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Bendigo Military Museum
Book - BOOK, READERS DIGEST, The Reader's Digest Assoc Pty Ltd, Readers Digest - Illustrated Story of WWII, c.1970
Hard covered, illustrated buckram bound book. Red illustrated paper dust cover. 536 cut pages. Contains illustrations & photos all theatre & World War II 1939 - 1945.books-military-history, illustrations, readers digest -
Bendigo Military Museum
Book, Angus & Robertson, Tobruk 1941 Capture - Siege - Relief, 1945
Book documents the fighting in & around Tobruk in 1941 & provides a key to understanding the whole North Africa campaign in 1941.Green buckram hard cover, title in gold on spine only. Illustrated front end paper. Part of dust cover loose & placed on title page. Black & white illustrations, 348 pages.books-history, military -
Bendigo Military Museum
Book, David Boyle, World War II in Photographs, 1998
Photographic documentation of World War II in both the European and Pacific theatres of war.Illustrated hard cover with title on cover & spine in black & white letters. Dust cover illustrated front & back. Red and grey in colour. 600 pages with cut edges. Black & white illustrations.On front end paper: To Len Xmas 1999, Cynthia Donated by Len Buches familybooks-military-history, photography-photographs -
Warrnambool RSL Sub Branch
Book, AS YOU WERE. 1946
Hard Cover. Colour Grey. Child's 'decoration' on cover. Title on Front cover. Title and Date on Spine. Damaged Dust Cover inside front cover. (See Media File DSCF6204.JPG)Subtitled: A Cavalcade of events with the Australian Services from 1788-1946 Publisher: Australian War Memorial Canberra Year Published 1946 post-war. 1946. armed services -
Tennis Australia
Book, Circa 1993
Book: 'DAYS OF GRACE: A MEMOIR'. Hardcover with dust jacket and plastic covering . Copyrighted 1993. Ex-library book - Spokane Library stamps and labels throughout. Materials: Paper, Ink, Cardboard, Plastictennis -
Tatura Irrigation & Wartime Camps Museum
Book, Seeking the Sydney. A Quest for Truth, 2005
Written to struggle to piece together a labyrinth of facts, theories and in many cases, elusive false trails. Strange cryptograms, hearsay and new evidence from German survivors.White hard cover book with dust cover, front is black and white featuring " The waiting woman and dome of souls at Geraldton, "Sydney" Memorial". Back cover is blue and white featuring Wall of Rememberancehmas sydney, geraldton western australia, hmas sydney memorial -
Unions Ballarat
Beazley : a biography (Don Woodward Collection), FitzSimons, Peter et al, 1998
Biography of Kim Beazley who is a former diplomat, ALP federal MP, deputy prime minister and leader of the opposition. Beazley was part of the Hawke/Keating cabinet and served in such roles as Minister for Defence and Minister for Finance.Biographical interest - Kim Beazley. Relevant to Australian politics and the Hawke/Keating era of government.Paper; book. Dust jacket: blue background; with a colour photograph of Kim Beazley; gold and white lettering; author's name and title. Cover: black; gold lettering; author's name and title on spine.btlc, ballarat trades hall, ballarat trades and labour council, beazley, kim, biography, alp, australian labor party, cabinet, government, politics, deputy prime minister, prime minister, hawke, bob, keating, paul, government ministry, ambassadors and diplomats -
Unions Ballarat
The Gorton experiment (Don Woodward Collection), Reid, Alan, 1971
John Gorton became Australian Prime Minister (1968-1971) after the disappearance of Harold Holt (with McEwan being the interim Prime Minister). Holt and Gorton were both from the Liberal Party Australia. Gorton has been described as a larrikan and an eccentric in his time as prime minister. The book is described as a disparaging account.Australian politics. Biographical.Book; 455 pages. Dust jacket: green background; author's name and title in white lettering; two-tone picture of John Gorton. Cover: yellow; green lettering; author's name and title. Title page: "To my son John Aug 4th 1971 Dad."btlc, ballarat trades hall, ballarat trades and labour council, gorton, john, prime ministers - australia, holt, harold, liberal party australia, politics, biography -
Unions Ballarat
The politician who laughed (Don Woodward Collection), Daly, Fred, 1982
Anecdotal humour about Federal politicians and parliament. Fred Daly was a long-serving member of the House of Representatives (1943-1975). He was a cabinet minister at the time of the Whitlam ALP government (1972-1975).Political infotainment.Book; 131 pages. Cover: black; white lettering; author's name and title on the spine. Dust jacket: blue background; black and white caricatures; white and black lettering; author's name and title.Inscription inside page: "To dearest Keith Happy Christmas 1982 Love Chris"btlc, ballarat trades hall, ballarat trades and labour council, politics and government, house of representatives - australia, prime minister, cabinet ministers, australian labor party, alp -
Unions Ballarat
Heart of a queen: Queen Victoria's romantic attachments (Don Woodward Collection), Aronson, Theo, 1991
Queen Victoria was queen of England from 1837 to 1901. The book is a biographical account of six major friendships and relationships: Lord Melbourne; Prince Albert; Napoleon III; John Brown; Disraeli; and Munshi.Biographical interest. Monarchy - United Kingdom.Book; 272 pages. Dust jacket: black background; colour portrait of Queen Victoria; white lettering; author's name and title. Cover: blue background; gold lettering; author's name and title.btlc, ballarat trades hall, ballarat trades and labour council, biography, monarchy - queens of england, monarchy - united kingdom, queen victoria, prince albert, melbourne, lord, napoleon iii, brown, john, disraeli, benjamin, munshi, politics and government -
Unions Ballarat
A figure of speech: A political memoir (Don Woodward Collection), Freudenberg, Graham, 2005
Graham Freudenberg's memoirs. He was a speech writer for Gough Whitlam and Arthur Calwell. He wrote the campaign speech for Mark Latham in 2004. The book includes his associations with Australian leaders from Menzies to Howard and observations about international relations. Political - Australia - Labor. Autobiographical interest.Book; 305 pages. Dust jacket: black and white photograph of the author; red, white and black lettering; author's name and title. Cover: black background; silver lettering; author's name and title. btlc, ballarat trades hall, ballarat trades and labour council, freudenberg, graham, government staff, labor memoirs, menzies, robert, calwell, arthur, whitlam, gough, howard, john, alp, australian labor party, wran, neville, carr, robert (bob), keating, paul, hawke, bob, vietnam war, latham, mark, kerr, sir john, liberal party australia, lpa, politics and government -
Unions Ballarat
It wasn't meant to be easy: Tamie Fraser in Canberra, Hindhaugh, Christina, 1986
Biography of Tamie Fraser. Tamie Fraser was married to Malcolm Fraser who was Prime Minister of Australia. Includes her role of campaigning on her husband's behalf in the 1975 Federal election. The author, Christina Hindhaugh, is Tamie Fraser's sister.Relevant to the history of liberal and labour politics in Australia, including events around the dismissal of the Whitlam government in 1975.Paper; book. Dust jacket: light blue background; colour picture of Tamie Fraser, black and blue lettering; author's name and title. Cover: blue; white lettering; author's name and title.Title page: name, "F. J. Story, Ex AL 3/87".fraser, tamie, fraser, tamara, fraser, malcolm, btlc, ballarat trades and labour council, ballarat trades hall, politics, politicians, politicians' spouses, biography, whitlam government - dismissal, whitlam, eg, 1975, liberal party australia, australian labour party, alp, australiana fund, open garden scheme, prime minister, beggs, tamara -
Unions Ballarat
Whatever it takes (Don Woodward Collection), Richardson, Graham, 1994
Political memoirs of Graham Richardson, who was an ALP NSW senator from 1983-1994. Richardson touches upon the Whitlam era and the Keating-Hawke leadership challenge. Autobiographical interest. Relevant to the history of the ALP and provides inside stories from Richardson's involvement with the party.Paper; 382 pages. Dust jacket: blue background; colour photograph of Graham Richardson; orange and white lettering; author's name and title. Cover: blue; white lettering; author's name and title. btlc, ballarat trades hall, ballarat trades and labour council, richardson, graham, memoirs, autobiography, alp, australian labor party, whitlam, gough, keating, paul, hawke, bob, parliament, senate, government, politics, labor movement -
Linton Mechanics Institute and Free Library Collection
Book - Novel, Beeding, Francis, The one sane man, 1934
318 p. Brown cover, image cut from original dust jacket pasted on front, depicts a man running away in background, with woman in foreground. Title and author's name handwritten on spine.fictionfiction, francis beeding -
Linton Mechanics Institute and Free Library Collection
Book - Novel, Richmond, Mary (psudonym of Kathleen Lindsay), Those bright horizons, [n.d.] [1949?]
Romantic fiction set in India.160 p. : green cover, section of original dust jacket pasted to cover, depicting a man an woman embracing while another woman looks on. Summary of story pasted to half-title page.fictionRomantic fiction set in India.mary richmond, fiction, romance -
Linton Mechanics Institute and Free Library Collection
Book - Novel, Morrison, Emmeline, Kind strangers : the tale of a family, [n.d.] [1950?]
Romance fiction272 p. Book has a plain red cover, with section of original dust jacket, showing head and face of a young woman, pasted to front. title and author's name hand written on spine.fictionRomance fictionfiction, emmeline morrison -
Tatura Irrigation & Wartime Camps Museum
Book, Kyabram, 1965
Written history of the township of Kyabram, covering squatters, the reform movement, churches, hospitals etc.Red hard cover. Cover design by Anne Bossence. Dust jacket green, white and brown. Title and author in black print. Drawing of a water wheel in green and brown. Back cover whitebossence w, kyabram, kyabram reform movement, kyabram churches, kyabram hospitals, kyabram squatters -
Southern Sherbrooke Historical Society Inc.
Photograph - Colour photograph, Cardinia Reservoir construction
Colour photograph of blasting works during the construction of the Cardinia Reservoir, Narre Warren East, in the 1970s. Plumes of dust rise from the orange sand and rock. In the distance low treed hills are visible. -
Bendigo Historical Society Inc.
Book - THESE VERDANT PLAINS
These Verdant Plains, a history of the shire of East Loddon, a hard cover book with dust jacket, 248 pages, black and white photographs, printed by the Hawthorn Press 601 Little Bourke St Melbourne.Michael Sharlandbook, rural, east loddon -
Melbourne Legacy
Document - Dustcover, There Goes a Man, 1958
The dust jacket of the book by WB Russell about Legatee Stan Savige. The dustjacket marks the publication of the book after all the Committee's efforts, noting that "Lieutenant-General Sir Stanley Savige played a leading part for Australia in both World Wars, but his greatest achievement was in times of peace - in the foundation of Legacy, of which the full story is told in this book." Part of the story of how the book 'There goes a Man' came to be created. Much of the book dealing with the history of Legacy is still used today by Legatees.Original dustjacket for the biography of Sir Stanley Savige.savige book, biography, stan savige -
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 -
Bendigo Military Museum
Book - BOOK NAVAL, David L Mears, The Search for the Sydney, 2009
The Search for the Sydney, How Australia's Greatest Maritime Mystery was Solved. David L Mears, leader of the expedition which found Sydney and Kormoran. From back cover: The Full and Official Story of the Six Year Hunt for HMAS Sydney.Hard cardboard cover, buckram, silver colour print on front & spine, aquamarine colour background. Dust cover is silver, yellow, white & pale blue print. Photos on front are model of naval shipwreck, on back is a naval ship. The dust cover unfolds to show detailed diagrams of HMAS Sydney for the Wallsend Shipyard. Beige & brown colours. 264 pages, cut, glossy white. Illustrated black & white & colour photos & maps. Name plate on front flyleaf.Handwritten in black ink on front flyleaf name plate: "Noel R"hmas sydney, the search, maritime -
Bendigo Military Museum
Book - BOOK, BIOGRAPHY First World War - underage soldiers, BYRNES Paul, "The Lost Boys", 2019
From Title page. "THE/ LOST BOYS/ The untold stories of the under-age soldiers/who fought in the First World War"Hardcover book with dust cover. Hard cover - cardboard, white print on spine, illustrated front and back, black and white photographs of battle scenes. Dust cover - paper, black & white print on front, spine, back and front and back flaps. Light brown background, front illustrated sepia toned portrait photograph of soldier in uniform. 364 pages, paper, cut, plain, white, illustrated black and white and sepia tones, photographs and maps. End papers - black.books, ww1, biography -
Bendigo Military Museum
Book - BOOK, BIOGRAPHY of Cameron Baird, VC, MG, McKELVEY Ben / with thanks to Kaye and Doug Baird, " The Commando, 2017
"The Commando/ The life and death of/ Cameron Baird, VC MG"Hardcover book with dust cover. Hardcover - cardboard, black buckram. Gold print on spine. Dustcover - paper, old and white print on front, spine and back. Dust cover - colour illustrations - front portrait photograph of Cameron Baird. Back - Top two small portrait photographs of Cameron Baird. Bottom - image of medals and ribbons. 341 pages - cut, plain, white paper, illustrated - colour photographs. End papers and flyleaf front and back - illustrated colour photographs of scenery in Afghanistan.Title page - handwritten in blue ink. "Al my love Christmas 2017"books, biography, victoria cross, australian army -
Bendigo Military Museum
Book - BOOK, WW1, PICTORIAL, Peter BARTON, "THE BATTLEFIELDS OF THE FIRST WORLD WAR", 2005
From front cover- "THE BATTLEFIELDS OF THE FIRST WORLD WAR". "The Unseen Panoramas of the Western front".Box with hard cover book, dust cover and two CD's. 1. Cover - cardboard, with adhered buckram, red colour, white print on spine. Dust cover - paper, with red, black and white print, front, spine and back. Illustrated, black and white photographs. Front cover - "German prisoners and wounded Canadians crossing the battlefield, Passchendaele 1917". Back cover - "Canadian soldiers carrying trench mats. Passchendaele". 376 pages, cut plain, white paper. Illustrated black and white, sepia and colour photographs, maps and diagrams. 2. Box for book - Cardboard, duplicate of print and photographs as per dust cover. Box is open one end. 3. & 4. CD's. - two, plastic CD's in clear plastic storage envelopes adhered to back and paper cardboard cover.books, ww1, pictorial -
Federation University Historical Collection
Instrument - Scientific Instrument, W.M. Drummond & Co, Surveying Level
Used for survery at the Ballarat School of Mines for Civil and Mining classes.A surveying level. Longitude and transverse bubbles, magnet, compass. External focussing. Twin vertical inclined hair lines. Four levelling screws. Objectove lens with dust shield. Fits tripod cat. no. 04132thodolite, surveying, ballarat school of mines, w.m. drummond, civil engineering, mining engineering, scientific instruments -
Lara RSL Sub Branch
Book, HMAS Mk11 The RANS second book, 1943
HMAS Mk11 endeavours to give something of a picture of this world wide fabric of sea power and the threads therein woven by the Royal Australian Navy. These threads are coloured by experience and tradition of the centuries of the Naval history.Personal recounts from NAVY service personnel by way of stories, poems, cartoons, illustrations and portraitsHMAS - Printed 1943 has a paper dust jacket with the white ensign. Inside front and back hardcover is a green background and illustrations of ships and words of places of Navy service. Photographs, illustrations, cartoons, portraits.hmas mk11, naval history -
Bendigo Military Museum
Book, Zoltan and Edi Schwarz, The Army - Cap Boy, 1983
Hard cover Book the Dust cover is basically Red with a B+W Photo in the centre the photo has an image of men leaning out of tain window Lages - 183 Cut edges illustrated yes.Donated by Bendigo YMCAbooks, military history, biography -
Bendigo Military Museum
Book, George Odgers, Diggers: The Australian Army, Navy and Air Force in Eleven Wars From 6 June 1944 to 1994, 1994
Vol 2. See also item no 723.Hardcover book with dust jacket. Both covers are blue, spine is yellow. Front cover has picture of Australian soldiers fighting the Japanese with two tanks in the background. Picture is between the stars of the Southern Cross.books, military history -
Bendigo Military Museum
Book, Gavan Daws, Prisoners of the Japanese - POWs of World War II in the Pacific, c.1994
Book, black hard cover with red cloth binding & red, white & black dust jacket. Front cover has background of a red circle with 7 lines radiating from the bottom. 462 pages.Written on title page: John W Toon OAM Ex POW 8th Div AASC Donated by: Bgo YMCAbooks, military history, prisoners