Booklet, 2 pages with lemon cover and brown text. On front: ''Wipplegong in Spring' by Dorothy R. Wells, a factual text detailing what Dorothy experiences in her garden with the coming of Spring. ...'the name of the place is happily chosen, for wipplegong is the aboriginal word for magpie. The liquid warbling of these birds in the early morning and late afernoon is one of the joys which no one who has stayed at this home will ever forget' Wipplegong is the aboriginal word for magpie, the word being evocative of the warbling of a magpie.Dorothy R. Wellsbook, rural, wipplegong in spring, axedale, knowsley, farming, magpie

Map of Virginia Mine on the Garden Gully line of reef, Eaglehawk, transverse section. Shaft, levels and Garden Gully anticlinal axial line drawn. Key shows types of formations - quartz, spurs, sandstone, slate, cleavage, lava. This map forms part of the Geological Survey of Victoria, Structure of Bendigo Goldfield report, No. 47, 1923. H.Herman, late Director of Geological Survey.Geological Survey Victoria, Geological Survey Office, Bendigo.bendigo, gold mining, virgina mine eaglehawk, eaglehawk, bendigo, gold mining, virginia mine, garden gully line of reef.

Large black and white aerial photo taken looking north, foreground Fortuna Villa, on right side site where now is St John hospital, top left garden gully oval. There are three copies (one sepia colour).bendigo, streetscape, aerial view

Black and white photograph of pool in Fortuna gardens. Shallow pool with tall Doric column at one end. Roman style structure at far end.bendigo, house, fortuna villa

Black and white photograph of stone archway and pathway, Fortuna gardens.bendigo, house, fortuna villa

Black and white photoghraph taken from top of Fortuna Villa, looking down on garden with Bendigo city in background. Large palms in garden. Three sculptures over entry to Villa.bendigo, house, fortuna villa

Plan of Fortuna villa entrance and garden elevations copied onto acetate material ( copies of original drawings). Written on top 'Fortuna Villa, G. Lansell Esq. Scale 8 feet to one inch.' Possibly originals drawn by W. Beebe.bendigo, house, fortuna villa

Black and white photograph ( copy) showing Lansell's Fortuna Villa in centre, lake in front. Elaborate gardens and steps leading to lake. On left hand side, mining chimney and elevated tramway leading to sheds. Large chimney on LH side. RH side of image: poppet head, tramways and mining chimneys (needle). Three poppet heads visible in background.bendigo, mining, fortuna mine sites

Five page handwritten and typed document with information about the Black Forest Gold Mine on the Hustler's line of reef. The Black Forest mine was situated one mile north of the Eaglehawk Post Office. To the west was the South New Moon on the Garden Gully line of reef and to the east was the Lightning Hill line of reef worked by open cutting to a depth of over 100 ft by Pascoe and Simonds. A party of Germans named 'Rothacker and Party', first worked the claim on the Black Forest mine approx 1860. Other mines worked on the Hustler's line north of the Black Forest were: Martha Company. Johns and company and Meaner (unclear) and Co.bendigo, mining, black forest gold mine