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Whitehorse Historical Society Inc.
Photograph, Green Family Home, c1962
... Road Blackburn showing the front garden of the home.... showing the front garden of the home. Collected at a Heritage Week ...Collected at a Heritage Week Workshop at Blackburn Library on 5th October 2009.Black & white photograph Green Family home at 41 Elmhurst Road Blackburn showing the front garden of the home.green shirley, blackburn elmhurst road 41, 1950's house -
Whitehorse Historical Society Inc.
Photograph, Antonio Park - The Shack, C1960
The photo is part of a set provided by Robin Harris of his early life (1953-1962) in 'The Shack' at Antonio Park. See ND5241 for his story 'When Antonio Park was home'.)Black & white photograph of 'The Shack' in Antonio Park where Robin Harris lived with his family in 1953 - 1962. His nephew, Mark Coleclough is standing in front. See ND5241 for history.antonio park, mitcham, coleclough. mark, the shack, whitehorse road, no.627, harris. robin -
Whitehorse Historical Society Inc.
Photograph, McDonnell Family
Photograph was donated by Margaret White (nee Kennedy) granddaughter Jane & John McDonnell.Two copies of black and white photograph of Jane and John McDonnell and family members on the verandah of their home at 42 McDowall Street Mitcham..Left to right - Catherine Lardner, P.J. McDonnell, Margaret McDonnell, Michael McDonnell, Jean Kunze.Middle row - Jane McDonnell and John McDonnell (Margaret's grandparents)Front row - Gladys Lardner, Florence Greet, Irene Lardnerwhite, margaret, mcdonnell, p.j., lardner, catherine, gladys, irene, michael, kunze, jean, john, jane, greet, florence, mitcham hotel -
Whitehorse Historical Society Inc.
Photograph, Michael McDonnell and Family, c1925
Black and white photo of Michael McDonnell and his family outside their family home in Whitehorse Road (south side, four blocks from Rooks Road.) c1925. Molly (mother) and Michael and their four children - Leo, Eileen, Jack and Frank in front .|Original on CD ROMmcdonnell, family, michael, molly -
Whitehorse Historical Society Inc.
Photograph, Former home of Sydney Geal
Colour photo of the front of the house built in 1951 at 124 Blackburn Road by Sydney Geal. Bricks and ceramic tiles needed for the house were made at Geals' Pottery , 266-272 Springvale Road, Nunawadinggeal, sydney, blackburn road blackburn, no. 124 -
Whitehorse Historical Society Inc.
Photograph, Former home of Sydney Geal
Colour photo of the front of the house built in 1951 at 124 Blackburn Road by Sydney Geal. Bricks and tiles needed for the house were made at Geal's Pottery 266-272 Springvale Road, Nunawadinggeal, sydney, blackburn road blackburn, no. 124 -
Whitehorse Historical Society Inc.
Photograph, Former home of Sydney Geal
Colour photo of the front of the house built in 1951 at 124 Blackburn Road, by Sydney Geal. Bricks and ceramic tiles used in the house were made at Geal's Pottery 266-272 Springvale Road, Nunawadinggeal, sydney, blackburn road blackburn, no. 124 -
Unions Ballarat
Photograph: Catherine King's campaign poster for November 2007 election, 20/9/07
Photograph: Catherine King's campaign poster for November 2007 election. The poster is erected in the front yard of a weatherboard home. A second identical poster is attached to the verandah area. Catherine King is the federal ALP member for Ballarat and has been office since 2001. She was a cabinet minister in the second Rudd ministry and is now part of the Shadow Cabinet. This poster comprises part of the campaign materials created to support the ALP's 2007 successful election campaign. Photographbtlc, ballarat trades hall, ballarat trades and labour council, king, catherine, kevin 07, alp, australian labor party, cabinet, politicians, elections, election campaigning -
Whitehorse Historical Society Inc.
Functional object - Slipper Bedpan
White porcelain bedpan a slipper bedpan for use in a bed. Used in hospitals and homes. Round back with handle tapering down to the frontCetem Ware Englanddomestic items, ablutions, ceramics, porcelain -
Whitehorse Historical Society Inc.
Equipment - Camera, c1915
Camera was originally owned by the owners grandfather and used by him at home and overseas. Later given to his son (donors farther)Brownie Autographic Folding No.2 Camera. Uses 120 roll film. Has a steel inscribing pin for writing on film through window on back of camera to record details. Has a ball bearing shutter - patented in USA, Jan 18, 1910 - Jan 7, 1913. Bellows folds back into camera and can be adjusted to 8,25, or 100 feet from object. Viewfinder can be varied from portrait to landscape view. It has a leather handle - film loaded by opening clip on lower front. Leather carrying case with name of original owner -G.H.Parsons, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.photography, cameras -
Whitehorse Historical Society Inc.
Photograph, Dorothea and Jacob Van Prooyen
Dorothea (Dora) Both (daughter of Wilhelmina Schwerkolt) was first married to Franz Schwarzman in 1883 at the age of 17. He worked as a miner in South Africa and his wife had to write to the Australian Consulate re: his whereabouts. When he did return home Dora had little to do with him. They had four children. Franz died c.1915. Dora remarried in 1917 to Jacob Van Prooyen, a widower and a Dutchman. In 1929 they lived in Como Parade where they kept a private zoo.Sepia photograph of a wooden house with two people standing in front. The roof is corrugated iron, so is the water tank to the right. The couple are clothed in dark & light coloursvan prooyen dora (dorothea), van prooyen jacob -
Whitehorse Historical Society Inc.
Equipment - Camera and case
Donor, Howard, became interesed in photography through his father who had Kodak camera and a home development kit. Could adjust size. In school Howard formed a camera club (aged 16). Had a ' Baby Brownie'. When he retired he built own workroom was one of the first to get a digital camera. Hobby ceased due to poor eyesight.Kodak Pocket Instamatic 400 camera. Black and silver metal casing. Kodak logo on left hand corner. Camera case maroon coloured plastic. Kodak logo front bottom right corner. Pocket clips on reversephotography, cameras, camera accessories -
Whitehorse Historical Society Inc.
Book - The C.W.A. Cookery Book and Household Hints, 1936
Book of recipes and household Hints. Front cover imprinted with CWA logo. Title: The C.W.A Cooking Book and Household Hints: sixth Edition. CWA - For Home and Country. NB: Various loose-leave sheets of hand written recipes and newspaper cuttings of recipes.books, cookery -
Ballarat Heritage Services
Photograph - Photograph - Colour, Chellowdene, 37 Wills St, Kew, c1973
... Ann Gervasoni sits at the front of her home, Chellowdene... Wills St, Kew, c1973 Ann Gervasoni sits at the front of her home ...Chellowdene was demolished c1995, and four units were built on the block.Ann Gervasoni sits at the front of her home, Chellowdene, in Wills Street, Kew. chellowdene, 37 wills st kew, ann gervasoni -
Unions Ballarat
Herbert Morrison: portrait of a politician, 1973
Biography of Herbert Morrison (1888-1965), a former British labor party politician who held positions of Home Secretary, Foreign Secretary and Deputy Prime Minister.Significant to Labor Party history in the United Kingdom.Paper; book. Front cover: red background; blue and black photo of Morrison on a podium addressing a crowd of people; black, red and blue lettering.Front cover: authors' names and title.labor party - united kingdom, morrison, herbert, btlc, ballarat trades and labour council, ballarat trades hall, home secretary - united kingdom, foreign secretary - united kingdom, deputy prime minister - united kingdom, biography, donoghue, bernard, jones, gw -
Whitehorse Historical Society Inc.
Book, The Australian Home Beautiful, 1/05/1947 12:00:00 AM
Soft covered book with illustration of house on front cover.books, reference -
Bendigo Military Museum
Booklet - BOOKLET, BIOGRAPHY, ALPHA PRINTING COMPANY, "DINKI DI DIGGERS", 1929
"DINKIE DI DIGGERS/ AT HOME AND ABROAD/ COMPILED BY TWO ONE-LEGGED ANZACS" THIS BOOKLET BIOGRAPHY - FROM THE "FOREWORD". "THE SKETCHES ARE A TRUE PORTRAYAL OF LIFE IN/ THE TRENCHES, STRIPPED OF ALL GLOSS AND GLAMOUR, AND DEPICTS/ THE BRIGHTER AND MORE HUMAN SIDE OF A SOLDIER'S LIFE".Booklet. Cover - heavy guage paper, light brown colour, dark blue print and illustration on front cover. 32 pages - cut, plain, light brown colour. No illustrations. WW1.booklets, biography, ww1, anzacs -
Bendigo Military Museum
Certificate - CERTIFICATE WW1, FRAMED, Post WW1
Certificate, For God, Empire, & Home, Rising Sun badge at top. Statue of soldier with reversed arms on LHS & photo of Alan STEPHENS at the bottom. Presented by the Borough Of Eaglehawk to Pte Alan STEPHENS, 14 Batt AIF, felled in action, Gallipoli 1915. Certificate mounted with green border & tan wooden frame with glass front & white cardboard backing with silver wire hanging strap on rear.“Alan STEPHENS - enlisted 21 September 1914, Regiment No 1273, 14th Batt AIF aged 21 years. Embarked for overseas 22.12.1914 - KIA 25 - 30th April 1915. No known grave. His name is commemorated on the Lone Pine Memorial (Panel 43) Gallipoli”cerificate, borough, eaglehawk, 14th -
Marysville & District Historical Society
Book - Paperback book, An Introduction to Victorian Forest Trees, 1961
A history of forestry in Victoria Paperback. Cover is green with only the title on the front cover. On the inside back cover is a map of Victoria with the state forests indicated.Stamp of Marysville & District / Historical Society Inc / P.O. Box 22 / Marysville 3779victoria, forestry, forest, trees -
Stawell Historical Society Inc
Photograph, Mrs Ede Sowden in the Raitt garden in Upper Main Street Stawell
Portrait of lady in garden beside chair. Noted Aunty Ede passed away 1940. Mrs Ede Sowden was taken in the Garden of the Raitt home upper Main Street.Lady dressed in a dark coloured suit, white high-necked blouse with brooch at centre, standing beside a chair in the garden. Picket fence is in the background.on the back: Nov '83 Lemon tree has just been removed at property of Mrs Raitt , Upper Main Beverley Biggs (possibly Briggs) has the chair - this is her grandma's sister. Family home brought from Creswick by bullock dray. On the front: Auntie Ede passed away 1940stawell -
Clunes Museum
PHOTOGRAPH
... SEPIA PHOTOGRAPH OF A CROWD OF PEOPLE IN FRONT... SEPIA PHOTOGRAPH OF A CROWD OF PEOPLE IN FRONT OF THE FRASER ...SEPIA PHOTOGRAPH OF A CROWD OF PEOPLE IN FRONT OF THE FRASER HOME AT CLUNES ESTATElocal history, photography, photographs, building, early citizens -
Bendigo Military Museum
Photograph - PHOTOGRAPHS, GRINTON COLLECTION, FRAMED, 2008 - 2009
Frame 11. Photo 1. Welcoming home committee, nearly there. Photo 2. On Australian soil at last. The 'Karmala' berthed at 3MD Melbourne at the "Outer West New Pier" for the Victorians. It is not known if this is the pier at this point. Photo 3. Home at Tragowel, Victoria, some nine miles south of Kerang. Rear, Emily Grinton, Arthur Grinton, Bert and May Grinton. Front. Hughina Grinton and possibly Grace McLeod, Hughina's sister. Photo 4. The opening of the Memorial at Macorna 5/3/1920. Macorna is about 5 kilometres south of Tragowel, both places being on the railway line. Left to right in the photo; Lieut F. Dunn, Cr Charlie Cook, Brigadier General Brand, Rev. G. R. Jones (Kerang) and Mr H. Angus MLA. Music was played by the Mead Brass Band. This information was supplied by the Pyramid Hill Historical Society.Photographs - black and white on paper. 4 photographs top to bottom. 1. Dock side welcoming home committee. 2. Soldiers on a timber dock. 3. Welcome home family group. 4. Opening of a War Memorial. Frame - timber with black colour paint. Glass front. Mount - black colour cardboard. Backing cardboard with handwritten notation.Backing cardboard - handwritten in blue felt tip pen "11."framed photographs, grinton collection, ww1, 38th -
Bendigo Military Museum
Photograph - PHOTOGRAPHS, GRINTON COLLECTION, FRAMED, 2008 - 2009
Frame 9. Photo 1. Jack Grinton on leave in Paris, early 1919 with captured German guns. The place is the 'Arc de Triomphe' . Photo 2. Jack Grinton on the right. From Jack's writing the other soldier is a Private Knight. The first building in the rear is the "Don View Bar" suggesting that this is Scotland when on leave. Photo 3. Coming home, Jack on the deck of the "Karmala". They left Plymouth Harbour on 1/7/1919. Photo 4. Ships in Plymouth Harbour. Refer Cat No. 5880P for exhibition details. Refer Cat No. 1280 for Jack GRINTON Service Records.Photographs - black and white on paper. 4 photographs, top to bottom. 1. Soldier with German guns in Paris. 2. Two soldiers with buildings in the background. 3. Soldier on deck of a ship. 4. Ships in harbour. Frame - timber with black colour paint. Glass front. Mount - black colour cardboard. Backing cardboard - with handwritten notation. Backing cardboard - handwritten in blue felt tip pen "9."framed photographs, grinton collection, ww1, 38th -
Stawell Historical Society Inc
Photograph, Mr Jens Kofoed & family at their home in Armstrong
... Two storey brick building and garden with family in front...Photograph Mr Jens Kofoed & family at their home ...Two storey brick building and garden with family in front. Jens Kofoed’s Home Armstrong.stawell ararat house -
Mont De Lancey
Book, Songs of Victory
A collection of hymns and solos for religious gatheringsA red soft cloth covered book - Songs of Victory - hymns and solos for evangelistio meetings, conferences, and the home circle. With additional hymns 801 pieces in all. Large type edition. The front red cover is ornately decorated and the back cover has a black decorated square in the middle. There is a list of choruses at the back of the book on p.193 following the additional hymns and an additional Ccoruses list on p.202. There is an Index to first lines, choruses, additional hymns, additional choruses and subjects. Six extra pages are for advertising religious reading.non-fictionA collection of hymns and solos for religious gatheringsreligious books, hymns, churches, choirs -
Mont De Lancey
Functional object - Tin, Unknown
A dark green lidded tin with gold trim around the edges and gold lettering stating 'The Concise Home Doctor Emergency Care'. Inside is a brown card printed with - 'A Suggestion and Remedies for Everyday Emergency'. 'White paper label with 'BCM - B - Complex Minerals' pasted onto the front of the tin.containers, tins, health and medical equipment, medical tins, first aid equipment, medical kits -
Ballarat Tramway Museum
Sign, "Headlight Changeover", c1920
Yields information about the manufacture of "home made" signs to go into tramcars, though not fitted as such to the cars in the BTM fleet. May have been a proposal or a sample fitted elsewhere.Small steel plate sign with a primer paint coat on back, white paint on front and words "Headlight Changeover" painted in black capital letters on front and four small screw holes in corner and given a clear coat varnish finish. May have been a sample or something that was proposed to be fitted to trams as generally not fitted to Ballarat tramcars. On rear has scratched into paint "Headlight Changeover"trams, tramways, signs, headlights, tramcars -
Ballarat Tramway Museum
Newspaper, Ballarat Times, "Heritage on Track", "Museum takes possession of old new trams", 17/8/2019, 22/8/2019
Set of three newspaper clippings about the transfer of trams 836 and 1029 to the BTM on 16 August 2019. The trams were loaded at Newport Workshops the previous day. .1 - "Heritage on Track" - Ballarat Times, front page - photo of the loading at Newport of tram 836 - 22/8/2019. .2 - "Museum takes possession of old new trams" - as for .1 .3 - "New home for W class" - The Courier, 17/8/2019 - featuring a photo of Michaela Settle, the MLA for Buniyong and Juliana Addison, MLA for Wendouree and Chris Phillips of the BTM with Cuthberts939 in the background. Story by Greg Gliddon, photo Lachlan Bence. Quotes the President Paul Mong.btm, new trams, victorian government, cuthberts 939, loading trams -
Bendigo Military Museum
Photograph - PHOTOGRAPH WW1, Possibly 1916
The soldier in the photo is Charles Alfred KEDGE No.38512. Born in Bendigo, he enlisted on 8.11.16 aged 21 in the FIELD ARTILLERY BRIGADE Reinforcement 32. Embarked for England 26.11.17, embarked for France 17.7.18, KIA 16.8.18 at Tincourt, France. The photo was most likely taken in Croydon, South London at the home of Stephen Tully, the elder man sitting in the photo. Betty Tully is in front of him, Eileen in the white dress. The lady in the black dress is Annie Parker. The photo was taken prior to Kedge embarking for France. Refer to Ct. No.4056 for other item.Photo, sepia tone, showing a soldier standing behind a man & woman seated and two girls sitting on grass.On rear in pen: “CHARLIE KEDGE, Stephen Tully, Annie Parker, Betty Tully, Eileen Tully”photograph, artillery, kia -
Bendigo Military Museum
Memorabilia - EMBROIDERY WW1, C.1916 - 18
... the front” Items were sent home by Herbert Leslie MCLEAN to his ...Items were sent home by Herbert Leslie MCLEAN to his sister Hilda. Herbert Regt No 15936 enlisted in the AIF on 14.3.1916 aged 26. Embarked for England 25.10.1916. Returned to Australia 10.3.1918 and was discharged Medically unfit due a hernia complication..1) Pillow, silk embroidered, padded & folded in half with knitted button. Front has pink lace & crocheted flowers & print. .2) Handkerchief, silk with embroidered edges & shield. Main colour is light purple..1) Embroidered on front: “To my dear Sister” .2) Embroidered on front: “From the front”memorabilia, embroidery, pillow