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Greensborough Historical Society
Book, Fitzroy Historical Society, Cutten History Committee, Fitzroy: Melbourne's first suburb, 1991
A history of the inner Melbourne suburb of Fitzroy354 p., illus., maps.non-fictionA history of the inner Melbourne suburb of Fitzroyfitzroy (vic.) - history, melbourne history -
Clunes Museum
Book, HISTORY OF FREEMASONRY IN THE BALLARAT DISTRICT 1854 - 1957
HISTORY OF FREEMASONRY IN THE BALLARAT DISTRICT 1854 - 1957local history, book, history, freemasonic records -
Ballarat Tramway Museum
Book, Dean Filgate, "A Brief History of The Melbourne Brunswick and Coburg Tramways Trust", 1999
Book - titled "A Brief History of The Melbourne Brunswick and Coburg Tramways Trust", MBCTT, written by Bob Prentice and edited by Dean Filgate. Published by Tramway Publications 1999. Provides details on the formation of the Trust, appointments, financials, track and overhead construction, power supply, street lighting, depot and offices, opening, map, tickets, staff, operation statistics, extensions, and rolling stock. Illustrated with many photographs including a photograph of the Trust Tramways Band.Yields information about the tramways built by "The Melbourne Brunswick and Coburg Tramways Trust"Book - 24 pages including heavy card covers, titled "A Brief History of The Melbourne Brunswick and Coburg Tramways Trust", centre stapled.trams, tramways, mbctt, tramways band, coburg, construction -
Uniting Church Archives - Synod of Victoria
Pamphlet - Methodist Girls' Comradeship, The Uniting Church in Australia, Introducing Rays
The Methodist Girls' Comradeship was formed in 1918 with the first Branch being in Bondi, NSW. There were three sections: Junior Rays, 8 - 11 years; Senior Rays, 11 - 15 years and Comrades, 15 years and over. The aims of the MGC was to "challenge young people with the saving power of Jesus Christ and provide avenues of christian service" and "to provide for the spiritual, social, physical and educational welfare of the members". The MGC's motto was "The Utmost for the Highest".E3094.3.1 and E3094.3.2 - bifold white paper with blue ink. The front has the Methodist Girls' Comradeship ivy leaf with an R in the centre. Their is also the Uniting Church in Australia logo on the front.E3094.3.1 has a name and address written in pencil on the back.methodist girls' comradeship rays' section, joy menhennet -
Greensborough Historical Society
Map, Mapping Authority of NSW, Terra Australis: Quinta Pars Orbis, 1676_
The original of this map was drawn by an Italian priest Father Victorio Riccio in 1676 from knowledge brought to Manila on Dutch ships. Father Riccio was suggesting a Catholic mission to Terra Australia.Reproduction of an early map of Australia, pre-dating the voyages of Captain Cook.Facsimile map in cardboard protective tubeterra australis -
The Beechworth Burke Museum
Animal specimen - Australian Hobby, Trustees of the Australian Museum, 1860-1880
The Australian Hobby is a medium-sized falcon of the Falconidae family, similar in look to the larger sized Peregrine Falcon. This species is widespread and can be found across most of mainland Australia and Tasmania, preferring lightly wooded areas such as timbered wetlands, open wooded farmland, and some urban areas. Their diet consists of small birds, bats, and flying insects, which are caught mid-air. They sometimes hunt cooperatively to catch their prey. This specimen is an accurate depiction of an Australian Hobby. This specimen is part of a collection of almost 200 animal specimens that were originally acquired as skins from various institutions across Australia, including the Australian Museum in Sydney and the National Museum of Victoria (known as Museums Victoria since 1983), as well as individuals such as amateur anthropologist Reynell Eveleigh Johns between 1860-1880. These skins were then mounted by members of the Burke Museum Committee and put-on display in the formal space of the Museum’s original exhibition hall where they continue to be on display. This display of taxidermy mounts initially served to instruct visitors to the Burke Museum of the natural world around them, today it serves as an insight into the collecting habits of the 19th century.This specimen is part of a significant and rare taxidermy mount collection in the Burke Museum. This collection is scientifically and culturally important for reminding us of how science continues to shape our understanding of the modern world. They demonstrate a capacity to hold evidence of how Australia’s fauna history existed in the past and are potentially important for future environmental research. This collection continues to be on display in the Museum and has become a key part to interpreting the collecting habits of the 19th century.This Australian Hobby has a dark brown cap and cream-coloured half-collar. The back feathers of the bird are also a dark brown colour, while the neck is a cream with lighter brown streaks. The flank is a dappled dark brown, rufous-brown and cream, which transitions back into cream with brown streaks near the legs. The underwing feathers appear to be a banded dark brown and cream. The tip of the hooked beak is black which recedes to light blue-grey and then to yellowish near the head join. The legs are also yellow. The specimen is perched on a wooden perch mount with a swing tag tied around its left leg.23. / Australian Hobby / See catalogue, page, 6 / taxidermy mount, taxidermy, burke museum, beechworth, australian museum, skin, reynell eveleigh johns, bird, australian hobby, australian birds, little falcon -
Tatura Irrigation & Wartime Camps Museum
Photograph - original, Tatura Museum - Australia Day, 1988
Photograph of Australia Day ceremony at Museum. Phil McTier, Bill Doller raising the flag. Flag pole donated by Judy Forster. Flag by Bruce Lloyd. 1988. Bicentenary year. Other members in background.Colour photograph of Historical Society members at flag raising ceremony, Australia Day 1988. 2 copieson back: P. McTier and B. Dollertatura museum, australia day, bicentenary year, phil mctier, bill doller, judy forster, bruce lloyd -
Queenscliffe Maritime Museum
Map - B & W coastal map, Fremantle & SW Coast, Western Australia, Coastal map of SW Coast of Australia & the approach to Fremantle WA, Before donation in 1987
Australian coastal mapsAustralian coastal mapsB&W Coastal map of SW Coast of Australia & the approach to Fremantle WA, from an unknown book, c1864.Reverse " NIL "old maps of australian coast -
Bendigo Historical Society Inc.
Document - BASIL MILLER COLLECTION: TRAMS - JOURNAL 'ELECTRIC TRACTION', February 1964
Journal of Australian Electric Traction Association, Volume XIX, No. 2, February 1964, 16 pages. History of document: Part of 'Basil Miller Collection'. Cover picture of a recent addition to the Brisbane tramcar fleet, No. 550 passes pre-war drop centre 335 on the passing loop before Bardon terminus.Pub: Australian Electric Traction Associaion, Printer: O'Loughlin Bros. Pty. Ltd., Sydney, NSWdocument -
Federation University Historical Collection
Correspondence, 1 Letter from The Institute of Engineers, Australia .2 Reply to Letter from The Institute of Engineers, Australia, January/February and May 1949
Ballarat School of Mines was a predecessor of Federation University. .1 Letter from The Institute of Engineers, Australia requiring conformation of information regarding Alfred Thomas Henry Adams. .2 Reply to Letter from The Institute of Engineers, Australia confirming informationthe institute of electrical engineers, school of mines ballarat, w.k. brasher, r.w. richards -
Ballarat Tramway Museum
Document - Manuscript, State Electricity Commission of Victoria (SECV), "Bendigo Tramways Early History", 1969
Consists of formation history, track and route dates, operator, SEC takeover and route lengths. One page of statistics - 1935 to 1969, only completed to 1968 and last year filled in by hand. Gives Income, Expenditure, Loss, passengers and car miles. Car miles have been handwritten and pasted over the typed sheet. Probably prepared late 1960's by Les Denmead (assumption here - See Reg item 3289 and 3478 for Geelong Bendigo version), given the hand written notes etc.Yields historical notes and statistics on the Bendigo Tramway system - the statistical information being the most important. Four sets - original and three copies - foolscap typed documents, three pages each, titled "Bendigo Tramways Early History". 'BTPS 407" in top right hand corner.trams, tramways, bendigo, sec, esco, history, statistics -
Kew Historical Society Inc
Book, FGA Barnard, The Jubilee History of Kew Victoria: Its Origin & Progress 1803-1910, 1910
The first comprehensive history of Kew, published in 1910 by Cr. F.G.A. Barnard, Mayor of Kew 1920-21.FGA Barnard, The Jubilee History of Kew, Victoria: Its Origins & Progress 1803-1910. Taped reinforced binding. One of the earliest items in the collection donated by Mr. Alfred Williams. Hard Cover 1st edition. Kew [Vic.] : E.F.G. Hodges, "Mercury Office", 1910 121 p. : ill. ; 19 cm. Thursday 8/12/10 J Lewis Carnegief.g.a. barnard, kew (history of), jubilee of kew - 1910 -
Greensborough Historical Society
Article, Recorder: the official newsletter of the Labour History Society, Tribute to John Cain by Brian Smiddy, 2020_03
A tribute to John Cain (1931-2019) by Brian Smiddy; published in Recorder, the official newsletter of the Melbourne Labour History SocietyMagazine clipping, black text and colour imagejohn cain, politicians, premier of victoria -
Whittlesea Historical Society Inc.
Newspaper - Article, Whittlesea Review, Australia Day honour for Whittlesea legend, Les Russell, Feb 2022
Les Russell was posthumously awarded a Medal of the Order of Australia as part of the Australia Day honours list.Newsprint 1 p. text with colour photograph.Australia Day honour for Whittlesea legend, Les Russell.les russell, russell family, order of australia, whittlesea, australia day honour -
Alfred Health (The Alfred, Caulfield Hospital, and Sandringham Hospital)
Book, The wounded warrior and rehabilitation: including the history of no. 11 Army General Hospital - Caulfield Rehabilitation Hospital, No publisher listed
Key document recording history of hospitals located on Caulfield Hospital site since 1916.Key document outlining medical treatment research and training on Caulfield Hospital site in Kooyong Road MelbournePaper back edition of The wounded warrior and rehabilitation: including the history of no. 11 Army General Hospital - Caulfield Rehabilitation Hospital Published by The Alfred Healthcare Group [Caulfield general Medical Centre] 1966 by Bruce Ford former Medical Director of Caulfield HospitalUnmarkedhistory, hospital, caulfield, no 11 army general hospital, repatriation hospital caulfield, convalescent hospital caulfield, caulfield general medical centre, southern memorial hospital [later renamed royal southern memorial hospital], artificial limb factory [rehabtech] -
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 -
Tatura Irrigation & Wartime Camps Museum
Booklet, Edmund D Gill, Rivers of History, 1970
A series of 10 ABC radio talks originally broadcast under the title "The Murray Darling System, 5000 Miles of history and prehistory. The series was produced in the Melbourne studios of the ABC by Ken TaylorBeige cover. Australian river scene on front cover. Information on the work of the author Edmund T. Gill on back cover.river systems -
Greensborough Historical Society
Booklet and article, Diamond Valley Local History Tour 2019, by Yarra Plenty Regional Library, 22/10/2019
Cover article written by Rosie Bray. In addition to YPRL booklets which have a brief history of each site visited, there are leaflets on Anglican parish of Diamond Creek; Nillumbik Cemetery; Ellis Cottage; Greensborough Cemetery and Sutherland Homes for ChildrenBooklet (2 copies) containing a brief history of sites visited on the Library's Diamond Valley Tour 2019, with 21 p. of supplementary information by various writers and 6 photographs taken on the tour.diamond valley, yarra plenty regional library, sutherland homes, st katherines church st helena, andrew yandell reserve, greensborough rsl, greensborough war memorial park, greensborough cemetery -
Orbost & District Historical Society
souvenir book, Souvenir of Australia House, 1920's
Australia House is the oldest Australian diplomatic mission and it is the longest continuously occupied foreign mission in London. King George V laid the building’s first foundation stone in 1913 but it was not until August 1918 that he officially opened the completed building. The stringencies of World War I – principally shipping difficulties and labour shortages – had delayed construction considerably. Federation of the six Australian states formally took place on 1 January 1901 but it was not until 1906 that the Federal Government sent an Official Secretary to London to represent Australia. In the intervening years Australia was represented by State Agents-General, the first of whom was the Agent-General of Victoria. The building is significant for its unique design, Beaux Arts style and the materials used in its construction. In the early 1900s black marble was being mined in the Bruthen district. Some was used for the Shrine of Remembrance in Melbourne and Australia House in London. 900 tonnes were shipped to London to be included in the construction of Australia House. This item is a useful research tool.A paper covered booklet which is a pictorial souvenir Of Australia House in London. Pictures show Buchan marble features of the building.buchan-marble australia-house -
Whitehorse Historical Society Inc.
Photograph, Australia Post delivering Post Box, 1/09/2000 12:00:00 AM
This item was originally acquired by Harold Bakes, together with a Fire Hydrant Stand And a petrol pump , from the P.M.G. depot in Hawthorn in the 1970s . It was stored in the City of Nunawading Council yard in Station Street, Nunawading, and later loaned to the Australia Post Mail Exchange in Rooks Road, Nunawading. On the closure of the Mail Exchange, it was transferred to the Australia Post Museum in Dandenong. After proving ownership it was returned to back to the Society's Museum.Coloured photo of an Australia Post delivering restored Post Box to the Society's Implement Shedaustralia post, bakes, harold arthur -
Ringwood and District Historical Society
Book, Montrose Settlement in the Foothills A History
Montrose Settlement in the Foothills - A History -
Lakes Entrance Regional Historical Society (operating as Lakes Entrance History Centre & Museum)
Book, Light and Life A History of the Anglican Church of Gippsland
The history of the Angigan church in Gippsland -
Whitehorse Historical Society Inc.
Document, Events in the history of Yarran Dheran, c1980
Events in the history of Yarran DheranEvents in the history of Yarran DheranEvents in the history of Yarran Dheranyarran dheran, history -
Whitehorse Historical Society Inc.
Book, The History of the East Burwood Football Club, 2008
A Comprehensive history 1911-2001.Comprehensive history 1911-2001.A Comprehensive history 1911-2001.east burwood football club, history -
Kew Historical Society Inc
Book - Volume, Hidden Gem on the Yarra: The history of the Green Acres Golf Club / by Brendan Moloney
History of Greenacres Golf Clubnon-fictiongreen acres golf club, golf clubs - kew (vic) -
Melton City Libraries
Pamphlet, History & Folklore, Unknown
Pamphlet about Melton's historylandscapes of significance, council -
Warrnambool and District Historical Society Inc.
Document:, Postcard: Advance Australia embroidered,Wilfred R 27th Oct 1918, pre October 1918
Part of correspondence written to Gladys Holmes, Byaduck by local servicemen. Gladys Holmes was the daughter of Joseph, the Byaduk baker, and Agnes Brand. In 1924 she married Alexander George Anderson. Wilfred R possibly (Rentsch) enlisted for WW!1. Cited in 'Stories Untold & Forgotten Faces' "RENTSCH, Wilfred. Byaduk, Born 1898, farmer, aged 18 years, enlisted 29 August 1916, served as 6886 with 24th infantry Battalion - 19th Reinforcements(May 1917)Proceed to France 6th March 1918. Returned to Australia per' Shropshire' 1st April 1919. Photograph on Byaduk Hall Honour Board" Part of collection of letters, photographs and postcards received by Gladys Holmes during 1916-1919. 001801: Front of postcard has a white embossed mount frame with an embroidered insert of Australian symbols, Southern Cross constellation, Rising Sun. Kangaroo with Australian flag standing on ADVANCE AUSTRALIA banner and wattle and red flower springs.France/ 27th Oct 18/Dear Gladys/Wishing you a/very Merry Christmas/and a prosperous/New Year, from/your old friend/Wilfred.Rgladys holmes, embroidered postcard, ww1, wilfred r(entsch), byaduk, tuck's post cards, rachel tuck -
Lakes Entrance Regional Historical Society (operating as Lakes Entrance History Centre & Museum)
Book, J D Adams, Australia The First Hundred Years
Newspaper articles rlerant to the history, extracted mainly from Our Province in the making Pictorial Standard 1960 and the History of Lakes Entrance Victoriatownship, history -
Mont De Lancey
Book, William Gillies, M.A, Stories in British History for Young Australians, 1920
A simple study in British History for secondary school students with a fold out map of the British Empire at the time - published in 1920. There is a list of the dynasties and kings and queens and a table of Periods in British History which can be referred to.A badly damaged red cloth covered hardcover book with the title: Stories in British History for Young Australians printed in black lettering on the front cover with the publisher, a round publisher symbol and 2/6 at the bottom. The title is printed on the spine. This is a First Course in British History by William Gillies, M.A. Inside, opposite the title page, is a lined sketch of Oliver Cromwell. Black white illustrations, maps and photographs are included. At the back is an Index as well as three additional recommended titles of other history books. Considerable markings, lists and a love poem is scribbled at the back. It is quite damaged and worn through use. Pp.315.non-fictionA simple study in British History for secondary school students with a fold out map of the British Empire at the time - published in 1920. There is a list of the dynasties and kings and queens and a table of Periods in British History which can be referred to.great britain - history, history, textbooks -
Bendigo Historical Society Inc.
Document - BASIL MILLER COLLECTION: TRAMS - JOURNAL 'ELECTRIC TRACTION', May 1964
Journal of Australian Electric Traction Association, Volume XIX, No. 5, May 1964, 16 pages. History of document: Part of 'Basil Miller Collection'. Cover picture"A.E.T.A. Convention special 4-Car Harris train pauses at Nar Nar Goon on the Gippsland line. Note the Stone Faivley pantograph on 571M.Pub: Australian Electric Traction Association, Printer: O'Loughlin Bros Pty., Ltd., Sydney, NSWdocument