Robin Boyd developed a close friendship with the founder of the Bauhaus in Weimar Germany, Walter Gropius, who had moved to the USA in the 1930s. Through this connection, Boyd was invited to be the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Bemis Professor at the School in the North American academic year 1956-7. Robin and Patricia Boyd, with their youngest daughter Suzy, were based in Cambridge, Massachusetts for the year. Boyd gave some lectures at MIT and he was also invited to give lectures at many other universities, allowing him to travel widely within the USA, especially on the East Coast. This gave him the opportunity to meet architects like Frank Lloyd Wright, Eero Saarinen, Paul Rudolph and many others, and visit the offices of Skidmore, Owings and Merrill, and places like Taliesin and the General Motors Technical Center Detroit. On the way home, the Boyds visited London, Berlin, Paris and Le Corbusier’s Ronchamp Chapel in France.Colour slide in a mount. Park Avenue, New York City, New York, USA. On the left is Lever House (1950-52) at 390 Park Avenue. (Architects: Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (lead designers Gordon Bunshaft and Natalie de Blois).)Made in USA/ Patented/ 04819/ Encircled 54 (Handwritten)/ Encircled 9 (Handwritten)/ Encircled 16F (Handwritten)/ Underlined 9 (Handwritten)mit bemis professorship, mit, robin boyd, slide

Personal memoirs of Gordon Wright, a prefect in 1940, on his trip to and from school.Prose on white mount board.See jpg for complete quote.williamstown high school, 1940, gordon wright

Adam Lindsay Gordon had a habit of making sketches and giving them to friends.This is a rare drawing made by Adam Lindsay Gordon.Sketch on paper depicting several scenes etc...adam lindsay gordon, sketch, horse

Bugler - Donald Gordon Akins of Stawell in uniform Boer War 1899-1902stawell boer war

David Gordon Collection. Made to commemorate Golden Jubilee of Queen Victoria in 1887.

Beret belonging to "Gordon Bruce Bearman". See Catalogue No. 7538 for service details.Light blue woolen beret with black band. White and gold metal badge attached to front. Badge features a map of the world surrounded by a laurel wreath. White Manufacturers' label sewn onto band. Brand name printed in white on inside.Printed on inside in white: "KENT, PURE WOOL, X-LARGE" beret, united nations peacekeeping, insignia, gordon bruce bearman

Pictured is Captain Eric Gordon Glassford (AAMC - 10 Field Ambulance) who was awarded a Military Cross for his actions at Passchendale. Glassford's older brother - Capt John Canute Gordon Glassford - also served with 10 Field Ambulance and was awarded a Military Cross for his actions on the Western Front.Photograph taken in July 1916 at Maribyrnong training facilty in Victoria.Personally signed by all those photographed.photographs, ww1, 10 field ambulance, aamc, john canute gordon glassford, eric gordon glassford

BOOK - ALEC H CHISHOLM COLLECTION. 'Adam Lindsay Gordon: Westminster Abbey Memorial Volume' by Douglas Sladen. 288 page hardcover book on the life and best poems of the Poet of Australia. Includes the address by the Archbishop of Canterbury at the unveiling of the Adam Lindsay Gordon memorial in Westminster Abbey on 11 May 1934. Also includes 8 B & W illustrations. Published by Hutchinson & Co. London, c1934. A 64 page list of other books by the publisher is included at the back. '2012 SLA' catalogue sticker on spine. Handwritten in ink on flyleaf 'To A.H.Chisholm from Douglas Sladen Nov. 1938'Douglas Sladenbooks, collections, poetry, alec h chisholm collection, adam lindsay gordon, douglas sladen, poetry

Wool samples prepared at the School of Wool Sorting, Gordon Institute of Technology, Geelong. This object hung in the Wool Exchange Building until 1985 and is now displayed in the National Wool Museum using copy prints of photographs. Wool samples were prepared at the School of Wool Sorting, the Gordon Institute of Technology, Geelong.THE WOOL INDUSTRY OF GEELONG 1935textile mills wool stores, gordon technical college - woolclassing department, textile mills, wool stores

Copies of documents belonging to "Gordon Bruce Bearman". See catalogue No. 7538 for service details.1. Photocopy of a certificate on A4 paper. Text in black type. 2. Photocopy of a certificate on A4 paper with details of a medal issued to recipient. Text in black type. 3. Photocopy of a report assessing recipient's conduct at the end of a tour of duty. A4 page with black type. 4. Photocopy of a letter of congratulations on Minister for Justice letterhead. A4 page with black type.gordon bruce bearman, united nations peacekeeping, cyprus medal

Photograph of Jessie Scholes (nee Partington), Gordon Scholes and Tom Vickers at the Plenty River.Digital copy of black and white photograph.jessie scholes, jessie partington, gordon scholes, tom vickers, plenty river

Grave of Gordon Scholes, husband of Jessie Partington Scholes. Grave is at St Helena Cemetery.Digital copy of colour photograph.gordon scholes, st helena cemetery

Home and garden at 23 Stanley Avenue; Charles Hanlin, builder; Landscape by Gordon Ford.11 colour prints 10 x 15 cmhouses, mudbrick, gayle blackwood collection, charles hanlin, gordon ford, stanley avenue, eltham

The shop was located on Armstrong Street. Two of the men pictured are James Burt & Gordon Veal.james veal, armstrong street, building, commerical, persons, shop, butcher

Black and white photograph"Written on back of photograph" Ringwood Council -Management Executive 1985 L to R Brian Gilpin, Brian Catteral, Alan Robertson, Bill Black, Gordon McCulloch

The Royal British Legion is a Charity providing support to members of the British Armed Forces and their Families. The Legion was formed on 15 May 1921 and combined four organizations that had been raised after WW1 into one, The Royal British Legion. There is a branch of The Royal British Legion in Melbourne and meets Monthly.This is an original item as presented to the Geelong RSL President.A framed Motto of the Royal British Legion, timber frame, silver coloured photograph.The Royal British Legion, Service Not Self, Teign Mouth Devon. Presented to Geelong RSL by Gordon Randell, Newquay Royal British Legion, Cornwall, UK, Presidentroyal, british, legion

Olive green oblong leather box with blue velvet and white satin lining containing an engraved silver commemorative trowel."Presented to Rev.C. Mervyn Plumb L.TH. on the occasion of laying Foundation stone City Congregational Church Geelong 2nd May 1964 Gordon Williams & Associates. Architects.

historic, landscape, social, peopleCopy of B/W Photocopy of original photo, Hale family children playing cricket behind Dr. Longden''s house, Learmonth St. Buninyong, 1930's."Backyard at Mum's: Geoff Hale (batting), Gordon HAle (keeping) Coached by Cedric Longden, brother of Dr. Longden, who coached & ran Buninyong Cricket. c1930"buninyong, hale family, learmonth st

This photo was taken at Ferry Post, Suez Canal. .2) Two Australian Soldiers around a camp fire at Ferry Post boil a billy for tea..1) Verso: Harry [Holmes] and Gordon [Spittle] make afternoon tea for Cam, who snaps them in tea-making operation. (Ferry Post, Ismailia, Egypt). .2) S.G.S. [S. Gordon Spittle] and Harry [Holmes] making coffee to entertain Cam Williamson on his first visit to our camp. The hat hides Harry's face. These snaps are taken by Cam's Kodak."chatham family archive, chatham, holmes, world war, world war 1, world war i, world war one, france, suez, ferry post, billy tea

Cambrai Day is celebrated annually by Armoured Corps regiments of the British Commonwealth. It marks the anniversary of the Battle of Cambrai in November 1917 when a force of more than 400 British Mark IV Tanks broke the defences of the German Hindenburg Line, It was the first large-scale, effective use of tanks in warfare. Cambrai turned from a battle of great success to failure, but it heralded a new type of warfare and changed the nature of the battlefield forever.The gathering at Buna Barracks Albury, Beersheba Barracks Wangaratta, Bapaume Barracks Benalla and Salamaua Barracks Cobram on 30 November 1986 was the inaugural meeting of the 8th/13th Victorian Mounted Rifles Regimental Association.Colour photograph of three men taken at Buna Barracks Albury on Cambrai Day 30 November 1986. They are : Bill Woolford, with back to camera, Max Oates and Gordon Cole. All were former members of 8/13 Victorian Mounted Rifles Regiment.

Short stories of different events in Gordon Moyes' life. The Rev. Dr. Gordon Moyes was the Superintendent of Wesley Mission in Sydney. The book is a result of the stories he read on his radio program, called 'Sunday Night Live,' and consisted of stories he told of growing up in Box Hill during the 1940s and 1950s.A soft covered book of 136 pages.(mrs) - cherry, drainage, picnics, local history, social history, daily life, 1940-1949, schools, religion, (mr) gordon moyes, box hill

Charles Gordon Watts-Phillips was born in 1849 at Forest Hill, Surrey, England, the son of Dramatic Author, Watts Phillips, and Lily Mariner. He departed England for Australia around 1874. His sister Roland was a favourite Australian actress of the early 1900s. Gordon as he was known, whilst residing in Goolwa, South Australia and working as a clerk met and married a widow, Jane Luxon (nee Miller) on the 7th August, 1876 at the Wesleyan Church in Strathalbyn, South Australia. Jane, Gordon’s elder by some 11 years was born in Ireland in 1838, the daughter of Robert Joseph Miller, a carpenter and Jane Miller. She had previously married Captain William Luxon in 1861 at Encounter Bay, South Australia at age 22 and they had four children: William (1864), George Robert (1865), Miriam Louisa (1867) and Harriet Jane (1869), all born at Encounter Bay. Gordon and Jane had two further children together: Caroline Roland Watts-Phillips (1877 Islington S.A.) and Charles Gordon Watts-Phillips (1879 Yatala, S.A.). At some stage, Jane then deserted her husband. Gordon obtained a master's certificate and was a part owner of a small trader. He had also been captain of one of the passenger boats on the Darling River. He was reputedly a popular coastal skipper. By 1891 Gordon was the Captain of the S.S Omeo operating around Sale, Victoria. In August of that year some of the heaviest flooding of the Thomson River ever experienced in twenty years occurred over the 3rd and 4th of August. Gordon, and others, rescued the lives of many families over that period for which he was awarded a Bronze Medal by the Royal Humane Society. By 1892 the S.S. Omeo had passed to another Captain and Gordon subsequently retired from the sea and moved to Melbourne. Whilst residing in Coburg, Victoria, Gordon met Mary Hilda Harvey Huxley who was living in Brunswick. Mary was born in Horsham, the daughter of George Harry Huxley, a miner, and Emma Deane. Having not heard from Jane for some years and believing her dead, Gordon and Mary marry at Carlton on Christmas Eve, 1900. Interestingly, an announcement of the marriage was not placed in The Age newspaper until September 1903, nearly three years after the event by which time Gordon and Mary had a son, Victor Gordon Watts-Phillips, born 8 February 1903 in Carlton. Within months of the placement of this marriage announcement, his former wife, Jane, makes a reappearance but apparently does not interfere and Mary and Gordon continue to live together as husband and wife. Around the same time in late 1903, Gordon’s brother, Basil Watts Phillip wrote from London to the Victoria Police seeking assistance to locate his brother. He had last heard from him in a letter dated Cunninghame, Gippsland, 1891. He indicated that about 1893 Gordon and Jane and their two children were living at Beaconsfield Parade, Albert Park but the whereabouts of all was now unknown. He mentioned Gordon had also been awarded 21 guineas by Judge Boucaut on the 26th February 1884, also a silver medal, for arresting two ruffians who had brutally assaulted a jockey (in South Australia) and that he had been awarded the Royal Humane Society's medal, London, and in 1891, was presented with the Royal Humane Society's certificate of merit (Victoria). Basil also stated his brother had lost the sight of one eye through a stab he received in New York and had a scar on his temple, one on the wrist, two under the shoulder blade, and one on the thigh, and two bullet wounds in the leg. Basil’s quest was published in the Melbourne Herald and assistance was soon forthcoming to the Police. In June 1906 Gordon made his Will, leaving all his estate to his youngest son Victor. Mary was appointed Executrix and it was witnessed by Olive Huxley, married woman, and James Huxley, a pottery maker. James was subsequently killed in France in May 1918. Gordon and Mary have a second son, Basil Douglas born in Carlton in 1911 but he dies as toddler in 1913. At some point Gordon and Mary made their home at Eltham though official electoral roll records record them at Little Flinders Street Melbourne, employed as a caretaker and from 1906 in Brunswick as a decorator then painter. Eltham may have been a ‘holiday’ home but it seems Mary was actively engaged in the community as a newspaper report in the Advertiser in 1922 not long after Gordon’s death indicates Mary was one of the best known and best liked ladies of the Eltham district. She was actively engaged in all matters, tending towards the welfare of the district. At the time of Gordon’s death Mary was president of the Ladies' Public Hall Committee, responsible for the conduct of numerous, and successful entertainments. Gordon’s first and only legal wife, Jane Luxon Watts-Phillips nee Miller, died 6 November 1921 and was buried 8 November 1921 at Springvale Cemetery. Jane had lived 34 years in South Australia and 30 years in Victoria. With Jane now dead, Gordon was now officially a widower and just three weeks later, the retired master mariner of Eltham at age 55 remarried Mary, 42, of 174 Hickford Street, East Brunswick on the 29th November 1921 in the Parish of St Cuthbert, East Brunswick. Gordon died at their home, ‘The Rest’, at 174 Hickford Street, East Brunswick on February 9, 1922 and was buried at Eltham Cemetery on February 11. An interesting link is established with the heavy floods of August 1891 by the erection of a tombstone in the Eltham cemetery. The stone bears the inscription: - “In loving memory of (Captain) Gordon, dearly beloved husband of Mary Watts Phillips. Died 9th February 1922, aged 62 years." Beside the stone is a replica, carved in a marble scroll, of the Royal Humane Society of Australia's Certificate of merit. Part of the wording of this certificate is as follows:- “At a general court of directors holder at the offices of the society at Melbourne on the 6th day of September 1891, it was resolved that the courage and humanity displayed by Gordon Watts Phillips aged 30-years captain of S.S. Omeo, Sale, in rescuing many families from drowning during the heavy floods on Thomson River on 3rd and 4th of August 1891 call for the admiration of the court, and justly entitles him to the certificate of merit of this society, which is hereby awarded." Unbeknownst to Gordon, his second and subsequent legal marriage to Mary initiated a revocation of his Will of 1906, which had solely benefited his son Victor. Consequently, Mary had to apply for Letters of Administration and the only legal beneficiaries would be Mary and his two children by Jane. On June 18, 1940, at age 61, Mary married 70-year-old Arthur Ernest Fenn in Melbourne. Unfortunately for her, Arthur died a year later in July 1941 and was buried in the Cohuna Cemetery near Echuca. Mary lived a further 8 years, passing away suddenly July 4, 1948 in Carlton, and was buried July 7 with her beloved husband Gordon, at Eltham Cemetery. In Loving Memory of (Captain) Gordon Dearly beloved husbandof Mary Watts-Phillips Died 9th Feb. 1922, aged 62 years Also Mary Hilda Loved wife of above Died 4th July 1948 "At rest"Born Digitaleltham cemetery, gravestones, (captain) gordon watts-phillips, mary hilda harvey watts-phillips (nee huxley)