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Bendigo Military Museum
Book, Doran & Company, Revolt in the Desert, 1927
Brown buckram hard cover, title in black letters. Illustrated end papers, 333 pages with cut edges, black & white illustrations.On front end paper: C F Morath Healesville Vic 1930books- history, military -
Bendigo Military Museum
Book - BOOK, BOMBER COMMAND WW2, Ray OLLIS, "101 Nights", 1957 First Edition
Hard cover book Hard cover - cardboard, mid blue colour buckram, silver print on spine. 276 pages - cut, plain, off white paper. Front and back end papers and numerous pages - Owner's stamp. front end paper - price notation.Front and back end papers and numerous pages - owner's stamp, purple ink "AIR CADET CORPS/ CITY OF BENDIGO SQUADRON" Front end papers - handwritten, grey lead pencil "19/9/7570".books, military history, ww2, bomber command -
Tatura Irrigation & Wartime Camps Museum
Cash Box
Object used in Tatura Flour Mill as cash box. The Mill closed in 1965.Metal lockable box suitable for carrying cash. Black with gold lettering. Handle at each end. Lid opens on hinges.Frances Reilly (on lid); James Alfred Reilly and Herbert Staner Reilly (on end).reillys flour mill tatura, cash box -
Waverley RSL Sub Branch
News Paper, Sun News Pictorial, 8th May 1945
News of end of War in EuropeFront and rear pages of the Sun News Pictorial Tuesday 8th May 1945 (Laminated)Unconditional surrender by Germans to all allies. War Ends in Europe -
Whitehorse Historical Society Inc.
Photograph - Strip photo/ photocopy, Railway Road Blackburn
East end of Railway Road Blackburn August 1996.Railway Road East end Blackburnrailway road, blackburn, 1976 -
Mont De Lancey
Burnishers
Implements with a hard smooth roundedend or surface used for smoothing and polishing.Set of four burnishing tools used to polish leather. 3 - Metal with wooden handles. 1 - All metal with patterned ends,L. Richter Northampton on wooden handle, double ended tool with round middle.burnishers, polishers, surface finishing tools -
Tarnagulla History Archive
Photograph of the north end of Commercial Road, Tarnagulla, North end of Commercial Road, Tarnagulla, c. 1909
Murray Comrie Collection. This photograph shows business on the north end of Commercial Road, Tarnagulla. From right: the brick Baptist Church (now private residence), Stafford's Blacksmith Coachbuilders and funeral/undertakers (since demolished), & Norwood's Tarnagulla Hotel. Information collated by Murray Comrie: Stafford's premises were built on land previously occupied by the stables of the George Hotel. The Stafford's building was later taken over and run by Frank McNamee. This photograph is a dark copy created from an older original. Copy probably made by Murray Comrie in the 1970s. Monochrome photograph depicting the north end of Commercial Road, Tarnagulla. A large wagon with team of horses is standing in the road. Three girls are walking down footpath at left side of image.Written on the original: 'Specially produced for Renshaw & Co' and 'Commercial Road (North End) Tarnagulla'. Written on this copy: 'Baptist Church Staffords Blacksmith Coachbuilders and funeral/undertakers, & Norwood's Tarnagulla Hotel'.tarnagulla, commerce, industry, blacksmithing, smithing, coachbuilding, businesses, stafford, norwood, mcnamee, buildings, hotels, churches, commercial road, main street -
Flagstaff Hill Maritime Museum and Village
Functional object - Suitcase, 1930-1945
The suitcase didn't catch on until the end of the 19th century, it was quite literally as a case for suits. A typical suitcase came equipped with an inner sleeve for storing shirts, and sometimes a little hat box on the side. But even in the early 20th century, the "dress-suit case" was only one of countless styles of container travellers could buy, from steamer trunks to club bags. By the late 19th century a significant point was reached in the history of transportation, it was the beginning of mass tourism, rather than travel for travels sake made use of by the wealthy in society. Travel wasn't just for the wealthy any more but everyone. Suitcases began as an afterthought in the luggage and leather goods business, but they soon became the very symbol of travel. An 1897 wholesale price list included the words "suitcase" only twice in a 20-page list of luggage types. In America a 1907 T. Eaton & Co. Catalogue, trunks took up a full page while suitcases share a page with club bags and valises. In a 1911 a United Company catalogue, now displayed around 40 per cent of the advertisements were for suitcases. Early suitcases were lighter and more portable than trunks, but they were still bulky by today's standards. Leather, canvas, wicker or thick rubbery cloth was stretched over a rigid wood or steel frame. Corners were rounded out using brass or leather caps and some had wooden rails running around the case. Until steamship travel declined during the mid-20th century, many of these types of the case were advertised as waterproof with some lightweight models marketed specifically to women. The item gives us a snap-shot as to how people undertook travelling during a time when undertaking a journey for pleasure at the end of the 19th century was mainly only for the wealthy. This time saw the beginnings of change from the wealthy in society being able to travel, to the onset of mass tourism. Along with this change in societal norms saw many innervations to the design of luggage as it became a fashionable item.Suitcase, brown canvas with three wooden reinforcing lateral rails running around the case, leather handle each end (one broken), two locks.. Maker Pettigrew & Stephens Ltd Glasgow. "A.T.Cox 354/3 Riversdale Rd Campberwell, Vic Australia" and "W.ON" painted over on each endflagstaff hill, warrnambool, shipwrecked-coast, flagstaff-hill, flagstaff-hill-maritime-museum, maritime-museum, shipwreck-coast, flagstaff-hill-maritime-village, suitcase, -
Lakes Entrance Regional Historical Society (operating as Lakes Entrance History Centre & Museum)
Photograph - Boat Harbour, 1925c
Black and white photograph of the western end of Esplanade, showing guest houses, businesses, Police Station, Methodist Church, cars parked in front of buildings, Bluestone wall at edge of lake, timber groynes for sand control. On lake a small motor boat containing two men. Lakes Entrance VictoriaLakes Entrance from western end.police, religion, waterfront, boats and boating, township -
The Ed Muirhead Physics Museum
Photograph, Cyclotron accelerator
Builit in 1950s and used till the mid 1970s within the Physics Department used in Melbourne. John Rouse and David Caro was involved in the construction.Black and white photo of cyclotron (nuclear physics accelerator)Rear end of DEE system & accessories. Duplicate of 199 Sticky typed labels on back from top and left to right: “WATER FLOW CONTROLS, REAR END OF DEE STEM, SHORTING BAR CONTROL” Handwritten on back right hand corner in pen: “Rear end of dee line” -
Greensborough Historical Society
Photograph - Digital Image, Watsonia High School Pool, Construction 1976. West end looking North, 12/12/1976
The swimming pool at Watsonia High School was commenced in 1976 and opened in 1977. This photo shows brick work and ground work and is noted as "West end looking North".While the school has gone, the pool remains in 2019, operating as Yarra Swim School, Liat Way GreensboroughDigital copy of colour photograph, scanned from slide. Slide set at Item 6513."West end looking North" written on slide.watsonia high school, swimming pools greensborough, yarra swim school -
Whitehorse Historical Society Inc.
Book - Bible, before 1914
Presented by the British and Foreign Bible Society to William Lionel Schwerkolt after he enlisted in WW1Schwerkolt family William LionelSmall leather bound book red colour. Gold embossed script on spine and top right front cover.Gold page edges, black end paper. Presentation British Foreign Bible Society label inside front left end paper.Paper label inside front end paper. Presented to Members of the victorian contingent of theA.I.F. Signed. Melbourne 1914books, religion -
Warrnambool and District Historical Society Inc.
Trophy, W F A L Earles Cup 1937
This trophy was won by the West End Football Club in 1937. This football team appears to date back from the late 1890s but it is known that it was competing in the early 1900s in the Thursday afternoon matches in the Warrnambool and District Football Association. In the 1930s it was in the Warrnambool Football Association competition and about the 1960s it amalgamated with Allansford to form the West End Allansford Football Club. The name West End disappeared in 2001 when the name changed to Allansford Football Netball Club. No further information has been found on the J.Earls Cup.Although this trophy is in poor condition it is interesting as a memento of a local club that existed for over 100 years.This is a gold-coloured cup with a slender tapering piece resting on a circular base. The base is on a brown Bakelite stand. The cup has had two side handles but one handle is missing. The stand has a silver-coloured plaque. The cup and plaque are much stained and oxidized. ‘W.F.A. J. Earls Cup Premiers West End 1937’ warrnambool football association 1930s -
Kiewa Valley Historical Society
Miners' Pick Axe Head
Miners used pickaxes to break up rock and ore, making it easier to extract valuable minerals. The pointed end of the pickaxe was used to chip away at rock. The flat end was used to strike the rock for breaking it apart.Used in the Kiewa Valley by miners searching for gold.Cast steel 14 inches long with a sharp pointed end and a small flat end. There is a space for the handle which is missing and may have been made from wood.mining, miners' pick axe -
Bendigo Military Museum
Container - PROJECTILE CONTAINER, C.1952
Heavy duty cardboard cylinder with one fixed and one removable end cap. There are cotton webbing straps attached for carrying the tube and for securing the removable end cap.Internally, there is a tapering inwards of the cardboard liner. Under the removable cap, is a ring shaped rubber protector. The outer layer of the cardboard tube has a cotton cloth cover which has been painted brown.The removable end cap is marked “C279 MK N2 1952 M/W”war, explosives, packaging -
Bendigo Military Museum
Book - BOOK, WW2, Ronald W. CLARK, "The Birth of the Bomb", First Published 1961 (First edition)
"THE BIRTH OF THE BOMB" "THE UNTOLD STORY OF / BRITAIN'S PART IN THE WEAPON/ THAT CHANGED THE WORLD" Hard cover book. Cover - cardboard, dark orange colour buckram with silver print on spine. 209 pages - cut, plain, off white paper. Illustrated four black and white photographs opposite the title page. Front and back end papers and numerous pages - owner's stamp. front end papers - price notation.Front & end paper papers and pages - owner's stamp, purple ink "AIR CADET CORPS/ CITY OF BENDIGO SQUADRON" Front end papers - price no9tation - grey lead pencil "20/1 /4610".books, military history, ww2 -
Glenelg Shire Council Cultural Collection
Photograph - Photograph - Casterton Child Health Centre, c. 1963
Sourced from Casterton Town Hall (former Shire of Glenelg)Black and white photo. Front/side view of Casterton Child Health Centre, from pre-school end.Back: 'Child Health Centre Casterton taken from Pre-School end.' handwritten in green biro -
Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Obstetricians & Gynaecologists (RANZCOG)
Glass cannula associated with midwife Mary Howlett, c. 1866 - 1920
Used to either irrigate the eye, instill medicated drops or tasks such as wound irrigation or the evacuation of fluid under the skin. Cannulas (or eye droppers as they are commonly called) were used both in homes and hospitals during the late 1880s and the early 1900s and were commonly available at chemists. The long tapered end gave the operator control over the rate of flow of the fluid in the bulb.Mary Howlett (1840-1922) began practising as a country midwife in 1866 in the western district of Victoria. She qualified as a 'ladies monthly nurse' in 1887 and continued to practise as a nurse and midwife until 1920.She began her six months training at the Melbourne Lying-In Hospital. She was known by many as 'Auntie', and her career spanned more than 50 years. Mrs Howlett's midwifery box and contents were given to Dr Frank Forster, and he donated them to the museum collection in 1993.Canula (or eye dropper) made of glass. Finely tapered at one end, with an open ended bulb at the other end. -
Bendigo Military Museum
Book, Allen & Unwin, You'll Never Get Off the Island. POW Changi Singapore, 1989
A personal memoir of Changi POW, Keith Wilson. The author details the daily lives of prisoners & their interaction with their Japanese captors.Black, buckram hard cover with title on spine in gold letters. Blue end papers. Blue & white dust cover with illustrations front & back. Title on front in white letters. Title on spine in black letters.On front end paper: L K Morgan 8/90books, military, history, imprisonment -
Bendigo Military Museum
Equipment - AMMUNITION BOX - VICKERS MACHINE GUN, c. 1939 - 45
Box would contain a belt of .303 ammunition for a Vickers machine gun - one belt of 250 rounds. Yellow lining included to make the box gas tight to avoid ammunition being corroded.Metal box with double hinged lid. Two leather handles rivetted to each side of the box. Two leather straps on one end for fastening. Inside of lid lined with yellow coloured felt padding. Box originally painted dark green.Stamped on opposite end to fastener: "RPL" above a circle.ammunition box, vickers machine gun, ww2 -
Kiewa Valley Historical Society
Insulator - Glass x2
Insulates electrical wire which is attached between the outside ridges. It is screwed onto the cross arm of a power pole. It is non conductive so electricity doesn't short to the ground.Used on the power poles in the Kiewa Valley.Clear tinted glass (one green & one brown) domed shaped insulator. Above centre there are 2 ridges to enable the electrical wire/cable to be fixed on. The closed end has a screw thread down to half way to enable it to be attached to a pole.Green one has 'Agee' on side of the open endkiewa hydro electric scheme. electricity. power lines. insulator -
Anglesea and District Historical Society
Surf Ski, C.W. Downie, Between 1935-1955
14 ft hollow plywood surfboard (ski) with paddle (wooden, double ended). Two foot holds, one on either side of board. Initials LBH (owner Basil Hunter) hand painted on pointy end of board.Built by C.R. Downie, Hampton, Victoria. A Downie Product 7 Higinbotham Street, Brighton. Victoria LBH printed on pointy end of board. surf ski, basil hunter -
Bendigo Military Museum
Book - BOOK, WAR AUTOBIOGRAPHY, Air Vice-Marshal D.C.T. BENNETT, C.B., C.B.E., D.S.O, "Pathfinder", Sept 1958 - Second Impression
"PATHFINDER" A War Autobiography by Air Vice-Marshal D.C. BENNETT, C.D., C.B.E., D.S.O.. RAF WW2.Hardcover book. Cover - cardboard, dark blue color buckram. Gold print on spine. 287 pages - cut, plain, off white paper. Illustrated black and white photographs. Front and back end papers - owner's stamps. Front end paper - price notation.Front and back end papers - owner's stamp - purple ink "AIR CADET CORPS/ CITY OF BENDIGO SQUADRON. Blue ink "RETURNED & SERVICES LEAGUE/ MEMORIAL HALL BENDIGO" . Front end paper - price notation - grey lead pencil "4590/22/6"books, military history, ww2, autobiography, raf -
Bendigo Military Museum
Book - BOOK, PICTORIAL, Robert Nelson, Frank Morgan, Peter Breen, Stuart Reid, "A Pictorial History of Australians at War", 1970
Owner and donor details - see Cat No. 5836.3.Hard cover book with dust cover. Cover - cardboard, with yellow buckram. Gold print on spine. Dust cover - paper, cream colour print on front and spine. Illustrated in black and white, a collection of ten photographs and artwork. 323 pages - cut, plain, white paper, Illustrated - colour and black and white photographs, posters, drawings and artwork. Front and back end papers - illustrated sepia tones photograph of troops and barbed wire in silhouette. Front end paper - handwritten name.Front end paper - handwritten blue ink signature "Ron Bollard".books, military history, pictorial books -
Kilmore Historical Society
Tool - Shoe last, Cast iron Shoe last
Cast iron left shoe last with rectangular hole at heel end for removable leg(.7 stamped at toe. Cast holes on sole. Cast holed on outer aspect of foot Raymond stamped on outer aspect at heel end -
Kiewa Valley Historical Society
Stone - Aboriginal (possibly)
Passed onto Mark Raymond by his grandmother Mrs Canning (dec), Tawonga, who believed it to be an aboriginal artefact.Black stone with flecks, multiple seams and a smooth surface. Oneside curved, short end has been chipped with two seams. Hand sized.Narrow end has a 13 mm x 14 mm hole of cream coloured stone.aboriginal stone, mrs canning, kiewa valley, tawonga -
Kew Historical Society Inc
Photograph - Victorian Canoe Club, Built-up ends & deck frames, 1920-30
Canoeing on the River Yarra at Melbourne was an important and widespread recreational pursuit for Melbournians, especially in the first half of the twentieth century. The Victorian Canoe Club was formed in 1912 at a meeting in Melbourne and its first committee elected in the same year. Records indicate that the Club continued into at least the 1950s .The album has historic and social significance as a record of recreational activities (as well as canoe making) in the early years of the twentieth century. It has local significance as the site of the headquarters of the Club was in Studley park. A number of photographs in the album provide vistas of Kew on the Yarra that are otherwise unavailable.One of 24 labelled photos in part album, originating from the Victorian Canoe Club, which had its headquarters in Studley Park, Kew. The album includes a photographic record of canoe construction and also locations in Studley Park and Kew where the canoes were used. The subject of this photograph is identified as 'Built-up ends & deck frames' where the canoe its completed and ready for testing."Built-up ends & deck frames"victorian canoe club, canoe making, river yarra, burke road, mornington, studley park, kew, steaming gear, canoe construction -
Glenelg Shire Council Cultural Collection
Photograph - Photograph - Henty Beach, Aug-89
Port of Portland Authority ArchivesBack: 'Henty Beach area (Yacht club end) August '89 V. High tides' - black biro -
Dandenong/Cranbourne RSL Sub Branch
WWI Belt Buckle with Snake clasp ( Refer also 0539 & 0539B)
Brass belt buckle. Rectangular shaped ring to fit around belt with small circle eyelet fused on to hold a "S" shaped clasp.The Clasp is in the form of snake with a head of both ends. S shape clasp has some markings on it and head of snake at both ends. -
Parks Victoria - Days Mill and Farm
Container - Box
Used to pack congnac in when transported from France to Melbourne Wharf and probably used as a seat or a step at Days Mill.Squat wooden box, closed top and with inscription on each end. Residue of paper label on top.On one end, star motif and illustration of an arm, in armour, holding a fighting axe. Under this, "Jas. HENNESSY / CONGNAC" On other end engraved into wood, "PRODUCE OF FRANCE" On one side, engraved, ""H T / MELBOURNE WHARF / 47" This side has additions in pencil and star motif in RH top corner.