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Stawell Historical Society Inc
Article - Realia - Glass Panel, Glass Panel with Town of Stawell Badge Etched on Glass
Panel from front door of Town Hall. Frank Diment owner of Post Office Arcade (grandfather of Donor)Panel of Clear Glass with etched Town Badge surrounded by double circle.Sown of Stawell A.D. 1869 Royal Coat of Arms Dieu Et Mon. 2 Shields Top half left Mine with poppet head. Lower half grapes. Top right plow with sheaf of wheat. Lower half sheep. By Industrylocal, local government -
Glenelg Shire Council Cultural Collection
Photograph - Photograph - Kelpie Puppet Head, Casterton Workshop, Victoria, c. 2001
10433 - 10442 are about the making of the kelpie dog and sheep puppets made in Casterton for the Centenary of Federation Parade in Melbourne. This was the Glenelg Shire's contribution to a state wide programColoured photo. Casterton workshop. Side view of kelpie puppet head, plastered white, complete head including snout, no features -
Glenelg Shire Council Cultural Collection
Photograph - Photograph - Kelpie puppet legs, Casterton Workshop, Victoria, c. 2001
10433 - 10442 are about the making of the kelpie dog and sheep puppets made in Casterton for the Centenary of Federation Parade in Melbourne. This was the Glenelg Shire's contribution to a state wide programColoured photo. Casterton workshop. Workshop with legs for the kelpie puppet -
Glenelg Shire Council Cultural Collection
Photograph - Photograph - Kelpie Puppet Head, Casterton Workshop, Victoria, c. 2001
10433 - 10442 are about the making of the kelpie dog and sheep puppets made in Casterton for the Centenary of Federation Parade in Melbourne. This was the Glenelg Shire's contribution to a state wide programColoured photo. Casterton workshop. Front-on view of kelpie puppet head, white plaster, no features or snout -
National Wool Museum
Card
This card is the second in a set of 16 information cards produced by the Stamina Clothing Company re: Australian Woollen Mills as give aways. It looks the process of sheep shearing.Card no. 2 from the Crusader Mills information card set, c.1945-55. Verso of card no. 2 from the Crusader Mills information card set, c.1945-55.No. 2 Shearing merinos for the Crusader Mills.shearing, australian woollen mills pty ltd stamina clothing company -
National Wool Museum
Book, Ram directory 1986
Stud ram directory 1986, produced by Australian Sheep and Goat Genetics, includes photographs, pedigree, progeny and history of studs. Includes letter and semen price list.sheep breeding corriedale sheep, australian corriedale association australian sheep and goat genetics, pettitt, mr r. w., sheep breeding, corriedale sheep -
National Wool Museum
Photograph
Depicts the old Canowie Shed showing the roof line and entrance for the sheep. Taken by John Bailey in South Australia at the request of Gael Shannon (former NWM employee). -
National Wool Museum
Book, The Australian Merino
"The Australian Merino" - Charles Massy, 1990. This book is a history of the merino sheep in Australia. It looks at its evolution, history and future. The author has signed the title page.THE / AUSTRALIAN / MERINO / CHARLES MASSYmerino sheep - history sheep breeding - history, merino sheep - history, sheep breeding - history -
Bialik College
Photograph (Item) - Kinder Farm Visits, c1990s
Approximately 1990s various kinder classes from Bialik attended a farm. Children are showing holding a chicken and feeding sheep. For inquiries or access contact [email protected], jewish school, bialik college, photographs., excursion, kindergarten -
Bendigo Historical Society Inc.
Document - BENDIGO SALEYARDS COLLECTION: LIVESTOCK TOTALS
Photocopy of six handwritten pages of totals of Cattle, Horse, B'by calves and pigs sold from July 87 to June 88. The front page has instructions for a typed copy for the number of cattle yarded from 1/1/89 to 28/2/89 and for the same period last year and the year before. Also the number of cattle that had been weighed. Also the same for the sheep.bendigo, council, cattle markets, bendigo saleyards collection - livestock totals, the municipal saleyards association -
Bendigo Historical Society Inc.
Document - LIDDEL'S PYRITES WORKS & LEGGO'S BURNER
Handwritten notes about Liddel's Pyrite Works which first worked about 100 years as the Derwent Gully Pyrites Works. Notes give description of how Liddel's Pyrite extracted the gold and collected arsenic which was sold to manufacturers as sheep-dip, weed poison, etc. Also mentioned is Leggo's Burner which started operations, 1906 and closed about 1949 or 1950.document, gold, liddel's pyrites works, liddel's pyrites works & leggo's burner, pyrites -
Bendigo Historical Society Inc.
Book - HONKIE & GINNY
Honkie & Ginny from black sheep to holy dove, the life of Henry Foster Midgley 1894 - 1917, a journey that travels from the cottages of Port Melbourne to Gallipoli, the battle fields of the Western front and the gold fields of Bendigo. Soft cover with 220 pages, black and white photographs publishes by Springfield and Hart Bendigo printed by Griffin Press. Donated by the author & signed inside cover.Brenda Stevens-Chambersgenealogy, family, midgley, australia, australian & new zealand army -
Bendigo Historical Society Inc.
Book - BOOK: THE CHILDREN'S NURSERY RHYMES
'Untearable ', Hard covered Book - 'The Children's Nursery Rhymes -published by Ernest Nister London & E.P. Dutton & Co. New York E.N.No. 2026. / front cover shows a painting of countryside with three children and some sheep - one black. / Inside cover written in ink -' From Grampa Hall to Florrie 31.3.1910 / black and white & coloured illustrations/ rhymes include 'Little Bo-peepbooks, children's, nursery -
Unions Ballarat
Eureka : The songs that made Australia, 31 cm
Songs of Australian heritage for voice. Melody line only with chord symbols. Includes guitar tablature for chords. Convicts, transportation and sea shanties. Pioneering, goldrush days and bushrangers. Shearers, drovers and bush life. Swagmen, Victorian expansion, sporting life and disasters. Contents: • According to the Act • The Albury ram • Another fall of rain • Australia's on the Wallaby • The bald-headed end of the broom • The ballad of Ben Hall • The ballad of the Kelly Gang • The banks of the Condamine • The big-gun shearer • The black velvet band • The blackboys Waltzing Matilda • Bluey Brink • Bold Jack Donohue • Bound for Botany Bay • Brisbane ladies • Cain killed Abel • The cane-cutter's lament • The carrier's song • The Catalpa • Charlie Mopps • Click go the shears • The cockies of Bungaree • Colonial experience • Coming down the flat • The convict maid • The currency lasses • The death of Alec Robertson • The death of Ben Hall • The death of Willie Stone • Denis O'Reilly • The drover's dream • The dying aviator • The dying stockman • Eight little cylinders • The Eldorado mining disaster • The exile of Erin • Farewell to Greta • Flash Jack from Gundagai • The flash stockman • Frank Gardiner • The freehold on the plain • The gaol song • The girls of the Shamrock Shores • The golden gullies of the Palmer • The gumtree canoe • The Hamfat man • Heenan and Sayers • Henry's downfall • Here's adieu to all judges and juries • I've been to Australia, Oh • Jim Jones at Botany Bay • Jog along til shearing • John Kanaka • The Lachlan Tigers • Leave her, jollies, leave her • Les Darcy • The limejuice tub • Look out below • Maggie May • Maids of Australia • Man of the Earth • The Maryborough miner • Moreton Bay • The morning of the fray • Morrisey and the Russian sailor • Musselman • The mustering song • My name is Edward Kelly • Nails • The new chum Chinaman • Nine miles from Gundagai • The nose on my old man • Oh, give me a hut • The old bark hut • The old bullock dray • One of the has-beens • The overlanders • Pint Pot and Billy • Pity poor labourers • Radcliffe Highway • The rigs of the time • Rolling home • The Ryebuck shearer • Sam Holt • Sign-on day • Sixteen thousand miles from home • South Australia • The springtime it brings on the shearing • The stockman's last bed • The Sunshine Railway disaster • Tambaroora Ted • The tattooed lady • Ten thousand miles away • The tent poles are rotten • Travelling down the Castlereagh • Tumba-bloody-Rumba • The two professional hums • Van Diemen's Land • The wallaby brigade • When we get our tuppence back • The wild colonial boy • Woolloomooloo Australian culture, folklore and history in songs.Paper; paperback book. Front cover: multicoloured background; picture of swaggy with guitar; picture of Eureka flag; black and green lettering. Back cover: red, orange and white background; Eureka flag; picture of a shearer with sheep; picture of a person in Ned Kelly armour playing a guitar on a horse; picture of woman facing the Ned Kelly figure; brand with the message "unsurpassed Australian made".Front cover: author's name and title. Back cover: author bio; praise from Jack Pobar, swagman.songs, btlc, ballarat trades and labour council, ballarat trades hall, convicts, transportation, sea shanties, pioneering, gold, goldrush, bushrangers, shearers, drovers, bush life, sporting life, disasters, music -
Friends of Westgarthtown
Vessel, drinking
Moulded glass drinking vessel with vitreous enamel lid mounted on silver base with lifting mechanism. Lifting lever decorated with fleur de lis. Painting on lid depicts a pastoral scene with a seated male next to standing female with a staff, a dog lying next to the man, and sheep in background. 8 cut planes of glass around 2/3rds of glass circumference, and a rounded, moulded handle.'Schalerin, Schalerin, fri auf der hut!'domestic items, food and drink consumption, drinking, vessel, enamel, picture -
Victorian Interpretive Projects Inc.
Photograph - colour, Auction Room Lectern at National Wool Museum
This photograph on an iPhone 4 during the Museums Australia (Vic) Conference at the National Wool Museum, Geelong. Since the arrival of sheep with the First Fleet in 1788, the wool industry has dominated our economy, our agriculture and our reputation as a quality wool-growing nation throughout the world. Geelong is a city synonymous with wool and the wool industry – sheep farming began here in 1835 and the first of many woollen mills opened here in 1868. For many years the city was known as the 'wool centre of the world'. Two hundred years later, in 1988, the National Wool Museum was established as Australia’s only comprehensive museum of wool. (Since the arrival of sheep with the First Fleet in 1788, the wool industry has dominated our economy, our agriculture and our reputation as a quality wool-growing nation throughout the world. Geelong is a city synonymous with wool and the wool industry – sheep farming began here in 1835 and the first of many woollen mills opened here in 1868. For many years the city was known as the 'wool centre of the world'. Two hundred years later, in 1988, the National Wool Museum was established as Australia’s only comprehensive museum of wool. (Since the arrival of sheep with the First Fleet in 1788, the wool industry has dominated our economy, our agriculture and our reputation as a quality wool-growing nation throughout the world. Geelong is a city synonymous with wool and the wool industry – sheep farming began here in 1835 and the first of many woollen mills opened here in 1868. For many years the city was known as the 'wool centre of the world'. Two hundred years later, in 1988, the National Wool Museum was established as Australia’s only comprehensive museum of wool. (http://www.geelongaustralia.com.au/nwm/about/article/item/8cbcc313afa77a5.aspx)Photograph of a timber lectern used to auction wool in Geelong. It is found in the auction room on the top floor of Geelong's national wool museum.wool, geelong, auction, auction room, national wool museum -
Victorian Interpretive Projects Inc.
photograph - Colour, Viewing the National Wool Museum's auction room
This photograph on an iPhone 4 during the Museums Australia (Vic) Conference at the National Wool Museum, Geelong. Since the arrival of sheep with the First Fleet in 1788, the wool industry has dominated our economy, our agriculture and our reputation as a quality wool-growing nation throughout the world. Geelong is a city synonymous with wool and the wool industry – sheep farming began here in 1835 and the first of many woollen mills opened here in 1868. For many years the city was known as the 'wool centre of the world'. Two hundred years later, in 1988, the National Wool Museum was established as Australia’s only comprehensive museum of wool. (Since the arrival of sheep with the First Fleet in 1788, the wool industry has dominated our economy, our agriculture and our reputation as a quality wool-growing nation throughout the world. Geelong is a city synonymous with wool and the wool industry – sheep farming began here in 1835 and the first of many woollen mills opened here in 1868. For many years the city was known as the 'wool centre of the world'. Two hundred years later, in 1988, the National Wool Museum was established as Australia’s only comprehensive museum of wool. (Since the arrival of sheep with the First Fleet in 1788, the wool industry has dominated our economy, our agriculture and our reputation as a quality wool-growing nation throughout the world. Geelong is a city synonymous with wool and the wool industry – sheep farming began here in 1835 and the first of many woollen mills opened here in 1868. For many years the city was known as the 'wool centre of the world'. Two hundred years later, in 1988, the National Wool Museum was established as Australia’s only comprehensive museum of wool. (http://www.geelongaustralia.com.au/nwm/about/article/item/8cbcc313afa77a5.aspx)display of wool ales at the National Wool Museum. Steel girders holding up the roof were made by Dorman Long & Co. Middlesborough, England. In the foreground is a timber counter with brass kick rail and upper edge. Names on wool bales include Austop, Arcadian Wool, Buln Gherin, Mt Hesse, Melrose, Avondale Hills, Kerrsville, Kooringa, Merryville Yass, Sherra Park, Wurrock, Hazeldean, Buanogor Parkwool, geelong, wool bail, auction room, national wool museum -
National Wool Museum
Matchbox Holder
This matchbox holder / striker was made to advertise Cooper's shears, a well known Australian brand of sheep shears. An image of a mechanical Cooper's shear can be seen on one side.Matchbox holder, advertising Cooper's Shearing Machines. Matchbox holder, advertising Cooper's Shearing Machines. Matchbox holder, advertising Cooper's Shearing Machines. The area for striking matches can be seen. Matchbox holder, advertising Cooper's Shearing Machines.COOPER / SHEARING / MACHINES / DO BEST WORK NEW MODEL / COOPER / SHEAR PROV. PAT. / 16367shearing, cooper engineering company pty ltd -
National Wool Museum
Book, Supplement to the Corriedale Flock Book 1956
"Supplement to the Corriedale Flock Book 1956", owned by Mr R.W. Pettitt, a former breeder and judge of corriedale sheep whose father and uncle were also stud owners.corriedale sheep, australian corriedale association -
National Wool Museum
Book, Supplement to the Corriedale Flock Book 1959
"Supplement to the Corriedale Flock Book 1959", owned by Mr R.W. Pettitt, a former breeder and judge of corriedale sheep whose father and uncle were also stud owners.corriedale sheep, australian corriedale association -
National Wool Museum
Book, Supplement to the Corriedale Flock Book 1963
"Supplement to the Corriedale Flock Book 1963", owned by Mr R.W. Pettitt, a former breeder and judge of corriedale sheep whose father and uncle were also stud owners.corriedale sheep, australian corriedale association -
National Wool Museum
Book, Supplement to the Corriedale Flock Book 1967
"Supplement to the Corriedale Flock Book 1967", owned by Mr R.W. Pettitt, a former breeder and judge of corriedale sheep whose father and uncle were also stud owners.corriedale sheep, australian corriedale association -
National Wool Museum
Book, Supplement to the Corriedale Flock Book 1976
"Supplement to the Corriedale Flock Book 1976", owned by Mr R.W. Pettitt, a former breeder and judge of corriedale sheep whose father and uncle were also stud owners.corriedale sheep, australian corriedale association -
National Wool Museum
Book, Supplement to the Corriedale Flock Book 1976
"Supplement to the Corriedale Flock Book 1976", owned by Mr R.W. Pettitt, a former breeder and judge of corriedale sheep whose father and uncle were also stud owners.corriedale sheep, australian corriedale association -
National Wool Museum
Tool - Ear Marker, c. 1986
Made for JNO (John) Baker Veterinary Manufacturers, Suppliers and Retailers Sydney. Most sheep in Australia that intended to be kept into adulthood are earmarked. There are dozens of different types of ear markers.New ear marker toolsheep identification, sheep - identification -
National Wool Museum
Letter
Letter from the The Kelson Products Co to W R Lang 11th April 1940, the testing of wool taken off sheep skins after the animal had been slaughtered469/40wool - research wool - testing world war ii, gordon institute of technology the kelson products co, fellmongery, lang, dr w. roy, wool - research, wool - testing, world war ii -
National Wool Museum
Doll, Federation Flora
"Federaton Flora" created by 13 members of the Geelong Handweavers and Spinners Guild Inc for the centenary of Federation in Australia. It won 1st prize in the Australian Sheep and Wool Show, Bendigo, 2000."Federation Flora" "Federation Flora" "Federation Flora" "Federation Flora" "Federation Flora" "Federation Flora" "Federation Flora"handicrafts, geelong handweavers and spinners guild inc., felting, hand spinning, hand knitting, weaving -
National Wool Museum
Book, One Wondrous Kind: a sheep's eye view of the Mallee
"One Wondrous Kind: a sheep's eye view of the Mallee" - comp. by Peter Hicks and Rick Martin, 1988. Contains photos and anecdotes about life in the past and present in the Mallee region.wool growing, mallee, hopetoun -
National Wool Museum
Card
This card is the first in a set of 16 information cards produced by the Stamina Clothing Company re: Australian Woollen Mills as give aways. It looks at merino sheep and wool production in Australia.Card no. 1 from the Crusader Mills information card set, c.1945-55. Verso of card no. 1 from the Crusader Mills information card set, c.1945-55.No. 1 The beginning of the story of Crusader Cloth.wool growing merino sheep - history, australian woollen mills pty ltd stamina clothing company, wool growing, merino sheep - history -
National Wool Museum
Book, Corriedale Flock Book vol. VII, 1929
"Corriedale Flock Book" vol. VII, 1929, owned by Mr R.W. Pettitt, a former breeder and judge of corriedale sheep whose father and uncle were also stud owners.corriedale sheep, australian corriedale sheepbreeders' association