The materials used to build the colonial cupboard have been gathered from various sources and recycled. In those days, it was normal to keep all manner of items 'just in case' they could be repurposed for another item. The brand "Laurel" on one of the wooden panels is from the Mobil Oil company's kerosene. There In the words of the donor, Betty Stone, "Made by Ellis Dale of Latrigg Wangoom, Warrnambool c 1890. The cupboard consists of packing cases stamped with original brand names. One drawer made from a gelignite packing case is of special significance as the Dale family owned a bluestone quarry known as The Dale Bluestone Quarries at Wangoom situated about three miles east of Warrnambool. Ellis Dale, second son of William Dale and Elizabeth (nee Chamberlain) Dale, was born in Wangoom, Warrnambool on 21 November 1860. His father, William Dale, a quarryman from Saddleworth, Yorkshire migrated to Australia in 1852; seven years later - in 1859- he purchased the quarries on twenty acres of land situated in Wangoom at the corner of what is now known as Dales and Aberline Roads. Later, when his two eldest sons, William Jnr and Ellis, reached ten or eleven years of age they worked with their father in the quarries. The work was arduous and dangerous as gelignite was used to blast the bluestone. In 1890 Ellis Dale married Ann Lees, daughter of Lees and Sarah (nee Chamberlain) Lees of Wangoom, Warrnambool. Initially Ellis and Ann Dale resided in a two roomed bluestone cottage which Ellis built a little further up the hill from his parents' home on the Dale family property. A few years later, in order to accommodate their growing family, additional rooms were added making a spacious, comfortable weatherboard home situated in Dales Road which they named Latrigg. Ellis Dale constructed this cupboard soon after he and Ann first set up home in their little stone cottage in 1890. When the home was rebuilt, the home-made cupboard was moved into the larger kitchen, and although Latrigg was well furnished, it remained in the corner between the kitchen door and the large wood stove where it served its purpose very well as it was used for storing ironing utensils. The lower compartment with the hinged drop-door was designed to store the flat irons which were heated on the wood stove, while the ironing blanket and cover, iron holders and other items were stored in the drawers. The Dale quarrying and contracting business existed in Wangoom, Warrnambool for over eighty years as after William Dale’s death. Ellis Dale together with his son lvor, continued on until he died in 1940. (Note: For additional information please refer to Betty Stone’s book “Pioneers and Places - A History of three Warrnambool Pioneering Families” i.e. Chamberlain, Dale and Lees Families)This item is associated with families of Chamberlain, Dale and Lees. These families are listed in the "Pioneers' Register" for Warrnambool Township and Shire, 1835-1900, published by A.I.G.S. Warrnambool Branch.Cupboard, rare example of a Colonial Cupboard, wooden. Made by Ellis Dale from packing cases; several brand names are evident inc. Gelignite and Laurel. Cupboard is lined with newspaper and wallpaper. Panels on left side are braced by attaching a metal scraper. Comprises four compartments, three have round wooden handles, lower compartment has a hinged, drop down door. (From the Chamberlain, Dale and Lees Collection)Brands on wooden panels of cupboard include "Gelignite" and "Laurel" (Laurel is a brand of kerosene)flagstaff hill, warrnambool, shipwrecked coast, flagstaff hill maritime museum, maritime museum, shipwreck coast, flagstaff hill maritime village, great ocean road, chamberlain, dale, lees, stone, betty stone, warrnambool pioneers, dale bluestone quarries, wangoom, cupboard, colonial cupboard, furniture, gelignite, packing crate, ellis dale, laurel

This was the carrying case for the Cirkut Panoramic camera and tripod used by William Anderson who worked in Lorne in the late 1890’s to 1945A black leather rectangular case with purple velvet lining. It has three metal fasteners and a metal handle. Inside it is divided into three compartments.camera, carrying case, lorne, william anderson

The settlement and settlers of Carlisle River, first known as "New Church Run" in 1861 until its name change in 1890-91.Souvenir bbok of "Back to Carlisle River", 1967. Colac (Vic); Herald Print; 1967. 25 p.; illus. Soft cover.Under Hotel, an insertion entitled "The Carlisle Hotel" containing the names of the licencees until its surrender on 31 December 1928.carlisle river; new chuch run; butter; history; sport;

Seppelts Study of A Sample Vigneron. Worker standing beside keg of wine with bottle and glass at Hans Irvine's Vineyard. 1890'sstawell

G. Mahnke London Bakery G. Mahnke corner of Main Street and Wimmera Street From Sketch series Circa 1890stawell businesses

Photograph of R Farley Carpenter and Undertaker, late 1890's. Building was at south-east corner of Livingstone and Neil streets Beaufort. Black and White photograph of Farley's Building with 2 people outsidebeaufort business, beaufort

'The Grange ' was a 2 storey home built 1857 by Mr Charles Tuck, originally named 'Baydon Hill' , at 1011 Nepean Highway, Moorabbin ( South Brighton). Mr Charles Tuck was Veterinary Surgeon from Baydon Hill, Wiltshire, England, who migrated to Australia c1850. He married his cousin Miss Jan Chaudler in Melbourne in1853. He was at the Ballarat gold-fields at the time of the riots and then they settled in South Brighton ( later Moorabbin) and built a large Georgian Styled home called 'Baydon Hill'. The Tucks had a large family - 9 children. Charles enjoyed a prosperous Veterinary Practice as his advice was needed for stock purchases by the farmers / settlers. Charles died in 1893 and Jane left the property c 1903 and died at Blackburn in 1928. The House had 5 owners, the last being the Healey family c1920 and at some stage the name was changed to 'The Grange' and the gates shown were installed. The Healey Family were also prosperous in developing vegetables and flower seeds and seedlings. 'The Grange' was sold to Moorabbin City Council 1972 and then used by the City of Moorabbin Historical Society for meetings and storage of historical material. It was demolished amidst considerable controversy 1983 and the District Police Offices were built on the site. ( S.T.Mulvany, Grand-daughter of Charles Tuck 26/7/1974)The Grange was a significant property 1853 -1983 in Moorabbin. It was built by Mr Charles Tuck 1857and in1900 extended from Point Nepean Road to South Road - 10acres. Mr Harold James Healey purchased the property in c1920 and leased a portion to a Chinese market gardener. Later with his sons he established a profitable Plant Nursery that they managed for 42years.. Keith Healey, a son, remodelled the house extensively mid 20thC .The Moorabbin City Council purchased it in 1972 for $255,000 and it was demolished amid controversy 1983. The District Police Offices are now on the site.3x black and white photographs of the property at 1011 Nepean Highway Moorabbin built by Mr Charles Tuck c1853 known as 'The Grange'. Originally it was named 'Baydon Hill' because he migrated from Baydon Hill, Wiltshire, England c1850. These photographs are c 1880, 1920 and 1950 showing the original and later additions made to the property by some of the 5 owners.Written in pencil on back a) " This Photo donated by Mr Neil Follett - at the time it came into his possession he had a photography studio in Cheltenham. Photographer unknown"; Folio 6 b) The Grange c 1950 Folio 6/10 c) 'Baydon Hill' ( alias "The Grange" ) / Donated by Mrs Elsa Jones, daughter of Leslie Stephen Tuck, youngest son of Charles Tuck Folio 6 /18tuck charles, tuck jane, veterinary surgeons, livestock, market gardeners, early settlers, dendy's special survey, brighton, moorabbin, ballarat, gold diggings, horses, chickens, cattle, bullocks, flower shows, fruit garden, mulvaney s. t., healey haold james, healey keith, moorabbin city council, chinese market gardeners, plant nursery, tuck leslie stephen, jones elsa

The Australia Felix Insurance Company, Limited Fire Policy No. 4009 in the name of Miss Frances Amelia Farrall of Elmore, from 29 August 1879 to 29 August 1880. Terms and conditions printed on the back. Printed in red and black with emblem Advance Australia printed above a wreath. Insurance company impression stamp in the bottom right corner. Receipt attached.business, legal, connelly & tatchell, connelly & tatchell collection - document, fire policy no 4009, frances amelia farrall, the australia felix insurance company limited, hon william bates, alderman o'grady, john danks, c j ham, george shaw, george a terry, horace pewrkins, h e wade, messrs davies & strongman, australian & european bank limited

Cabinet photograph of young man standing next to urn & pedestal right arm on hip and left arm leaning against urn. Nothing on reverse. Possibly a member of the Opie/Dower/Martin/Adams family, formerly of Castlemaine/Maldon/Mt. Pleasant areas. C.1880's./ wearing a suit and waistcoat / watch chain with coin and German cross?Yeoman & Co., 169 Bourke St. East, Melbournephotograph, portrait, male, cabinet photograph of young man, yeoman & co melbourne, opie, dower, martin, adams

7 page document on the building and various relocations of the Conservatory building first erected in the Melbourne Botanic Gardens in 1880 and used as a Palm House. Other locations: Melbourne Zoo 1940 Werribee Zoo 1970 CoGb 2001 - gifted for White Hills Botanic ardens Included in the Bendigo Botanic Gardens Master plan as a long term action for reconstruction.bendigo, buildings, conservatory bendigo botanic gardens

Advising that the Nunawading Council is in the final stages of aquiring the historic and last remaining orchard in the municipality as a bicentenial project. The Mathesons, early district pioneers, bought the property in 1914 and have worked and lived there ever since. The orchard off the eastside of Springvale Road between Jolimont Road and Hawthorn Road was orinally cleared and planted by John Fankhauser in the 1880'smatheson, charles, fankhauser, john, orchards, strathdon, nunawading gazette

A digital print of an original 1880's advertisement, depicting a mixed doubles game of tennis, played on a lawn in front of a mansion, within the grounds of an estate. Inscription: ESTABLISHED 1856/PROSSER & SONS/LAWN TENNIS RACKET & BALL./MANUFACTURERS/200 PENTONVILLE ROAD/LONDON/ARMITAGE & IBBETSON, LITHO. BRADFORD. Materials: Paper, Ink, Cardboard, Glass, Metal, Foamcoretennis

English - Australian 1818 - 1880LithographInitialled l.l

English - Australian 1818 - 1880LithographInitialled in plate

Englis - Australian 1818 - 1880Lithograph

English - Australian 1818 - 1880LithographInitialled in plate l.l

English - Australian 1808 - 1880Colour LithographSigned in stone

English - Australian 1818 - 1880EngravingTitled in image

Hand coloured postcard: Lake Weeroona Bendigo. Image shows two small islands in lake, with boathouse in background. Man on bike in foreground on small neck of land protruding into lake. Possibly late 1890's ? On rear of card: Postcard, inland 1/2 d stamp, foreign 1d. ( printed in Britain )bendigo, parks and gardens, lake weeroona

Reports of the Inspectors of Explosives to the Honorable the Commissioner for Trade and Customs For Trade and Customs, on the Working of the Explosives Act During the Year 1890. Foolscap sized paper report stapled in two places at the spine containing 35 printed black and white pages with narrative and tables. Publisher Robt S Brain, Government Printer, Melbourne.Inspectors of Explosivesbook, explosives, explosives handling, regulations, storage, carriage and accidents victoria

Article in Whitehorse Gazette regarding a development application to replace a house in Blackburn Road built about 1890 as part of the Blackburn Model Township designed by architect Arthur Clarke. Bernadette Cahill who lives next door is interviewed as is Whitehorse City Council's acting Statutory and Development Manager, John Lupins. Photograph.blackburn road, blackburn, cahill, bernadette, blackburn model township, clarke, arthur, lupin, john, city of whitehorse, residential development

BHS CollectionDiggers & mining. Life Of The Selectors. Appears to be 3 miners driving a peg into the ground at night by the light of the lantern. Markings; Life Of The Selectors 1860-1890. Set 432 No.1. Selection at Midnight - ‘’Illustrated Australian News,’’ August 12, 1871. Visual Education Centre, Education Dept. of Victoria. Used as a teaching aid.Visual Education Centreeducation, tertiary, goldfields

A fireplace was the most commonly used form of heating a dwelling, cooking, and heating water for laundry and domestic uses.Fireplace accessories were an important part of the decor of houses as well as being useful items.A curved copper pan. The handle is copper tubing with a wooden handle grip. It has 4 feet in the shape of animal paws (lion?). The handle is attached with lion faces. The paws and feet are brass and attached to the pan with screws.copper fireplace domestic kindling-holder

The John E. Hand & Sons Company was founded in Philadelphia in 1873, quickly gaining a reputation as competent manufacturers of nautical instruments and compass adjusters. In fact, John Enos Hand, the company founder, is recognised as the first man in America to adjust a compass aboard an iron ship. The Hand Company built navigational equipment for all varieties of floating vessels, and operated a chain of retail outlets with “service stations” in numerous port cities, including Baltimore and New Orleans, until 1956. Service stations sold Hand instruments as well as other nautical paraphernalia and provided compass adjusting services. Additionally, John E Hand and his two sons, John L Hand and Bartram Hand, were inventors in their own right who patented design improvements for numerous instruments that were employed in the company’s work. Commercial and private contracts dominated the firm’s business until the late 1930s when the United States military began preparations for World War II. Although the Hand Company never completely abandoned its involvement with private industry, after World War II, military contracts monopolised their business. The Company obtained contracts with the Navy, Coast Guard and Marines to develop new instruments, and to build military-engineered nautical equipment. Of note are the wrist compass, developed for the Navy beginning in the 1950s, and the Mark VII Model 5 Navy Standard Binnacle. Although it moved numerous times, the Hand Company headquarters and factory remained in the Delaware Valley, occupying several buildings in Philadelphia and southern New Jersey. Maintaining its central office in Philadelphia well into the 1900s, the factory was moved to Atco, New Jersey around the turn of the twentieth century and subsequently to Haddon field, New Jersey. It moved one last time in the 1960s to Cherry Hill, New Jersey. In 1997, California-based Sunset Cliffs Merchandising Corporation purchased the Hand Company and all its assets for $100,000. "HAND" brand taffrail log by John F. Hand and Sons Co. Register is enclosed in log, has a glass front and 3 dials on an enameled surface, the first dial registers the miles up to 100, the second registers the units up to 10 mile, the third registers quarters of a mile. The item is rocket shaped with a three blade rotor and a rope ring attachment at one end; the rotor will spin when a rope is attached, allowing the apparatus dials to measure the ship's speed when it is dragged behind a ship. Diagram of the 'Hand' trademark with a compass card in the middle, inscription reads "John F Hand and Sons Co" and "PHILA-BALTO" ( Abbreviation for: Philadelphia / Baltimore) flagstaff hill, warrnambool, shipwrecked coast, flagstaff hill maritime museum, maritime museum, shipwreck coast, flagstaff hill maritime village, great ocean road, bartram hand, john enos hand, john f. hand and sons co, john l hand, john hand & sons instrument makers, john hand & sons of philadelphia, marine instrument, marine service station, mechanical ship log, nautical instrument, nautical navigation, navigational equipment, scientific instrument, ship log, ship log register, ship’s speed, sunset cliffs merchandising corporation, speed log, rocket log, harpoon log, taffrail log, taff rail log

sepia photograph: Bendigo Post Office, from Rosalind Park. Large pine trees in foreground. Trellis type fences in garden immediate foreground.Pall Mall Studio. Sandhurstbuildings, government, bendigo post office

Vacuum mechanical Lubricator Machinery (vacuum mechanical working at Johnson's Reef Gold, Mine No. 3. Lubricator. Man standing to RH side, hand on lever. Photo mounted on board. Inscriptions: included in Garden Gully Lane MNG18. Derby Line, included in Johnson's Group of Garden Gully Line. Shaft 1250ft. Winze 175ft.place, mining site, johnson's reef

Clothing. White linen camisole with peplum 8.5 cm deep. Round lace yoke at the front, with a panel for a ribbon insertion. Some evidence exists on the right front, that once there was a pink ribbon - possibly silk, but now there are only a few threads left. The insertion panel continues around the back neck edge. Two panels of three .5 cm tucks run from the neckline to the waist of the centre back. Front opening, with two 1 cm pearl buttons still evident, and a cotton tape and casing at the waistline. ON each side of front opening, a group of five pintucks, 7 cm long run from the waistline toward the bustline.All items belonged to Margaret Ann McLean.costume, female, white linen camisole.

Clothing. Full length black silk-satin skirt, with a 4-pleat cummerbund waist sash - 10 cms deep. Two x 10 cm wide ''falls'' of satin, angled at the lower edge fall from the plackett left side, and are 51 cm long and 63 cm long at their peak. Two panels of the skirt fabric, 81 cm long and 23 cm wide are attached from the waistline at the centre front and centre back. Each panel has a beaded floral motif, 13 cmx 9.5 cm beaded with jet beads.costume, female, black silk skirt with beaded trim

Pupils and Teachers of The Girls High School, Oberwyl, Burnett St, St Kildasepia photograph fair conidtion mountedMalson�� (Armstrong?) 1081 Hoddle st East Melbourne. Girls' high school, "Oberwyl" Burnett St, St Kilda.