This photograph was taken in c.1870 and depicts Aaron Sherrtt who is best known for his involvements with, and eventual assassination by, the Kelly gang. He stands upright in the image with his arm leaning on a podium which reaches his hip. He is wearing an outfit for which he was infamous. Richard Warren, son of the proprietor of the Ovens and Murray Advertiser once stated that “anyone seeing [Aaron] coming down Ford Street would ask, “Who the hell’s this? Some advance agent for the circus?”’. The outfit Aaron wore for this particular photoshoot is reminiscent of this quote. He wears an unusual spotted shirt with a waistcoat and a sash is tied at his waist. He wears boots which turn up slightly at the toes. The hat is a “pork pie” hat which is worn in the typical “Greta Mob” style with the chinstrap under the nose. Aaron Sherritt was born in 1854 in Prahran, Melbourne, to Irish Protestant parents John and Anne. Sherritt stood at 5 foot 10. He had hazel eyes, dark brown hair and pale olive skin. Sherritt was childhood friends with Kelly Gang member, Joe Byrne, having previously attended the same school. Both men had a reputation for stealing horses and on one occasion, after stealing and butchering a cow, Sherritt and Byrne were convicted to six months in Beechworth Gaol (1876). Sherritt, along with Byrne, were reportedly recruited by Ned Kelly in 1877 in stealing stock; however, Sherritt never became a fully-fledged member of the Kelly Gang. Nevertheless, Sherritt scouted for the Kelly Gang in 1878. He later struck a deal with the police (specifically, with Chief Commissioner Standish) to save Joe Byrne's life in exchange for leading the police to the other members of the Gang. From then on, Aaron Sherritt lived the dangerous life of a double agent, providing police with what is assumed today to have been outdated or incorrect information in return for money. On the 26th of June 1880, Aaron Sherritt was murdered in the Woolshed Valley. He was approximately 23-25 years old at death. This event marked the start of the Kelly gang’s last days. Sherritt was murdered by Byrne in front of his wife, 15 year old and heavily pregnant Ellen “Belle” Sherritt and her mother Ellen Barry. Also in the Sherritt dwelling on this particular night were four policemen. The intention behind Sherritt’s murder was for the police to send word to Melbourne that the Kelly gang had murdered Sherritt and a police train would be sent to Glenrowan where the rest of the Kelly gang were waiting. This plan did not go as predicted and ultimately the Kelly gang fell at Glenrowan in 1880. This photograph was taken by James Bray who worked as a professional photographer in Camp Street Beechworth from 1870-1891. He was one of four men who photographed the Kelly Gang after the siege in Glenrowan in 1880. He is also renowned for his previous work photographing members of the Kelly gang. This photograph is part of the Burke Museum "Kelly album" which includes a significant collection of photographs and artefacts connected to Ned Kelly and the Kelly Gang. Ned Kelly and his gang have become ingrained in Australian popular culture and thus many museums, art galleries and private collections house material connected to the Kelly story which allows the events and people to be researched and interpreted. Artefacts and photographs pertaining to the Kelly gang are particularly valuable for Australian museums. This particular photograph is significant for its connection to Beechworth photographer James Bray who is responsible for many images depicting members of the Kelly Gang. The photograph is also of artistic significance as an example of a Carte de Viste dating to 1880 and it's connection to Aaron Sherritt.Sepia rectangular photograph printed on card. Obverse: J.E.Bray./ Photo/ Beechworth Reverse: Portrait & Landscape/ Photographer 5/ Aaron Sherritt J E Bray Signature Beechworth/ Victoria Beware (almost erased out) Negatives Kept. Copies 5I/.Each May/ Be Had By Forwarding Name And Address/ Accompanied With Remittance To/ The Amount Of Order/ Photographs Coloured In Water Colours 10237. kelly album, woolshed valley, 1870s, kelly gang, joe byrne, ned kelly, aaron sherritt, james bray, beechworth, burke museum

Distributed to all Show Societies to be presented as prizes at 1988 ShowBronze medallion in a hard case with red liningBicentenary logo embossed on case. Medallion had logo “Australian Bicentenary 1788-1988” with wattle sprigs embossed on upper side. “Federal Council of Agricultural Societies” embossed on under side.

Shows horse-drawn vehicles and one electric tram arriving at the terminus, late in the evening. Shows the little shed at the terminus, and buildings on either side of the Sturt St. People waiting around the tram stop. The tram seems to have a "color" light indicator above the driver. Titled "Sturt Street, Ballarat" in red ink in the top left-hand corner. On the rear of the card, has the stamp "R. M. Noy, Postcard collection", cancellation stamp of Ballarat East, 23.5.07, 1d Victorian stamp. Written to Miss Victoria Kemsey? of 225 Victoria Parade, East Melbourne, wishing her many happy returns on the day. Has the logo of WTP." in the top centre of the card. Divided back type. On rear of 2nd copy is a letter to Mrs Spronston of Skelton Cottage Avoca - date stamp not readable. 2nd copy has the publisher "JE" on the rear upper centre.Yields information about Sturt St Ballarat and demonstrates Australian printed colour photo postcards.Colour postcard of Sturt St taken from Grenville St looking down at the Grenville St terminus.Has in pencil $12 along top edge on rear and two stickers "P/U Ballarat" and "Ballarat Vic Tram" both of which had become loose by the time the item was stored.trams, tramways, postcards, sturt st, ballarat, grenville st

Negative of tram 372 in Toorak Rd at Burwood terminus. Tram has destination City and Route No 74. Photo shows a person wearing what appears to be a Brisbane tramway cap tying down trolley pole for return trip to City. Comment from Tony Smith of the MTPA, that it could be Travis Jeffery. Email from Len Millar - 7-2-2019 - "As best as I can decipher by enlarging the image, it does look like a young Travis. The long-ish face was my guide. Brisbane hat – and tying a pole down on a service car in busy Toorak Road? That would be Travis!"Paper folder that contained the negative had "NR100A" in red ink, "12A" in blue ink, date stamp "1 Jan 1963" on front, and date stamp "26 Sep 1962" on rear.trams, tramways, w2 class, route 74, burwood, toorak rd, tram 372

Diggers & mining. The gold era. Of the foreigners who arrived in Victoria during the gold rush, by far the largest group were the Chinese. There had been a few Chinese in the Port Phillip District prior to the gold rush. Markings 23 994.031 GOL:5. Used as a teaching aid.hanimounteducation, tertiary, goldfields

Bendigo Advertiser ''The way we were'' from 2000. Headquarters: Marong Shire Hall, Calder Highway, Marong. For almost 40 years there had been agitation to move the shire hall from Lockwood to Marong. The new hall opened on September 11, 1908. The clip is in a folder.newspaper, bendigo advertiser, the way we were

Bendigo Advertiser ''The way we were'' from 2000. Mining days: the Central Nell Gwynne Mine on the boundary of Ironbark and Moonta. The steel poppet head had previously stood over the Lightning Hill and Victoria Mines. Picture courtesy Bendigo Historical Society. The clip is in a folder.newspaper, bendigo advertiser, the way we were

Typed notes describing the burning of the Beehive in 1871 'memories of Miss Lucy Hill' The Beehive contained a store and the Beehive Chambers where about 40 or 50 offices of the legal managers of the mining companies, and stock and sharebrokers had their offices. It also caused chaos with investments. Two copiesdocument, lucy hill collection, the burning of the beehive, beehive chambers, messrs buick & co, messrs moore bros, coliban scheme

Copy of an article from the Bendigo Advertiser 12/5/1906. A miner, Henry Roberts was killed by the fall of a large piece of sandstone which fell with no warning. The shift boss, James H Evely, had passed under the stone a minute before it fell and saw no signs of danger.bendigo, history, long gully history group, the long gully history group - mining fatality at hercules and energetic mine, bendigo advertiser 12/5/1906, henry roberts, samuel knight, wm nankervis, joseph roberts, dr cowen, w abraham, james h evely, clarence united mine, united devonshire mine, miners' association, eaglehawk branch of the a.n.a., robert roberts

Newspaper clipping, Bendigo Advertiser, Saturday April 15, 1972.'In Knipe's Folly Bendigo once had a castle', by Toora, (alias Amy Huxtable). John Hanlon Knipe bought land from W. E. Walleston, located in Boundary Street, (now known as Valentine Street).person, individual, basil miller

Copy of a letter, dated 12/12/41, to Mr. Bacon of the Mines Department, Treasury Gardens, Melbourne from G. Whalley. Letter mentions a boiler at Cohuna which had a scale problem. After the installation of Scalebuoys the scale fell off the interior of the boiler in a short time.sciences, instruments - general, scalebuoy, bill ashman collection - correspondence, bendigo electronic company of australia pty ltd, amalgamated freezing coy, mr bacon, mines department melbourne, gunbower butter factory, cherrokee, mr f stevenson, g whalley

Bendigo Advertiser "The way we were" from Thursday, October 14, 2004. On parade: crowds line the streets of Bendigo, enthralled by the annual Easter Fair parade. The North Bendigo Progress Youth Group had all hands on deck for its float in the 1949 or 1950 procession.newspaper, bendigo advertiser, the way we were

The glass phial contained liquid ethyl chloride, little pressure being required to liquefy the gas at room temperature. By directing the nozzle downwards at the skin or mucous membrane to be analgesed, a stream of liquid squirts out, vaporising on contact, thus producing transient local temperatures of approximately -10 qc. Ether's unpleasant smell agitated patients. Ethyl chloride's pleasant odour reduced agitation. It could be used for induction and worked quickly without irritating respiratory passages. Ethyl chloride spray could also be used as a local anaesthetic. Faded rectangular burgundy box containing a glass phial with metal and rubber lid that forms a spray nozzle. The lid of the box had a mustard coloured manufacturer's label wtih burgundy writing. The phial has a discoloured white label with red writing and a blue label with white writing.Printed in white ink on blue label: IMPORTANT / NOT DESTROY THIS TUBE, IT CAN / BE REFILLED FOR / 2/10bengue & co. ltd., london, ethyl chloride, 1900, local anaesthesia

A black and white photograph of Vietnamese Children at Xuyen Moc look apprehensively towards some of their friends who began to cry when Diggers attempt to give them flavoured milk to drink. The departing VietCong had told the children that they would be poisoned by the Australians from 5 RARphotograph, vietnamese children, 5 rar, xuyen moc, gibbons collection catalogue

A black and white photograph - One of the many duties carried out by the Australian Military Police at Vung Tau was the security and protection of the two Australian Naval Supply vessels, The MV Boonaroo & MV Jeparit, whilst on this duty the MP's had to look out for attack from water and land.photograph, vung tau, military police, supply ship, hmas boonaroo, hmas jeparit, gibbons collection catalogue, australian naval supply vessels

A black and white photograph of Route 23, Northwest of the 1st Australian Tasj Force (1ATF) base as Nui Dat, The ATF Commander Brig. Stewart Weir talks to Engineers working at bridge site. The bridge foundations had been damaged, by water, during a heavy rain storm.photograph, brig stewart weir, 1st atf base, 1st field sqn engineers, gibbons collection catalogue, national route 23, nui dat, engineers

A black and white photograph of 1st Australian Task Force HQ Nui Dat 31/10/1969. Hoang Hai the Australian Task Force Bushman Scout Leader. The NVA soldier Hoang Hai had surrendered to the Australians, been "re-educated" and became a Bushman Scoutphotograph, 1 atf, nui dat, hoang hai (bushman scout), bushman scout, gibbons collection catalogue

Letter to Lampson Store Service Co informing them that quotation from Telephone Construction and Maintenance Co had been accepted for installation of a private inter-communication telephone system into the municipal chambers at Tunstall in 1937. Quotation from New System Telephone Pty Ltd includedlocal government, telephone construction and maintenance co, new system telephones pty ltd, shire of blackburn and mitcham, telephone services

Green plastic round container in two equal parts - on fitting into the other. Used to hold a ball of wool. A hole in the top allowed the wool to thread through whilst knitting. Original it would have had ribbon through the top so that could be hung from the knitter's arm.handcrafts, knitting

Colour photographs of the interior of a house in Webb Avenue, Ballarat East, and its garden shed. The houses in Webb Avenue were built for the Housing Commission in 1959. The interior fit out was likely to be similar in the other houses and each property appears to have had an identical garden shed. webb avenue, black hill, ballarat, housing commission, architecture

48-page soft cover booklet 'Bagshot, Victoria.' Illustrated with B&W photos. Foreword by Cyril H. Peatling 1992 Contains notes on families who had contact with the Bagshot area. History of Organizations, including school, industries and sports. Printed by Sloan's Printery, Bendigo Handwritten in ink inside front cover. 'A. Strauch 477905 (2/8/96)' bagshot, victoria

The Kew Historical Society collection includes almost 100 subdivision plans pertaining to suburbs of the City of Melbourne. Most of these are of Kew, Kew East or Studley Park, although a smaller number are plans of Camberwell, Deepdene, Balwyn and Hawthorn. It is believed that the majority of the plans were gifted to the Society by persons connected with the real estate firm - J. R. Mathers and McMillan, 136 Cotham Road, Kew. The Plans in the collection are rarely in pristine form, being working plans on which the agent would write notes and record lots sold and the prices of these. The subdivision plans are historically significant examples of the growth of urban Melbourne from the beginning of the 20th Century up until the 1980s. A number of the plans are double-sided and often include a photograph on the reverse. A number of the latter are by noted photographers such as J.E. Barnes.A hand-drawn subdivision plan listing six blocks bounded by Houghton Street, Doncaster Road, Buchanan Avenue and Maud Street, North Balwyn. Written on the plan of subdivision are the lot numbers, the dimensions of the blocks and the price at which two lots were for sale or had been sold for.subdivision plans - balwyn

Frances Rigg was a local business identity in Kew, at one stage managing the local branch of the English, Scottish and Australian (ES&A) Bank at 175 High Street from c. 1920 until the 1940s. After Francis Rigg’s death, the collection of buttons and medallions was inherited by his son, Ken Rigg (1922-2014). The collection was subsequently donated to the Kew Historical Society in 2015 by Francis' grandson, Adrian Rigg, at the time of the Gallipoli & Beyond Commemoration in 2015. The collection covers a period of almost 40 years. The majority of the buttons are patriotic buttons, issued and sold during and immediately after the First World World War (1914-1918) to raise funds for national and overseas causes. The collection also includes a number of locally significant sporting event buttons and sporting club medallions, issued in the 1920s and 1930s.Patriotic and other pressed tin buttons and badges were produced in large numbers in the first decades of the twentieth century. By nature, insubstantial and ephemeral, they have not always survived. The collections of badges, buttons and medallions in the Kew Historical Society collection is homogenous and yet diverse, ranging from buttons sold to raise funds for the war efforts in 1914-18 and 1939-45, to those used at festivals and sporting events. Because of the manufacturing process, many surviving buttons and badges have been affected by inadequate storage, suffering from oxidisation and physical damage. These survivors are now historically and socially significant artefacts, revealing much about the attitudes and values of the period in which they were produced. Their widespread distribution means that they are frequently significant at a local, state, national and international level.‘Wattle Day’ was celebrated nationally for the first time in 1910, even though the term and day had been celebrated in particular states and territories since the 1870s. This patriotic fundraising button depicts a map of Australia on a pale green background. The map includes a symbolic image of wattle sprigs."Wattle Day"wattle day, patriotic buttons, first world war (1914-18), badges

Frances Rigg was a local business identity in Kew, at one stage managing the local branch of the English, Scottish and Australian (ES&A) Bank at 175 High Street from c. 1920 until the 1940s. After Francis Rigg’s death, the collection of buttons and medallions was inherited by his son, Ken Rigg (1922-2014). The collection was subsequently donated to the Kew Historical Society in 2015 by Francis' grandson, Adrian Rigg, at the time of the Gallipoli & Beyond Commemoration in 2015. The collection covers a period of almost 40 years. The majority of the buttons are patriotic buttons, issued and sold during and immediately after the First World World War (1914-1918) to raise funds for national and overseas causes. The collection also includes a number of locally significant sporting event buttons and sporting club medallions, issued in the 1920s and 1930s.Patriotic and other pressed tin buttons and badges were produced in large numbers in the first decades of the twentieth century. By nature, insubstantial and ephemeral, they have not always survived. The collections of badges, buttons and medallions in the Kew Historical Society collection is homogenous and yet diverse, ranging from buttons sold to raise funds for the war efforts in 1914-18 and 1939-45, to those used at festivals and sporting events. Because of the manufacturing process, many surviving buttons and badges have been affected by inadequate storage, suffering from oxidisation and physical damage. These survivors are now historically and socially significant artefacts, revealing much about the attitudes and values of the period in which they were produced. Their widespread distribution means that they are frequently significant at a local, state, national and international level.‘Wattle Day’ was celebrated nationally for the first time in 1910, even though the term and day had been celebrated in particular states and territories since the 1870s. This patriotic fundraising button depicts a map of Australia on a pale green background. The map includes a symbolic image of wattle sprigs.Wattle Daywattle day, first world war (1914-18), badges

Newspaper photographs.(1) From B99.1077 series. "Hay forking by the weaker sex." (2) "The last of the harvesting." (3) "Haymaking is in full swing." (4) "Dwarfed by a 10 ft. crop, a girl student at Burnley Horticultural School had a tough task reaping these tall stalks of maize."students, female students, burnley horticultural college, students working outside, maize, hay making