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Whitehorse Historical Society Inc.
Domestic object - Soap Saver
Pale green plastic soap saver used for washing up.domestic items, cleaning -
Flagstaff Hill Maritime Museum and Village
Domestic object - Ewer, First half of the 20th century
This object and the set of five items is believed to have been made in or around the Staffordshire area in the United Kingdom. Over 1500 pottery firms have operated in Stoke-on-Trent since the early 1700's - Some lasted only a few years and some for well over 200 years. Some potters built and owned their own works. Many others were tenants in works built by others and a succession of potters occupied the same works. It was also a common practice for a works to be split between two different pottery companies or for a larger manufacturer to let out a smaller section of his works to a potter who would make wares which were not of interest to the pot works owner. Some potters purchased 'blanks' from other manufacturers and put their own decoration on them some items have two back stamps some have no marks at all. This adds to the confusion and frustration of trying to trace details of a particular manufacturer such as the subject item.The subject item at this time cannot be associated with an historical event, person or place, provenance regards manufacturer is unknown, item assessed as a collection asset as it is believed to have been produced before 1950.Ewer or jug, cream ironstone with brown flower spray floral decoration.(Part of 5 piece set containing ewer, bowl, brush vase, soap dish lid and soap dish)Noneflagstaff hill, warrnambool, flagstaff hill maritime museum, maritime museum, shipwreck coast, flagstaff hill maritime village, great ocean road, porcelain container, toilet container, beauty container, ceramic, decorative object, pottery object -
Kiewa Valley Historical Society
Box Cuticle Soap, mid to late 1900's
The mid 1900's provided the start of "the body beautiful" revolution. The cosmetic industry, with the help of quasi scientific selling advertising slant targeted those "customers" that needed the "extra care" factor that only their product could offer. At this period in time their advertising power was based on in store, radio and newspaper media channels with saturation levels relatively low. In the later years of the 1900's saturation levels and a wider range of products and increased competition further increased the product saturation levels available to the buying residents. With the introduction of television the advertisements become more elaborate and "catchy" words, phrases and comedy type situations helped boost the advertising "pitch" and subliminal undertones to effective levels required for a highly competitive health related market place. 'sellingThis subliminally,"medically" endorsed product was one of many during the great "spin" revolution of product marketing and selling. This item is significant in that it demonstrates that greater infusion of product awareness throughout rural areas was highly successful through a greater variety of advertising media. It also demonstrates that in a highly competitive marketplace there are no physical boundaries that impinge upon the distribution of products and services. The rural sector is a highly lucrative region for any product that helps protect the body from all the "nasty's" that become more noticeable in a rural environment. This rectangular box which had contained cuticle soap is constructed from cardboard and reinforced by a black nylon impregnated sheeting. This impregnation was required to keep the box from soaking up any water from the user's hands. The top section of the box(lid) has and in large print "KELSEY'S" top line followed by "CUTICLE" off to the right and underneath and to the right "SOAP". Below this and in smaller print is "MEDICINALLY..." below this and in smaller print "EMOLLIENT AND REFRESHING, REDOLENT, CLEANSES, CURES, PRESERVES, PURIFIES." and last line underneath "SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR TENDER SKIN" On each of the sides of the top lid are, side 1 "INVALUABLE FOR THE NURSERY." underneath in smaller print "JOHN M. KELSEY CO." to the left of this and on a green backed highlighter "No. 1744 - Guaranteed under Pure Food Act, 1908, N.S.W. by John M. Kelsey Co. - No. 1744. Melbourne, Victoria." On the right side and in large print "KELSEY'S CUTICLE SOAP" on the next side and also a similar sign on the opposite side "SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR TENDER SKIN." below this "JOHN M. KELSEY CO." "Registered" and on the other long side in large print "SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR TENDER SKIN" underneath in smaller print JOHN M. KELSEY CO. Registered"specialised soap, toilet requisites, nursery health., bathroom, domestic -
Flagstaff Hill Maritime Museum and Village
Soap saver
Soap saver-metal with large holes each end & cylinder perforatedflagstaff hill, warrnambool, shipwrecked-coast, flagstaff-hill, flagstaff-hill-maritime-museum, maritime-museum, shipwreck-coast, flagstaff-hill-maritime-village, soap saver -
Whitehorse Historical Society Inc.
Soap Holder
China Soap Holder in the shape of a Pierrot clown. White with black markings.domestic items, ablutions -
Port Melbourne Historical & Preservation Society
Photograph - J Kitchen & Sons, c. 1900
Black and white photo mounted on damaged grey card. Photo shows three gabled bluestone buildings. Velvet Soap chimney in background . Horses and carts - one signed 'Velvet Soap'. Barrels being loadedindustry, manufacturing, workers, j kitchen & sons pty ltd, velvet soap -
Coal Creek Community Park & Museum
Advertisement
Large cardboard advertisement with writing, diagram and pictures of boxes in black, yellow, red, green and orange.for better free gifts Save Empire Soap Trade Marks from Demon Cleaners, Empire Soap Body Guard. It is the standard of quality of Empire Soap free gifts which makes the saving of Empire Trade Marks Empire trade -
Clunes Museum
Domestic object - BASIN & SOAP
.1 WHITE ENAMELLED BOWEL WITH TWO REPAIRS .2 BLOCK OF HOME MADE SOAPlocal history, domestic item, ablutions, domestic items, ablutions -
Whitehorse Historical Society Inc.
Article, Nightmare on Ramsay Street, 2005
Feature article on 'Ramsay Street', the site of 'Neighbours', Australia's longest running soap opera.Feature article on 'Ramsay Street', the site of 'Neighbours', Australia's longest running soap opera.Feature article on 'Ramsay Street', the site of 'Neighbours', Australia's longest running soap opera.neighbours (television program), pin oak court, vermont south -
Stawell Historical Society Inc
Memorabilia - Realia
Three-piece Soap Dish. Bowl strainer and lid with handle. Cream with Green Edgingstawell -
Port Melbourne Historical & Preservation Society
Newspaper - Newspaper clipping, Advertisment for Witch Soap, 10 Jan 1917
From J Kitchen and Sons Pty Ltd. Advertisement for Witch Soap. January 9 1917industry - manufacturing, business and traders - soaps/candles, war - world war i, health, domestic life, j kitchen & sons pty ltd, electrine candles, witch soap, rexona, s r simpson - private -
Mont De Lancey
Dish
Johnson Brothers was a British tableware manufacturer and exporter that was noted for its early introduction of "semi-porcelain" tableware. In 2003, the manufacturing of Johnson Brothers products in Britain ceased and was transferred to China. Owned by Wandin J. SebireWhite ceramic patterned soap dish with green floral design. Set includes base and lid."Vienna" Johnson Bros Englandsoap dish, dishes -
Tatura Irrigation & Wartime Camps Museum
CD, Roll Call Tatura 1941, 2007
CD containing 4 photographs of 2 bars of soap. 2 photographs show the back of the bars which have got "Lux Toilet Soap" embedded in the soap. The other 2 photographs show the front of the bars and has "Lux soap Tatura Roll Call" painted on a piece of paper and stuck onto the front. CD, gold coloured, blue and green text. Plastic cover, clear front, black backlux soap, tatura internment camps -
Trafalgar Holden Museum
Container - Propert's Leather Soap
As used for the cleaning of all leather goods, including all equine items.retailed by Holden and FrostSquat tin can with press lidFox face logo. Propert's leather soap. For directions see bottom.leather soap, softner, cleanser -
Trafalgar Holden Museum
Container - Harness soap
Used in the care and maintenance of leather goods, circa 1900as imported and sold by Holden and FrostSquat round tin printed with instructions for purpose and use.Frank Millers Harness soap, Horse head logo and instructions for useconditioner, cleaner, leather -
Bendigo Historical Society Inc.
Postcard - RANDALL COLLECTION: FREE PALMOLIVE SOAP FROM W. JEFFREY, GROCER, BENDIGO
Postcard, Free Palmolive Soap from W.Jeffrey, Grocer, Bendigo. Sent to Miss G.Guiney, Sternberg St., Bendigo.postcard, photograph, palmolive soap -
Tatura Irrigation & Wartime Camps Museum
Garlic Press, 1940's
Made and used by Internees at Camp 32 handled press with mesh bowl and solid metal plate attached to a handle. Used for pressing soap trough meshgarlic press, hoefer family, camp 3, tatura, ww2 camp 3, domestic, food, preparation -
Trafalgar Holden Museum
Container - Leather Saddle Soap
Used for the upkeep of leather during c1900Imported and retailed by Holden and Frost c1900Round tin container with yellow and black text explaining direction for use Horse and rider picture on lidProperts Leather Saddle Soap inscribed on lid .Instruction of use on side surroundsleather soap, equine agricultural, equine civilian -
Port Melbourne Historical & Preservation Society
Pamphlet - Price list, J Kitchen & Sons, J Kitchen & Sons Pty Ltd, 1939 - 1940
J Kitchen & Sons Pty Ltd, price lists, Victoria .01 - December 1939 .02 - January 1940 Categories listed - e.g laundry soaps, toilet soaps, candles. Brands included Velvet, Ajax, Phenyle. G Richards handwritten on front of both. Found inside scrapbook Cat No 3290"JKS established 1856" crest on frontindustry, manufacturing, advertising, j kitchen & sons pty ltd -
Flagstaff Hill Maritime Museum and Village
Container - Wooden Box, 1930s
One pharmaceutical enterprise which put greater emphasis on the manufacturing side of its business and whose successors strengthened this emphasis was Faulding's. A pharmacist, Francis H. Faulding, started his shop in Adelaide in 1841 and formed a partnership with an English physician, L. Scammel, in 1861. From its beginnings the firm showed a flare for innovation. After Simpson's discovery of the anaesthetic properties of chloroform in 1847, Francis Faulding was the first to import chloroform; in 1858 he distributed cocaine preparations; in 1864 he produced the first olive oil from South Australian olives and, after J. Lister's reports in Lancet on the reduction of mortality after surgery with the use of phenol, Faulding began production of antiseptics ('Solyptol') in 1867. Faulding was also the first to utilize the medicinal and antiseptic properties of eucalyptus oil which was obtained from distilleries on Kangaroo Island The Second World War in Europe disrupted the supply of cod liver oil, an important source of Vitamin A. Faulding chemists found an alternative source in white schnapper shark, which sustained supplies in Australia as well as generated exports to the UK . When supplies of I.G. Farben's newly discovered sulpha drugs ran out, Faulding became involved in the national program organised by the Medical Equipment Control Committee (MECC) and, jointly with universities, synthesised sulphanilamide. Following the transfer of American knowhow. Faulding's was also the first private enterprise to produce yet another life saving drug of military importance, penicillin. After the war basic synthesis of antibiotics became difficult to sustain by private enterprise because of the gigantic scale advantages of competing US producers, and competition in the synthesis of new drugs demanded huge investment in R & D; Fauldings maintained their business by a combination of marketing, wholesaling and producing consumer and medical products. In the 1970s, however, Fauldings set a remarkable precedent in research strategy and achievement in the Australian pharmaceutical business. They decided to concentrate their research on drugs which had proven efficacy, but which also suffered from certain shortcomings restricting their clinical usefulness, and to seek advances overcoming these shortcomings. This was an imaginative new strategy, a way of grafting Australian knowhow on to major products, in keeping with local resources and yet offering opportunities for sophisticated skill. At the same time it promised to open international markets, since the major producers of the basic drugs could hardly ignore significant advances. https://www.samhs.org.au/Virtual%20Museum/Medicine/drugs_nonsurg/Fauldings_drug/Fauldings_drugs.html This decorative gift box once containing Faulding’s Old English Lavender soap or powder belonged to Dr. Angus’ wife Gladys. It was donated to Flagstaff Hill Maritime Village by the family of Doctor William Roy Angus, Surgeon and Oculist. It is part of the “W.R. Angus Collection” includes historical medical equipment, surgical instruments and material once belonging to Dr Edward Ryan and Dr Thomas Francis Ryan, (both of Nhill, Victoria) as well as Dr Angus’ own belongings. The Collection’s history spans the medical practices of the two Doctors Ryan, from 1885-1926 plus that of Dr Angus, up until 1969. Powder or soap in boxes such as this was perfumed and used as part of a women’s personal grooming in the early to mid 20th century. Faulding’s Company began in Adelaide, Australia, in 1845 and made a wide range of cosmetic and perfume products as well as pharmaceuticals. The company is still in operation today. ABOUT THE “W.R.ANGUS COLLECTION” Doctor William Roy Angus M.B., B.S., Adel., 1923, F.R.C.S. Edin.,1928 (also known as Dr Roy Angus) was born in Murrumbeena, Victoria in 1901 and lived until 1970. He qualified as a doctor in 1923 at University of Adelaide, was Resident Medical Officer at the Royal Adelaide Hospital in 1924 and for a period was house surgeon to Sir (then Mr.) Henry Simpson Newland. Dr Angus was briefly an Assistant to Dr Riddell of Kapunda, then commenced private practice at Curramulka, Yorke Peninsula, SA, where he was physician, surgeon and chemist. In 1926, he was appointed as new Medical Assistant to Dr Thomas Francis Ryan (T.F. Ryan, or Tom), in Nhill, Victoria, where his experiences included radiology and pharmacy. In 1927 he was Acting House Surgeon in Dr Tom Ryan’s absence. Dr Angus had become engaged to Gladys Forsyth and they decided he further his studies overseas in the UK in 1927. He studied at London University College Hospital and at Edinburgh Royal Infirmary and in 1928, was awarded FRCS (Fellow from the Royal College of Surgeons), Edinburgh. He worked his passage back to Australia as a Ship’s Surgeon on the on the Australian Commonwealth Line’s T.S.S. Largs Bay. Dr Angus married Gladys in 1929, in Ballarat. (They went on to have one son (Graham 1932, born in SA) and two daughters (Helen (died 12/07/1996) and Berenice (Berry), both born at Mira, Nhill ) According to Berry, her mother Gladys made a lot of their clothes. She was very talented and did some lovely embroidery including lingerie for her trousseau and beautifully handmade baby clothes. Dr Angus was a ‘flying doctor’ for the A.I.M. (Australian Inland Ministry) Aerial Medical Service in 1928 . Its first station was in the remote town of Oodnadatta, where Dr Angus was stationed. He was locum tenens there on North-South Railway at 21 Mile Camp. He took up this ‘flying doctor’ position in response to a call from Dr John Flynn; the organisation was later known as the Flying Doctor Service, then the Royal Flying Doctor Service. A lot of his work during this time involved dental surgery also. Between 1928-1932 he was surgeon at the Curramulka Hospital, Yorke Peninsula, South Australia. In 1933 Dr Angus returned to Nhill and purchased a share of the Nelson Street practice and Mira hospital (a 2 bed ward at the Nelson Street Practice) from Dr Les Middleton one of the Middleton Brothers, the current owners of what previously once Dr Tom Ryan’s practice. Dr Tom and his brother had worked as surgeons included eye surgery. Dr Tom Ryan performed many of his operations in the Mira private hospital on his premises. He had been House Surgeon at the Nhill Hospital 1902-1926. Dr Tom Ryan had one of the only two pieces of radiology equipment in Victoria during his practicing years – The Royal Melbourne Hospital had the other one. Over the years Dr Tom Ryan had gradually set up what was effectively a training school for country general-practitioner-surgeons. Each patient was carefully examined, including using the X-ray machine, and any surgery was discussed and planned with Dr Ryan’s assistants several days in advance. Dr Angus gained experience in using the X-ray machine there during his time as assistant to Dr Ryan. When Dr Angus bought into the Nelson Street premises in Nhill he was also appointed as the Nhill Hospital’s Honorary House Surgeon 1933-1938. His practitioner’s plate from his Nhill surgery is now mounted on the doorway to the Port Medical Office at Flagstaff Hill Maritime Village, Warrnambool. When Dr Angus took up practice in the Dr Edward and Dr Tom Ryan’s old premises he obtained their extensive collection of historical medical equipment and materials spanning 1884-1926. A large part of this collection is now on display at the Port Medical Office at Flagstaff Hill Maritime Village in Warrnambool. In 1939 Dr Angus and his family moved to Warrnambool where he purchased “Birchwood,” the 1852 home and medical practice of Dr John Hunter Henderson, at 214 Koroit Street. (This property was sold in1965 to the State Government and is now the site of the Warrnambool Police Station. and an ALDI sore is on the land that was once their tennis court). The Angus family was able to afford gardeners, cooks and maids; their home was a popular place for visiting dignitaries to stay whilst visiting Warrnambool. Dr Angus had his own silk worm farm at home in a Mulberry tree. His young daughter used his centrifuge for spinning the silk. Dr Angus was appointed on a part-time basis as Port Medical Officer (Health Officer) in Warrnambool and held this position until the 1940’s when the government no longer required the service of a Port Medical Officer in Warrnambool; he was thus Warrnambool’s last serving Port Medical Officer. (Masters of immigrant ships arriving in port reported incidents of diseases, illness and death and the Port Medical Officer made a decision on whether the ship required Quarantine and for how long, in this way preventing contagious illness from spreading from new immigrants to the residents already in the colony.) Dr Angus was a member of the Australian Medical Association, for 35 years and surgeon at the Warrnambool Base Hospital 1939-1942, He served as a Surgeon Captain during WWII1942-45, in Ballarat, Victoria, and in Bonegilla, N.S.W., completing his service just before the end of the war due to suffering from a heart attack. During his convalescence he carved an intricate and ‘most artistic’ chess set from the material that dentures were made from. He then studied ophthalmology at the Royal Melbourne Eye and Ear Hospital and created cosmetically superior artificial eyes by pioneering using the intrascleral cartilage. Angus received accolades from the Ophthalmological Society of Australasia for this work. He returned to Warrnambool to commence practice as an ophthalmologist, pioneering in artificial eye improvements. He was Honorary Consultant Ophthalmologist to Warrnambool Base Hospital for 31 years. He made monthly visits to Portland as a visiting surgeon, to perform eye surgery. He represented the Victorian South-West subdivision of the Australian Medical Association as its secretary between 1949 and 1956 and as chairman from 1956 to 1958. In 1968 Dr Angus was elected member of Spain’s Barraquer Institute of Barcelona after his research work in Intrasclearal cartilage grafting, becoming one of the few Australian ophthalmologists to receive this honour, and in the following year presented his final paper on Living Intrasclearal Cartilage Implants at the Inaugural Meeting of the Australian College of Ophthalmologists in Melbourne In his personal life Dr Angus was a Presbyterian and treated Sunday as a Sabbath, a day of rest. He would visit 3 or 4 country patients on a Sunday, taking his children along ‘for the ride’ and to visit with him. Sunday evenings he would play the pianola and sing Scottish songs to his family. One of Dr Angus’ patients was Margaret MacKenzie, author of a book on local shipwrecks that she’d seen as an eye witness from the late 1880’s in Peterborough, Victoria. In the early 1950’s Dr Angus, painted a picture of a shipwreck for the cover jacket of Margaret’s book, Shipwrecks and More Shipwrecks. She was blind in later life and her daughter wrote the actual book for her. Dr Angus and his wife Gladys were very involved in Warrnambool’s society with a strong interest in civic affairs. He had an interest in people and the community They were both involved in the creation of Flagstaff Hill, including the layout of the gardens. After his death (28th March 1970) his family requested his practitioner’s plate, medical instruments and some personal belongings be displayed in the Port Medical Office surgery at Flagstaff Hill Maritime Village, and be called the “W. R. Angus Collection”. Fauldings Company is a very historical Australian company, still in operating today. The powder box is an example of fashion and grooming in the 1930's in Australia. The W.R. Angus Collection is significant for still being located at the site it is connected with, Doctor Angus being the last Port Medical Officer in Warrnambool. The collection of medical instruments and other equipment is culturally significant, being an historical example of medicine from late 19th to mid-20th century. Dr Angus assisted Dr Tom Ryan, a pioneer in the use of X-rays and in ocular surgery. Container, wooden soap or powder box with separate lid. It is part of the W.R. Angus Collection. Round box is made from light coloured timber and was sold containing Faulding’s Old English Lavender soap or powder. The wooden bowl is light in colour and the lid has a decal with text and images of two ladies facing each other, a gentleman looking over his shoulder at them, and red roses.Printed on decal “FAULDING'S OLD ENGLISH LAVENDER”.flagstaff hill, warrnambool, shipwrecked coast, flagstaff hill maritime museum, maritime museum, shipwreck coast, flagstaff hill maritime village, great ocean road, dr w r angus, gladys angus, faulding's old english lavender, personal effects 1900's, grooming items1900's, faulding's company australia, fauldings powder box, fauldings soap box -
Port Melbourne Historical & Preservation Society
Document - Velvet Soap advertisment, c. 1900
Document advertising Velvet Soap made by J KItchen & Sons and Apollo Co Ltd. Framed between glass in a wooden surroundindustry - manufacturing, j kitchen & sons pty ltd, velvet soap, apollo candle co -
Port Melbourne Historical & Preservation Society
Postcard - John Kitchen series, Velvet Soap carton label, David Thompson et al, Nov 1916
PMHPS - John Kitchen series of six coloured postcards .05 - Colour image of Velvet Soap carton label c.1928industry - manufacturing, business and traders - soaps/candles, j kitchen & sons pty ltd, velvet soap -
Port Melbourne Historical & Preservation Society
Postcard - John Kitchen series, Solvol Soap carton label, David Thompson et al, Nov 1916
PMHPS - John Kitchen series of six coloured postcards .06 - Colour image of Solvol Soap carton label c.1928industry - manufacturing, business and traders - soaps/candles, j kitchen & sons pty ltd, solvol soap -
Whitehorse Historical Society Inc.
Functional object - Beauty case
Green leather case containing a mirror, comb, soap container, toothbrush case, 2 plastic bottles, 3 small jars. -
Port Melbourne Historical & Preservation Society
Postcard - Velvet Soap, 85 years anniversary, Lever & Kitchen Pty Ltd, 1985
Six postcards produced in 1985 to commemorate 85 years of Velvet Soap. All are described (on the back) as depicting "the style of an early Velvet advertisement".industry - manufacturing, business and traders - soaps/candles, advertising, j kitchen & sons pty ltd, lever & kitchen pty ltd, velvet soap -
Bendigo Historical Society Inc.
Document - GUINEY COLLECTION: INVOICE, 21 Dec 1935
Document. Invoice from The Busy Red Emporium, Matthews Bros, General Drapers for Soap and Hose, 8/6. Dated 21.12 1935.document, memo, invoice -
Whitehorse Historical Society Inc.
Pamphlet, Schwerkolt Cottage, City of Nunawading, c1980
Schwerkolt Cottage and Historical Museum: Nunawading Parks and Recreation Information, includes advertisements for 'Colonial' Eucalyptus Oil and lanolin based souvenir soaps.schwerkolt cottage, city of nunawading. parks and recreation services -
Tennis Australia
Page from book, Circa 1880
Colour lithograph advertisement for 'Ivory Soap'. Obverse features two pages of a calendar and woman standing with a racquet on her shoulder above text: 'IVORY SOAP/NEVER FADES SUMMER DRESSES'. Reverse features monochrome illustration of two women, one seated in hammock above text describing qualities of product. Materials: Ink, Paper, Metal, Painttennis -
Tennis Australia
Flyer, Advertisement, 1890
A flyer promoting Ivory Soap, featuring an illustration of a lady in her summer dress, holding up a tennis racquet, on a court. Materials: Paper, Inktennis -
Tennis Australia
Page from Magazine, Jun-26
Pages 29-30 of the June 1926 edition of McCall's, advertising Woodbury's Facial Soap, with an illustration of women playing tennis. Materials: Paper, Inktennis