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Tatura Irrigation & Wartime Camps Museum
Archive Box, Tatura Safety House, 2009
Cardboard Archive Box containing Tatura Safety House Committee Minute Books, Information Kit.Labelled "Tatura Safety House" box no 4360tatura, safety house, tatura safety house, books, minute -
The Ed Muirhead Physics Museum
Optical Flat
Glass rectangular slab stored in brown cardboard box.?? Stamped on back of box: “ExD 40 3453A ECLORTRA” (this may be unrelated) -
Flagstaff Hill Maritime Museum and Village
Octant, Mid to late 19th Century
An octant is an astronomical instrument used in measuring the angles of heavenly bodies such as the sun, moon and stars at sea in relation to the horizon. This measurement could then be used to calculate the altitude of the body measured, and then the latitude at sea could also be calculated. The angle of the arms of an octant is 45 degrees, or 1/8 of a circle, which gives the instrument its name. Two men independently developed the octant around 1730: John Hadley (1682–1744), an English mathematician, and Thomas Godfrey (1704–1749), a glazier in Philadelphia. While both have a legitimate and equal claim to the invention, Hadley generally gets the greater share of the credit. This reflects the central role that London and the Royal Society played in the history of scientific instruments in the eighteenth and nineteenth century's. There were also two others who are attributed to having created octanes during this period, Caleb Smith, an English insurance broker with a strong interest in astronomy (in 1734), and Jean-Paul Fouchy, a mathematics professor and astronomer in France (in 1732) In 1767 the first edition of the Nautical Almanac tabulated lunar distances, enabling navigators to find the current time from the angle between the sun and the moon. This angle is sometimes larger than 90°, and thus not possible to measure with an octant. For that reason, Admiral John Campbell, who conducted shipboard experiments with the lunar distance method, suggested a larger instrument and the sextant was developed. From that time onward, the sextant was the instrument that experienced significant development and improvements and was the instrument of choice for naval navigators. The octant continued to be produced well into the 19th century, though it was generally a less accurate and less expensive instrument. The lower price of the octant, including versions without a telescope, made it a practical instrument for ships in the merchant and fishing fleets. One common practice among navigators up to the late nineteenth century was to use both a sextant and an octant. The sextant was used with great care and only for lunar sightings while the octant was used for routine meridional altitude measurements of the sun every day. This protected the very accurate and pricier sextant while using the more affordable octant for general use where it performs well. The invention of the octant was a significant step in providing accuracy of a sailors latitude position at sea and his vessels distance from land when taking sightings of land-based landmarks.Octant with metal handle, three different colored shades are attached, in wooden wedge-shaped box lined with green felt. Key is attached. Two telescope eyepieces are in box. Some parts are missing. Oval ink stamp inside lid of box, scale is graduated to 45 degrees. Ink stamp inside lid of box "SHIPLOVERS SOCIETY OF VICTORIA. LIBRARY"instrument, flagstaff hill, warrnambool, shipwrecked coast, flagstaff hill maritime museum, maritime museum, shipwreck coast, flagstaff hill maritime village, great ocean road, octant, navigation, nautical instrument, navigation instrument, john hadley, sextant, astronomical instrument -
Vision Australia
Container - Object, Quanterron Inc, Seven day pill reminder with large print and Braille
A seven day reminder pill box, a clear rectangular plastic box with the letters in blue "SMTWTFS". Braille is included to indicate the letter of each day. Plastic box with seven compartmentsA single letter on top of each compartment in large font: S M T W T F Sassistive devices, quanterron -
Nhill Aviation Heritage Centre
Memorabilia - Wooden telephone carry box
Wooden telephone carry boxGreen wooden boxTelephone sets "F" M.K.1.working instructions -
Creswick Campus Historical Collection - University of Melbourne
Slide - Australian Forestry School - glass plate slides previously held by the ANU (Australian National University), Australian Forestry School, Australian Forestry School - glass plate slides, 1965
Australian Forestry School. Handed onto the ANU in 1965. Covering: rainforests; botany; erosion; Murray River; USA Forestry services; Pine plantations; Forests Commission Victoria;Tasmania forest scenes. 500 slides in 10 wooden boxes and 16 small cardboard packets.Glass lantern slide collection - approx 600 slidesMultiple boxes of glass slides. Many are in 'Hammer Lantern Plates' slide boxes. -
Greensborough Historical Society
Photographic Slides, Watsonia High School [slides], 1978-1981
Photographs mainly of Watsonia High School Library from 1978 to 1981. Watsonia High School later merged with Watsonia Tech to become Greensborough College. Margaret Willimott worked in the library at Watsonia High School,Photographs of a school library that is no longer in existence.Yellow box containing 36 photographic slides.Slides are randomly numbered. All processed by Kodak. Label on box: "WHS Library"watsonia high school, watsonia high school library, margaret willimott -
Whitehorse Historical Society Inc.
Book, The Days we remember, 1995
Box Hill in pictures: 1960 - 1994Box Hill in pictures: 1960 - 1994Box Hill in pictures: 1960 - 1994box hill, pictures -
Kiewa Valley Historical Society
Hair Pins - Personal Item
Cardboard white box with decorated coloured flowery sides which curve over the edge to frame the top of the box. Top of the box has a picture of a smart fashionable lady wearing a broad brimmed black hat with a pink rose and seemingly wearing a white fur shawl. Her body is not shown. The inside of the box is divided into 4 equal compartments - 1 across and 3 in a row lengthwise. 15 metal black hairpins are in 3 of the compartments and 2 brown plastic hairpins in the other. Base if the box - "Finest selected / Hairpins. / Black / Made in England hair pins, make-up, personal item, hairdressing, toiletries, bathroom -
Whitehorse Historical Society Inc.
Map, Map 1892. Nunawading Shire, 1892
Duplicated same as ND5060 Map of Shire of Nunawading.Duplicated same as ND5060 Map of Shire of Nunawading. Shows railway line including spur from Box Hill to Box Hill Brick Co.Duplicated same as ND5060 Map of Shire of Nunawading. maps, shire of nunawading, railways, box hill brick company -
Mont De Lancey
Container - Silver Box
Inside the silver box is a lock of hair with a handwritten note - Grandfather's hair Sept 9th 1899. A small rectangular ornately engraved and decorated lidded box with a linear pattern overall on the outside of the lid, sides and bottom. It has a scalloped shape on all edges. Inside is a lock of Grandfather's hair wrapped in a folded piece of paper with writing describing who it is from and the date. Inside on the lid bottom of the box are engravings of the maker. Inscribed on the outside of the lid in an ornate rectangular scalloped shape: Presented to Mr. George Birrell MECHANIC By his Fellow Workmen as a token of respect on his leaving for Australia 11th July 1851 GLASGOW Inside the lid top are three stamps: one is a face in a circle, next to it a rectangle with ES and the third is not recognisable. On the bottom of the box are three stamps: one is in the shape of a shield with a cross in the middle, next is a rectangle with ES and the third appears to be a moon shape.container, boxes, hair -
Kew Historical Society Inc
Leisure object - Board Game, Solitaire: The well-known game, 1950s
Solitaire is a game for a single player that is played with pegs or marbles on a wooden board. The game consists of 32 marbles and a wooden board with 33 dents in it. The game is set up by placing 32 marbles in 32 dents, leaving the centre dent empty. The aim of the game is to remove every marble except one – and the last one must end up in the centre dent.To remove a marble, you have to move one marble over another marble, landing in an empty dent. Marbles can move up, down, left or right but never diagonally.Plain cardboard box with colourful graphic design of the game on the lid. The box encloses the round wooden playing board while the plastic marbles are contented in plastic wrapping in their own compartment. A note in pencil on the lid of the box, written by the donor, notes that three of the 36 marbles are missing.Label on box: "SOLITAIRE / THE WELL_KNOWN / GAME / Full Instructions Enclosed / Made in Germany"board game, games and puzzles, board games -- solitaire -
Whitehorse Historical Society Inc.
Article, Land Which Overlooks Dandenongs, 1935
Sale of Land which overlooks Dandenongs.Land which overlooks Dandenongs : Real Estate is reviving between Box Hill and Croydon. Article on Box Hill to Croydon land development 1935.Sale of Land which overlooks Dandenongs.eastern suburbs, melbourne, real estate, transport, local government -
Bendigo Military Museum
Memorabilia - LIGHTER, WW1
Given to Reginald Chatfield O'LOUGHLIN (WWII Veteran). Believed to be a souvenir.Brass cigarette trench lighter in original black cardboard box. Cellophane front to allow viewing.Printed front bottom of box: : “WWI, Trench Lighter”memorabilia, lighter, cigarette -
National Wool Museum
Shearing cutters
Box of Lister shearing cutters.Box of Lister shearing cutters.shearing machinery, r.a. lister & co. ltd. -
National Wool Museum
Shearing combs
Box of Lister shearing combs.Box of Lister shearing combs.shearing machinery, r.a. lister & co. ltd. -
Whitehorse Historical Society Inc.
Document, Shop site sale, ?1923
Auction sale of five shop sitesAuction sale of five shop sites (possibly 1923), Carrington Road, Box Hill.Auction sale of five shop sitest.r.b. morton & son, carrington road, box hill, station street -
Coal Creek Community Park & Museum
Medicine, pills, between c.1870-c.1924
TROVE : Earliest entry for Duerdin, Sainsbury, and Co. The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957) Tuesday 28 June 1870 p 4 Article Shipping Intelligence IMP0RTS.-June 25. Childwall Abbey, from London.-360 cases starch, , 4 tanks, 50 cases brushware, 15 casks blacking, Virgoe, Son, and Co. ; 62 tanks malt, Gough and Smith ; 71 bales, Wilson and Mackinnon ; 1 case jewellery. 4 cases hardware, Thos. Williams ; 36 packages drugs, Duerdin, Sainsbury, and Co. ; 9 cases confectionary,...........' C.1924 Dueridin & Sainsbury became a 'limited' company. TROVE: The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957) Saturday 29 November 1924 p 32 Article Duerdin and Sainsbury Ltd. The first annual meeting of Duerdin and Sainsbury Ltd, was held at the company's offices, Flinders lane, Melbourne, yesterday. . Mr. Henry G. McRoberts presided............' TROVE : Gippsland Times (Vic. : 1861 - 1954) Thursday 17 May 1923 p 1 Article GiPPSLAND HOSPITAL -----: O: --------, PAYMENTS Wages £3, £32/2, £83/1SIS, 1.!'/1/8, £26/9/, Kodak Co. £3/14/, Hicks Atkinson & Sons £13/0/8, Duerdin & Sainsbury £2/0/3, Denyer's Pty. £3'/.......' TROVE : Last entry for Duerdin, Sainsbury, and Co. Weekly Times (Melbourne, Vic. : 1869 - 1954) Saturday 31 March 1934 p 57 Article "OLD READER" (Hamilton). — Moulds and wicks for candles:— D. & W Chandler Ltd.. 234 Flinders Lane, Melbourne, CI Mention this paper (2) If you have large quantity of gum you could offer It to wholesale chemists such as Rocke Tompsitt & Co., Flinders Street, or Felton Grimwade and Duerdin Sainsbury. 342 Flinders Lane. ✏Fix this text 18/6, Francis & Co. £2/9/1, Melbourne ✏Pink paper packaging (damaged) around a two page leaflet containing a squat cylindrical wooden box with lid, Box with a paper label on the lid, contains round ball shaped cream coloured pills.Paper label of pills box 'Dr. Hains Antibilious Pills', Proprietors....uer....& Sainsbury 340-351 Flinders La. MELBOURNE. 6d Per Box of 24 PILLS'pills, medicine, pharmacy, drug houses of australia -
The Adam Lindsay Gordon Commemorative Committee Inc.
Functional object - Box, racing equipment, c. 1868
This box contains the racing equipment of Adam Lindsay Gordon.Gordon's racing box was used at Flemington where he made history on Oct 10th 1868 by winning three hurdle races in one day.Brown wooden boxhorse riding, adam lindsay gordon, equipment -
Glenelg Shire Council Cultural Collection
Container - Tackle Box, n.d
'Academy' brand white, unbreadable, round tackle box, divided into 5 sections, containing hooks & sinkers, and cardboard fish shaped manufacturer's label.Front: Top 'Acadamy Tackle Box' -
Bright & District Historical Society operating the Bright Museum
Tin Box, Opium
Tin box used to store opium. Metal is broken in several places with a piece missing from one face. Has been repaired and glued.Chinese characters on top and base of box.tin box, goldfields, opium, chinese, recreation, buckland valley -
Bendigo Historical Society Inc.
Container - CHOCOLATE BOXES COLLECTION: MACROBERTSONS CHOCOLATE BOX
Large rectangular MacRobertsons chocolate box with scene of men with horses, mounted on gold velvet lid with a burgundy iridescent base in a grape & vine pattern.This box made by MacRobertson Fitzroy Melbournedomestic equipment, food storage & preservation, container chocolate box -
Kiewa Valley Historical Society
Sewing Machine Attachment - Buttonhole
This sewing machine was bought by Alex Craig's dad in 1942 for his wife whom he married in 1943. Alex's grandmother used it in 1942 to make button holes.Historical: Type of machine used by S.E.C.V. wives living in Mt Beauty in the 1940's, 1950's and 1960's. Ladies made the family's clothes and sewed for the Annual Church and chook fetes e.g.. children's clothes and dolls clothes. They bought dozens of dolls and made 'fairy' dresses for them using coloured netting.Green & white box containing black & silver metal with 4 parts for attaching to Singer sewing machine for sewing button holes."Singer Buttonhole Attachment" on green 'cloud' top of box. "The Singer manufacturing Company" on green 'cloud' on side of box. "For Light Manufacturing and Home Use" on green 'cloud' on side of box. "Made in Great Britain" on white top half of end of box & teen 'cloud' below end of box is "Singer / Buttonhole Attachment / No. 86662 / For Singer Lock Stitch/ Family Sewing Machines.singer manufacturing co.. clothes. fetes. domestic. sewing. -
Wannon Water
High pressure scour valve mould (casting) watermains, Mould
Used to make casting moulds for the high pressure main Otway Supply System pipeline. Was used in conjunction with scour valve mould, Wf mould and valve stem mould in the 1980sUsed to manufacture spare parts for the main Otway pipeline2 wooden boxes each contain the mould for casting valves for wtaermains pipelines. Moulds lined with green coloured sealantwatermains written in black ink on outside of boxotway region, water supply, pipelines, valves -
Uniting Church Archives - Synod of Victoria
Photograph, Rev. John Cousins, undated c.1970s
John L. Cousins: Born 1909, died 1977. Ordained 1939. Eltham, Croxton, Merbein, Cemntral Mission, Healesville, Hobart, Devonport, Oakleigh, Box Hill (to 1974), Dandenong.B & W photograph of Rev John Cousins standing at a lectern or pulpit, dressed in suit and tie. White hair, wearing glasses."Rev. John Cousins, Box Hill" -
Coal Creek Community Park & Museum
Nylon stockings, Prestige
New nylon stockings in original boxCheckmates. 15 Denier Nylon Sheers by Prestige. 10 51 Gauge (marked on stockings and box) -
Queenscliffe Maritime Museum
Instrument - Sextant in wooden box
Sextant used by J P Larken, Government Marine SurveyorThe sextant has been the primary position fixing tool of the marine surveyor for 200 years used to measure angles between beacons or points for hydrographic surveys. A sextant in its own wooden box.On inside box lid; 'A. E. Parson surveying and scientific instrument maker, Queen Street, Melbournesextant, jp larken, marine surveyor -
Wodonga & District Historical Society Inc
Functional object - Haeusler Collection Hard Rubber Pipe Syringe Box, Davol Rubber CO., Providence, R.L
The Wodonga Historical Society Haeusler Collection provides invaluable insight into life in late nineteenth and early twentieth century north east Victoria. The collection comprises manuscripts, personal artefacts used by the Haeusler family on their farm in Wodonga, and a set of glass lantern slide negatives which offer a unique visual snapshot of the domestic and social lives of the Haeusler family and local Wodonga community. The Haeusler family migrated from Prussia (Germany) to South Australia in the 1840s and 1850s, before purchasing 100 acres of Crown Land made available under the Victorian Lands Act 1862 (also known as ‘Duffy’s Land Act’) in 1866 in what is now Wodonga West. The Haeusler family were one of several German families to migrate from South Australia to Wodonga in the 1860s. These rubber pipes were used for enemas, and provide potential for interpretation in the areas of social history and medical history. This item has well documented provenance and a known owner. It forms part of a significant and representative historical collection which reflects the local history of Wodonga. It contributes to our understanding of domestic and family life in early twentieth century Wodonga, as well as providing interpretative capacity for themes including local history, social history, and women’s history. A black box for hard rubber pipe syringes, manufactured by The Global Syringe. On lid of box: "THE GLOBAL SYRINGE/NUMBER FOUR/HARD RUBBER PIPES"syringe, rubber pipes, medical, medicine, medical history, wodonga, haeusler, haeusler collection -
Montmorency/Eltham RSL Sub Branch
Equipment - Mess Tin, 1939
The mess box ( 0089.2 ) is one of two issued with the partnering box referenced at 0089.1Aluminium Mess Tin with metal movable handle attached to one end.Inscribed to aluminium plate affixing handle to box “ C & B 1939 “ with arrow pointing upwards. -
Lakes Entrance Regional Historical Society (operating as Lakes Entrance History Centre & Museum)
Container
Box contains various blades for scalpels, label on box is addressed to a Dentist in WycheproofBrown cardboard box, detachable lid, contains scalpel bladesmedicine, dentistry