document by Ken Clements relating to Peterborough, Victoria. Contents include coastal features, local Aborigines, Bay of Martyrs, Massacre Bay, Massacre Hill, Buckley Creek Run, Pioneer Pastoralists, British Traversers, settlers, Peterborough, Maps, tourism, history method. Photographs by Laurie Moore.aborigines, bay of martyrs, massacre bay, massacre hill, buckley creek run, pioneer pastoralists, british traversers, settlers, peterborough, maps, tourism, history method, childers cove, barque children, murnane bay, sandy bay, dog trap bay, buckley creek, viviennes lookeout, stanhope bay, buttres bay, burnies beach, armstrong creek, flaxman hill, antares rock, lovers nook, crofts bay, clements, worm bay, halladale point, the well, wold dog cove, james irvine monument, curdies inlet, squirrel creek, wallaby creek, boggy creek, whiskey creek, pioneer beach, schomberg rock, young australia, spit, crown of thorns, newfield bay, the grotto, london bridge, point hesse, high cliffs, the arch, cape martyr, little massacre bay, aboriginal massacre, ken clements -
Bendigo Historical Society Inc.
Newspaper - JENNY FOLEY COLLECTION: PIONEERS
Bendigo Advertiser ''The way we were'' from 2000. Pioneers: Charing Cross in 1861. Gold buyer Henry Jackson occupies the site where Aussie Disposals now stands, and beside his shop is the first building of the bank of NSW. Photo courtesy Bendigo Historical Society. The clip is in a folder.newspaper, bendigo advertiser, the way we were -
Bendigo Historical Society Inc.
Photograph - KOCK'S PIONEER QUARTZ CRUSHING PLANT
Black and white photograph. View of large mining plant and associated chimneys. Open (waste) area in foreground. Low hill in background. Inscriptions: on front 'Kock's Pioneer Quartz Crushing Plant, Long Gully', Perserverance United Windmill Hill in background'. On back - 'A Richardson, 29 Harrison St, Bendigo'.mining, crushing & milling, kock's pioneer quartz crushing plant, bendigo, mines and mining, mines, mine, mining, crushing plant, landscape, mining landscape, quartz, perserverance united windmill -
Bendigo Historical Society Inc.
Photograph - PIONEER TEAM VBA - 1910, c1910
Black and white photograph. One man sitting in front, 1st row: & men, 2nd Row: 6 men, Back row: 4 men. Members of the VBA. Inscriptions/Markings: Presented to Eaglehawk Bowling Club by N Jeffrey Esq. Pioneer Team VBA Visited Queensland, Season 1910.organization, club/society, pioneer team vba, h j g biggs, health inspector -
Uniting Church Archives - Synod of Victoria
Centenary membership ticket, Epworth Press, Methoidst Church of Australasia Centenary Ticket of Membership 1915
Methodist Church of Australasia Centenary Ticket of Membership, June 1915. Card with blue text and three small sepia images of "Our Founder Rev. J. Wesley, M.A.", "Our Pioneer Missionary Rev. S Leigh 1815" and "Our President, 1915 Rev G. Brown, D. D.""Mrs S. Reeves"methodist church of australasia -
University of Melbourne, Burnley Campus Archives
Newspaper, The Australasian, Pioneers Gardeners, 2019
john m mcewin, j a mcewin, nurseries, staff, h mcewin, first nuresery in victoria -
Bendigo Historical Society Inc.
Document - LUCY HILL COLLECTION: INCIDENTAL INDUSTRIES OF MINING
Typed notes mentioning industries of mining. Items mentioned are: Chief burners or pyrites works chlorination and cyaniding and gives a description of each process. Also mentioned in the notes is the Obelisk at Golden Square as a memorial to the pioneers and Mrs Kennedy and Mrs Farrell who found gold on the Bendigo Creek. Two Copiesdocument, gold, industries, lucy hill collection - incidental industires of mining, pyrites works, cyaniding, obelisk at golden square, united pyrites co, edwards and co, cook and co, spargo and co, j deeble, liddle bros, the jackass flat burner, a victor leggo, cr j e holland, mrs polglais, mrs kennedy, mrssrs fenton and gibson, mount alexander run, mrs farrell, bendigo advertiser -
Bendigo Military Museum
Postcard - POSTCARD PHOTOS WW1, Edgar Dawson Collection : Assorted postcards, 1918
This six-postcard group is the seventh in a series of records of items in the collection of Edgar Dawson DCM. Dawson was the Regimental Sergeant Major of 57th Battalion, AIF. C Company of the 57th was composed of men drawn from Echuca, Eaglehawk and Bendigo. The postcards are from his personal album, and many are annotated in Dawson's hand with explanatory notes on the subject. Refer to Cat No 893 for his service details. Items originally in album cat. no. 207P These postcards illustrate the links between battalions, such as the 5th and 47th. 1. Group portrait of the Officers and NCOs of C Company, 47th Battalion. 47th Btn was drawn from Queensland and Tasmania, and C company was primarily Queenslanders. 2. Group photo of the signallers and stretcher bearers of 5th Battalion. Dawson note that Josiah and Norman Rolls, from Golden Square in Bendigo, are in photograph. 3. Group photograph of 57th Battalion medal recipients taken outside Exeter cathedral. 4. 57th Btn band 5 HQ Pioneers, 57th Btn, 8th of October 1917. Dawson notes that the man front row extreme right is 50 years old. 6. Group photo of some officers of the 57th Btn 1. On verso "A.R. Tweddell, 47th Battalion, C Company A.I.F" 2. On Verso "This is a group photograph signallers 5th Battalion Jo and Norm Rolls" 3. "Group taken in Exeter at a a presentation of medals" 4. "This is our band can you pick out Bob Scott" 5. "This is our HQ pioneers who do all our building. The chap on the front row right is fifty years of age and came away with the first contingent. Also the corporal, sergeant and two left had men rear rank" 6. "This is a photo of some of the officers of our battalion. Colonel J.C. Stewart centre, Major R.M. Cotheson on left, Captain Laing M.C. on right. Will tell you the rest when I get home"postcards, 57th battalion, edgar dawson dcm -
Glenelg Shire Council Cultural Collection
Souvenir - China Egg Cup - Portland souvenir, n.d
White bone china egg cup. Gold rim, black and white image of Edward Henty. Measurements 6 x 4.5 diameterFront: '1834-1934' on cup Edward Henty, Victoria's Pioneer Portland Centenary; Around the foot of the cup Back: Makers stamp 'Royal Stafford English Bone China MADE IN ENGLAND' -
Stawell Historical Society Inc
Book, Stawell "The Gateway to the Grampians", 1988
Stawell Tourist InformationA Page folded in half to make 4 pages with large print and small print split into two columns as well as two photographs on the right side"Stawell" with Two photographs showing Pioneer's Lookout on Big Hill. " "The Gateway" to the Grampians" above the other Photograph which shows a rock formation known as The Grand Canyon. which is located in the Grampians.stawell tourism -
Greensborough Historical Society
Genealogical chart, Descendants of George William Stock, 1861o
Family history chart of pioneer familyHistory of the Stock and Blackbourn families.Black and white 10 page computer generated family tree.In pen on front page: Val Wilsonchapman stock family, blackbourn family, family trees -
Greensborough Historical Society
Book, ABC Books, Where the dead men lie: tales of graves, pioneers and old bush pubs / Bruce Simpson, 2003_
Anecdotes about Australian pioneer life.178p., illus.australia history, anecdotes -
Eltham District Historical Society Inc
Photograph, Katherine Rose Wingrove and Lucy Eleanor Wingrove graves, Saint Helena (Saint Katherine Anglican) Churchyard, St Helena
The Wingrove family early pioneers of ElthamColour photographst helena, st katherine's church, cemetery, katherine rose wingrove, lucy eleanor wingrove -
City of Moorabbin Historical Society (Operating the Box Cottage Museum)
Functional object - Skillet and frying pan
Used by a pioneer family in the City of MoorabbinPressed sheet metal frying pan with folded/tube handle, riveted onto side. Flat bottomed, with edges that slant outward.cooking, frying pan, skillet, moorabbin, kitchen -
Tatura Irrigation & Wartime Camps Museum
Book, Valley of the Sky, First edition 1937 - Ninth edition 1945
Angus MacMillan Pioneer of Gippsland and the AboriginesBlue Bookangas macmillan, pioneers of gippsland, gippsland aborigines -
Clunes Museum
Functional object - BAMBOO SHELF
Owned by Laura Hudson, local pioneerBamboo shelf (hang on wall) 3 pegs under shelf, shelf has railingNillaura hudson, bamboo -
Stawell Historical Society Inc
Photograph, Pioneers Memorial - Ladies Committee 1935
Pioneers Memorial - Ladies Committee 1935stawell -
Friends of Ballarat Botanical Gardens History Group
Work on paper - James Russell Thomson 1818-1886, A Short Biography by John Garner, 2/2010
J.R.Thomson was one of Ballarat's notable pioneers.J.R. Thomson left a generous bequest for the purchase of statues for the Botanical Gardens2 sheets of white paper with 1 &1/4 pages of printingIn italics, p.2 "Jg 2/10john garner, doctor, ballarat botanical gardens, statues, miner, ballarat art gallery, eureka rising, benefactor., john garner collection, gardens, ballarat, thomson