Born: London, Middlesex, England 1868; Arrived: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia 1884; Lived and worked: France and England 1890-1909; Died: Virginia Water, Surrey, England 1909Heidelberg SchoolGift of Wooleen Pty. Ltd., 1980Architectural setting with figures, food, water and buildings. Unframed.Recto: Signed "CONDER" in red pastel in l.r.c of compostion; Not dated; Not titledpainting, interior, figures, women, feast, table

Born: Addlestone, Surrey, England 1851; Arrived: Melbourne, Victoria, Australia 1878; Died: Bondi, New South Wales, Australia 1942VictorianLedger Gift, 1985Interior scene with small figure standing at doorway to outside fenced garden. Unframed.Recto: Signed and dated "J. R. ASHTON / 1877" in red watercolour in l.l.c of compositionwatercolour, interior, exterior, child, door, fence, tree

Born: St Petersurg, Russia 1828; Arrived: Melbourne, Victoria, Australia 1854; Lived and worked: Switzerland 1845-1848, Germany 1851-1854, Australia 1854-1865, New Zealand 1865-1866, England 1870-1902; Died: London, Middlesex, England 1902RomanticismGift of Mrs E.E. Ledger, 1985View from rustic house with two figures overlooking lake surrounded by mountains and trees. Grey brushed stained timber.Recto: Signed and dated "N.Chevalier. / 1886" in brown watercolour in l.l.c of composition; Not titledwatercolour, landscape, waterscape, building, trees, mountains, water, cabin, sunset

Original painting photographed by the artist's nephew.Colour photograph depicting undulating rural scene with a stream, bridge and farm house in the foreground.Nildunera, photography, photograph, slides, film

Calico brought from Palestine and embroidered in camp 3 by 14 year old Anne Marie Treftz (now Mrs Anne Marie Reugg)Calico tray cloth, embroidered in many colours, around the 4 edges with scenes depicting the progressive exodus of the Templers from Palestine to Australia by bus, train, camel, and super liner the Queen Elizabeth. Sydney Harbour Bridge, Army personnel and unique Australian fauna. In the centre is an embroidered map of Australia. Around the map are the words: Tatura Camp 3 1942 VictoriaAround the Map of Australia- words Tatura- Camp 3- 1942- Victoriatatura, tray cloth, treftz, anne marie, palestine, kazenwadel, kurt, camp 3, reugg, templers, handcrafts, embroidery, manchester, table, linen

A series of photographs were taken when heavy snow fell in Sunbury in August 1986. The snow began falling overnight and remained on the ground for 24 hours. Snow fell across the metropolitan area during that 24 hour period in a very unusual event for the area.A coloured photograph of a snow scene taken near the bridge on the Konagaderra Road near Sunbury.snow falls, weather patterns, winter, konagaderra road, george evans collection

Harry Allard - Callawadda - Farm Scenes crossing wooden bridge. Two photographsstawell

EARLY SCENE OF CLUNESCOPY OF STREET SCENE IN CLUNES, HOUSES IN CRESWICK ROAD, GOVERNMENT BRIDGE IN THE CENTRE, WITH BIBLE CHRISTIAN CHURCH IN BACKGROUND.local history, photography, photographs, buildings

Soldiers’ Memorial Street scene with Coffee Palace formerly Castlemaine Hotel. Two people in a horse drawn wagon are driving away from the corner on the right hand side while a man dressed in a suit is walking toward the corner. A telegraph pole is behind the memorial and a decorate pole sits on the corner.Small sepia Street scene showing Soldiers Memorial, Coffee Palace building in the background. The Soldier's Memorial is surround by a timber fence with an ornate pole possible a flagpole in front of 2 timber seats. The weigh bridge can be seen behind the memorial and Infront of the Stawell Coffee Palace. Two people in a horse drawn and cart are driving away from the corner on the right hand side while a man dressed in a suit is walking toward the corner.Coffee Palace Stawellstawell ww1

William Raitt beside his horse and dog in rural scene. They are standing in front of what looks to be a bridge on the left and a house to the right in background. Possible taken in the Grampians. William Raitt is Thelma Phillips nee Raitt grandfather.Sepia photograph of William Raitt standing beside his horse and dog. Young William Raitt Grand father to Thelma'sstawell portrait

Tobacco Crop Grown by Charles Pickering at Dadswells Bridge c 1930.Black and white photograph of a scene depicting Tobacco plants. A person is standing behind the crop.stawell

Apiculture at Dadswells Bridge Fred Howard and children on right.Black and white photograph of a bushland scene with many bee hives in the foreground. A person holding a child and two children either side in front of the bee hives.dadswells bridge

Crop Dusting Ken Hyslop Campbells Bridge. Three colour photographs. Paddock scene with crop dusting airplane. Two of Airplane.

This spinning wheel originates from New Zealand; however, it has no distinguishing features relating to its creator such as an inscription, so its exact maker is not known. Gill Stange remembers buying the wheel on Bridge Road in Richmond, approximately 30 years ago. Gill had joined her local Spinners and Weavers Guild after the Ash Wednesday bushfires of 1983. She was a then resident of Mount Macedon and lost everything in the fires. Moving to Melbourne to get away from the scene of much pain, Gill was also in need of a new hobby to help occupy her mind. That is when spinning and weaving entered her life. The local Spinners and Weavers Guild was a great support network for her and with their recommendation, she purchased her own spinning wheel. Her passion was started, and the wheel was to become a treasured item in Gill’s home. She had several spinning wheels within her possession over the years, however, this wheel was her first and always her favourite. When the time came for Gill to downsize, there was simply no longer room for her spinning wheel. This is when she decided to donate the wheel to the National Wool Museum. Gill remembers one highlight was weaving a tablecloth from a traditional German design. It took her two years to complete, with Gill spinning all the wool herself on this wheel. The tablecloth won the first prize in the Melbourne Show in 1987. Gill also used the wheel to teach programs to school children on how to spin and knit wool. She would take the easily transported little wheel, and its accompanying seat, with her to schools. Its small size enabled her to teach children to knit and spin, bringing others the joy that spinning had brought her. Not just limited to schools, Gill also taught programs with the wheel here at the National Wool Museum. It is a fitting home for the wheel, which Gill donated to the National Wool Museum in 2021.Dark varnished wood in a Castle style spinning wheel. The wheel has 8 small spokes which meet a thick outside rim. The outside rim has four golden disc weights on the bottom edge, to aid in the turning of the wheel. The spinning wheel has four legs of turned wood giving a sculptural form, a design pattern which is continued throughout. The wheel has a single medium sized foot pedal. This pedal is well worn with varnish missing from years of use. The wheel is completed with its accompanying chair. Made of the same dark varnished wood, its legs are also of turned wood, continuing the design pattern and uniting the two objects. The chair is very simple outside of the legs, with a medium size base and a thin backrest ending in a rounded head. The chair’s varnish is also starting to fade from years of use. The chair is small, designed to keep the spinning wheel operator at the appropriate height when spinning on the equally small and compact Castle style spinning wheel. Additional parts were donated with the Spinning Wheel. - 3 x Lazy Kates - Spare Maiden. - 450mm Niddy Noddy - Steel teeth brushspinning wool, spinning wheel, ash wednesday, mount macedon, textile production

Hepburn Springs in a tourist town with natural mineral water springsA colour tourist booklet with 8 black and white images of scenes in Hepburn Springs. hepburn springs, blowhole, suspension bridge, mineral sptings hotel

Original photograph in the Jim Crow Ranges (around Daylesford)/ A person and horse can be located in the centre of the photograph, and a timber bridge in the background. jim crow ranges, daylesford, bridge, trestle bridge, horse, nicholas caire

The postcard depicts the Eureka Memorial and lake at the Eureka Reserve, the Ballarat East Bowling Club and Bridge Street.building, streetscape, public, commerical, ballarat east, eureka, bridge street, ballarat east bowling club, eureka reserve

"Victoria the Golden" documents life in Victoria between 1850 and 1862 as viewed by artist William Strutt. Momentous events in the Colony’s history such as Separation Day (1 July 1851), the sitting of the first Legislative Council (13 November 1851), the death of Burke (June 1861) and the Black Thursday bushfires (6 February 1851) are depicted. In 1907 the Premier of Victoria Thomas Bent purchased "Victoria the Golden" from Strutt for £120 and presented it to the Library. The album depicts events in chronological order with what Strutt considered “fidelity to nature and accuracy”, so that present day Victorians may view the sketches “as records of what we may now look upon as the dim past in the rapidly progressive history of Victoria”. Victoria the Golden is celebrated as one of the Parliament’s great treasures. It is a testament to William Strutt’s skill as a draughtsman and contains over 100 assorted images which were executed between the years of 1850-1862. Strutt’s particular talent was to be able to step back and record each event with particular care to detail. Many of the pieces contained within this album are littered with notes, such as the correct resting position of a corporal’s sword or details about the cloth and cut of a subject’s jacket. Strutt also notes in one of his many sketches of the new Legislative Council chamber at Spring Street that the President, Sir James Palmer, is seated ‘a little too high’ (page 30). Throughout the album, Strutt’s illustrations bring to life the diverse nature and peoples of the new colony. His range of subjects is comprehensive and includes parliamentarians, lawyers, wives and daughters, merchants, labourers, police and military officers, indigenous communities, farmers, miners, prisoners and explorers. The everyday and the extraordinary are depicted with each turn of the page. 44 leaves heavy card, approximately 1mm thick. Sketches, watercolours and prints of varying sizes and papers are glued onto the pages. Full leather binding in blue leather with title and decorative border in gold. There are four raised bands on the spine, with gold decoration on the bands and at the head and tail of the spine. Marbled end papers and flyleaves. Gold on the edges of the book block. Card pages have a sheet of mottled blue paper on recto. Album leaf connection is a guarded system with stiff stubs and cloth hinges. Each page has a sheet of glassine paper attached at the binding edge to protect the images. Many pages stamped with "Parliament of Victoria" verso. Printed in gold, recto: "VICTORIA THE GOLDEN/ SCENES,/ SKETCHES,/ AND JOTTINGS FROM NATURE./ BY/ Wm. STRUTT/ MELBOURNE, VICTORIA./ 1850-1862" First pages include handwritten 'introductory remarks' and index of plates.parliament of victoria, colony of victoria, separation day, victorian legislative council, burke and wills expedition, wills, william john, 1834-1861, burke, robert o'hara, 1821-1861, strutt, william, 1825-1915, bent, thomas sir, 1838-1909, native police corps, fawkner, john pascoe, 1792-1869, black thursday bushfires, gold rush, princes bridge, melbourne

This set of 8 photographs was produced by the Rose Stenograph Co. c1913 to be included in photograph albums. They show tourist scenes of Sassafras and surrounds. The photographs were donated by a family in Western Australia whose parents lived in Sassafras c1918.Small b & w photograph from a series of 8 showing scenes from Sassafras produced by the Rose Stenograph Co. c1913.On reverse - Tourist Track, Sassafrassassafras, bridge, footbridge, rose series

The photograph is from the album of Ivy Child. The young woman standing on the bridge is Ivy Child probably aged 17 years. The location is the Olinda Falls. Ivy May Child (1910 – 1989) was the daughter of Arthur Edward (Ted) Child (1878 – 1964) and Ethel May Madden (1888 – 1970). Ted Child was the son of Matthew Francis Child (1839 – 1933) and Martha Jeeves (1857 – 1926). He was the grandson of one of the early pioneers Francis Child. Ivy grew up on the family property on Childs Road and took many photographs. Most of these are glued into her photo album. The album covered the years from c1927 – 1932. Ivy married Henry William Burgess (1906 – 1968) in 1944. The photographs remain in their original state in the album with individual copies made. Black and white photograph showing a young woman standing on a wooden bridge with a handrail above a creek. Rocks are in the foreground in the creek and bush surrounds the scene.Handwritten below the photograph in the album: The Fallsivy child, olinda falls, bridge

Black and white print of a donated negative. Print made 8/1998. Photo of a street scene in Swanston St. Melbourne on the Princes bridge with St Paul's Cathedral in the background. Has two W2's in the photo, a number of motor cars, also the Princes Bridge Station building. Photo taken 13-8-1950. Image i1 high res scan of the negatives added 18/1/2019.tramways, trams, melbourne, swanston st., princes bridge

Yields information about the nature of the street scene in Bridge St prior to closure of the system, showing the traffic, people getting off a tram and the buildings. One photo used in the Courier Supplement to mark the closure of the system.Black and White copy photographs of a newspaper photograph taken by The Courier - published 20/9/1971 in the Courier supplement of No. 32 inbound in Bridge St. Possibly taken early September 1971, prior to closure of Mt Pleasant. Both photographs very similar, tram has moved off from stop in the 2nd one. Shows Bank of New South Wales, Gallants News Agency, Walter Davis Pty Ltd, E. Glitch, ANZ Bank (ES&A) buildings. Also has signs for AVCO financial services, Tikki Salon and a Dry Cleaner. Taken from the east side of Peel St. Photo used in the Courier Supplement following the closure of the tramways. Collected by Alan Bradley from the Ballarat Courier early 1980's. See Excel file "Record of Ballarat Courier Photos SEC era" (Archive Documents) for source of details.On rear of 4772.2 stamped "Copyright, The Ballarat Courier Proprietary Limited."tramways, trams, bridge st, peel st, tram 32

Yields information through a photograph of Flinders St in of the nature of traffic in the 1950's. Shows both railway station buildings and traffic. Black and white photograph of a scene in Flinders St Melbourne, during the 1950's, showing Flinders St and Princes Bridge Railway Station. Shows W2's in Flinders St and Swanston St, a few motor vehicles, but many people. Photographer unknown.tramways, trams, flinders st station, mmtb, princes bridge station

Yields information about Ballarat through pictures of the 1910-1920's various locations, institutions and street scenes, including tramways and railways.Twenty four page book within light brown covers, titled "Ballarat Views". Sheets, other than covers have been individually printed both sides, stapled within the covers. Cover - gives title, rear cover has printer details - Baxter and Stubbs. Pages 1 - Tonner Memorial , Fountain Lake Wendouree, Ballarat District Hospital, Sturt St south side at Grenville St with tram in distance and Sturt St North Side showing shops (image btm3900i2.jpg). 2 - Ballarat Street Scenes - Sturt Streets, Lydiard St with ESCo 18 in view, and Railway station with R193 in platform on passenger train. (image btm3900i3.jpg). 3 - Lake Wendouree views. 4 - Lake Wendouree, fish hatchery, Gardens and Sturt St at Dawson St (image btm3900i4.jpg). 5 - Art Gallery Ballarat 6 - Botanical Gardens 7 - Public Institution s- Benevolent asylum, Orphanage, Nazareth House, St Joseph Home, Hospital 8 & 9 - Statues, the Flight from Pompeii and others. 10 & 11 - Churches of Ballarat 12 - The Arch at The Avenue of Honour 13 - McDonald Pergola at the Gardens 14 - Zoological Gardens Ballarat 15 - Gardens aerial view and gates at the South End with tram in the distance (image btm3900i5.jpg). 16 - Some views in Ballarat East - Eureka Stockade, Ballarat East Bowling Green, Bridge St looking east and the lake at the Eureka Gardens (image btm3900i6.jpg). 17 - Snow Scene at Botanical Gardens, Begonia House 18 & 19 - Ballarat Water supply reservoirs 20 - Ballarat State Schools 21 - Ballarat East Views, includes view of track in Victoria St looking east (image btm3900i7.jpg). 22 - Views of the Water Reserves 23 - Views about the City - includes City fire station , agricultural High School, City Baths and View Point. 24 - Views at Lake Wendouree. \ Pdf copy of full book added 8/5/2019 - see btm3900i9.pdf trams, tramways, ballarat, lydiard st, sturt st, gardens, railway station, hospital, lake wendouree, wendouree parade, carlton st, esco

Book, titled "101 and 1 ways to Save Money with Portable Compressors", published by Ingersoll-Rand Co. London, 120 page book, within yellow covers, centre stapled. Published 1929. On front cover has an colour picture of a large work scene with a the construction of a suspension bridge in the background. Details equipment that is available and the possible uses it could be put to, with numerous photos. Has a list of equipment, index and on last page a list of officers and directors. Has been stamped on the top left hand corner with the ESCo Company stamp but overwritten in ink with a BTPS catalogue number and information. Stamped dated 23 Feb. 1934.On front cover and page 1, hand written in black ink "Ballarat Tramway Preservation Society Catalogue No. 18".trams, tramways, trackwork, doors, safety, compressors, esco

Set of 12 coloured views of Ballarat printed with six photos on either side of a folded strip of paper glued within an embossed paper folder. Published by Nucolorvue Productions Vic., titled "A Souvenir of Beautiful Ballarat". Front cover has a colour rural scene, title, address area and on base of cover "12 Specially Selected Views in Full Colour". Rear of Cover has a part of a colour scene as well and a slit for the envelope to be closed over and sealed. On the inside of the front cover are notes on the City of Ballarat and that it has just embarked upon its second century. 1. Another section of Ballarat's Fine Botanical Gardens 2. Overlooking Ballarat City 3. Botanical Gardens showing statues of Australian Prime Ministers 4. Sturt Street showing City Hall and Fine Statues 5. Lake Wendouree Ballarat 6. Lovely Trees and Statuary Botanical Gardens 7. Botanical Gardens showing Wallace's Statue 8. Lovely Sturt St looking West 9. Overlooking Sturt St towards Mt Warrenheip (has single truck tram in photo) - see image i9 for a hi res version. 10. Ballarat's Famous Art Gallery 11. One of Ballarat's many fine Reservoirs 12. Eureka Stockade Monument, Ballarat. On front cover in pencil in stamp area "1/-"trams, tramways, ballarat, postcards, sturt st, bridge st, gardens