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Kiewa Valley Historical Society
Bottle - Milk, After 1966
Milk bottles were bought at the local store. Metric measures were introduced in Australia in 1966. Bottles were recycled and remained the property of the manufacturer.Dairy farmers live in the Kiewa Valley and send their milk to the local dairy to be pasteurised and bottled. Historical: Bottles changed - shape, size, embossing and seal Aesthetic: Display showing bottles of different shape, size, embossingClear glass milk bottle with straight sides three quarters of the way up tapering gently to the opening. The taper sides are heavily embossed with print in capital letters. The circumference of the base is embossed with short straight lines in the direction of the edge to middle.On each side: "Pasteurised / Wash and Return / 600 ml Milk The fourth line continues underneath around the circumference: Use not permitted without written - permission owner milk bottles recovered.clear glass bottle, milk, dairy, milk bottles recovered, kiewa valley farmers -
Kiewa Valley Historical Society
Iron - Flat, Circa early 1900s
Historically this item was used before the spirit and the electrical iron took over Circa 1930s -1950s. The main body of the iron was placed on a flat heated surface of a stove (wood, coal or gas fired). It was mainly used by women in their domestic role, ironing the family clothes and linen. In the Kiewa Valley the supply of coal or gas was not available or too expensive than the locally cut hard wood trees. This particular iron was an improvement on the fixed handled iron because it allowed (by use of its easily detachable handle) to use multiple bases and thereby allowing a constant heat supply to be maintained and not having to waste time for a base to reheat to the required level of application.The significance of this item was that it allowed for a faster method of ironing clothes and linen. It's invention was a progress towards reducing the time it took to undertake a very labour and intensive domestic function. The reduction of time taken for this household duty provided women great flexibility to undertake other activities. These type of improvements to basic domestic tasks liberated housewives not only physically but also mentally from the isolation of the home environment.This flat iron has a removable, clip-on handle. The handle and its release knob are of wood. The base of the handle together with the heavy flat body are made of cast iron. The body of the iron is oval shaped tapered at each end and is 40mm thick.Underneath the handle frame and on the main body, on one side, in raised lettering is "Mrs Potts" and on the other side "Iron". Both are clearly visible when viewed from an aerial position. Under removable handle and on a plate (screwed onto the main body) is "No 2"iron, antique, household, pressing clothes, domestic, laundry -
Orbost & District Historical Society
corset, C1940s
This item was worn by Sarah Archer, born 9.11.1881, and her daughter Irene Jean Maiden, born 1.7.1923, She lived in Orbost all her life having been born at the oOld Orbost Hospital in Nicholson Street. Irene died aged 86. Until well into the 20th century, the corset was an essential element of fashionable dress. Corsets were worn by women (and much earlier by men) to enhance their figures and to hold their stockings in place. Although still sometimes used they were mainly used prior to the making of pantyhose approximately 1960. A corset made of heavy apricot / pink cotton fabric . It has back tape acing through metal eyelets, and slide hooks. It has suspender straps with clips attached to the bottom of the corset. The stays, possibly whalebone, are sewn vertically into the fabric.on label - in red ink - "Liberty Reg'd "6/2815 D" small below waist size 32" exactcostume-women corsetry clothing -
Bendigo Historical Society Inc.
Tool - BENDIGO GAS COMPANY EMBOSSER
Bendigo Gas Company Embosser for Stamping , Paper, envelopes, stamps. Heavy metal construction in the form of swirling leaves, mounted on metal base approx 20cm by 8cms. With long handle. Painted black with gold trim. Temp Rec#C1.16bendigo, business, bendigo gas company -
Bendigo Historical Society Inc.
Container - PHARMACY COLLECTION: POTTER & MOORES ORIGINAL MITCHAM LAVENDER SMELLING SALTS, 1940's
Object. Small green bottle with black plastic screw top cap. Label shows figure in green robes astride a heavily laden horse printing on label reads as follows: "Potter & Moores original Mitcham Lavender Smelling Salts".Potter & Moore England.medicine, first aid, lavender smelling salts -
Uniting Church Archives - Synod of Victoria
Ceremonial object - Commemorative Trowel
The foundation stone of the New Wesleyan Church, Were Street, Brighton, Victoria was laid by Mrs W P Wells, the wife of the Superintendent of the Brighton Circuit and President of the Victorian Wesleyan Conference in 1887. The foundation stone was temporarily removed in the late 1930s and the 1937 publication "Were Street Jubilee" details the "proposed Jubilee Church". The same trowel was used when the stone was re-laid in 1955 at the beginning of the construction on the new church. S060.1 Silver commemorative trowel with a bone handle. The front and back both have inscriptions. The front has heavily engraved decoration. S060.2: Presentation box for S060.1. Teal colour rouched satin lined box made of brown leather.S060.1 Front: "TO MRS W. P. Wells ON THE OCCASION OF HER LAYING THE FOUNDATION STONE OF THE Wesleyan Church WERE STREET BRIGHTON APRIL 2ND 1887" S090.1 Back: "THIS TROWEL WAS USED BY REV. A.W.PEDERICK, L.TH. PRESIDENT OF THE CONFERENCE TO Lay the Foundation Stone of the new WERE STREET METHODIST CHURCH 30th JULY 1955".rev a w pederick, mrs w p wells, rev william p wells, were street methodist church brighton victoria, wesleyan church were street brighton victoria -
Friends of Kurth Kiln
Spanner,mid 1940
Heavy duty hex wheel wrench, losely tied to a piece of flat steel with several turns of steel wire (perhaps for strengthening). Handle Offset 22cm deep by 14cm wide. Flat steel base is warped and has three holes -
Whitehorse Historical Society Inc.
Clothing - Dress - Two piece, 1901 - 1910
c 1901-1910 Two piece Edwardian costume -c 1901-1910 Two piece Edwardian costume - white heavily embroidered material. Short cropped jacket with large scalloped edging. Sleeves have wide border with pleated edging. Long skirt with wide embroidered edging at hemline.costume, female -
Lakes Entrance Regional Historical Society (operating as Lakes Entrance History Centre & Museum)
Photograph, Bulmer H D, 1915
Also copy 15 x 10 same imageBlack and white photograph copied from a postcard of the LookOut Tree on Jemmys Point, shows the standing dead grey box tree supported by two heavy logs, a 35 foot ladder attached for access to top. Lakes Entrance Victoria.historic sites, navigation, people -
Southern Sherbrooke Historical Society Inc.
Photograph, A Bend In The Road, Belgrave, c. 1920s
Photo shows a bend in the road, Belgrave, most likely on Monbulk Road below Sherbrooke Forest. An unmade road crosses a small gully. A group of three or so young people are leaning over the bridge railing. The area is heavily treed. A BEND IN THE ROAD hand-wriiten in ink below the photo on the album page -
Ballarat Tramway Museum
Album, Brian Andrews, UR1 - 300 Photo - Bendigo, Ballarat trams, 1968
Album compiled by the photographer containing generally 89 x 124mm of: • Bendigo – 151 black and white prints • Ballarat – 119 black and white prints and some colour • Melbourne – 20 colour and black and white prints - featuring Queensway, the Hump, Royal Park, route 82, Dandenong Road, Glenferrie Road, Barkers Road and Hawthorn Bridge. • Rome, Hong Kong and Toronto – 14 prints See items 8638 to 8642 for negatives of the Ballarat and Bendigo photos and related image files held on the BTM Demonstrates the work of the photographer.Album - heavy plastic covered covers, with 100 sewn and glued paper sheets each side with three plastic sleeves for photographs with a negative pocket page at the rear. See list of btm8637 - Ballarat list.doc for a location listing of the Ballarat photographs.trams, tramways, ballarat, bendigo, melbourne, hong kong, toronto, rome, brian andrews -
Tennis Australia
Trophy, Circa 1973
Two identical trophies, each featuring a stylised, surrealist tennis racquet sculpture, mounted onto a heavy black metallic plinth, with an engraved inscription. One trophy is for the boys (.1), the other for girls (.2). Materials: Metal, Rubber, Gluetennis -
8th/13th Victorian Mounted Rifles Regimental Collection
Photograph - Huf grave folder, 1919 circa
The folder containing the photograph of Sergeant Huf's grave in Egypt was sent to his father. The card is inscribed 'Cpl' but Huf had been promoted to Sergeant just prior to his wounding and evacuation from Gallipoli on HMT "Royal George". He died of his wounds at sea and was buried in Egypt. This folder was part of a collection of items donated to Albury RSL by his surviving sister Miss Edna Huf of Albury about 1970 and passed to the 8/13th VMR Collection. Part of a unique collection of items relating to a single Australian soldier who died in the Gallipoli campaign, WWI, and kept by a sibling till close to her death and passed to a local military collection for keeping.Green-grey heavy paper folder containing photograph of grave marker of 533 Sergeant CW Huf 7th Battalion AIF who died of wounds sustained at Gallipoli on 13 May 1915. Sgt Huf was 20 years of age.Inside cover "Huf C.W,/ 533 Cpl / 7th Bn / Chatby Mil Cem / Alexandria / Egypt" and on back cover "(Father) C W Huf / Australia"huf, grave, photograph, chatby military cemetery -
Mont De Lancey
Pickle Jar, late 19th Century
From the home of the late W.J. SebireLidded silver and glass ornate pickle jar on a stand with a three pronged silver pickle fork. Heavy glass patterned jar, silver lid has grapes and leaves decoration with an ornate patterned knob. It is of the style of the late 19th Century.New York. pattern of grapes and leaves on lidpickle jars, food storage jars, forks -
Buninyong Visitor Information Centre
Certificate (Item), Consumer and Business Affairs Victoria, Certificate of Incorporation Victoria, 2 May 2002
This copy of the incorporation of the Buninyong Joint Library Trust was issued on 2 May 2001 under the terms of the Associations Incorporations Act 1981. A foundation document for the Buninyong Joint Library Trust.incorporation, governance, buninyong, legislation -
National Vietnam Veterans Museum (NVVM)
Photograph, Gibbons, Denis, Pineapples
Denis Gibbons (1937 – 2011) Trained with the Australian Army, before travelling to Vietnam in January 1966, Denis stayed with the 1st Australian Task Force in Nui Dat working as a photographer. For almost five years Gibbons toured with nine Australian infantry battalions, posting compelling war images from within many combat zones before being flown out in late November 1970 after sustaining injuries. The images held within the National Vietnam Veterans Museum make up the Gibbons Collection..A black and white photograph of a young Vietnamese girl prepares a pineapple for a serviceman on the sand at Back Beach, Vung Tau. The young girls carried two large baskets, on a pile of pineapples, which were very heavy for such a small slip of a girl.photograph, back beach, vung tau, vietnamese children, gibbons collection catalogue, denis gibbons, photographer, vietnam war -
Melbourne Tram Museum
Document - Forms, Melbourne & Metropolitan Tramways Board (MMTB), "This Office will be closed", 1960's
Poster or Notice - printed on heavy card, blank form, with the short title "This Office will be closed", advising the General Public of dates when MMTB Offices and depots would be closed for business. Signed W. Aird Secretary. 2 copies heldtrams, tramways, mmtb, head office, depots, notices and information -
Melbourne Tram Museum
Document, "Phone Numbers", 1980s
List - Telephone or Phone numbers - 3 cards - laminated into heavy plastic, head "New D/S" - District Superintendent - list phone numbers for Malvern Depot, Head Office, signal boxes, Emergency Services, depots and other locations.trams, tramways, telephones, malvern depot, head office -
Wodonga & District Historical Society Inc
Functional object - Official seal of the Wodonga Sewerage Authority, Patent dated to July 13 1920 - stamped on the end of the metal handle
Official seal of the Wodonga Sewerage Authority. Manually operated to imprint the official seal on documents.Local and state significance due to its direct association with Wodonga in Victoria and the dated patent.Heavy black painted metal object with a handle and the official seal of the Wodonga Sewerage Authority, used to manually imprint "WODONGA SEWERAGE AUTHORITY" on documents. In working order. Patent dated to July 13 1920 - stamped on the end of the metal handle. "ROESZLER'S / 429 LT COLLI..." "...WER" painted in white on one side - the first two letters are worn and incomplete but appears to have been "SE" for "SEWER" "...PAT. July 13 1920"local government, waterworks, wodonga, water & sewerage trusts, sewage -
Flagstaff Hill Maritime Museum and Village
Equipment - Snatch Block, First quarter of the 20th century
A snatch block is a heavy-duty pulley inside a metal casing. It is primarily designed for handling heavy goods, working as a pulley point that can redirect the course of a winch line. Snatch blocks are also used to increase the lifting or pulling capacity of wire hoists and winches. There is no history or manufacturing provenance currently available.The subject item at this time cannot be associated with an historical event, person or place, provenance is unknown, item is believed to have been produced in the first quarter of the 20th century.Snatch block, metal, one sheave, with a large hook that has a hole drilled through its tip.flagstaff hill, warrnambool, flagstaff-hill-maritime-museum, maritime-museum, shipwreck-coast, flagstaff-hill-maritime-village, snatch block, metal snatch block, lifting gear, rope pully, marine technology, ship rigging -
Warrnambool and District Historical Society Inc.
Household, Chamber Pot, Early 20th century
This is a heavy duty chamber pot and may have been produced for use in a hospital or ship. This item has no known local provenance and is retained for display as an interesting memento of the past.This is a white china bowl, round in shape, with an overhanging top. Inserted in a groove in the top is a lid which has a white decorative pattern around the outer rim. There is a round handle in the middle of the lid in a recessed section. There is also a metal handle for carrying the bowl and the lid together. There is some staininghousehold items, history of warrnambool -
Eltham District Historical Society Inc
Negative - Photograph, J.A. McDonald, Para Road, Mar. 1961
Wash out 51 Para Road after heavy rain 28 March 1961Record of various Shire of Eltham infrastructure works undertaken during the period of 1952-1962 involving bridge and road reconstruction projects, sometimes with Eltham Shire Council Project Reference numbers quoted. It was during this period that a number of significant improvements were made to roads and new bridges constructed within the shire that remain in place as of present day (2022). In many situations, the photos provide a tangible visible record of infrastructure that existed throughout the early days of the Shire. The album was put together by or under the direction of the Shire Engineer, J.A. McDonald.infrastructure, shire of eltham, 1961-03, flood damage, para road -
Greensborough Historical Society
Newspaper Clipping, Diamond Valley Leader, Wet weather creates buzz, 02/11/2016
Heavy rain and warm temperatures in Spring 2016 led to high numbers of mosquitoes in Victoria.News clipping, black text and colour image. banyule, mosquitoes -
Lakes Entrance Regional Historical Society (operating as Lakes Entrance History Centre & Museum)
Administrative Record - Ledger, Minute Book, 26 September 1873
Entries are hand written in ink, bound book, filled to capacity, heavy cardboard cover.A minute book containing rough meeting minutes of Loyal Mitchell Lodge of Manchester Unity Independent Order of Oddfellows (MUIOOF) meetings.minute book -
National Wool Museum
Sticker
Green stickers promoting the Australian Corriedale Association, with which Mr Pettitt was heavily involved.Australian Corriedale Association sticker.corriedale sheep sheep breeding, australian corriedale association, pettitt, mr r. w., corriedale sheep, sheep breeding -
National Wool Museum
Sticker
Green stickers promoting the Australian Corriedale Association, with which Mr Pettitt was heavily involved.corriedale sheep sheep breeding, australian corriedale association, pettitt, mr r. w., corriedale sheep, sheep breeding -
National Wool Museum
Sticker
Green stickers promoting the Australian Corriedale Association, with which Mr Pettitt was heavily involved.corriedale sheep sheep breeding, australian corriedale association, pettitt, mr r. w., corriedale sheep, sheep breeding -
National Wool Museum
Sticker
Green stickers promoting the Australian Corriedale Association, with which Mr Pettitt was heavily involved.corriedale sheep sheep breeding, australian corriedale association, pettitt, mr r. w., corriedale sheep, sheep breeding -
National Wool Museum
Sticker
Green stickers promoting the Australian Corriedale Association, with which Mr Pettitt was heavily involved.corriedale sheep sheep breeding, australian corriedale association, pettitt, mr r. w., corriedale sheep, sheep breeding -
National Wool Museum
Sticker
Green stickers promoting the Australian Corriedale Association, with which Mr Pettitt was heavily involved.corriedale sheep sheep breeding, australian corriedale association, pettitt, mr r. w., corriedale sheep, sheep breeding