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Surrey Hills Historical Society Collection
Photograph, David Miller and Lily Vipond Mair and family and friends on outing, c1932
David Miller (Dave) Mair (1879-1938) married Lily Vipond Deakin (1890-1945) in 1910. They had 5 children: Geoffrey David (1913-1970), Beryl (1916-1976), Gwynneth (1917-1997), Isabel Lillian (1921-1997) and Shirley Inez (1928-1968). Personal communication from Laurie Newton, Beryl's daughter: Dave and Lily initially lived in East Melbourne after they married. Dave walked across the gardens to work at the MCG. He never drove or owned a car. Geoffrey, Beryl and Gwynneth were born in East Melbourne. They subsequently moved to Louise Avenue, Mont Albert and Isabel may have been born while they were there. Later they purchased 20 Barton Street, Mont Albert. Shirley was born after they moved to Barton Street. Electoral roll details: 1919 68 Park Street, Hawthorn 1922 24 Louise Avenue, Mont Albert 1924 20 Barton Street, Mont Albert Dave Mair was a very keen sportsman. The woman named as Mattie was Martha Dunham Brooks b1892, Camberwell. She was the daughter of Arthur 'Empire' Brooks and his wife Mary Jane Wilson who lived at 21 York Street. They also had twin boys: Thomas Moffat Brooks – b. 1899, Surrey Hills; d. 1906 and Edwin Dunham Wilson Brooks – b. 1899, Surrey Hills; d. 1971 Heidelberg. The donor remembered the later as a builder of 11 York Street. Martha m. Clifford Ernest Cairns in 1935. Mattie Cairns was the donor's godmother. This is part of a large donation of material from the Deakin, Mair and Young families. This is part of a large donation of material from the Deakin, Mair and Young families all of which had connections with Surrey Hills / Mont Albert.A black & white photo of a man, a women, 2 women, a girl and a young lady beside a car in a country setting. The girl is bending to pat a dog.On rear: "Mum Dad Mair / Shirl Isabel Mattie / Digger - Cliff Cairns / Dog" in blue biro. Thought to be Beryl Mair's handwriting. "LILY" and "DAVE" in lead pencil above Mum and Dad. Photographer's stamp "653" in blue ink.dave mair, david miller mair, lilly vipond deakin, lily vipond mair, shirley inez mair, isabel lillian mair, mattie brooks, martha dunham brooks, cars -
Federation University Historical Collection
Document, Collection of Envelopes with Henry Sutton's name on them
Henry Sutton is a talented world-wide accepted inventor with inventions relating to the telephone, photography, wireless, cars, motorcycles, and bicycles as well as many more inventions. Henry was also one of four brothers that ran the Sutton's Music Store after the death of their Father Richard Sutton. Henry Sutton taught Applied Electricity at the Ballarat School of Mines in 1883 to 1886.1 x large envelope and 6 x small envelopes with Henry Sutton hand written on them as well as USA list of countries and states including Vict. Gr Bn, N.S.W, France and USA and number 18henry sutton, patents, edward waters and son, usa, france, victoria, nsw, great britain -
Federation University Historical Collection
Object, Auto Engine Humidifier, c1930
Brass unit and flexible tubing, stainless steel adjustment knob and copper coated spiral cover of control cable. Two spare fittings and two description cards. Decarbonizes the engine, sends a constant stream of moisture to the engine.Patented and patents pending in USA and foreign countries. VIX Vapor humidifier, Wheaton, ILL, USAengine humidifier, walter g. critchlow, vix vapour humidifier, vix vapor humidifier -
Federation University Historical Collection
Image, Batman's Map of Port Phillip
Scanned from "The Old Pioneers' Memorial History of Melbourne From the Discovery of Port Phillip to the World War". It is a facsimile map from the House of Commons Reports of Committee.John Batman's map of Port Phillip showing Dutigalla (Batman's Tract), a township reserve, open plains, public common reserve, fresh water"A tract of country [called?] by the native chief of Southern Ausralia to be John Batman 6th June 1935."port phillip bay, john batman, melbourne, iramoo, r. sarsh, river sarsh, river batman, yarra river -
Federation University Historical Collection
Photograph - Image, Victorian Aborigine with Weapons
Scanned from "The Old Pioneers' Memorial History of Melbourne From the Discovery of Port Phillip to the World War". Image of a Victorian Aborigine about to throw a spear with the assistance of a woomera. In this other hand he holds more spears and a boomerang."A tract of country [called?] by the native chief of Southern Ausralia to be John Batman 6th June 1935."aborigines, aboriginal, aboriginal weapons, spear, woomera, boomerang -
Kyneton Fire Brigade
Memorabilia - Trophy
Awarded at Geelong 1960Awarded at Competition 1960Cup on stem with two handles, mounted on plastic baseGeelong Demonstration 1960 Discipline Contest Class "B" Pres. by Country Fire Authority Thirdkyneton fire brigade, country fire authority, trophy, fire brigade demonstrations, fire brigade discipline contest -
Kyneton Fire Brigade
Memorabilia - Trophy
Awarded for Discipline Contest Geelong 1964Awarded for Discipline Contest in 1964Cup mounted on bakerlite, with two handles. Geelong Demonstration 1964 Discipline Contest Class "B" Pres. by Country Fire Authority Thirdkyneton fire brigade, trophy, country fire authority, fire brigade demonstrations, fire brigade discipline contest -
Kyneton Fire Brigade
Memorabilia - Trophy
Awarded for Discipline Contest Mildura 1963, Class "B", first placePart of Kyneton Fire Brigade trophy collection Silver coloured cone urn with lid. Engraved bakerlite base. Mildura Demonstration 1963 Discipline Contest Class "B" Pres by Country Fire Authority FIRSTkyneton fire brigade, country fire authority, trophy, fire brigade discipline contest, fire brigade demonstrations -
Kyneton Fire Brigade
Memorabilia - Trophy
Won by Kyneton Brigade at competition in Ballarat in 1959. Part of Kyneton Brigade trophy collectionSilver cup with decorative handles mounted on fluted Bakelite base. BALLARAT DEMONSTRATION 1959 DISCIPLINE CONTEST Class "B" Pres. by COUNTRY FIRE AUTHORITY First kyneton fire brigade, country fire authority, fire brigade demonstrations, fire brigade discipline contest, trophy -
Kyneton Fire Brigade
Memorabilia - Trophy
Awarded at Geelong 1950 Discipline Contest SecondPart of Kyneton Fire Brigade trophy collectionSilver cup with decorative handles mounted on Bakelite base. Base has some decoration. GEELONG DEMONSTRATION 1950 DISCIPLINE CONTEST Class 'E' Pres. by COUNTRY FIRE AUTHORITY Secondkyneton fire brigade, country fire authority, trophy, fire brigade demonstrations, fire brigade discipline contest, geelong -
Falls Creek Historical Society
Poster - Kangaroo Hoppet 2023
The Kangaroo Hoppet is Australia’s premier long distance cross country ski race, and a member of the Worldloppet series of international cross country ski events. The first race at Falls Creek was held in 1979 under the name of “Australian Birkebeiner”. It was a 21km race with about 80 participants organised by the Birkebeiner Nordic Ski Club of Mount Beauty. The course started and finished at Falls Creek Alpine Resort and took participants out into the Bogong High Plains. After running the event for 10 years, it was decided they should become part of the Worldloppet series of marathon ski races. Representatives from the Birkebeiner Nordic Ski Club and the Australian Ski Federation attended the Worldloppet Annual Meeting in Finland in June 1990 to put the case for the acceptance of an Australian event into the Worldloppet series. Before being admitted, they had to demonstrate that the Birkebeiner Club could run a world class event, so three months later in August 1990 a 42km event named the Australian International Ski Marathon was held at Falls Creek together with a 21km Birkebeiner race and a 7km event called the Birkebeiner Lite. The event was approved by delegates from USA, Norway and Austria, in 1991 Australia became the 12th member of Worldloppet, with the condition that there had to be a name change. After some late night discussion allegedly involving red wine from North East Victoria the main event became the 42km Kangaroo Hoppet, with the minor events being the 21km Australian Birkebeiner, and 7km Joey Hoppet. In the winter of 1991, the first Kangaroo Hoppet was held. It was a great success and has been a regular fixture on the international ski calendar ever since. It features the main 42km event as well as a 21km event and a 7km event. The Hoppet brings the Australian snowfields to an international audience. Unfortunately in 2023 due to poor snow conditions it was decided that a fair and safe competition could not be held on the course and the Kangaroo Hoppet was cancelled.This poster is significant because it documents an event which brings international attention to Falls Creek and the surrounding region.A poster featuring an image of female two skiers after a previous Hoppet presentation. Logos of Worldloppet, AGL, Falls Creek, Alpine Shire Council, Victorian State Government, the Birkebeiner Nordic Ski Club. FIS, Bendigo Bank and Kangaroo Hoppet are across the bottom of the poster. Text: KANGAROO HOPPET Australia's Premier X-Country Ski Race 26 August 2023 Below the logos: 26 August 2023 FALLS CREEK AUSTRALIA 7 km 21 km 42 km hoppet.com.au kangaroo hoppet, worldloppet events, falls creek, mt. beauty -
Halls Gap & Grampians Historical Society
Magazine - B/W, C 1915
Large families were the norm, rather than the exception up to the time of the World wars. perhaps the senseless destruction of those young lives sickened humanity- perhaps the increased taxes and cost of living resulting from the wars caused a necessary reduction in family size. Perhaps the independence won by women as they carried on their daily lives without their men, made mothers say, "Enough" The Warren family farmed the fertile Fyans Creek flats in the Grampian Mountains of Western Victoria. Some say Halls Gap was so named because the bushranger Hall holed up there in the early days. The rugged slopes and hidden gullies could have hidden a whole gang of bushrangers, but little remained undiscovered to a wandering family of 12 children growing up with their flocks and herds grazing the ranges. A tired rider could nod off, safe in the knowledge a trusty stockhorse would plod steadily homeward into the night. Responsibility quickly made youngsters capable and reliable. Then Australia went to war. There were three older brothers, then the girls, then young Frank. All the men went, including Frank. So the girls had to run the farm alone. Their mother had her hands full with the youngsters, still attending school, a daily walk over the mountain to Pomonal and return. But the loss of the men's casual wages from timber cutting and labouring jobs, meant great hardship is some method of earning a cash income had to be devised. Paying guests! That was it. So Myrtle Bank Guest House was born. City folk flocked to the mountain resort. High stepping mountain horses met them at the Stawell raid-head, with the tall and beautiful Warren girls driving them in experienced fashion, their auburn hair sometimes falling from its pins to fly free, as the dray bowled along towards the hills. The would hitch up their skirts to saw and chop wood for the stoves and fires. They milked cows and delivered calves. They shore sheep and trimmed their feet. They mustered their cattle as the seasons rolled by, and the paying guests watched and participated, fascinated. With laughter and song, the girls would wash up in a tin dish, throw on their house clothes to wait on table, sing and play piano, violin, accordion, enjoying the talk of the city and that other world so far away from their mountain home. The simple country menu was a hit, and the homemade bread, butter, jams and preserves, fruit and vegetables sent guests staggering to their armchairs. Picnics, hikes, goodbyes and welcomes blurred as the years of the war dragged by. Bookings were made and remade as the new enterprise became established. Peace was declared. the men returned A whole new building rose with two floors, inviting verandahs and bathrooms. Myrtle Bank would remain a family business all its lifetime, until buried below the Bellfield Dam, by which time more than one the girls had joined their beloved Frank, lost on Flanders Field. Article in book or magazine describing life at Myrtlebank during war years Other article written from letter from soldier P Lillis to his sister 3rd article of woman from country enlisting in WAAF Submitted by Carol of Bannockburn, Submitted by D Langley Submitted by Meryl of South Frankstonaccommodation, myrtlebank, people, warren -
Bendigo Historical Society Inc.
Photograph - GOLDEN SQUARE LAUREL STREET P.S. COLLECTION: PHOTOGRAPH - 1987 CROSS COUNTRY REPRESENTATIVES
Coloured photograph of the 1987 Cross Country Representatives. The girl is wearing a yellow Golden Square t shirt and dark blue shorts and the boy is wearing a blue t shirt with PSVSA and Victorian Primary Schools Cross Country Championships on the front and blue shorts. The girl is sitting on a stool and the boy is standing behind it. The boy's name is Scott Ellerton and the girl's name is Megan Baxter.education, primary, golden square laurel st p.s., golden square laurel street p.s. collection - photograph - 1987 cross country representatives, scott ellerton, megan baxter -
Bendigo Historical Society Inc.
Document - LANDS OFFICE, CROWN LANDS SURVEYED AND SOLD SANDHURST DISTRICT, 1854 (?) onwards
Document: buff colour hard cover journal. Contains details of crown lands surveyed and sold. On LH page, town, suburban or country lands. RH page: auction, selection, price per acre, price and purchaser. Indexed by parish in front page. Two front pages cut out. On spine ' Index book' ' Lands and Survey' '06' 'E' ' Country' and 'Sales'Lands Officeplace, land sales, bendigo, lands office, land surveyed, land sold, land sales, bendigo, sandhurst -
Bendigo Military Museum
Souvenir - BADGE & BUTTON COLLECTION, WWI (estimated)
The belt, badges and buttons were collected by Albert John Porter No 2436 AIF. He enlisted in 5th reinforcements 23rd Batt on 17.7.1915 age 26 years, embark for Egypt 29.9.1915, embark for France 26.3.1916, hospital 10.11.1916 with Laryngitis severe then contracts Influenza 20.12.1916, rejoin unit 23.3.1917, promoted L/Cpl 10.8.1917, hospital with Laryngitis 14.11.1917, rejoin unit 19.12.1917, promoted Bombing Sgt 2.5.1918, discharged from the AIF 23.7.1919. Approx 62 badges & buttons from various countries during WWI, mounted on a webbing belt, maroon with leather ends, 2 straps & metal buckles.souvenirs, badges, butons, collections -
Glenelg Shire Council Cultural Collection
Photograph - Photograph - Car on a country road, n.d
Black and white photo. Old car, two door, soft roof, running board, driver and woman passenger, number plate 64218, on country road.Back: Round purple stamp 'PRINTED BY M.E. ANDREWS PORTLAND' -
Glenelg Shire Council Cultural Collection
Memorabilia - Labels, n.d
Strip of 27 self adhesive bottle labels, Casterton Country Made Soft Drinks & Cordial, Jeffreys Bros. White labels, royal blue print. -
Victoria Police Museum
Photograph (police motorcycle)
Two Honda CB900F motorcycles riding along a winding country road - front view. Registration numbers LY-134 and LY-125. Circa 1980police vehicles; wireless patrol; motor transport branch; motor transport section; motor cycle patrol; police motorcycles; honda motorcycle -
Bendigo Historical Society Inc.
Document - BAGGALEY COLLECTION: LARGE AERIAL PHOTOGRAPH POSTER OF BENDIGO APRIL 1936
Sepia print of an aerial photograph of the centre of Bendigo taken specially for the occasion of the United Country Party conference of 1936 Issued with the compliments of 'the Argus' April 1936Wilson and Mackinnon Printers, Melbourne -
Port Melbourne Historical & Preservation Society
Document - Chart illustrating shipping flags, 1938
Chart illustrating shipping flags - the International Code of Signals including alfa, substitutes, numeral pendants and naval numerals. From Country Life supplement 1938.transport - shipping -
Bendigo Historical Society Inc.
Ephemera - BENDIGO NORTH PRIMARY SCHOOL COLLECTION: LCM CROSS COUNTRY RUN BANNER
Gold banner, white print. 'LCM Cross Country Run, BNPS 9 Year Girls 1998' Wooden rod at top, white fringing on bottom.bendigo, education, bendigo north primary school -
Dutch Australian Heritage Centre Victoria
Ornamental container with lid (Sierbusje voor thee of koffie)
The cylindrical silver-plated container has slightly convex lid with central knob. Container and lid are decorated with scenes of country life. The decorations are in bas-relief.The initials D and E ( for Douwe Egberts) are imprinted within a rosette. Also a tag with the letters HH with 90 beside it, possibly a record of the silver-plating process. -
Wangaratta RSL Sub Branch
Embroidered Postcard, c. 1917
Postcard from WWI soldier William West (1268) of the 29 Infantry Battalion, 5th Pioneers Battalion while posted in France to his family at home.Embroidered silk postcards were first made in 1900 for the Paris Exposition. The popularity of silk postcards peaked during the First World War 1914 - 1918.They were mostly embroidered by French women in their homes and then sent to the factories for cutting and mounting on cards. Many of the cards were illustrated with patriotic symbols, flags, slogans, or sentimental texts. During the First World War, many Allied officers and soldiers based in France sent silk embroidered postcards to their loved ones back homeWhite rectangular postcard (portrait orientation) with embroidered cross representing flags and colours of different countries. Flower and foliate decoration beneath. Handwritten message on backFront: "THE CROSS OF THE ALLIES" (embroidered) Back: "to Enid from Dad / best love little girlie xxxxxx"wwi, postcard, embroidered postcard, carte postale -
Clunes Museum
Document - LETTER, 12/10/2000
THE COUNTRY WOMENS ASSOCIATION OF VICTORIA LETTER FROM BETTY BURGESS DATED 12TH OCTOBER 2000 TO MRS. DIANA HOLMES, SECRETARY, CLUNES C.W.A. OF VIC.INC.local history, document, letter, c.w.a. -
Whitehorse Historical Society Inc.
Document, Roads, 1/02/1937
Claims by Shire of Blackburn and Mitcham for reimbursement from Country Roads board for amounts expended on the main Healesville (now Whitehorse) and Burwood Roads, February 1937.burwood highway, healesville road, shire of blackburn and mitcham, victoria. country roads board, roads and streets, whitehorse road, nunawading -
Whitehorse Historical Society Inc.
Document, Roads, 1/03/1937
Claim by Shire of Blackburn and Mitcham for reimbursement from Country Roads Board for amounts expended on the Main Healesville Road (now Whitehorse Road), March 1937.healesville road, roads and streets, victoria. country roads board, shire of blackburn and mitcham, whitehorse road, nunawading -
Ballarat Heritage Services
Photograph - Colour, Launch of "Bullboar, Macaroni and Mineral Water: Spa Country's Swiss and Italian Story", 2005, 17/12/2005
Graham Hudson (Righetti) and Clare Gervasoni at the launch of "Bullboar, Macaroni and Mineral Water: Spa Country's Swiss and Italian Story" at the Pantechnicon Art Gallery, Daylesford.swiss/italian, swiss and italian, clare gervasoni, graham hudson, bullboar, macaroni and mineral water -
Ballarat Heritage Services
Photograph - Colour, Launch of "Bullboar, Macaroni and Mineral Water: Spa Country's Swiss and Italian Story", 2005, 17/12/2005
Graham Hudson (Righetti) and Clare Gervasoni at the launch of "Bullboar, Macaroni and Mineral Water: Spa Country's Swiss and Italian Story" at the Pantechnicon Art Gallery, Daylesford.swiss/italian, swiss and italian, clare gervasoni, graham hudson -
Ballarat Heritage Services
Photograph - Colour, Launch of "Bullboar, Macaroni and Mineral Water: Spa Country's Swiss and Italian Story", 2005, 17/12/2005
Jon Stevens and Cr Heather Mutimer at the launch of "Bullboar, Macaroni and Mineral Water: Spa Country's Swiss and Italian Story" at the Pantechnicon Art Gallery, Daylesford.swiss/italian, swiss and italian, clare gervasoni, jon stevens, heather mutimer, bullboar -
Lakes Entrance Regional Historical Society (operating as Lakes Entrance History Centre & Museum)
Photograph, Tambo Shire, 1994 c
Also second identical copyColour photograph of grazing country in the Timbarra region, showing well grassed paddocks in foreground farm buildings in valley wooded foothills in background. Timbarra Victoriaagriculture, primary industry, animals