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Photograph, Ballarat West Railway Station staff
Railway Station staff were an important part of the social structure of both the railway and wider communities in the 1920s. Here Michael Taffe (1) is pictured with other staff members in front of the arches at the Ballarat West Railway Station.On back of mounting board, Mick Taffe, Middle, Head Porter. -
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Envelope, City of Ballaarat 1956 Olympic's envelope
Official envelope from the City of Ballaarat used to welcome visitors to Ballarat for the XVIth Olympic Games events held in the city in 1956. This envelope contained event tickets and promotional material for visitors to Ballarat for the Olympic Games. This was the first time the Olympic Games had been held in Australia and the rowing and canoeing events were conducted on Lake Wendouree at Ballarat from November 23rd to December 1st 1956. -
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Brochure, Ballarat City of Culture
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Article - Book Press, Small Book Press
Small book press with rectangular pressing surface driven by worm wheel thread and turning handle. This press is still used in the Hymettus library for book repairs.ballarat, books, book repair, covers, hymettus cottage, library. -
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Medal, Cardinal O'Connell medal
Cardinal O'Connell was Roman Catholic archbishop of Boston when this medal was created by Dora Ohlfsen in 1911.This medal was created by Ballarat born sculptor Dora Olhfsen. Ohlfsen lived and worked in Roma at the time and this medallion was created for Archbishop, Cardinal O'Connell of Boston on his achieving the cardinal's hat in 1911. Ohlfsen was born in Ballarat in 1869 and served as a nurse in Italy in World War I later sculpting the Anzac medallion to raise funds for returned soldiers.medal, ohlfsen, ballarat, cardinal o'connell, rome -
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Work on paper - booklet, A Guide to Ballarat
Nineteen page promotional booklet for Mc Dougal and Chisolm Ballarat c. 1953. -
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Tie shape preserver, c. 1940s
This tie preserver with instructions on cleaning has a well documented provenance and a known owner forming part of a significant and representative historical collection that reflects Ballarat's local history from a family perspective. It contributes to our understanding of social and family life in twentieth century Ballarat and providing interpretative capacity for family, local, trades and social history themes.Printed with Instructions for use and retailer's details: With Compliments from Alf. C. White Tailor and Mercer 423 Sturt St. BALLARAT. Verso has no printing.ballarat, tailor, mercer -
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Book - Victorian Railways Timesheet carbon book
This book provides an important record of the movements of staff across the Victorian Railway system in the 1930s.michael taffe, ballarat, maryborough, donald, watchem, beaufort, mildura, rockbank, creswick, north creswick, burrumbeet -
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Administrative record - Time sheet carbon book, 1935
This book of carbon copies of a railway Station Master's timesheets demonstrates the nature of work, and movement required for the position of Station Master before the subject was appointed to and allocated a station.ballarat, donald, maryborough, creswick, creswick north, acting station master -
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Booklet, Ballarat Homecoming Souvenir Programme, 1917
This booklet includes the open factories, factory displays, pageants and open gardens at Ballarat in 1917.32 pages and card covers staple boundnon-fictionThis booklet includes the open factories, factory displays, pageants and open gardens at Ballarat in 1917. factories, business, gardens, displays -
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Booklet, Boomerang Songster
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Postcard - Noel Counihan exhibition Moscow 1960 souvenir, Bakery Hill 1854
One of a series of postcards from an exhibition of works by Australian Social Realist artists held in Russia in 1960. This postcard is significant to Ballarat as it links to the linocuts Counihan and others produced to commemorate the centenary of the Eureka Stockade in 1954. As this depicts a painting of an event at Ballarat significant in its context to protest for social equality that would be understood by the soviet audience. A link between Australian socialist artists and the Russian political sensibilities of the time.Black and white image of Noel Counihan's painting of Bakery Hill Ballarateureka stockade, ballarat reform league, socialism, australian art, ballarat, russia -
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Book, If & What? Lectures on Theism, 1882
The bookplate/premium plate identifies this book as being from the Young Men's General Debating Society South Street Ballarat 1897. This society was formed six years earlier and evolved into The Grand National Eisteddfod of Australasia or the Royal South Street Society in 1962. This book of sermons was written by Ballarat personality the Rev William Henderson who was responsible for the building of Ballarat's St Andrew's Kirk and the establishment of Ballarat College. It is one of many books of sermons published by Henderson and is the most significant of those productions, most of which are booklets. The bookplate identifies this book as belonging to one of Australia's oldest and most prestigious Eisteddfods The Royal South Street Competitions founded in 1891, the best known feature of which is the Sun Aria operatic competition. The book itself is a totally local product printed, published and bound in Ballarat in 1882, the publisher & binder being McHutchison & Campbell of Lydiard St, Ballarat.theology, sermons -
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Ceramic - Plate, Begonia Festival Souvenir Plate, 1994
These plates were produced by Ballarat potter John Gilbert at his Old Ballarat pottery in Mt Clear in 1994. Gilbert established two potteries in Ballarat , the Edinburgh Pottery at Sovereign Hill Historical village and the Old Ballarat Pottery. Gilbert studied art at the School of Mines Ballarat, now Federation University and went on to lecture there. Notable for his studio pottery these plates were more a commercial production and were among the later products from the Old Ballarat Pottery before it closed in 1994.Small stoneware plate transfer printed with "Ballarat Begonia Fesival 40th Anniversary around rim and colour print of Begonias in centre.label to the underside with printed with Old Ballarat Pottery around poppet head logo and a second triangular Made in Australia sticker. -
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Container - Spectacle Case, Wastell & Cutter spectacle/glasses case
Wastell & Cutter were Ophthalmic Opticians at Ballarat, Victoria from the 1930s until the 1970s. Small metal plaque on cover with Optometrist's name Wastell & Cutter embossed against medieval townscape image.optometrist, ballarat, glasses case -
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Work on paper - pamphlet, Beaufort Homes
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Work on paper - Postcard, Commemoration - St Patrick's Cathedral Ballarat Centenary
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Badge - Souvenir badge, Back to Ballarat 1935
The Ballarat Homecoming celebrations in 1935 were claimed in the local newspaper, The Courier to be 'the greatest pageant organised in any of Victoria's provincial centres'. The celebrations included street stalls, illuminations and carnival rides.A rare survivor of an ephemeral souvenir item from the Back to Ballarat March 9-10th, 1935.Symbols of the City of Ballaarat, a miner, and an agricultural worker set against the rising sun.Stokes Melb stamped to back of badge.ballarat, stokes, 1935, homecoming -
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Work on paper, Visit of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother to the City of Ballaarat 2nd March, 1985
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Work on paper - pamphlet, Mildura Sunlight Souvenir
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Work on paper - Bookmarks, Empire Day bookmarks
The celebration of Queen Victoria's birthday on May 24 was renamed Empire Day in 1903 after her death in 1901. It was celebrated throughout the British Empire, including in Australia. Ballarat schools marched in procession with a salute at the Town Hall before attending church services at their respective churches. By the late 1950s the celebration became Commonwealth Empire Day the reference to Empire being dropped by the 1960s.These form part of a large family collection of bookmarks and local & family history items at Hymettus Cottage, home to the same family for the past 125 years in 2024. They have a well documented provenance and a known owner forming part of a significant and representative historical collection that reflects Ballarat's local history from a family perspective. They contribute to our understanding of social and family life in twentieth century Ballarat and providing interpretative capacity for family, local, and social history themes.Three Empire Day cardboard bookmarks each featuring an illustrated crown, with crossed Australian and British flags, each bookmark trimmed in gold. The first is simply for Empire Day and two commemorate the Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II and the 1953 Royal Visit respectively.nil,empire day, royal visit, bookmarks, empire day movement, melbourne, coronation year 1953 -
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Book - Poetry Book, Lays of Lake Wendouree
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Work on paper - Cartoon
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Furniture - Overmantle, Edwardian Overmantle
An example of the furniture manufactured on the goldfields at Ballarat c.1900. Originally the business was established by Emanuel Steinfeld furniture manufacturer and retailer, who settled at Ballarat and in 1856 opened his furniture warehouse. Steinfeld left the Ballarat in 1881 and lived at St Kilda. He left his Ballarat business in the hands of two nephews, Sussman & Kornblum who continued the business in their own name.An example of colonial cabinet making in one of Ballarat's pioneering furniture manufacturing businesses that was founded in the 1850s. Backstamp of Sussman & Kornblum Ballaratballarat, jewish, cabinetmakers -
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Book - Instruction Book, Transportation of Goods 1929
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Work on paper - Book, The Affair at Eureka
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Work on paper - Book, Abstract and Analysis of the Evidence taken by A Select Committee of the Assembly of Victoria in the Case of George Dunmore Lang Late Manager and Frederic Lee Drake Late Assistant of the Bank of New South Wales at Ballaarat
Rev John Dunmore Lang's defence of his son who was imprisoned for his part in the fraud at the Bank of New South Wales Ballarat and Clunes in 1854.Small 95 page booklet published in 1857 by Fairfax, Melbourne and inscribed by W. D. Lang.non-fictionRev John Dunmore Lang's defence of his son who was imprisoned for his part in the fraud at the Bank of New South Wales Ballarat and Clunes in 1854.drake, lang, rev john dunmore lang, ballarat, clunes, select committee of enquiry -
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Book - Naturalist book, From Range to Seas a bird lover's ways
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Furniture - Bed, Iron Bedstead
19th century iron and nickel plated brass bed formerly in the Catholic Bishop's Palace Ballarat. Originally purchased for the palace in the 1870s and bought at auction to replace similar bedstead that was broken at Hymettus.A recorded piece with history of only two owners, marketed from Ballarat manufacturer and retailer Tunbridge & Sons in the late 19th century.Nickel plated iron & brass three quarter bed. Base stretcher stencil label of Tunbridge & Sons manufacturer Ballarat.On timber matress base/frame stamped Tunbridge & Sons Ballarat.bishops' palace, ballarat, bed, iron furniture, -
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Work on paper - Newspaper article, Bicentennial gift
non-fictionmt pleasant school, ballarat, bicentenary, michael taffe, francis ellis, tree planting