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Williamstown High School
Arithmetic textbook 1947, Arithmetic: a sequel to 'the first two years' arithmetic' - with answers, by R. Wilson & A.D. Ross. Melbourne: F.W. Cheshire, 1943, 1943
A brown cloth covered book used by Bob Gerring in his studies at Williamstown High School, whilst in Form IIIB in 1947. 356 pages.See jpg above for inscription inside front cover.williamstown high school, 1947, textbooks, robery gerring -
Tatura Irrigation & Wartime Camps Museum
Photograph, Waranga Quarry
Original painting owned by Norm Appleby. Painting by Camp 13 POW. H.Hartmann.|Waranga Quarry.Norm Appleby, son of Lieut., Acting Captain Austin Appleby, 8th. Field Reg. & 5th. Aust. Anti-Aircraft Reg. 1945-1947,photograph, painting -
Whitehorse Historical Society Inc.
Article, Tracing post war mates, 2002
Bruce Fisher recalls living in Japan in 1947Bruce Fisher recalls living in Japan in 1947 with his family when his father was stationed in Hiroshima Bay with the British Commonwealth Occupation Forces.Bruce Fisher recalls living in Japan in 1947 fisher, bruce, british commonwealth occupation forces, ransom, jill -
Williamstown High School
Athletic meet 1947
Program of the Williamstown High School Annual Athletic Sports meeting of 8th October, 1947. Program consists of 8 pages, printed on white paper.Signatures on front cover. See pdf above.williamstown high school, 1947, athletics, school sports -
Bendigo Historical Society Inc.
Newspaper - JENNY FOLEY COLLECTION: SCHOOL'S IN
BHS CollectionBendigo Advertiser ''The way we were'' from Wednesday, January 28, 2004. School's in: a dressmaking class at the school of mines in 1947. The clip is in a folder.newspaper, bendigo advertiser, the way we were -
Lakes Entrance Regional Historical Society (operating as Lakes Entrance History Centre & Museum)
Photograph, 1935 c
The extra section then made the vessel 48 feet longBlack and white photograph of the fishing ketch Topsy after being cut amidships and a new ten foot section built. Lakes Entrance Victoriafishing industry, ships and shipping -
Ballarat Clarendon College
Furniture, Chair
This librarian's chair was given to the school by the family of Joy Chapman who had died during 1948. The chair was part of a number of furnishings supplied by donation for the new library which was opened in 1949. These included blackwood shelves, tables and chairs and a new set of Encycopedia Britannica supplied by the Parents and Friend's Association, a grooved periodical table given by Old Collegians Younger Set, a librarian's desk supplied by the E M Bell estate and more than 200 books supplied by the Old Collegians. (see 'A lamp burns brightly' p. 61). This item is a significant example of the degree to which the school relied on donations from the community to develop the school during the post-war years. Solid wood chair with high solid back and solid arm rests. Carved CPLC crest attached to neck rest. Padded seat. Bronze plaque at front of seat. Plaque: In memory of / JOY CHAPMAN / 1947 - 1948 - The Gift of Her / Father, Mother & Ruthc-p-l-c, younger-set, parents-and-friends-association, clarendon-presbyterian-ladies-college, library, joy-chapman -
Bendigo Military Museum
Book - BOOK, JAPAN, "CONTEMPORARY JAPAN", 1946
Owner and donor details - see also Cat No. 5826P "CONTEMPORARY JAPAN" "A REVIEW OF EAST ASIATIC AFFAIRS/ MAY - AUG 1946/ VOL XV Nos. 5-8"Soft cover book. Cover - cardboard, light weight, colour blue, black print on front, spine and back. Illustrated. Black print on back in travel bureau advertisement. 315 pages - cut, plain, off white paper. Illustrated - black print on off white paper - maps. Owners name - front end paper.Front end paper - owner's name - handwritten in green ink "A. Ba ???/ Osaka, 1947.books, military history, japan, bcof -
National Wool Museum
Ribbon
Awarded at Agricultural show.Ballarat A. & P. Society. ANNUAL SHOW 1947 CHAMPION HOMER RUNG 1946-47agricultural shows, ballarat agricultural and pastoral society, ballarat, victoria -
Bendigo Trades Hall Council & Literary Institute Inc.
Book, Victoria Parliamentary Debates
BookVictorian Parliamentary debates Years 1946-1947 Vol 224 Pages 4929-5990 -
Bendigo Trades Hall Council & Literary Institute Inc.
Book, Victorian Parliamentary Debates
BookVictorian Parliamentary Debates Years 1946-1947 Vol 223 Pages 3441-4928 -
Bendigo Trades Hall Council & Literary Institute Inc.
Book, Victorian Parliamentary Debates
BookVictoria Parliamentary Debates Years 1946-1947 Vol 222 Pages 2147A-3440 -
Woolamai Beach Surf Life Saving Club
Medal - Life Saving Australia - Victorian State Centre 1947 - 2002, 75th Anniversary Medal, 2002
Presented to all Victorian Life Saving Clubs on the 75th anniversary of Life Saving VictoriaMedal with Presentation Medal in Navy Velvet covered Box with White LiningSurf Life Saving Australia - Victorian State Centre 75th Anniversary 1947 - 2002 -
Ballarat Tramway Museum
Photograph - ESCo Bendigo Sprinkler or scrubber tram, 1930s
Photograph of Bendigo sprinkler or scrubber tram taken at the depot. Shows the equipment provided on the tram and the lights for night working. The tram was replaced in 1954 by cross bench tram No. 17, converted for this purpose. One of a series of 7 photos (items 9108 to 9114) possibly taken at the time of the SEC takeover in 1934 to illustrate the type of tram that was being used at Bendigo. Possibly an SEC report photo. Based on the book Destination Eaglehawk, most likely from the Basil Miller collection.Yields information about Bendigo scrubber of sprinkler tram during the early 1930s.Photograph, black and white with notes on rear.In ink on rear "Scrubber car and water tank (as at present 1947)", and Ken Magor stamp.tramways, trams, bendigo, esco, scrubber, sprinkler tram -
University of Melbourne, Burnley Campus Archives
Photograph - Black and white print, A.P. Winzenried, Egg Laying Competition, 1947
Appears as an illustration in, "Green Grows Our Garden," A. P. Winzenried p 37. Caption reads, : Poultry management was part of the Curriculum at Burnley for many years. This view of the Egg-laying Competitiion Grounds is dated April 1947.Black and white photograph. Part of Emily Gibson Collection B10.0030. Egg-laying pens in the foreground. Stockman's Cottage in the background behind agrostology paddocks.On reverse, "View of Egg Laying Competition grounds before demolition of group pens."egg laying competition, green grows our garden, a. p. winzenried, stockman's cottage, poultry management -
Bay Steamers Maritime Museum
Book, Steam and Other Engines, 1947
Green cloth hard cover book of 537 pagesInside front cover handwritten in pencil "19/7/48 / Leonard J Stafford" Stamped in purple ink "TECHNICAL BOOK &MAGAZINE CO. / 297-239 SWANSTON ST. / OPP. MELBOURNE HOSPITAL / CENT. 2041 - MELBOURNE. C.S."non-fiction, engineering, steam, science, heat engines, engines, mechanics -
Bendigo Military Museum
Booklet - BOOKLET, BEEHIVE, "MEMBERS OF BEEHIVE STAFF WHO SERVED IN THE GREAT WAR", 2020
Researched as reference to the Beehive Staff Honour Roll Board. Larna Malone is a local historian and has published several Military works. Refer Cat No 4978P.Booklet - 48 paged black print on white paper, spiral binder, clear plastic front cover, black heavy plastic back cover."MEMBERS OF THE BEEHIVE STAFF WHO SERVED IN THE GREAT WAR" Researched by Larna Malone 2020.ww1, beehive staff -
Warrnambool and District Historical Society Inc.
Book - History of Friends of Warrnambool Botanic Gardens, Friends of Warrnambool Botanic Gardens - Their History 1989-2020, 2022
Friends of Warrnambool Botanic Gardens historyThis is a book of 48 pages. The cover is white with a colour image of a water fountain. The pages contain printed text and small images of the front cover fountain.non-fictionFriends of Warrnambool Botanic Gardens historywarrnambool botanic gardens, history of warrnambool gardens, friends of warrnambool gardens -
Ringwood and District Historical Society
Flyer, Land Sale Advertisement - Sunbeam Estate, East Ringwood, Victoria - circa 1930
Folded double-sided page advertising private sale of 48 residential allotments, with location map, terms of sale, and details of local features and services. Locality plan includes Holland Road, Everard Road, Sunbeam Avenue, Mount Dandenong Road, and Lilydale Road (later Old Lilydale Road). (Agents) Phillips & Nicholson, 59 Swanston Street, Melbourne, (Phone) Central 10907, in conjunction with C.E. Carter, Bank Chambers, Main Street, Ringwood, Telephone Ringwood 24. -
Orbost & District Historical Society
book, D.S. Ford, Benjamin Boyd in Australia 1842 -1849, 1940's
This is the second edition of the book. Benjamin Boyd 1796 - 1851) was a Scottish-born Australian pioneer and entrepreneur, and briefly, a politician. He arrived in Hobson's Bay, Port Phillip District, on his schooner, the Wanderer, on 15 June 1842, and reached Port Jackson, Sydney, on 18 July 1842. He was a shipping magnate, merchant, banker, pastoralist and station owner, Member of the Legislative Council, town planner and a whaler Boyd became one of the largest landholders and graziers of the colony of New South Wales; before suffering financial difficulties and becoming bankrupt. Boyd briefly tried his luck on the Californian goldfields before being purportedly murdered on Guadalcanal in the Solomon Islands. Many of his business ventures involved blackbirding, the practice of coercing and kidnapping South Sea Islanders as slave labourers. This book is a useful reference tool.A small thin 48 pp paper covered book titled, "Benjamin Boyd in Australia". The cover is black and white. The price is noted at 1/6.on front cover - handwritten in green pen : "M.J. Gilbert"book-benjamin-boyd-in-australia boyd-benjamin boydtown -
Federation University Historical Collection
Book, Shackleton's Argonauts by Frank Hurley, 1948
Blue hard covered book with an image of a vessel on a rough sea glued to the front, 140 pages plus 48 pages of photographs. Reprinted 1956.non-fictiondick richards, sir ernest shackleton, frank hurley, endurance, shakleton's argonauts, r.w.richards, richard w. richards, antarctica, exploration -
Ringwood and District Historical Society
Mixed media - Video, RDHS Meeting Presentation - "Saved by the Bell" - Russ Haines
Digitised video (1.98GB). Duration: 48 minutes. Recorded August, 2023 (Video is available for viewing at Ringwood & District Historical Society Archives by appointment)In this presentation, Ringwood and District Historical Society President Russ Haines talks about some of the Society's archival activities, with a focus on "rescuing" items of significance, including timely digitisation of photographs and film potentially susceptible to loss or deteriorisation with the passing of time. -
Bendigo Historical Society Inc.
Document - BENDIGO BUSINESSES COLLECTION: RANDALLS SUPERMARKET
Blank page on Rite-way Randalls Supermarkel letterhead, 48-50 McIvor Road, Bendigo Phone (054) 435017 Fax (054) 425378.bendigo, business, randalls supermarket -
Port Melbourne Historical & Preservation Society
Book, Glen Stuart, My Time At Engine Works, 26 Oct 2008
Completed by Glen Stuart in 2007 and published by PMH&PS in October 2008, when Glen spoke on the subject at a PMH&PS meeting"My Time At Engine Works" by Glen Stuart. Yellow paperback 48 pages illustrated. A memoir of Glen's working life, building marine engines.industry - manufacturing, transport - shipping, commonwealth engine works, glen stuart -
Kew Historical Society Inc
Book, Civvy Symphony, December, 1946 : the world since V.P. day / cartooned by Armstrong of the Argus, 1946, 1946
Kew Historical Society, founded in 1958, has an extensive reference library, of which this book is a part. Volumes in the library are used by members for research into aspects of local history and/or to support the Society's collections of pictures, maps, fashion and artefacts. Reference books have entered the collection through donation, presentation, collection and purchase.Important social document illustrating Australian views of the world in the immediate postwar periodMont Albert [Vic.] : Edgar J.K. Thompson for the Argus and Australasian Ltd., 1946 48 p. : chiefly ill. (some col.) ; 31 cm. "australian wit and humour -- pictorial, australia -- social life and customs -- 1945-1965 -- caricatures and cartoons. -
Kew Historical Society Inc
Slide - Roadworks, High Street, 1977
One of two slides of roadworks being undertaken within the City of Kew in 1997. The colour of some slides has degraded.35mm colour transparency (slide) of a tram (no 48) in High Street, Kew, in 1977 during roadworks taking place opposite the Boroondara General Cemetery.trams -- kew (vic.), public works -- kew (vic.), road works -- kew (vic.) -
Melbourne Tram Museum
Photograph - Black & White Photograph/s, Dec. 1962
Black and white photograph of W5 814 (Spencer St, Route 48) at the North Balwyn terminus. Photo by Bob Lilburn, 12-8-47.Has on the rear in ink "MMTB 814 North Balwyn" and "12-8-67"trams, tramways, w5 class, north balwyn, route 58, tram 814 -
Falls Creek Historical Society
Booklet - Falls Creek Information 2006
Falls Creek 2006 included a wide range of new developments and activities. Some of these were Pete the Snow Dragon shows, Fox Trail, Women's Program, the Mouse Trap. Monkey Bar and Bungy Trampolining as well as night-time activities. The purchase of a Park Bully Kassbohrer snow groomer ensured an international standard freestyle terrain was maintained. The Falls Creek snowmaking system and snow farming also was given a huge boost with Wombats Ramble going on-line in 2006.This booklet is significant because it introduces a wide range of new activities and facilities at Falls Creek in 2006.A glossy publication of 48 pages promoting Falls Creek all year round. It includes detailed information of activities at Falls Creek, images and advertising.falls creek activities, snow grooming, snow making at falls creek -
Port Melbourne Historical & Preservation Society
Book - Gladsdale Dairy, Bridge Street, Port Melbourne, B Ledger, 1941 - 1947
Donated by son Glen Stuart, who because he had originally intended to use the book as a scrapbook in which to mount photos, had glued a colour repro of the 'Icebird' in Antarctica to the front coverLarge ledger used by William Raeburn Stuart of Gladsdale Dairy from June 1941 to February 1947 to record weekly accounts of his milk business at 273 Bridge Street, Port Melbourne. Photo pasted on cover. 287 pp. Bill heading and milk bottle order fom pasted on last page. Dark green with tan leather spine and corners.Mr Stuart's home and business addresses written on first page.business and traders - dairies, william raeburn stuart, glen stuart -
Bendigo Historical Society Inc.
Clothing - MEN'S BLACK DINNER JACKET, 1921
Men's black woollen dinner jacket with black polished cotton lapels. Single breasted fastened with one X 2cm black fabric covered button, with another button attached to the back. Body of jacket lined with black self stripe cotton fabric. Long sleeves lined with cream coloured polished cotton fabric with fine black stripes. Front pockets below waist have slit openings lined with black cotton fabric. Slits at wrists of sleeves (5cm) fastened with 1 X 1cm black fabric covered buttons. Found inside pocket, cotton button hole tab two black fabric covered 2 cm buttons. Hanging tape across inside back of neck (11cm X .7cm) cotton tape. Owner; Samuel John Tongway 1894-1988. Australian Dictionary of Biography. www.adb.anu.edu.au/biography/tong-way-samuel-john-14875Woods & Manson 48-50 Elizabeth St., Melbourne. Date 1/10/21. No.1542. S.J.Tongway.costume, male, men's black dinner jacket, has matching waistcoat.