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Bendigo Historical Society Inc.
Document - MALONE COLLECTION: GREETING CARDS, 1916
Small white card with narrow raised border and raised dotted area in the centre. Gold circular frame with mauve & purple flowers on it. Inside the frame is a woodland scene with two people walking beneath the trees. 'Best Wishes' printed in gold underneath. Card & insert held together with a cream cord.person, greeting cards, malone collection, malone collection, greeting cards -
Tatura Irrigation & Wartime Camps Museum
Calendar, Rudolf Hofer and Rosa Hermann, 1946
Made by internees Rudolf Hofer and Rosa Hermann at Camp 3 Tatura.Fawn coloured cards on each of which are picture postcards. e.g. the month of July depicts a farmer walking behind a black and white horse pulling 2 wooden implements. Calendar dates and picture postcards on each side of card and held together by red tape, threaded through punched holes. rudolf hofer, rosa hermann, calendar, camp 3 tatura, internees -
Stawell Historical Society Inc
Photograph, ABC Playground being Constructed in the Gold Reef Mall -- Looking West -- Coloured
Coloured photograph of workmen creating ABC playground Gold Reef Mall (Looking West) c 1978. Kaye Baxendale female near State Bank. Barry Neville, male seated on bench seat near brick plant box.Large coloured photo of workmen digging up an area in the Mall. Two people are walking towards the digging works and a young man is sitting on a bench seat near a large plant bed. Workmen are around the construction site with people in the background. Also in the folder is a smaller coloured print of the same photograph. stawell streetscape -
Ballarat Tramway Museum
Slide - 35mm slide/s, Keith Caldwell, 8/03/1960 12:00:00 AM
Yields information about the Sturt St City tram stop in 1960 and the background buildings.Agfa colour slide, white cardboard mount, photo by Keith Caldwell on 8/3/1960 of: Tram 31 at the tram stop, Sturt and Lydiard Streets with an Inspector walking away from the stop. Has the National Mutual Association, V& L Hairdressers and Berry Anderson stationary shop in the background.Stamped on bottom of slide "8 Mar 60"tramways, trams, sturt st, city, tram 31 -
Bendigo Historical Society Inc.
Photograph - DILLON-SHALLARD COLLECTION: HARGREAVES STREET BENDIGO
An advertising Photo of Hargreaves Street Bendigo for Beehive Watch Coy. Jewellery & Watches 306 Hargreaves Street Bendigo, C.J.Kirby mgr. A postcard will find us. showing 3 horse drawn carriages a tram several people walking. Williams Shoemen shop, Cattran Golden Key Boot co.photograph, streetscape, bendigo -
Melbourne Royal
Poster, W. M. Houston, By train of course, to Melbourne's Royal Show, 1958
A poster promoting the merits of travelling by train to the Royal Melbourne Show of 1958. The Showgrounds train station was one of the first buildings built on the Melbourne Showgrounds in Ascot Vale when the site was established in 1883, allowing patrons quick access to the venue despite it being slightly further out from the city than previous sites.A portrait poster, printed in colour; in the upper half of the poster there is an illustration showing a family of four, walking to the right; in the background is a photograph of a train station; the lower half of the poster consists of a list of the advantages of taking the train, printed on five horizontal stripes, white and green; colour process lithograph, linen-backed.BY TRAIN of course / TO MELBOURNE'S / ROYAL SHOW / SEPTEMBER 18 - 28, 1958/ NO PARKIGN PROBLEMS OR FEES / FREQUENT EXPRES SERVICE FROM FLINDERS ST. & SPENCER ST. RIGHT TO THE GROUNDS / DAY OR PERIODICAL TICKETS; COMBINED RAIL-ADMISSION TICKETS / NEW RAILWAY EXHBIIT WITH FREIGHT ADVISORY SERVICE / YOUR SUBURBAN STATION AHS DETAIL-PACKED PAHMPHLET /train, metro trains, showgrounds, melbourne showgrounds, royal melbourne show, 1985 melbourne royal show, melbourne royal show, showgrounds station, railway -
Phillip Island and District Historical Society Inc.
Photograph, c 1900
Two storey hotel fronting road, behind withe picket fence, wrought iron filigree on both stories, gabled roofing, grey and white striped awning from roof. Attic on top of building. Two short chimneys front, two large on either side. Side buildings to left of photo. Walking man at front gate.Two storey Victorian Hotel - Bergins Hotel San Remolocal history, photography, photographs, slides, film, bergins hotel san remo, black & white photograph, miss elms san remo -
Mission to Seafarers Victoria
Photograph - Photograph, Colour, 1991?
The centre is at the main dock gate (Corry Road) within easy walking distance of most ships on North Shore. Facilities include a Flying Angel Centre with free Wifi & computer access, a bar and café, currency exchange, a choice of mobile phone & internet cards, pool table, chapel, gift shop, clothes shop and lounge area. Belfast is one of the many centres from the Mission to Seafarers network around the world.Mission located in the docks in Belfast North Ireland. Behind is the St Joseph's Church Sailortown.mission to seafarers, seamen's mission, mission to seamen, belfast, north ireland, ports -
Melbourne Tram Museum
Postcard, "Sorrento from the Beach", c1900
Coloured postcard of the Sorrento Pier looking towards the Beach. Has many people on the pier, waiting to board the ferry along with other people walking out. Has the buildings of Sorrento including the Hotel in the view. Postcard has been used and appears to have been taken from an album given the paper damage on the rear. No publisher details.Yields information about the Sorrento pier and its beaches.Coloured postcard, divided back type has been used.sorrento, piers, ferries -
Marysville & District Historical Society
Book - Paperback book, Donnelly's Creek-From rush to ruin of a Gippsland Mountain Goldfield, 1990
A history of the Donnelly's Creek gold mine in VictoriaPaperback. Front cover has a drawing depicting two horses carrying packs followed by a man mounted on a horse. There is also two men on foot following with packs and walking poles. They are walking along a forest track that has some tree stumps alongside it.The back cover has two colour photographs. The top one is of an old wooden building with what appears to be an attached lean to. Both of the buildings have stone chimneys. There is a group of people sitting and standing outside the main building. The bottom photograph appears to be the ruins of a building and a fence. There are three people viewing the ruins.The captions accompanying the photographs are: History revisited - O'Sullivans Old Toombon Hotel Recreated and Remnants of a Bygone Mining Era.Stamp of the Marysville & District Historical Society Inc / P O Box 22 / Marysville 3779gold, gold miner, gold mining, gold field, gippsland, victoria, australia, history, fulton's creek, seaton, walhalla, aberfeldy, jericho, wood's point -
Kew Historical Society Inc
Photograph - Grampians, 1924
Henry Beater Christian (1886-1962) , was a descendant of one of the earliest settler families in Kew. Employed at the Kew Asylum as a 'public servant', he was a skilled amateur photographer, photographing numerous scenes in Kew and on his travels around Victoria. The majority of his photographs date from 1916 to 1929. His finest photographs are housed in two photograph albums. Digital copy of a photograph from page 13 of the 47-page photograph album containing 261 gelatinous silver images, loaned by Diane Washfold with permission given to digitise and hold a copy in our collection. The first and last pages in the album document the Yarra River at Studley Park and at Kew. The remainder of the album includes photographs of walking and car tours in rural Victoria including 'wilderness' areas in the Grampians, Gippsland and the High Country. Six album pages document a camping trip by Henry Christian to the Grampians in September 1924. The photos include pictures of lookouts, and natural features including rock faces and waterfalls, as well as his camp site. This photo is of one of a waterfall on one of the walking trails. Unitled [Grampians]henry beater christian (1886-1962), landscape photography, christian-washfold collection, photograph albums, grampians, gariwerd -
Eltham District Historical Society Inc
Booklet - Folder, History of Eltham Primary School, 1970
History of Eltham Primary School to 1970Photocopy of original book: History of the Eltham Primary School, published in 1970. 14 pages. 3 Photocopies of parts of map Handwritten notes by H.G. about walking to school and early classroom conditons and activiites Writings by Grade 1 students of EPS "about what life was like 150 years ago"eltham primary school, adamson, armstrong, atkinson, betti, blackman, brown, buchanan, caldwell, clark, cochrane, coleman, curran, daply, dudfield, dunne, dunstan, elliott, findlay, fisher, gamble, gardiner, gardner, gilchrist, gray, greenwood, haniford, harry gilham collection, hughes, hunniford, jobling, kane, kaylock, kewish, lancaster, main, mccoll, mcmurrey, mcolvan, meadow, meadows, murray, murrey, orlebar, overman, pearson, peerson, potter, scott, sincom, son, spicer, state school no. 209, stewart, sweeney, teague, unsworth, warren, williams -
Glenelg Shire Council Cultural Collection
Print - Print - Bentinck Street, 1984
CEMA Art Collection Part of "A Community View" 150 years in Portland Screenprint Exhibition Part of the Angela Gee Residency 1983 and 1984Laminated screenprint depicting an early street scene of Bentinck Street in Portland. The left side of the work depicts the row of buildings along Bentinck Street with the 'Gordon Hotel' in the foreground. In the centre of the image two figures on horses ride away from the viewer. On the right is a large tree with with two figures walking below it.Front: Karina Fredericks 84' (lower right) (pencil) Back: 9 -
Federation University Historical Collection
Photograph - Photograph - black and white, William Strutt, View of Golden Point, Ballarat, Taken from West
The lithograph is held by the State Library of Victoria. Printed below the image is Lithographed by Campbell & Macartney. The title is beneath image and continues: 'Respectfully dedicated to the inhabitants of Victoria / By their obedient servant / Wm. Strutt.'Photograph of a lithograph of view of the Golden Point - Ballarat by William Strutt. The Golden Point goldfield at Ballarat is depicted with a number of people congregated along a creek (Yarrowee Creek), some tents, stockyards evident, a butcher's shambles (tent) a bullock dray, three aborigines and a number of 'diggers' walking towards the goldfield are evident.ballarat, golden point, william strutt, ballarat townscape, mining, goldfield -
Port Melbourne Historical & Preservation Society
Photograph - Demolition, J Kitchen & Sons perimeter survey, Jul 2014
As the former j Kitchen & Sons site was being cleared, Lionel Layfield, who had worked at the site for many years undertook several pictorial perimeter surveys. These photos were taken July 2014.Series 3 of colour photographs taken by Lionel Layfield again walking around the perimeter of J Kitchen and Sons during demolition (later than series 2) . In particular the photographs show the weighbridge, as it was still functioning for the demolition trucks. Details of the interior refer to the weighbridge scales, security and customs associated functions.industry - manufacturing, built environment - industrial, transport - motor vehicles, j kitchen & sons pty ltd -
Bendigo Historical Society Inc.
Postcard - GLADYS DEAN COLLECTION: POSTCARD, 1906 - 1908
Photographic coloured postcard. Image depicts a busy city street with tram tracks down the centre, horse and carts travelling along and people walking along or crossing the road. Many buildings line both sides of the street. The words King Street Sydney are printed in red on the top left hand side.95717postcard -
Bendigo Historical Society Inc.
Photograph - HARRY BIGGS COLLECTION: BENNETTS ARCADE
Photograph. Harry Biggs Collection. A black & white photo of the clock and of Bennetts Arcade. Numerous items are displayed out the front of the stores including hoses, lawn mowers, bins, baskets. People are shopping & walking through the Arcade. Taubmans paints sign - the best procurable can be seen as is Bennetts Arcade Stores.place, building, commercial, harry biggs collection, bennetts arcade -
Bendigo Historical Society Inc.
Photograph - PRINCE OF WALES IN MILITARY UNIFORM, 1917
Black and White photograph of a young H.R.H. Prince of Wales in a military uniform with walking stick & cigarette in hand, standing in the snow, mounted under glass in a slim brown wooden frame, markings on rear of photo read 'Arcade Art Gallery Bendigo Art Pictures and Framing, L Pattern (Late AIF)'person, individual, portrait, military uniform, military person, military -
Ballarat Tramway Museum
Photograph - Digital image, Keith Kings, c1903
Yields information about the Ballaarat Tramway Company tramcars.Digital image from the Wal Jack Ballarat Album of a horse tram travelling from Grenville St into Sturt St. Image re-photographed from a black and white postcard - see Reg Item btm2437 - a coloured postcard. Note the person in the top right hand corner walking across the track. trams, tramways, horse trams, sturt st, grenville st -
Ballarat Tramway Museum
Photograph - Digital image, Peter Bruce, "No. 39 at Doveton St", 1970s
Yields information about the Sturt St track, near Doveton St.Digital image, black and white, of No. 39 at the corner of Doveton and Sturt St, with the tram going to Gardens via Drummond Nth. A lady is walking behind the tram. Photo taken by Peter Bruce 1970's and 1971, prior to the closure of the Ballarat tramway system. Peter's Title of image: "No. 39 at Doveton St"trams, tramways, doveton st, sturt st, tram 39 -
Bendigo Historical Society Inc.
Photograph - JORDAN COLLECTION: VEHICLES PEOPLE ON THE ROAD, c1920
Black and white photo of vehicles and people on the road and other people walking along the verges. Circa 1920's. Suggestion that all may have been attending a picnic or church outing. Location unknown. On the reverse is a stamp impression of Oliver's London Pharmacy Tel. 123 117 Pall Mall Bendigo.bendigo, streetscape, general street views -
Kew Historical Society Inc
Photograph - Tour of the Boroondara (Kew) General Cemetery, 1977
Boroondara Cemetery, established in 1858, is within an unusual triangular reserve bounded by High Street, Park Hill Road and Victoria Park, Kew. By the 1890s, the Boroondara Cemetery was a popular destination for visitors and locals admiring the beauty of the grounds and the splendid monuments. The Boroondara Cemetery is of historical significance for the graves, monuments and epitaphs of a number of individuals whose activities have played a major part in Australia's history. They include the Henty family, artists Louis Buvelot and Charles Nuttall, businessmen John Halfey and publisher David Syme, artist and diarist Georgiana McCrae, actress Nellie Stewart and architect and designer of the Boroondara and Melbourne General Cemeteries, Albert Purchas.Walking tour led by Kew Historical Society members for members of the Royal Historical Society of Victoria in 1977. The photograph shows a Kew youth placing a sprig of Rosemary on Ellen Quick's grave. The photograph was one of six taken by KHS member Stewart West on that occasion, and subsequently donated by him to the collection by him.Reverse: "Kew youth placing a sprig of rosemary on grave of Ellen Quick nee Derrick who was the first burial on 12/3/1859. Her family Derricks were early Kew Landowners." boroondara general cemetery, kew cemetery, walking tours, ellen quick, dannock family, kew pioneers -
Bendigo Historical Society Inc.
Bendigo Historical Society Walking Tour of Axedale, 1st Sept 2024
Axedale is a town in Victoria, Australia. It is located on the McIvor Highway, in the City of Greater Bendigo, east of Bendigo. It was surveyed and proclaimed in 1861. At the 2021 census, Axedale had a population of 984. The town is nestled alongside the Campaspe River which feeds out of Lake Eppalock. It has a golf course, tennis courts, a school, a pub and a convenience store/petrol station. It lies between Heathcote and Bendigo.Forty Photos taken on the walking tour of Axedale by the Bendigo Historical society. Places visited included the Protestant and Catholic Cemeteries, the "Blue Stone House", the 150-year-old bridge over the Axe Creek on the Sugerloaf Road, the old Cobb and Co Stables, St Andrews Church and the Campaspe River Bridge.axedale, bendigo historical society walking tour, st andrews church axedale, axedale cemetery, axe creek bridge, campaspe, cobb and co stables axedale, blue stone house axedale -
Eltham District Historical Society Inc
Book, Melway Great Melbourne street directory including Geelong, Phillip Island Healesville, Bellarine & Mornington Peninsulas, 1998
25th edition. Coloured detailed maps accessed by a street or location index. Cover: (Includes) New Southbank map including Crown Complex, enlargements of Footscray and Kensington, bike paths, walking tracks & horse trails, latest public transport information, South east Australia tours maps, Vic Roads new route numbers, map of Australia1 atlas (22, 772 p.) : col. maps ; ISSN 03113957streets, maps, roads, melbourne -
Whitehorse Historical Society Inc.
Accessory - Cuff Links in Dunklings Box, 1935
These cuff links were a 21st Birthday gift to Ronald Arthur Edwards from his brother Stan in August 1935. Ron had polio and had problems walking. Stan drowned in 1936 in Tonumbarry Weir spillway. Both men were sons of Martha and Arthur Edwards of Husband Road, Forest Hill. Information from the niece of both men.Gold cuff links in the shape of shields in Dunklings box. 'To Ron 21st birthday from Stan' written in pencil on lid of box.Dunklings the Jewellers Diamond House Melb & Perthcostume accessories, jewellery -
Vision Australia
Audio (item) - Sound recording, Royal Victorian Institute for the Blind, Around the Institute: January 9, 2001
Around the Institute was a weekly program designed to keep clients and staff informed of events, activities and thoughts relating to low vision and blindness. It consisted of interviews undertaken by Jo Matthews, with sound engineer Ed Gamble, designed to inform, educate and explore on a variety of topics. January 9: In the driver’s seat at Sandown – Peter Watts, Bush walking camp – Tracey Walsh.royal victorian institute for the blind, radio shows -
Kiewa Valley Historical Society
Tobacco Tying Horse and Stick
Tobacco farming began circa 1960 in the Kiewa Valley and consequently became one of its major industries. Many of the Italian families were involved in tobacco farming.Historical: This equipment was used on one of the tobacco farms in the Kiewa Valley. The Tying Horse was home-made showing the resourcefulness of farmers living in the Kiewa Valley. Provenance: The tobacco farmer came from Italy and was sponsored to visit a tobacco farmer in Myrtleford to learn how to grow tobacco so that he could transfer those skills to his own farm in the Kiewa Valley.Burley tobacco stick is different to Hicks type stick. Tying of green leaf on the sticks - with the twine attached. There is small sharp metal blade on the end of the horse used for cutting twine. Rectangular wooden frame. The beam along the bottom is kept in place by 2 diagonal planks on each side and at both ends. The beam keeps the frame upright with 2 cross beams at each end. At each end there is a vertical beam with a 'V' cut out of each to hold a wooden beam/stick/tree branch. Wood is rough.tobacco. kiewa valley.tying horse. guido angelini. -
Bendigo Military Museum
Photograph - PHOTOGRAPH, MOUNTED, c.1920 post WWI
Black & white photo of a group of Officers in full uniform, peaked caps, jackets, Sam Brown's, leggings & boots. In centre is the Governor General wearing suit, bowler hat, walking stick. Photo taken in front of a wooden building with a double door & light overhead. Photo mounted on grey cardboard with fawn back.Back of photo: Officer's names in pencil Bottom RHS front of backboard in gold: Phone 4397 'DARGE' 175 Collins Street Melbournephotography-photographs, military history-army -
Halls Gap & Grampians Historical Society
Photograph - B/W
This is a picture of timber workers loading a truck with sawn timber at Sandersons Mill.The photo shows a tray truck loaded with sawn timber. There is a partially roofed timber building behind the truck and stacks of sawn timber all around. A man is walking from the back of the truck towards a stack of timber to the right and another is standing on the timber on the tray of the truck, holding a piece of timber. There is thick bush in the background.timber industries, logging, sawmilling -
National Vietnam Veterans Museum (NVVM)
Painting, Bluebell In Action, C.1972
Water colour painting in gold frame and cream matt. The painting depicts a centurion tank, an armoured personnel carrier, two Huey Helicopters and a Chinock Helicopter. There are two army personnel on top of the APC, one behind the tank one walking towards the tank and a couple to the right.Two more centurion lie to right of picture.APC.Blue Bell in Action Signed K.C. Mc Fadyen 72painting, centurion tank, armoured personnel carrier, hueycobra (helicopter)