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Bendigo Military Museum
Magazine, A.I.F Printing section, Aussie, 16.2.1918
The inside front cover and rear are interesting to show the type of humour at the time.“Aussie” the Soldiers magazine paper off white colour, rectangular shape, front has a soldier depiction with his head shaped like a map of Australia & 4 cartoons, all print in black 18 pages of cartoons, depictions, short stories, poetry, slinging of at the system and articles“No 2 February 16, 1918”magazines, aussie -
Tatura Irrigation & Wartime Camps Museum
Photograph, Camp Teachers, 1940's
Front row right Dr Sturzenhofecker and child, Mrs Weiberle (Sarona Palestine), Mrs Dehnel (dressmaker, Austria), Mrs Vollmer (Palestine), Mrs Lippmann (Sarona Palestine), Mrs Kollat (Australia), Dr Reitmeair (Australia). Back row Mrs Wurster (Haifa Palestine), Mrs Kuebler (Sarona Palestine), Mrs Boerner (New Guinea Mission) and Mr Boerner (New Guinea Mission). Third row Dr Rubitschung (Jaffa Palestine).Black and white photograph. 12 adult school teachers, with a pre school boy standing in front right hand side, standing in front of an Army tin hut with double doors open. sturzenhofecker, weiberle, dehnel, vollmer, lippmann, kallat, reitmaeir, wurster, kuebler, boerner, rubitschung, camp 3 internees, camp teachers, camp schools -
Bendigo Military Museum
Book, Derrick V.C
Authors history on back of dust cover. Book part of N. DALEY Collection. Hard cover, pink colour, title and author in white lettering on spine. Mediterranean Ops map inside front cover. Derrick bike trip to Berri map inside with Australian flag. Printing of soldier and medal on front. Illustrated - 205 pages.N. DALEY Bendigo 1985 inside front cover.books, biography, military history -
Bendigo Historical Society Inc.
Textile - BLACK LEATHER WRITING SATCHELL, Early 20th C
Textiles. Black leather writing satchell. Gold engraving R.M.D. on front flap, Trifold with front half flap fastened with suitcase clasp, includes pen with nibs (made in Germany). Blotting paper in leather frame, five leather pockets and inner section for paper. Leather carrying handle on top edge.''R.M.D.'' In Gold lettering on front flap.textiles, domestic, black leather writing satchell -
Bendigo Military Museum
Booklet - BOOKLET, ANNIVERSARY OF TOBRUK, Invicium Print and Beyond, "80th ANNIVERSARY OF THE SIEGE OF TOBRUK WORLD REUNION", 2021
Details on booklet front cover - "The Rats of Tobruk/ Descendants Assoc/ 1941 2021/ No Surrender/ presents / 80th ANNIVERSARY OF THE /SIEGE OF TOBRUK WORLD REUNION/ BRISBANE 9th - 11th APRIL 2021/ TO COMMEMORATE THE 80th ANNIVERSARY/ SIEGE OF TOBRUK/ 10th APRIL 1941 - 7th DECEMBER 1941"Soft cover booklet Cover - cardboard, Black print on front and back. Illustrated front in colour "The Rats of Tobruk Descendants Assoc.", logo. Back in colour, various sponsor logos. 43 pages - cut, plain, white paper. Illustrated in colour, black and white and sepia photographs.booklet, rats of tobruk association anniversary -
Hume City Civic Collection
Photograph, c1897
The original photo is part of an album taken by W.Walls, the front page of which is inscribed "The Hill/Sunbury/April 1897". Whilst most of the photos relate to the environs of the asylum, there are others taken around Sunbury and elsewhere. The original album is held as part of the Mental health Library collection. During 2000 this was transfered from Mont Park to the Royal Melbourne Hospital.A man and a boy and a dog are in front of a weatherboard shed and in a garden with a fence. There is a brick building in the background.walls, w., sunbury asylum, walls album, george evans collection -
Stawell Historical Society Inc
Photograph, Shamrock Hotel on the corner of Seaby & Longfield Streets Stawell West with Mary Jenkins and Agnes Jenkins nee Keegan 1905. Plus a series of related people
Two story weatherboard Shamrock Hotel in 1905 corner of Seaby Street and Longfield Streets Stawell West. Standing in Front from left are Mary Jenkins and Agnes Jenkins. Note street light.Large two Story Hotel with verandah and railings. Two women man and young girl standing at front. Light pole prominent centre left of photo.Shamrock Hotelstawell business -
Bendigo Military Museum
Memorabilia - LIGHTER, WW1
Given to Reginald Chatfield O'LOUGHLIN (WWII Veteran). Believed to be a souvenir.Brass cigarette trench lighter in original black cardboard box. Cellophane front to allow viewing.Printed front bottom of box: : “WWI, Trench Lighter”memorabilia, lighter, cigarette -
Unions Ballarat
Never a White Flag: The Memoirs of Jock Barnes, Jock Barnes, 1988
The story of the 1951 confrontation and lockout of waterfront workers in New Zealand (1951).A memoir that tells the story of a key event in New Zealand's union history.Paper. Front cover: red background; sepia picture of Jock Barnes; black and white text.Front cover: author's name, editor's name and title.btlc, ballarat trades hall, ballarat trades and labour council, new zealand, unions, waterfront workers, never a white flag, barnes, jock, memoir, history -
Hume City Civic Collection
Print - Street Directory, Gregory"s Melbourne Street Directory, c1972
This street directory was published by Gregory's Guides & Maps Pty Ltd of 142 Clarence Street, Sydney NSW in c1972. It was used by the donor's family for many years to navigate their way around Melbourne and the metropolitan area. A street directory enclosed in a black leather detachable cover with gold embossing of a car on the front cover.Gold embossed vintage car on front of detachable cover.joan houston, streets, roads, maps, street directory -
Bendigo Military Museum
Book - BOOK, AUTOBIOGRAPHY, MULLINS Nathan, " Keep Your Head Down", 2011
KEEP YOUR HEAD DOWN/ ONE COMMANDO'S/ BRUTALY HONEST ACCOUNT/ OF FIGHTING IN/ AFGHANISTANSoft cover book. Soft cover - cardboard, black, red and white print on front, spine and back. Cover, colour illustration front - four soldiers on patrol, back soldiers. 347 pages, cut, plain, off white paper. Illustrated black and white, and colour photographs. Handwritten Inscription - front flyleaf.Front flyleaf - handwritten black ink "READ BY/ Jeff Willey JAN 2017.books, autobiography, afghanistan -
Kiewa Valley Historical Society
Book - English Reader, Victorian Reader Eighth Book
This is a form 2 or year 8 English book used for reading. This book would have been used in all schools over Victoria. It consists of assorted stories and poems. It has 260 pagesThis has social and historical significance as it shows what students of the Kiewa Valley in the 1940's were reading in form 2 or in todays year 8. It was donated by the Davies family from Tawonga, and therefore has good interpretive capacity as it is part of a set of readers for primary and high school students. It is also good for research as a comparative tool to see what students learn now compaired to the 1940'sThe book as a light brown material cover with black writing in front cover and spine. There is a logo of the Victorian Education Department on the front cover. Also in writing "Second Edition" at bottom of front cover. The name G Davies Form 11a is on first inside page.book, school, english, secondary, department-of-education 1940 -
Kilmore Historical Society
Fourth Reading Book, 1876
New edition revised and adapted for the use of schools in Australia, Tasmania, and New Zealand, by one of Her Majesty's Inspector of Schools, Victoria. Articles of interest to the Colonies, written expressly by gentlemen of Colonial experience. Sold at George Robertson, Melbourne, Sydney, and Adelaide, and all booksellers.Brown/beige cloth-bound hardcover book, worn extremities, small damage to upper spine. Embossed decoration to back & front covers. Cover stained with ?mildew to upper right front and upper left back covers. Binding a little loose but intact. Previous hinge repair back & front. Foxing to some front and back pages, otherwise clean. 408 pp. Fair condition.Front flyleaf, 'Leslie [indecipherable] Kilmore', inked cursive. Title page, 'Education Department' stamp.school reading text -
National Wool Museum
Booklet, 1940
Donated by Mrs Robyn Adams, daughter of Victor Clyde- a wool grower in North East Victoria. Mr Clyde used this waybill booklet to record the details of wool bales which he sold through Goldsbrough Mort. The front yellow carbon paper slip indicated a sale of wool in 1946.Red paper booklet with three staples on left side spine. Front cover has an image of a rams head above decorative text reading -Goldsbrough, / Mort / & Company Limited-. Company address and services are also listed on front cover. Back cover has an image and addresses of warehouse storage locations. Inside front and back covers are instructions and tips on how to use the booklet. Several yellow lined pages are included inside, some of which have been removed. These pages are used to record bale details with carbon paper. There is a small, handwriten word on th front cover above the word MELBOURNE.wool growing, wool production, wool auctions, wool sales, wool transport, mrs robyn adams, elder smith goldsbrough mort limited -
Glenelg Shire Council Cultural Collection
Photograph - Photograph - Portland Hospital, c. 1970
Photographic print of a rephotographed photograph. Image shows front entrance to Portland Hospital. Building bluestone, tin roof. Path leads to front entrance through the garden. Front entrance has stone portico supported by 4 stone pillars. 'PORTLAND HOSPITAL' carved into portico.Front: 'Portland Hospital' - green ink Back: 'Old Hospital at site of present' - blue biro -
Emerald Museum & Nobelius Heritage Park
Postcard - B/W, Silver Springs Lodge, Emerald, circa 1949-50
Silver Springs Lodge, Emerald, was owned and managed in the 1940s-1950s by William and Olive Hamilton. It offered Pianola, Radio, Swimming, Tennis, Riding, Golf, Farm Produce, Home Cooking, coke fires, continuous hot water and was sewered. Weekly Tariffs were ₤4-10-0 and ₤4-15-0. Mrs Hamilton served as official photographer for Royal visits.The Lodge was an early tourist enterprise in the region, and located in a particularly admired area.B/W postcard photo issued by Valentine's, showing front gate and part profile of Silver Springs Lodge, Emerald. Caravan visible to left, and five people visible around the front door. Arch over front gate bears legend "Silver Springs Lodge".FRONT: Silver Springs Lodge, Emerald V6 REVERSE: Valentine's POST CARD A GENUINE PHOTOGRAPHsilver springs lodge, hamilton, guest houses, valentine's -
Greensborough Historical Society
Journal, Victoria. Education Department, The School Paper; for Grades VII and VIII. 1924, 1924_
A collection of stories to enlighten children's minds, prepared by the Victorian Education Department as supplementary reading material.Owned and used by the Partington family; Greensborough pioneers whose children attended Greensborough Primary School.12 issues per schoolyear (incomplete). Black and white illustrations. Black cardboard front cover. String binding. Dog-eared and damaged edges.On front cover: 'Jessie Partington'the school paper, reading materials, partington family, education department victoria -
Glenelg Shire Council Cultural Collection
Book, Mrs Beeton's Englishwoman's Cookery Book and Household Guide, 1890
Brown cloth binding over carboard covers, with title in gold in top left corner. Illustration of a woman in a kitchen on front cover. 191 pp.household management, cookery, mrs beeton, 1800s -
Glenelg Shire Council Cultural Collection
Photograph - Photograph - Portland Library, 13/01/2000
Coloured photo. Portland Library. Woman and young girl standing in front of mock 'stage'. The stage has yellow curtains with an orange velvet border.Front: '00 1 13'portland library, community, council services, event, amateur dramatics -
Glenelg Shire Council Cultural Collection
Photograph - Photograph - Portland Library, 23/01/2001
Coloured photo. Portland Library. Group of children and adults sitting on floor, back to camera. Library staff member at front showing them a book.Front: '01 1 23'portland library, council services, community, event -
Stawell Historical Society Inc
Photograph, Shamrock Hotel on the corner of Seaby & Longfield Streets Stawell West with Mary Jenkins and Agnes Jenkins nee Keegan 1914
Two story weatherboard Shamrock Hotel 1914? corner of Seaby Street and Longfield Streets Pleasant Creek, Stawell West. Standing in Front are Mary Jenkins and Agnes Jenkins nee Keegan second and third from left. Granite Cob & Co Stables on left Buildings behind three large trees, telegraph pole front centre of image. Granite Cob & Co Stables on left Shamrock Hotelstawell business -
Stawell Historical Society Inc
Photograph - Group Portrait, George and Margaret Hunt in family group portrait
Family portraits in front of tree in family garden. Elderly couple seated, the rest standing.B/W photograph close up Front is mature gentleman in Grey three-piece suite. Girl in dress with lace collar, wrists. Mature woman with glasses, white dress. Two men in 3 piece suites with fob watches, the left one with a cane. -
Ballarat Clarendon College
Book, The complete poetical works of Percy Bysshe Shelley
Shirley Ramsay attended CPLC 1935 - 1945; sister of Margery and Robert.Dark blue cloth bound book with gold lettering on spine and school crest embossed on front cover; book plate inside front cover. Book plate inside front cover: Book plate inside front cover: Clarendon Presbyterian / Ladies College / Ballarat / school crest / Awarded to / Shirley Ramsay / Prize Proficiency / Form VI Pass / H I Mathieson / Principal / December 1945. shirley-ramsay, 1945, clarendon-presbyterian-ladies-college, book-prize -
Mission to Seafarers Victoria
Administrative record (item) - Minute Book, Fourth Minutes Book of the Ladies Harbour Lights Guild, 1923
Documents the minutes from all meetings held by the Ladies Harbour Lights Guild from the 9th of March, 1923 to the 12th of March, 1940. The minutes record the dates, locations and attendance of the meetings. The book also contains a number of documents, such as a resignation letter, newspaper clippings and the Programme of Meeting from the Victoria Mission to Seafarers Annual Meeting for 1934. The minutes also record the organisations reaction to the declaration of the Second World War.This is a record of all the member, meeting and activities of the Ladies Harbour Lights Guild between 1923 to 1940. Of especial interest is the fact that this time overlap[s with the start of WWII.Front cover: LHLG MINUTES / 3/23 - 2/40 handwritten on white sticker.1940, minutes, williamstown, wartime, lhlg, ladies harbour lights guild, ww2, 1923-1940, lhlg minutes -
Bendigo Military Museum
Book - BOOK, WW2, Timothy HALL, "Tobruk/ 1941/ The Desert Siege", 1989
Owner and donor details see Cat No. 5836.3.Soft Cover Book. Cover - cardboard, orange and white print on front, spine and back, on grey colour background. Illustrated - black and white photograph from back to front, single column of troops marching across and landscape. 224 pages - cut, plain, off white paper. Illustrated black and white photographs and maps. Owner's signature - front endpaper.Front endpaper - handwritten owner's signature, blue ink, "Don Bollard".book, military history, ww2, tobruk -
Clunes Museum
Booklet, MELBOURNE WALKING CLUB, THE MELBOURNE WALKER, 1977
MELBOURNE WALKING CLUB GUIDE TO WALKINGBOOKLET: IMAGE OF PEOPLE CAMPING ALONG THE SIDE OF A CREEK, PITCHED TENT IN THE FOREFROUND ON THE FRONT COVER 80 PAGESnon-fictionMELBOURNE WALKING CLUB GUIDE TO WALKINGreference, booklet, guide book -
Hume City Civic Collection
Book - Street Directory, Gregory"s Melbourne Street Directory
This 1972 Gregory's Melbourne Street Directory published by Gregory's Guides & Maps Pty Ltd was used by the donor, her husband and family.A black leather removable cover with gold embossed vintage car on the front enclosing a Gregory's Melbourne Street Directory.Gold embossed vintage car on front cover.joan houston, maps, street directory, roads, suburbs -
Dutch Australian Heritage Centre Victoria
Book, H.J Dieben, Indie: Schetsen over onze kolonien in Oost-Indie verzameld door F. M. Gescher
Hard cover book. Illustration on front cover, native of former Dutch East Indies.Front cover:Indie. Back cover een Dieben's boek. K1964colonial history, dutch east indies -
Eltham District Historical Society Inc
Book, Nillumbik Historical Society, Pub Crawl: around Diamond Creek's historic pubs by Jock Ryan, 2001
Hotels described include: Evelyn Arms Hotel or Tunnel Camp Hotel or Half-Way House, the Diamond Reef Hotel, the Loyal Diamond Lodge Hotel and the Royal Mail Hotel all located in Diamond Creek during a rapid population growth in Diamond Creek in the 1860s.This small publication discusses the history of local hotels in the Diamond Creek area during a significant period of development in the 1860s when mining took place in the local area. The history of hotels connects to the wider history and important social and civic link to the community at that time. [10] p. includes text and very poor photocopy reproductions of historical photographs. Perfect bound with plastic front cover only.EDHS Property stamp on front coverdiamond creek, hotels, pubs, bars, 1860s -
Unions Ballarat
The Origins of Political Surveillance in Australia, 1983
Cain discusses issues free speech and political surveillance in WWI. The book includes the history of intelligence agencies that started in WWI, but also surveillance of communists and spying on the left in Australia during peace time.Significant to matters of national security, freedom of speech and movement and the use of intelligence agencies during and post WWI.Paper; book. Front cover: blue and green theme with white dots, dark male head with eye accentuated; white lettering.Front cover: author's name and title.cain, frank, wwi, world war i, btlc, ballarat trades hall, ballarat trades and labour council, surveillance, intelligence agencies, free speech, civil liberties, communism, spying