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National Wool Museum
Shirt
Made by Jean Inglis of Geelong for the Royal Melbourne Sheel Show 1988 and the fashion competition 'Fashions of the Eighties' where she won First Prize. Earliest Date: 1988. Wool for shirt was hand woven and hand dyed by maker, using the Shibori dying method.Dark navy blue t-shirt with pale blue horizontal line pattern. Shirt has a white lining inside. -
National Wool Museum
Jumper, Wool bale packaging, Geelong Wool Combing, 1993
Stanley Couzens of the Wathourong community was commissioned by Geelong Wool Combing Ltd to create a painting of the You Yangs and Corio Bay to be reproduced on a jumper. The jumper itself was designed by Jeni McMahon using Merino wool from her property McMahon Farm Pty Ltd. Jumper and miniature wool bale packaging were presented as a gift at the opening of the Geelong Wool Combing LtdSynthetic miniature wool bale packaging containing jumper. Miniature wool bale features two stenciled design with black ink. First stencil reads "Pure Australian Wool" with Woolmark logo. Second stencil reads "A Gift From Geelong Wool Combing GWC". Small tag on bottom right corner reads "XL". Has two removable staples closing top opening. Woolen Jumper inside contains red, mustard, green and cream colours depicting Indigenous artwork. Features two stenciled design with black ink. First stencil on front reads "A Gift From/ GWC/ Geelong Wool Combing ". Second stencil on back reads "Pure/ Australian/ Wool" with Woolmark logo above. Small tag on bottom right corner reads "XL". -
National Wool Museum
Cloth Sample
Made from wool sold atThe Geelong Wool Exchange which had just returned to the National Wool Centre (currently the home of the National Wool Museum, formely Dennys Lascells) on Tuesday 13th of October 1987. Lempriere (Aust.) Pty. Ltd. was the buyer of the first bale of wool who also previously brought the first bale of wool at the first wool auctions in Geelong in 1858. The wool was turned into fabric by CSRIO and Foster Valley.Black cardboard backing with Navy Blue cloth sample glued ontop. Wool sample is stapled to the Navy cloth and black cardboard. Contains Nationa Wool Museum logo on lefthand side 1.5 meter navy blue length of cloth same as the sampled glued to the cardboard is included.NATIONAL/ WOO/ MUSEUM Left hand side of display card -
National Wool Museum
Certificate
Diploma for Gold Medal won by John Baker for best Lincoln Wool in show at the Earls Court Greater Britain Exhibition, London, 1899. John Baker owned a Lincoln sheep stud with 300 ewes and rams in Pomborneit, Victoria. The property was named Lakeside and the stud was Flock No. 5 in the first Flock Book of British Breed Sheep published in 1898. Lakeside rams and ewes were awarded Champion Ram and Ewe at the Sydney Show in 1892. By 1919 Lakeside was the largest registered Lincoln stud in Australia. The stud was dispersed in 1925.Brown timber frame with glass covering at front. Pale gold timber framed paper certificate inside. Certificate has a painting of a man being drawn by four horses beneath and arch with more people in the background and a tall ship. Front foreground depicts three men, one carrying a tray of food, another with a tray of gold and a third shearing a sheep. There is an embossed gold medal on the right centre of the page.EARL'S COURT, LONDON. 1899 GREATER BRITAIN EXHIBITION DIPLOMA FOR GOLD MEDAL AWARDED TO Mr J Baker FOR Wool, pure Lincoln BY THE LONDON EXHIBITIONS LIMITED DIRECTOR GENERAL. CHAIRMAN WEINERS LTD LONDON N.W -
National Wool Museum
Annual Report, Younghusband Limited: Eighty-first Annual Report, 1970
Younghusband Limited: Eighty-first Annual Report, 1970. Last Annual Meeting before merger with Elder Smith Goldsbrough Mort LtdLast Annual Meeting before merger with Elder Smith Goldsbrough Mort Ltdpastoral industry - history wool sales - auction system, younghusband limited, pastoral industry - history, wool sales - auction system -
National Wool Museum
Ledger
Found in Audrey Lascelles Barwon Heads house.Ledger, bound in brown leather, marbled end papers, "Ledger" embossed on spine. First pages alphabetically tabed, remaining 170 pages printed blue and red lines. Entries are a personal record of expenses of the Dennys family 1879-1882wool stores wool sales, dennys, lascelles limited, lascelles, mr edward harewood dennys, mr charles john, wool stores, wool sales -
National Wool Museum
Poster, Gear experting
First of two posters produced by the "Sunbeam" company. "Some useful tips on gear experting"shearing machinery shearing, sunbeam corporation limited, galloway, mr ken, shearing machinery, shearing -
National Wool Museum
Rug
The rug was owned by Mary Atkins who was born c. 1920 and died in 1959. She lived at Glenormiston South. The rug was used first as a buggy rug and later as a bed rug.Back of rug Front of rug Photo by donor W7229 Object/Article Offered Assessment Form page 4 W7229 Object/Article Offered Assessment Form page 2 W7229 Object/Article Offered Assessment Form page 3 W7229 Object/Article Offered Assessment Form page 4 W7229 Article offered selection checklist Letter to Lynette Christie from Helen Sweeney dated 15th January 2009quilting quilting - history, running stitch collection, blankets, quilting, quilting - history -
National Wool Museum
Geelong Woolbrokers' Association auction notice, Geelong Woolbrokers' Association Sale No. G03G/15
Object was on display in museum foyer with other objects from the Queen's visit in 1988, so it was possibly acquired then. Item made in 1987.Geelong Woolbrokers' Association Sale No. G03G/15 will offer for auction at the first wool sale within the NATIONAL WOOL CENTRE- GEELONG Corner of Brougham and Moorabool Streets at 12:40pm on Tuesday 13 October, 1987 the following bale of wool to mark theauction -
National Wool Museum
Poster
Promotional poster, "Men Knitting - the first Australian Exhibition."Promotional poster, "Men Knitting - the first Australian Exhibition."MEN KNITTING/ THE FIRST/ AUSTRALIAN EXHIBITION/ PROUDLY SPONSERED BY/ THE AUSTRALIAN WOOL CORPORATIONknitting wool marketing, australian wool corporation, knitting, wool marketing -
National Wool Museum
Poster
Promotional poster, "Men Knitting - the first Australian Exhibition,.."Promotional poster, "Men Knitting - the first Australian Exhibition."MEN KNITTING/ THE FIRST/ AUSTRALIAN EXHIBITION/ PROUDLY SPONSERED BY/ THE AUSTRALIAN WOOL CORPORATIONknitting wool marketing, australian wool corporation, knitting, wool marketing -
National Wool Museum
Poster
Promotional poster, "Men Knitting - the first Australian Exhibition"Promotional poster, "Men Knitting - the first Australian Exhibition."knitting wool marketing, australian wool corporation, knitting, wool marketing -
National Wool Museum
Poster
Promotional poster, "Men Knitting - the first Australian Exhibition,.."Promotional poster, "Men Knitting - the first Australian Exhibition."knitting wool marketing, australian wool corporation, knitting, wool marketing -
National Wool Museum
Newspaper, The Portland Observer
First page has article and photographs of new Dennys Lascelles Limited wool store in Portland.The Portland Observerwool stores, portland observer dennys, lascelles limited, portland, victoria -
National Wool Museum
Photograph, Cooper Race Type Sheep Shower First Marketed 1946
Photographs of sheep showers in situ, at different angles.Photographs of sheep showers in situ. Photographs of sheep showers in situ. Photographs of sheep showers in situ. Photographs of sheep showers in situ.Cooper Race Type Sheep Shower First Marketed 1946 Photography by Wofgang Sievers in association with Norman Ikin9 Collins Street, Melbourne, C.I.When ordering please quote No. .......shearing machinery, cooper engineering company pty ltd wolfgang sievers photography -
National Wool Museum
Model, Model of Open-Shed Loom
This paper model of an open-shed loom was produced by the Gresham Publishing Company and was part of the eight volume set of books titled: "The Textile Industries" by William S. Murphy and first published by Gresham in 1911. (The NWM holds two sets of these books; one donated in 2001 and the other donated in 1989 by Godfrey Hirst. This model was not part of the set donated in 2001, but may possibly have come into the collection with the 1989 donation. It may also have come seperately via another, unknown donor.)This paper model of an open-shed loom was produced by the Gresham Publishing Company and was part of the eight volume set of books titled: "The Textile Industries" by William S. Murphy and first published by Gresham in 1911.THE TEXTILE INDUSTRIES / MODEL OF / OPEN-SHED LOOM / SHOWING ALL DETAILS OF STRUCTURE AND WORKING / THE GRESHAM PUBLISHING COMPANY / SOUTHAMPTON STREET, STRAND, LONDONweaving looms -
National Wool Museum
Knitting, Cape, Minerva's Robe
The Aquarian Esoteric Group Melbourne made the robe as an entry in the 'In the Tracks of Hercules' exhibition in London December 2005. See attached notes.Front cover of the exhibition catalogue for "In the Tracks of Hercules" Entry for 'Minerva's Robe' in exhibition catalogue "In the Tracks of Hercules" Promo card for exhibition "In the Tracks of Hercules" First page of "Triangles Bulletin" which contains an article about the exhibition "In the Tracks of Hercules". Concept sketch of the front of 'Minerva's Robe' Concept sketch for back of 'Minerva's Robe' Minerva's Robe Back of Minerva's Robe Detail of Minerva's Robe Detail of Minerva's Robe Comments on making the robe by the group Poem "Minerva's Robe" by Helen Baxter Articles offered form for 'Minerva's Robe' The history of 'Minerva's Robe' Document "In the Tracks of Hercules 'Minerva's Robe' The Journey" 'The Process of Creating "Minerva's Robe"'knitting handicrafts textile art, aquarian esoteric group, costume, heywood, mrs anne, knitting, handicrafts, textile art -
National Wool Museum
Program, Dennys Lascelles Limited: Staff Reunion at the National Wool Centre 1988
A copy of both the ‘Dennys Lascelles Limited 1857-1957: Annual Wool Report & Centenary Review’ & ‘Staff Reunion Souvenir Programme, 1988’ was donated to the museum in 2021. These were duplicate items so only their story was retained in addition to the image of Rita located in Multimedia. “Enclose two items which may be of interest to add to your collection. They belonged to my mother, Rita Sedgwick (nee Glenn), who died earlier this year in April. She worked for Dennys Lascelles in two separate periods. First as a young girl, who had finished her schooling, at Morongo Presbyterian ladies College, having been sent as boarder there by her parents from their farm at Mathoura (just north of Echuca). This period was from 1942 — 1947. It was her second job out of school having worked first at the then Geelong Telephone Exchange. She would commute daily to work on a bicycle from where she was then living in Drumcondra. She had the front office role of receptionist and telephonist driving an old manual switchboard. The old front desk was her domain. She departed in 1947, shortly after she was married in late 1946. She spoke fondly of her times at the company as a young girl in her late teens and early twenties. Her second stint was much later, but again as the front-desk telephonist and receptionist commencing in 1972, ending 11 years later in 1983. This was a period when Sir Henry Bolte was on the Board, Don Urqhuart was MD, Ray Hobson was General Manger, Cliff Bone the company Secretary, Peter Keys the CFO and Jim Hay was also on the Executive team. While there were some 25 years between her periods of service, she welcomed the chance to re-join the company. Again, it was a time of hard work, and good friends. The busy times were the wool auctions, when the Firm would be visited by representatives of the big Japanese trading houses such as Mitsui, and Kanematsu. The Chief Auctioneer, Mr. Reeves (I can't recall his first name), would hold court at the now demolished Geelong Wool Exchange — I saw him in action once — what a sight. The huge show floors in the Denny's building would be full of open bales and samples for the buyers to inspect, and for mum days would start at 0800, and finish at 1800 or later. In quieter times over summer, it was reported that the empty show floor would provide an excellent arena for the more enthusiastic cricketers to get in a bit of practise with a tennis ball at lunch and after closing time! Dennys was a full-service firm for wool growers, with branches all over the Western Districts as far afield as Mt Gambier, but through Timboon, Warrnambool, and the like, as I am sure you are aware. She also saw the merger of Dennys and Strachan to create DSM, and later the amalgamation with AML&F to create Dennys AML (I think). She saw the change from the old manual switch board to the then latest of PABX technologies and was part of the team the relocated from the original offices to the new address on the south side of Brougham Street. Along with the shift from the large show floor-based sales of the past. She retired from fulltime work in mid-1983, again with fond memories and friendships that lasted a lifetime. I found these two items among her things recently, and felt that given her connection to the industry, and the place in which the Museum now resides you may like to add them to the collection. I hope you can find a home for them, and that they might add a little to the story that the wool museum now houses and curates.” Program 12pp: soft pale grey cover, contians brief history of the company , the buildings and at the last page is a list of acceptances for the reunion, 2nd October, 1988Judith Lagingdennys, lascelles limited -
National Wool Museum
Photograph, [R S & S display at country promotion week]
First prize exhibition G Kidman PC Goods/ suit lengths/Flannel/ Blazers/wool marketing woollen mills - history textile mills, returned soldiers and sailors mill valley worsted mill, kidman, mr g. l., wool marketing, woollen mills - history, textile mills -
National Wool Museum
Newspaper, The First 150 Years 1840 - 1990 Geelong Advertiser
Special souvenir of seven issues of the "Geelong Advertiser" in a presentation box to mark the newspaper's 150th anniversary.Special souvenir of seven issues of the "Geelong Advertiser" in a presentation box to mark the newspaper's 150th anniversary.geelong advertiser -
National Wool Museum
Poster, Men Knitting
Promotional poster, "Men Knitting - the first Australian Exhibition"Promotional poster, "Men Knitting - the first Australian Exhibition".knitting wool marketing, australian wool corporation, knitting, wool marketing -
National Wool Museum
Photocopy, Letter of authority ..1911
Acquired when "Classweave Industries" closed down.LETTER OF AUTHORITY FROM GOVERNMENT DATED 28 JUNE 1911 TO EMPLOY FIRST MILLL MANAGER H L S POTTER/ PHOTO STORES/...textile mills woollen mills textile mills - staff, classweave industries pty ltd federal woollen mills ltd, smail, mr james - commonwealth woollen mills, textile mills, woollen mills, textile mills - staff -
National Wool Museum
Photocopy, Letter of authority ..1911
Acquired when "Classweave Industries" closed down.LETTER OF AUTHORITY FROM GOVERNMENT DATED 28 JUNE 1911 TO EMPLOY FIRST MILLL MANAGER H L S POTTER/ PHOTO STORES/...textile mills woollen mills textile mills - staff, classweave industries pty ltd federal woollen mills ltd, smail, mr james - commonwealth woollen mills, textile mills, woollen mills, textile mills - staff -
National Wool Museum
Photograph, First Board of Directors
Acquired when "Classweave Industries" closed downFramed image First Board of Directors Mr R Vincent, Director; Mr James Robertson, Director and General Manager; Mr James Dyer, Chairman of Directors; Mr J M Badger, Secretary; Mr W Stawell, Director; Mr S E Price, Director; Mr D McLennan, Director; Mr J Solomon, Director.woollen mills - history woollen mills textile mills - staff, classweave industries pty ltd federal woollen mills ltd, woollen mills - history, woollen mills, textile mills - staff -
National Wool Museum
Stamp Set, Bicentenary of the Arrival of Merino Sheep in Australia 7th August 1997
National Wool Museum collaborated in the production work. The two sheep images are from the NWM collection.First Day of Isssue 7 August 1997/ Deniliquin NSW 2710 H L S POTTER/ PHOTO STORES/...wool - history merino sheep - history textile mills textile mills, deniliquin, new south wales, wool - history, merino sheep - history, textile mills -
Stawell Historical Society Inc
Photograph, First Cemetery, One Tree Hill Cemetery, Pleasant Creek. Photographic Committee National Trust Photographs of Stawell
... 7006 National Trust Photographs First Cemetery, One Tree... grampians 7006 National Trust Photographs First Cemetery, One Tree ...7006 National Trust Photographs First Cemetery, One Tree Hill Cemetery, Pleasant Creek Series of Colour Photographs of buildings of interest to National TrustJune 1993buildings, heritage buildings -
Stawell Historical Society Inc
Photograph, Close up or plaque, First Cemetery, One Tree Hill Cemetery, Pleasant Creek. Photographic Committee National Trust Photographs of Stawell
7006 National Trust Photographs Close up or plaque, First Cemetery, One Tree Hill Cemetery, Pleasant Creek Series of Colour Photographs of buildings of interest to National TrustJune 1993buildings, heritage buildings -
Stawell Historical Society Inc
Memorabilia, Slate writing pad
Issued to Eileen May Eskey when she started school at Stawell Primary School No 502 On February 10th 1936 Farter recorded as of Kofoed Street Dark Grey Slate with wooden surround. Two SidedNational School Slate Company Extra Special First Quality -
Yarrawonga and Mulwala Pioneer Museum
The first Burramine West School teacher certificates and information
Maggie Henry was the first teacher of St Brendan's Catholic School Burramine. Original certificates dated 1883 -1884One laminated A4 sheet re Sacred Heart Catholic School and Burramine St Brendan's School history. Framed certificate Sept 1883-84 Miss Maggie Henry, Graduation National Education Office . Framed certificate Miss M. Henry Instruction in Drawing. Framed certificate Sabbath School Union. Connected with the Presbytery of Dublin. Miss M. Henry for Scripture and shorter Catechism 27/5/1884 Framed letter to student encouraging her to apply principles learned in training. -
Plutarch Project
Film magazine, Κινηματογραφικός Αστήρ, 18/01/1959
This magazine was first published in January 1959 and was a fortnightly edition which was distributed for free. The story is that in May 1963 at the National Theatre in Richmond when the film titled "KRYSTALLO" ("Κρυστάλλω") was about to be screened for the first time "Cosmopolitan Motion Pictures" thought of a very unique way of promoting it. Apart from the usual publications to the "Kinimatografikos Astir" (Film Star) magazine and the flyers, they decided to display on the theatre roof 25 live sheep in a scene from a typical Greek village stable with a shepherd etc. They also assigned the task of creating a large banner sized 2 metres by 8 meters approx. to an Australian artist (name unknown) to adorn the front of the National Theatre. When these sheep and the banner were finally displayed before the first screening there was so much traffic congestion created in front of the theatre that it became a standstill. Very quickly the police was informed and the RSPCA who attended and ordered the organisers to dismantle the setup of sheep on the roof as it was considered cruelty to the animals and that it was organised without a proper license. Nevertheless the film had so much success, that it was unprecedented for the times. First showing was 9th May 1963Primary historic significance to the Greek Film and Entertainment industries in Australia. Secondary Social and Rarity publication significance.Bi-weekly magazine size A4, published in black and white by "Cosmopolitan Motion Pictures" for the purposes of film shows and distributed free of charge."Κινηματογραφικός Αστήρ" magazine, entertainment, film, greek, language, publication, plutarch, yiannoudes