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Work on paper - Brochure, Welcome to The City of Ballaarat
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Medal
Brass band instrumental music competitions were enthusiastically followed in Australia in the early twentieth century. Ballarat was a leading centre for these musical competitions and Michael Taffe played cornet and flugelhorn with several local brass bands. He was Australian Junior Cornet solo Champion in 1920 and won the open section of the instrumentals at the VRI competitions held in the ballroom at Flinders Street Station in 1924. michael taffe, victorian railways institute, cornet solo, flinders street station ballroom -
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Booklet - Souvenir Booklet, Eureka Official Souvenir
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Certificate - Ticket, Centenary of Eureka License
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Book - Souvenir Book, Ballarat Centenary Home-Coming Celebrations
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Work on paper - sketch, Off the New Guinea Coast
One of a series of sketches in 1943 by war artist Geoffrey Mainwaring while covering the war in the Pacific. Mainwaring went on to take charge of the Art department at the School of Mines Ballarat, SMB now Federation University.war, landing craft, mainwaring, ballarat smb, sketch, war in the pacific, new guinea, war artist -
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Badge - Button Badge, Our Charities Ballarat 1925
Pressed tin buttons were produced in large numbers between 1900 and the Second World War and being ephemeral have rarely survived. This button was produced for fundraising for local charities at Ballarat on Button Day in October 1925.Historically and socially significant artefact, revealing much about the attitudes and values of the period in which they were produced. Button days were a popular way of fundraising and commemoration that developed through Wattle Days and the First World War retaining their popularity into the early 1950s. Small tin badge with stylised rising sun motif in red with forget-me-nots in blue beneath a banner and on beneath the nosegay the words forget not. in blue. ballarat, charities, fund raising, button day, 1925, badges -
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Work on paper - Photograph, Agnes Taffe
Portrait photograph with artistic brushwork by Ballarat photographer Thornton c.1917. Thornton & Richards were one of Ballarat's major photographic studios and their work and historic records of schools, sporting and civic events remain a major record of social and family life in Ballarat region over a century.Thornton & Richards were one of Ballarat's major photographic studios and this is an exceptional demonstration of their portraiture.portrait -
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Book - Thesis, First World War Avenues of Honour: Social History Through the Landscape'
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Work on paper - manuscript history, The Ballarat Rowing Club (founded 1861) HISTORY
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Medal, S. S. McKay Memorial Medal
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Souvenir - Medal, Bi Centenary Medal
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Decorative object - Fabric Horseshoe, Wedding Horseshoe
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Work on paper - Catalogue, George Smith's Catalogue: Forest and Fruit Trees and Ornamental Shrubs
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Functional object - candle holders
Scandinavian design in furniture and accessories was very popular in the 1960s - 70s as represented by these two minor decorative candle holders of the period.A small example of the very popular designs reflecting Scandinavian influences of the period.In the modern Danish style of 1970s.etched underneath each holder 'Stelton stainless 18/Denmark.' denmark, stainless, ballarat, 1970s, wedding present -
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Instrument - Cornet, Boosey Cornet
In 1920 Michael Taffe was awarded Junior Cornet Solo Champion at Ballarat's South St competitions, The Grand National Eisteddfod of Australasia. This competition was the premier band contest in Australia with musicians from every state and New Zealand taking part. This Boosey & Co cornet was on display in the window of Allan's Music store Melbourne when the building was severely damaged by fire but these items were saved. Part of a large family collection of local & family history items at Hymettus Cottage, home to the same Ballarat family for the past 125. This cornet has a well documented provenance and a known owner and has been at Hymettus for over a century. Boosey & Co joined with Hawkes in 1930 to become Boosey & Hawkes. This cornet forms part of a significant and representative historical collection that reflects Ballarat's local history from a family perspective. It contributes to our understanding of social and family life in Ballarat from the 19th to the 21st century and provides interpretative capacity for family, local, and social history themes.Heavily decorated and inscribed.cornet, music, michael taffe, south street competitions, ballarat, boosey & co -
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Work on paper - Print folder, Eureka 1854 -1954
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Work on paper - book, Eureka Stockade Centenary December 3: 1854 -1954
The book of Thomas Kennedy’s March from Creswick’s Creek by Harry.H. Pearce was published in a limited edition of 300 for the centenary of Eureka in 1954.non-fictionThe book of Thomas Kennedy’s March from Creswick’s Creek by Harry.H. Pearce was published in a limited edition of 300 for the centenary of Eureka in 1954. creswick, eureka stockade, ballarat, kennedy, rams skull press -
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Work on paper - Souvenir, Eureka Official Souvenir
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Work on paper - Newspaper, Recorder
eureka stockade, ballarat, labour history