Showing 3939 items
matching historians
-
Kew Historical Society Inc
Book, Oxford University Press, The Narrative of George Russell of Golf Hill with Russelliana and selected papers, 1963
Account of early pastoral settlement in Tasmania and Port Phillip focusing on the progress of the Russell family; includes observations on relations between settlers and Aborigines; account of the Black War in Tasmania; story of William Buckley, description of Port Phillip Aboriginal shelters, corroborees, missions, rapid extinction.London : Oxford University Press, 1935 469 p. : ill. map, ports., geneal. table ; 25 cm. non-fictionAccount of early pastoral settlement in Tasmania and Port Phillip focusing on the progress of the Russell family; includes observations on relations between settlers and Aborigines; account of the Black War in Tasmania; story of William Buckley, description of Port Phillip Aboriginal shelters, corroborees, missions, rapid extinction.russell family, clyde company, voyages and travels -
Kew Historical Society Inc
Book, AH Massina & Co, The First Ninety Years: the printing house of Massina Melbourne 1859-1949, 1949
Melbourne [Vic.] : A.H. Massina, 1949 165 p. : ill., ports. ; 23 cm. non-fictionmassina, alfred henry, australian journal, newspaper publishing - australia -
Kew Historical Society Inc
Book, Agnes P Bell, Melbourne: John Batman’s Village, 1965
A history of Melbourne, tracing its development from the riverside village founded by John Batman to the metropolis of the 1960s; includes description of Aboriginal corroborees and other early encounters with the Aboriginal inhabitants of the area.Melbourne, Vic. : Cassell Australia, 1965 xiv, 178p. : ill. (some col.), facsims., map, porto. ; 25cm. non-fictionA history of Melbourne, tracing its development from the riverside village founded by John Batman to the metropolis of the 1960s; includes description of Aboriginal corroborees and other early encounters with the Aboriginal inhabitants of the area.batman, john, 1801-1839, melbourne (vic.) -- history., settlement and contacts - colonisation - 1851- -
Kew Historical Society Inc
Book, Hamish Hamilton, Goodbye Melbourne Town, 1968
London, H. Hamilton, 1968 xii, 211 p. map. 23 cm. non-fictionmelbourne - history, graham mcinnes (1912-1970) -
Kew Historical Society Inc
Book, Libraries Board of South Australia, An historical journal of the transactions at Port Jackson and Norfolk Island with the discoveries which have been made in New South Wales and in the southern ocean since the publication of Phillip's voyage, compiled from the official papers, including the journals of Governors Phillip and King and of Lieut. Ball, and the voyages from the first sailing of the Sirius in 1787, to the return of that ship's company to England in 1792, 1968
Facsimile of journals of the voyages from England to Port Jackson and Norfolk Island and return by Governors Phillip and King, and Lieut. Ball 1787-1792, including maps, charts, drawings and tables. Reproduced from a copy held in the State Library of South Australia originally published in 1793.583 p., <16> leaves of plates (2 folded) : ill., maps, 1 port. non-fictionFacsimile of journals of the voyages from England to Port Jackson and Norfolk Island and return by Governors Phillip and King, and Lieut. Ball 1787-1792, including maps, charts, drawings and tables. Reproduced from a copy held in the State Library of South Australia originally published in 1793.norfolk isalnd - history, port jackson, hunter, john (1737-1821) -
Kew Historical Society Inc
Booklet, Dorothy Rogers, A Tour of Melbourne en Route to Invergowrie conducted by the Royal Historical Society of Victoria, Saturday 29 July 1967, 1967
[Melbourne : The Society, 1967] 26 p. ; 21 x 17 cm. non-fictionhistoric buildings -- victoria -- melbourne., melbourne (vic.) -- description and travel., melbourne (vic.) -- buildings, structures, etc. -
Kew Historical Society Inc
Book, Longmans Green & Co, Collector’s Casebook, 1956
London : Constable, 1963 105 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. non-fictionbook collecting. -
Kew Historical Society Inc
Book, Longmans Green & Co et al, The First Hundred Years, 1956
London : Longmans, Green, 1954 xii, 175 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. non-fictionaustralia - history, history - children's books -
Kew Historical Society Inc
Book, Oxford University Press, Matilda Waltzes with the Tommies, 1944
Melbourne : Oxford University Press, 1943 176 p. : ill., ports. ; 22 cm. non-fictionkent hughes, mary, world war 1939-1945 -- personal narratives -
Kew Historical Society Inc
Book, Douglas Pike, Australian Dictionary of Biography Vol.1 1788-1850 A-H, 1966
v. 1. 1788-1850, A-HMelbourne : Melbourne University Press; London ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1966 v. <1-18> ; 26 cm + index + corrigenda + supplement. non-fictionv. 1. 1788-1850, A-Haustralia - biography -
Kew Historical Society Inc
Book, Melbourne University Press, Australian Dictionary of Biography Vol.2 1877-1850 I-Z, 1967
non-fictionaustralia - biographies - 1877-1850 -
Kew Historical Society Inc
Book, Melbourne University Press, Australian Dictionary of Biography Volume 6 1851-1890 R-Z, c.1970
Melbourne : Melbourne University Press; London ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1966-<2012> v. <1-18> ; 26 cm + index + corrigenda + supplementnon-fictionaustralia - biography -
Kew Historical Society Inc
Book, Melbourne University Press, Australian Dictionary of Biography Volume 4 1851-1890 D-J, 1969
Melbourne : Melbourne University Press; London ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1966-<2012> v. <1-18> ; 26 cm + index + corrigenda + supplement. non-fictionaustralia -- history -- biography -
Kew Historical Society Inc
Book, Melbourne University Press, Australian Dictionary of Biography Volume 5 1851-1890 K-Q, 1970
Melbourne : Melbourne University Press; London ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1966-<2012> v. <1-18> ; 26 cm + index + corrigenda + supplement. non-fictionaustralia -- history -- biography -
Kew Historical Society Inc
Book, Melbourne University Press, Australian Dictionary of Biography Volume 6 1851-1890 R-Z, 1973
Melbourne : Melbourne University Press; London ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1966-<2012> v. <1-18> ; 26 cm + index + corrigenda + supplement. non-fictionaustralia -- history -- biography -
Kew Historical Society Inc
Book, State Libraries of South Australia, An account of the English colony in New South Wales : with remarks on the dispositions, customs, manners, &c. of the native inhabitants of that country, to which are added, some particulars of New Zealand (Vol.1), 1971
[Adelaide : Libraries Board of South Australia, 1971] 2 v. : maps (part col.), plates (part col.) ; 28 cm. Facsimile of: London : T. Cadell jun. and W. Davies, 1798. Includes an account of a voyage performed by Captain Flinders and Mr. Bass abstracted from the journal of Mr. Bass. Volume 1non-fictionnew south wales - descriptions and travel, new zealand - descriptions and travel -
Kew Historical Society Inc
Book, Libraries Board of South Australia, An account of the English colony in New South Wales : with remarks on the dispositions, customs, manners, &c. of the native inhabitants of that country, to which are added, some particulars of New Zealand (Vol. 2)], 1971
[Adelaide : Libraries Board of South Australia, 1971] 2 v. : maps (part col.), plates (part col.) ; 28 cm. Australian Facsimile Editions No.76. Volume 2non-fictionnew south wales - descriptions and travel, new zealand - descriptions and travel -
Kew Historical Society Inc
Book, Franklin Watts, The Changing World of Australia, 1963
General history with very brief mention of Aborigines.New York : Franklin Watts, 1963 vii, 253 p. ; 25 cm. non-fictionGeneral history with very brief mention of Aborigines.settlement and contacts - colonisation., settlement and contacts - ancient and early historical., politics and government - sovereignty, economic sectors - agriculture and horticulture - pastoral industry., settlement and contacts - government settlements, history - political. | settlement and contacts - settlers., australia -- history. -
Kew Historical Society Inc
Book, SF Clarke Publishing Co, The Story of Australia: Past and Present In Pen and Picture (Vol. 3), 1925
Sydney : S.J. Clarke Publishing, [1924 or 1925] [22] p., [38] p. of plates : ill., facsims., maps plans, ports. ; 27 cm. Volume 3non-fictionaustralia -- history -
Kew Historical Society Inc
Book, Percival Mowle, A Genealogical History of Pioneer Families of Australia, 1948
Sydney : John Sands, 1948 141 p. ; 28 cm. non-fictiongenealogy, australia - family history -
Kew Historical Society Inc
Book, Helen Baker, Hyde Park Barracks, 1965
Sydney : Angus and Robertson in association with the State Planning Authority of N.S.W., 1965 48 p. : ill., map, plans ; 25 cm. non-fictionsydney (n.s.w.) -- historic buildings -
Kew Historical Society Inc
Book, Cumberland County Council, Historic Buildings: Liverpool and Campbelltown, 1963
[Liverpool, N.S.W.] : Cumberland County Council, 1963 54 p. : ill., maps ; 26 cm. non-fictionhistoric buildings -- new south wales -- liverpool., historic buildings -- new south wales -- campbelltown. -
Kew Historical Society Inc
Book, Helen Baker, Historic Buildings: Windsor and Richmond, 1967
[Sydney], 1967 67 p. : illus., facsims., maps, plans ; 26 cm. non-fictionhistoric buildings - windsor (nsw), historic buildings - richmond (nsw) -
Kew Historical Society Inc
Book, Ure Smith, Sydney in 1848 : a facsimile of the original text and copper-plate engravings of its principal streets, public buildings, churches, chapels, etc, 1966
Sydney in 1848 : illustrated by copper-plate engravings of its principal streets, public buildings, churches, chapels, etc. Originally published in 20 parts in 1848-50. First published in one volume in 1878.--Publishers' note.Sydney : Ure Smith, 1966 104 p., [40 leaves] : ill. ; 29 cm. non-fictionSydney in 1848 : illustrated by copper-plate engravings of its principal streets, public buildings, churches, chapels, etc. Originally published in 20 parts in 1848-50. First published in one volume in 1878.--Publishers' note.joseph fowles, sydney - history, sydney. description & travel. early works -
Kew Historical Society Inc
Book, The Hawthorn Press Pty Ltd, The Admiral's Wife: Mrs Phillip Parker King - a selection of letters, 1817-56, 1967
Melbourne, : Hawthorn [1967] 147 p. : illus., geneal. tables (on lining papers) ports. ; 25 cm. non-fictionmrs phillip parker king, australia -- history -- sources., harriet king 1796-1874 -- correspondence. -
Kew Historical Society Inc
Book, Cassel Australia, Historic Homesteads of Australia (Vol. 1), 1969
[Melbourne] ; Stanmore, N.S.W. : Cassell Australia, 1969-1976 Volume 1 : illustrations (some colour) ; 33 cm. non-fictionhistoric buildings - australia -
Kew Historical Society Inc
Book, Cassel Australia, Historic Public Buildings of Australia, 1971
[North Melbourne] : Cassell Australia, [1971] 306 pages : illustrations (some colour) ; 32 cm. non-fictionpublic buildings -- australia. -
Kew Historical Society Inc
Book, Georgian House, Homesteads of Victoria 1836-1900, 1967
Melbourne, Georgian House [1967] xx, 108 p. illus., map. 25 x 33 cm. non-fictionarchitecture -- domestic -- victoria, historic buildings -- victoria -
Kew Historical Society Inc
Photograph, Willsmere Bridge, 1934
Several boathouses were built in Kew and Fairfield in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. They included Chipperfield’s ‘Moorings’ and floating pontoon. The substantial two-storey house was named the Moorings, and incorporated an upper storey residence. The Moorings was almost washed away in the 1916 floods, and in 1934 almost totally submerged when the Yarra River rose 26 feet in 14 hours. Following the 1934 flood, the house was restored. The floating pontoon, sometimes referred to as a ‘kiosk’ or ‘canteen’, was used to store canoes. Both were removed in 1972 for the construction of the Eastern Freeway.This work forms part of the collection assembled by the historian Dorothy Rogers, that was donated to the Kew Historical Society by her son John Rogers in 2015. The manuscripts, photographs, maps, and documents were sourced by her from both family and local collections or produced as references for her print publications. Many were directly used by Rogers in writing ‘Lovely Old Homes of Kew’ (1961) and 'A History of Kew' (1973), or the numerous articles on local history that she produced for suburban newspapers. Most of the photographs in the collection include detailed annotations in her hand. The Rogers Collection provides a comprehensive insight into the working habits of a historian in the 1960s and 1970s. Together it forms the largest privately-donated collection within the archives of the Kew Historical Society.A view of flooded areas in North Kew in the flood of 1934.Willsmere Bridge. Chipperfields. 1934 floodwillsmere, flood, yarra flood, chipperfields, chipperfields boathouse, north kew -
Kew Historical Society Inc
Print, Dight's Mill, Yarra Yarra
"In 1839 John Dight purchased Melbourne block 88, which included 26 acres of land along the Yarra River for £481 at the Port Phillip land sales held in Sydney. Dight was already in the business of flour milling and had a mill near Campbell Town in New South Wales called ‘Ceres’. In April 1840, he notified his customers through The Sydney Herald that he was leaving to go to Port Phillip. The first steam powered flour mill was constructed in Melbourne in 1841. Dight built his water powered mill, soon after, from bricks bought over from Tasmania. Dight used the river to power his mill: Water flowed along an inlet channel to turn an undershot water wheel. In order to regulate flow or to ensure flow for times when river levels were low, Dight constructed a rough stone weir. " (https://www.melbournewater.com.au/whatwedo/projectsaroundmelbourne/Documents/A_Short_History_of_Dights_Falls_Fact_Sheet.pdf) This work forms part of the collection assembled by the historian Dorothy Rogers, that was donated to the Kew Historical Society by her son John Rogers in 2015. The manuscripts, photographs, maps, and documents were sourced by her from both family and local collections or produced as references for her print publications. Many were directly used by Rogers in writing ‘Lovely Old Homes of Kew’ (1961) and 'A History of Kew' (1973), or the numerous articles on local history that she produced for suburban newspapers. Most of the photographs in the collection include detailed annotations in her hand. The Rogers Collection provides a comprehensive insight into the working habits of a historian in the 1960s and 1970s. Together it forms the largest privately-donated collection within the archives of the Kew Historical Society.An engraving of Dight's Mill on the Yarra. The image was originally published in Sands & Kenny, Melbourne & Sydney. Dorothy Rogers reproduced the print in 'A History of Kew' (1973). It faces page 8.Published by Sands & Kenny, Melbourne & Sydney, 1856dight's mill, dorothy rogers, dight's falls, yarra river, kew, john dight