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Kew Historical Society Inc
Leisure object - Board Game, Guest's Letter Box: Beat the Champ!, 1950s
The Kew Historical Society’s collection includes a wide range of leisure objects. Many of the items are European-made, generally of British origin, however there are a number that were made for the Australian market by Australian manufacturers. In the Nineteenth and Twentieth centuries, there were large numbers of games produced for children and adults. These included: arcade games, board games, playing cards and puzzles. A representative sample, many now rare survivors, can be found in the collection.Board game comprising cover, writing pads, based on a television program."Guest's Letter Box Card Game as played on the Channel 7 national show."board game, guest's letter box -
Kew Historical Society Inc
Leisure object - Board Game, Drafts Board, 1950-1965
The Kew Historical Society’s collection includes a wide range of leisure objects. Many of the items are European-made, generally of British origin, however there are a number that were made for the Australian market by Australian manufacturers. In the Nineteenth and Twentieth centuries, there were large numbers of games produced for children and adults. These included: arcade games, board games, playing cards and puzzles. A representative sample, many now rare survivors, can be found in the collection.Wooden drafts board with the counters contained in an internal drawer.drafts, board games, leisure activities -
Kew Historical Society Inc
Leisure object - Card Game, AMCO Playing Card Co, Bridge Card Bingo, 1955-1965
The Kew Historical Society’s collection includes a wide range of leisure objects. Many of the items are European-made, generally of British origin, however there are a number that were made for the Australian market by Australian manufacturers. In the Nineteenth and Twentieth centuries, there were large numbers of games produced for children and adults. These included: arcade games, board games, playing cards and puzzles. A representative sample, many now rare survivors, can be found in the collection.Bridge Card Bingo. U.S.A. 1938. AMCO Playing Card Company of New York & Chicago was an American company founded in the 1930s. It continued to produce playing cards up until 1987. binge card bingo, playing cards, card games -
Kew Historical Society Inc
Leisure object - Game, Score Pad, 1900-1939
The Kew Historical Society’s collection includes a wide range of leisure objects. Many of the items are European-made, generally of British origin, however there are a number that were made for the Australian market by Australian manufacturers.In the Nineteenth and Twentieth centuries, there were large numbers of games produced for children and adults. These included: arcade games, board games, playing cards and puzzles. A representative sample, many now rare survivors, can be found in the collection.Scoring pad, possibly used for Bridge. The cardboard cover of the pad, now detached, has a hand-painted design of an English cottage. The paper pad includes headings and spaces for 'Honours' and Tricks' as well as 'Them' and 'Us'.card games -- score pads, leisure objects, scoring -
Kew Historical Society Inc
Leisure object - Board Game, J W Spear & Sons, Flower Lotto, 1950s
The Kew Historical Society’s collection includes a wide range of leisure objects. Many of the items are European-made, generally of British origin, however there are a number that were made for the Australian market by Australian manufacturers. In the Nineteenth and Twentieth centuries, there were large numbers of games produced for children and adults. These included: arcade games, board games, playing cards and puzzles. A representative sample, many now rare survivors, can be found in the collection."Flower Lotto". UK, circa 1950s. Flower Lotto was a product of J.W. Spear & Sons, founded in 1879 in Nuremberg, Germany, but also based in UK after 1932. Spear & Sons were a significant manufacturer of board games from the 1900s. The company was bought out by Mattel in 1994. Missing original box. flower lotto, games and puzzles, j.w. spear and sons -
Kew Historical Society Inc
Leisure object - Game, Quoits, 1950-1965
The Kew Historical Society’s collection includes a wide range of leisure objects. Many of the items are European-made, generally of British origin, however there are a number that were made for the Australian market by Australian manufacturers. In the Nineteenth and Twentieth centuries, there were large numbers of games produced for children and adults. These included: arcade games, board games, playing cards and puzzles. A representative sample, many now rare survivors, can be found in the collection.Quoits. 4 rope quoits and yellow wooden stand. Designed for two players.games, quoits -
Kew Historical Society Inc
Leisure object - Board Game, Lotto [or House], 1950s
The Kew Historical Society’s collection includes a wide range of leisure objects. Many of the items are European-made, generally of British origin, however there are a number that were made for the Australian market by Australian manufacturers. In the Nineteenth and Twentieth centuries, there were large numbers of games produced for children and adults. These included: arcade games, board games, playing cards and puzzles. A representative sample, many now rare survivors, can be found in the collection.Lotto. Box title "THE POPULAR GAME OF LOTTO". Inside the lid are a set of instructions for playing the game of "Lotto or House". The game was manufactured "solely at Chad Valley Works, Harborne, England. Beside the rules, in pencil is the name "P. Knight", presumably the owner of the game. chad valley works, lotto -
Kew Historical Society Inc
Leisure object - Mobile Toy, Girl and Goose, Twentieth Century
The Kew Historical Society’s collection includes a wide range of leisure objets. Many of the items are European-made, generally of British origin, however there are a number that were made for the Australian market by Australian manufacturers. In the Nineteenth and Twentieth centuries, there were large numbers of games produced for children and adults. These included: arcade games, board games, playing cards and puzzles. A representative sample, many now rare survivors, can be found in the collection.Hand-held mechanical two-dimensional wooden toy of a girl and a goose.toys, mobile toys, handheld toys, wooden toys -
Mont De Lancey
Book, Birn Brothers Ltd, Busy Little Folk, 1950's
A vintage, 1950's collection of young children's stories and poems, illustrated in black and white with some red highlights.A green covered vintage 1950's hardcover children's book with a coloured illustration on the front of a young boy and girl washing their toys in a red bathtub filled with water. Scrubbing brush, soap and sponge are shown. The title Busy Little Folk is written in red and pink lettering at the top. It is bound at the right side with brown tape. The back cover is plain grey cardboard. There are short stories, puzzles and simple poems included for the young child. Pp.93.fictionA vintage, 1950's collection of young children's stories and poems, illustrated in black and white with some red highlights.books, storybooks, children's books, picture books -
Tennis Australia
Block puzzle, Circa 1890
Block puzzle set. Contains 35 wood blocks covered with printed paper that can be arranged to make 6 different scenes. Housed in custom wooden box with hinge lid. Hinge is cloth tape. Box also contains five picture guide cards (sixth picture guide appears on box lid). Complete set. Small swinging metal hook as box closure device. Materials: Cardboard, Paper, Ink, Wood, Glue, Cloth tape, Metaltennis -
Bendigo Historical Society Inc.
Book - CHATTER BOX 1903, 1903
Red Hard Covered Book with Gold & Black Title & Illustration. 'Chatterbox' founded by J. Erskine Clarke EMA. London: Published for the Proprietors by Wells Gardner Darton, & Co; 3 Paternoster Buildings 1903. Contents include fiction and nonfiction; short stories, poetry, illustrations and puzzles. Pages 444. Markings & Inscriptions: Madge from Ruby January 1904. Inside Cover London: Printed by Strangeways & Sons Tower Street Cambridge Circus W.C. Orignal Authors of Pieces Various.Variousbook, childrens picture story -
Bendigo Historical Society Inc.
Document - LA TROBE UNIVERSITY BENDIGO COLLECTION: THE BIG LAND PUZZLE10-ACRE MIX UP
A newspaper article titled 'The Big Land Puzzle: 10-acre mix up'. This relates to a difference of opinion over what a 10 acre site was bought for. The Principal of the State College of Victoria, Burwood Mr. James Mac Hill, said it wasn't bought for a college to train teachers for handicapped children as was reported by The Minister for Education Mr. Lindsay Thompson. The Principal said the land was being acquired by the State College of Victoria, campus. The article includes a photo of Mr. Hill. Gazette, 1974.bendigo, education, state college of victoria burwood, la trobe university bendigo collection, collection, bendigo teachers' college, mr. james mac hill, land development, state college of victoria burwood campus, tertiary education, mr. lindsay thompson, minister of education -
Bendigo Historical Society Inc.
Leisure object - TOYS AND GAMES COLLECTION: PAPER COVERED WOODEN BLOCKS, c1930's
Object. Six paper covered wooden blocks. Childrens toy, not a complete set.(meant to be 12). Six different pictures can be made by changing the blocks around. Also one picture of one puzzle depicting two children in a garden scene near a pond. Picture appears to have been pasted onto the back cardboard of a notepad. On the back of picture - Joyce, Joyce Brown is no good, Chop her up for firewood, If she is no good for that, Give her to Mick Bennett.toys, general, blocks, wooden blocks paper covered -
Tennis Australia
Block puzzle, Circa 1920
French block puzzle entitled 'Les Cubes Humoristiques'. 21-part object; (1 to 15) 15 paper-covered wooden blocks which can be arranged to make six different scenes; (16) Wooden box for housing blocks with paper lithograph illustration on lid depicting a tennis match; (17 to 21) Five picture cards: colour lithographs pasted onto card, depicting various humourous sporting and leisure scenes. Materials: Wood, Paper, Metal, Cardboard, Ink, Cloth tapetennis -
Robin Boyd Foundation
Article - Book review, Philip Johnson, The Puzzle of Architecture, Jun-66
This is a comprehensive and erudite review of Robin Boyd's book 'The Puzzle of Architecture' in a leading architectural journal. Robin Boyd’s desk cupboard contained two exercise books (item D482.1-D482.2) and assorted articles, essays and other material regarding the building of the Sydney Opera House, inserted inside the front cover of Walkabout magazine, July 1966 (item P1377). This publication is one of those inserts. Many of these were collected by Boyd’s eldest daughter, Mandie, who recalls that her father was writing a book, but was very disillusioned with the way the entire Opera House saga unfolded. A reprint from The Architectural Forum pp 72-73 and 93.walsh st library -
Melbourne Tram Museum
Souvenir - Event Materials, Public Transport Victoria (PTV), "Dumb Ways to die", c2014 to c2016
Set of five items around the Metro Trains Melbourne 2012 safety campaign "Dumb Ways to Die" - see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dumb_Ways_to_Die (access 2/3/2017) .1 - The Metro Activity Book - 12 pages A4 with puzzles etc. (2 copies held) .2 - A4 sheet of 6 colour stickers featuring some of the characters. .3 - Be Safe around trains - sticker or logo for use in a badge? .4 - Be Safe metal badge with clip on rear .5 - set of 4 PTV Model Commuters - The Mover Overer, The Quiet Talkers, The door clearer, The floor bagger.trams, tramways, safety, advertisements, metro trains, badges, colouring book, passengers -
Unions Ballarat
Eureka revisited: The contest of memories, Beggs Sunter, Anne et al, 2004
Comprehensive and brief account of the Eureka rebellion and the story of the flag of the Southern Cross. Includes photographs of various artistic representations that are held in the Ballarat Fine Art Gallery. Written for the 150th anniversary of the Eureka Stockade. Contents: Machine derived contents note: Eureka Timeline and Personalities 6 Eureka Revisited: the contest of memories 9 Anne Beggs Sunter The Eureka Flag and its champions 23 History of the Flag 24 Holy Relics - the puzzle of the pieces 35 Design and making of the Eureka Flag 38 Symbols and Legend 40 Artistic interpretations 40 Films 44 Writing and dramatising the legend 47 Songs and Musicals 49 The living tradition of protest 50.Relevant to the history of Ballarat, gold mining, Ballarat Reform League and the Eureka Rebellion.Book; 56 pages; pictorial. Front cover: white background; colour painting, "Pioneer", by Sally Smart; blue and gold text; title.btlc, ballarat trades hall, lalor, peter, humffray, john, eureka stockade, eureka stockade - anniversary, eureka flag, southern cross flag, art and history, ballarat reform league, history - ballarat, ballarat trades and labour council, art, australian - 19th century - exhibitions -
Ballarat Heritage Services
Digital photograph, Dorothy Wickham, Trajan's Columns, Victoria & Albert Museum, London, 2016, 09/2016
These original columns are marble, made in 113AD. They come from Rome, Italy and are held in the Cast Courts at the Victoria & Albert Museum, London. The collection of casts at the museum is one of the most important in the world. Their original purpose was educational when it was not easy to trail and see original works. they thus provided an opportunity for students to study. The Cast Courts opened in 1873 and allowed the display of large monuments. These galleries are currently divided by nationality. Photograph of a cast of Trajan's Column at the Victoria & Albert Museum, London. The column has been displayed in two parts. he massive cast is a tremendous feat of both engineering and casting. Displayed in the Architectural Courts from the time of their opening in 1873, it provided the opportunity for students (and others not able to travel to Rome) to see this iconic monument of the classical world. The cast of the column is made up of sections of plaster reliefs that are attached to an inner chimney built of brick. Each section was individually numbered so that the column could easily be assembled like a giant jigsaw puzzle. (http://www.vam.ac.uk/content/articles/t/trajans-column/)trajan's column, roman forum, plaster casts -
Kew Historical Society Inc
Leisure object - Board Game, John Sands Pty Ltd, Chinese Star Checkers, c.1938
The Kew Historical Society’s collection includes a wide range of leisure objects. Many of the items are European-made, generally of British origin, however there are a number that were made for the Australian market by Australian manufacturers. In the Nineteenth and Twentieth centuries, there were large numbers of games produced for children and adults. These included: arcade games, board games, playing cards and puzzles. A representative sample, many now rare survivors, can be found in the collection. Chinese Chequers was first commercially produced in 1938, although it is not Chinese, nor a form of checkers. The maker of the game, John Sands Pty Ltd produced board games between 1929 and 1978. Milton Bradley is a famous American board game manufacturer.Original packaging in a labelled cardboard box that includes a board games played by moving checkers from the triangle closets to each player to the opposite side of the board. The game includes multicoloured marbles.Cover of box: "Chinese Star Checkers - A game from the Orient for all ages. chinese checkers, john sands pty ltd -
Kew Historical Society Inc
Leisure object - Board Game, John Sands Pty Ltd, Contack: A Fascinating Game, 1960s
The Kew Historical Society’s collection includes a wide range of leisure objects. Many of the items are European-made, generally of British origin, however there are a number that were made for the Australian market by Australian manufacturers. In the Nineteenth and Twentieth centuries, there were large numbers of games produced for children and adults. These included: arcade games, board games, playing cards and puzzles. A representative sample, many now rare survivors, can be found in the collection. John SandsPty Ltd is an Australian company that produced board games from 1929-78. Contack was first produced in the U.S.A. but the original versions date to 1886. The board game is played by 2-6 players who match colours and tiles to gain the highest score. A tile-based board game manufactured by John Sands Pty Ltd., Australia from c.1933. john sands pty ltd, contack, board games -
Clunes Museum
Booklet - BOOK, HERALD PRINT, THE WEEKLY TIMES BOOK OF PATTERNS. NO. 2, CIRCA 1940
THE WEEKLY TIMES WAS THE FIRST NEWSPAPER IN VICTORIA TO ALLOT A CORNER OF ITS WOMEN'S PAGE TO "A WORK BASKET" AS THE POLICY OF THE PAPER DEMANDS THAT EACH SECTION SHOULD BE IN CHARGE OF AN EXPER, A PAGE WAS AFTERWARDS DEVOTED TO NEEDLEWORK COMPETIONS, WITH MONAY PRIZES FOR DESIGNS I CROCHET, KNITTING AND EMBROIDERY, DISCLOSED THE FACT THAT WOMEN ONLY NEEDED ENCOURAGEMENT TO PRODUCE GOOD WORK THE KNOWLEDGE THAT DESIGNES MUST BE ORIGINAL STIMULATED INTEREST. PROMPT PAYMENT AND THE SAFE RETURN OF PATTERSN, RESULITED IN A PERMANENT SUPPLY OF NEW IDEAS FROM MANY DIFFERENT PARTS OF AUSTRLAIA. A BOOK OF "WOOLIES" AFFORDS LITTLE SCOPE FOR "DESIGN", SUCH AS IS REPRESENTED IN OTHER BRANCHES OF NEEDLECRAFT. IN DESCRIBING A PATTER AS 'DESIGNED', IT PLACES THE GARMENT AS ORIGINAL, NOT MERLEY WORKED BY THE SENDER. THEIS BOOK HAS BEEN COMPLIED BECAUSE THE EVER RECURRING DEMAND FOR FAVOURITE PATTERS COULD NOT OTHERWISE BE MET BEGINNERS, WHO MAY FIND FIFFICULTY IN COPYING A PATTER, CAN HAVE ANY ENQUIRY ON THE SUBJECT ANSWERED IN THE WEEKLY TIMES. REMEMBER THAT I AM ALWAYS PLEASED TO ANSWER ENQUIRIES AND TO LEND EXAMPLES OF STITCHES. PLEASE ADDRESS YOUR LETTERS TO 'A MOTHER'. THE WEEKLY TIMES, MELBOURNEDARK BLUE BACKGROUND OF TREES AND SUNRISE IN THE SKY, SOFT COVER, IMAGE OF MAN AND LADY STANDING, WOMAN IN PROFILE IN A CIRCLE AND IMAGE OF WHITE KNITTED BONNET WITHIN A DIAMOND SHAPE. THE WEEKLY TIMES BOOK OF PATTERNS. NO. 2PRINTED ON FRONT COVER: THE WEEKLY TIMES BOOK OF PATTERNS. NO. 2 IN KNITTING AND IN CROCHET PRICE NINEPENCE PRINTED ON BACK COVER THE WEEKLY TEIMS STILL RETAINS ITS HOLD AS THE MOST POPULAR FAMILY PAPER SPECIAL FEATURES FOR WOMEN ORIGINAL CROCHET AND KNITTING DESIGNS CHEAP PETTERS FOR HOME DRES MAKERS GOO COOKERY RECIPTS LATEST FASHIONS AND SOCIAL NEWS, STORIES, PUZZLES AND WEE-END READING EVERY THURSDAY PRICE 4dlocal history, book, reference, trembath, perry -
Warrnambool and District Historical Society Inc.
Book - Children's Magazine, Rev. W. Meynell Whittemore, Sunshine for 1886, 1886
A Children's Annual formed by re-publishing one year's issues of a monthly magazineThis is a book of 190 pages. It has a green cover with embossed floral patterns and a rising sun sketch outlined in gold. The black printing on the cover and spine has a gold patterned background. The pages contain advertisements, printed material and black and white sketches. fictionA Children's Annual formed by re-publishing one year's issues of a monthly magazine matilda logan, st. john's presbyterian church warrnambool, logan's beach -
Mont De Lancey
Book, Wells Gardner, Darton & Co. Limited, Chatterbox, 1928
A vintage 1928 Chatterbox collection of puzzles, poetry and stories for children with black lined illustrations and coloured plates throughout.A vintage 1928 hardcover children's book with the title Chatterbox printed in white lettering at the top of the front cover which has a green coloured background with an illustration in a large circle showing a boy and girl with their pet dog playing on the sand at the beach. The publisher details are printed at the bottom. It is bound on the left side with brown tape. The tan back cover has an advertisement for Allenburys' - for the good of babyhood, showing a smiling toddler.The frontispiece coloured illustration inside depicts a black man as a prisoner of three buccanners. The title page has the title plus Founded by J. Erskine Clarke, M.A and publisher details with a black lined illustration of children and flowers. There are further coloured plates in the collection. of puzzles, poetry, and stories for children. Pp. 316. The endpapers have several advertisements related to children.fictionA vintage 1928 Chatterbox collection of puzzles, poetry and stories for children with black lined illustrations and coloured plates throughout. children's books, books, children's stories, adventure stories -
Robin Boyd Foundation
Certificate, AIA Architecture Critics' Medal, 1973
This medal was conferred posthumously as Robin Boyd died in 1971. In 1973, Patricia Boyd travelled to the American Institute of Architects Convention in San Francisco, to receive the AIA's Architecture Critics Medal on behalf of her late husband. She gave an acceptance speech at this event.Certificate from The American Institute of Architects, with crest, conferring 1973 Architecture Critics' Medal on Robin Boyd. Signed by the President, F. Scott Ferebee Jr, and Secretary, Hilliard J. Smith Jr. It is in a perspex frame.The American Institute of Architects is honored to confer the 1973 Architecture Critics' Medal on Robin Boyd. Distinguished creator as well as critic of architecture, Robin Boyd was passionately devoted to the ideal of what the human environment - particularly that most intimate environment, the home - could be. His writing could be pitiless, because he hated the cheap, the shoddy, the ugly around us. But more than most critics, he was able to empathize with us fellow professionals as they struggled to solve what he called "the puzzle of architecture'. May 1973. Signed by President and Secretary.critics award, the american institute of architects, aia award, robin boyd, patricia boyd -
Mont De Lancey
Book, Wells Gardner, Darton & Co. Limited, Chatterbox, 1915
A vintage 1915 Chatterbox collection of puzzles, poetry and stories for children with black lined illustrations and coloured plates throughout.A badly damaged vintage 1915 hardcover children's book with the title Chatterbox. printed in white lettering at the top of the front cover which has a green coloured background with an illustration in a large circle of a dog with a red bandana wrapped around its head, lying in a straw lined box. A black cat is sitting looking at the dog and is wearing a blue ribbon with a bow around its neck. It is sitting near the dog's food bowl. The yellow and red coloured outside of the back cover has an advertisement for "Pears" soap with 'The Night of the Bath' printed underneath. The title page is missing as is the frontispiece coloured illustration usually found in these books. The pages 1 - 18 are missing. There are black and white illustrations, diagrams and coloured plates in the collection as well as puzzles, poetry, and stories for children. Pp. 400. The endpapers have several advertisements related to children, their health, food and sweets included. Its condition shows it was very well used.fictionA vintage 1915 Chatterbox collection of puzzles, poetry and stories for children with black lined illustrations and coloured plates throughout. children's books, books, children's stories, adventure stories -
Tatura Irrigation & Wartime Camps Museum
Postcards and Cards, 1909 to approximately to 1920
Personal Stationery belonging to Kitty (CE) Crawford, Mother of John Lawry. Dance Programmes|Person stationary belonging to Kitty (CE Crawford) mother of John Lawry.|GROUP l. Dance Programmes - Some with pencils attached| l. Tatura Military Ball - July 21 ?| 2. Rushworth Military Ball - June 20, 1913| 3. Tatura Military Ball - July 17, 1913| 4. Murchison 3rd Squadron Annual Ball - August 11, 1909| 5. Tatura Golf Club Annual Ball - 1914|GROUP 2 - Perfume Cards| 1. Divinia (1913 Calendar on back) 6 cards| 2. Eau de Cologne Francaise (1 card)| 3. Rose de L'Empire (2 cards)| 4. Californian Poppy (1 card)| 5. Muguet (2 cards)| 6. Lierre Fleuri (1910 Calendar on back) (1 card)| 7. Floramye (1 card)| 8. Phul-Nana (1 card)|GROUP 3 - Bible Texts - Memory Verses| 4 cards with texts and colourful pictures. - Isaiah 12:2,| Psalms 51.15, Isaiah 26:4, 2 Timothy 2:3|GROUP 4 - Greeting Cards to Miss Kitty Crawford (mainly birthday)| 18 postcard size cards, most have letters included.|GROUP 5 - Greeting cards with no writing (unused)| 15 cards, same vintage as others (2 have writing but not to K Crawford)|GROUP 6 - Miscellaneous - including| Nestle's "Wonders of the World" - 32 cards| Cigarette Card - Wills (1 card)| Butterflies - Allens Irish moss Gum Jubes (1 card)| Victorian Footballers (J Bissett), Hoadley's Violet Nut Bars (1 card)| Ships of the World (Empress of Britain) (1 card)| No Category (3 cards)|GROUP 7 - Puzzle|Ribbons on a lggage tag|Perfume Cards|Bible Texts|Greeting Cards to Miss Kitty Crawford - Mainly birthday|Greeting Cards - unused|Miscellaneous|Puzzle|Tatura|1938 Military Ball Debs|Pearl Maskell|Myrtle Dick|Pauline Brady|Mabel Wilson|Margaret Hastie|Jean McIntyre|Madge Wells|Beth Bitcon|Mollie Arnold|Melvie Nicholson|Kitty Crawford|May Crawford|Christmas Card - To Miss Katie Crawford from J Powell|New Year Card -To M Hall From S Boyer|Crawford Centenary 1871-1971 Invitation - WoodlandsBlack plastic archive boxVariousdances and birthdays, documents, cards, postcards -
Mont De Lancey
Book, Wells Gardner, Darton & Co. Limited, Chatterbox, 1918
A vintage 1918 Chatterbox collection of puzzles, poetry and stories for children with black lined illustrations and coloured plates throughout.A vintage 1918 hardcover children's book with the title Chatterbox printed in white lettering at the top of the front cover which has a green coloured background with an illustration in a large circle showing a boy and girl playing in hay. The publisher details are printed at the bottom. It is bound on the left side with red tape. The cream and red coloured back cover has an advertisement for "Pears" soap 'This only is the witchcraft I have used' showing a smiling woman talking to a man. Both are dressed in Victorian Era style clothes. The frontispiece coloured illustration inside depicts four Egyptian black men on a Dhow boat chasing another boat next to it.'Chasing Gun-Running Dhows' is the name of the illustration. The title page has the title plus Founded by J. Erskine Clarke, M.A and publisher details with a black lined illustration of children, a woman with children at her knee reading and flowers. There are further coloured plates in the collection. of puzzles, poetry, and stories for children. Pp. 316. The endpapers have several advertisements related to children, their health, food and sweets included.fictionA vintage 1918 Chatterbox collection of puzzles, poetry and stories for children with black lined illustrations and coloured plates throughout. children's books, books, children's stories, adventure stories -
Kew Historical Society Inc
Functional object, Jas Murray & Co, Wall Clock & Key, 1860s
The clock was purchased from Jas Murray & Co. of 107 Bourke Street East, Melbourne by Francis Barnard. James Murray & Co were well known clock and watchmakers operating from premises in London with branches in Calcutta and Melbourne. They were watchmakers and jewellers in Melbourne from 1860 to 1888. Francis Barnard established Barnard’s Pharmacy on the corner of Bulleen Road (later renamed High Street) and Cotham Road in 1857. In the early 1860s, after purchasing the clock, he placed it in his pharmacy where it could be seen by passers by. When he relocated across the road to 49 Bulleen Road (now 167 High St.) in 1880 he took the clock to the new premises. He maintained the accuracy of the clock so that local residents consulted it for the correct time, even after the Post Office building with its clock tower was opened in 1888. When Francis Barnard retired, his son took over the pharmacy. In 1925, the Barnard Pharmacy was sold to David Paton. The Paton’s were at first puzzled why people constantly peered in the door until they realised that the timepiece was the drawcard. When David Paton died in 1941, his widow sold the pharmacy but took the clock with her to her new florist shop at 145 High Street. When Mrs Paton retired in 1953, she took the clock to her home in Boronia. In 1973 her daughter donated the clock to the Kew Historical Society.Significant locally to Kew as an example of a timepiece that was used by the local community during the 19th century to tell the time.Barnard’s clock is a typical wall clock of the nineteenth century, variants of which could be seen in shops, offices, public buildings and stations. It has a mahogany case with a moulded wooden bezel encasing a hinged brass bezel housing the glass face which protects the dial and hands when working. The clock face has an off-white hand painted tin dial with black painted Roman numerals. The hands are black painted metal; the hour hand has a wide spade shaped point whilst the minute hand is much thinner. ‘Jas Murray & Co’ is painted above the centre, with ‘107 Bourke Street East’ and ‘Melbourne’ below, with the key hole in between. The clock movement is a fuse chain attached to a brass mainspring barrel which powers the pendulum for eight days. This is housed within a rectangular wooden casing with a convex curved base housing a hinged door giving access to the pendulum which is attached to the back of the clock by four wooden pegs.Jas Murray & Co / 107 Bourke St East / Melbournefrancis barnard, f g a barnard, high street - kew (vic), pharmacies - kew (vic), clocks, paton's pharmacy --- kew (vic.), bulleen road -- kew (vic.) -
Mortlake and District Historical Society
Sign, 22/03/1935
This public notice of 1935 warns of the dangers of Infantile Paralysis. It advises scalding dairy products and reporting stock illness, even though the disease was viral (discovered by U.S. researchers in 1908), not bacterial. There was little chance of protecting children against contracting the disease as the Salk vaccine was not available until 1955, although medical research into the development of preventative serum was well advanced in the 1940's. Treatment of the disease was primitive and a cure not possible.Infantile paralysis was a fearful disease increasingly prevalent in the early 20th Century. Children under 3 were especially susceptible. It could be said to be forever associated with this part of the Western District as a result of the celebrated author, Alan Marshall (1902-1984) suffering its effects. He immortalised his childhood, which was profoundly affected by his paralysis, in the autobiograhical novel 'I can jump puddles'. Calico rectangle off white"Shire of Hampden. Recommendations by the Medical Officer of Health. During the last few weeks eighteen cases of INFANTILE PARALYSIS have occurred in this district. PARENTS are advised to seek Medical advice early in any case of sickness. It is not wise while this sickness is about to treat sick people by home remedies for a few days, for the mild fever-headache, &c., may be the early stage of INFANTILE PARALYSIS, and if a doctor is consulted then he has his best chance of protecting the patient from paralysis. All persons in the district are advised to scald all milk and cream used in the home, even that taken by adults. The people in the district may help solve the puzzle of where this disease comes from, by reporting at once to the Stock Inspector any sickness among the animals. SHIRE OFFICE, CAMPERDOWN, 22nd March, 1935. THOS.F.LITTLE, Secretary, Shire of Hampden." disease, infantile paralysis, poliomyelitis, shire of hampden, public health, childhood -
The Beechworth Burke Museum
Photograph
The photograph depicts two young men standing atop a prominent outcrop at Lake Sambell, with buildings visible on the further shore. The present day park and reserve occupies the site of the former Rocky Mountain Mining Company, an open-cut sluice mine that began operations in the mid-Nineteenth Century and operated until the early 1900s, through the peak of Victoria’s Gold Rush. It was converted into a park and leisure area in the 1920s. Lake Sambell was formally opened to the public on Friday 5th October 1928 and was opened by the Victorian Government’s Minister of Lands, Mr Bailey, as part of initiatives to boost the economies and development of country towns. The lake was named after Mr L.H. Sambell, a shire engineer and secretary of the Forward Beechworth Committee who was involved in promoting the transformation of the mining site and promoting plantation forestry and tourism as alternative industries. £300 to begin the process was provided by Mr J. McConvill, a former resident of Beechworth, who is remembered in a street name adjacent to the lake. An article in the Ovens and Murray Advertiser on Saturday, 5th May, 1917, gives some insight into issues in the Rocky Mountain Mining Company’s final years. The writer details the 1917 annual meeting of the Rocky Mountain Mining Company, stating that locals present appeared ‘well pleased this important local industry is in such a prosperous condition and that future prospects are so encouraging’. The author describes plans to give workers a bonus as evidence of profit-sharing that would ‘bridge the gulf between capital and labour’. The article concludes, however, with the statement that ‘there is a little arithmetical puzzle in the report in connection with the dredging operations I have been unable to solve.' The photograph is significant as it contributes to knowledge about how Beechworth reinvented itself after the Gold rush period, and more broadly how country towns repurpose and redevelop infrastructure and facilities to meet the present needs of their population. Sepia rectangular photograph printed on matte photographic paper. Obverse: nil. Reverse: 3471 / Velox (paper mark)beechworth, beechworth lake, lake sambell, l.h. sambell, mcconvill, rocky mountain mining company, rocky mountain mining co, minister of lands, forward beechworth committee, wallace park-lake sambell development scheme, wallace park lake sambell development scheme, lake, sambell, j. mcconvill, recreation, reserve, park, transformation, repurposed, redeveloped