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National Communication Museum
Tool - Morse Inker Tape
This tape is from the first telegram ever sent in Western Australia. This important event occurred on 21 June 1869. At this time the transmitted message was received on paper tape and later transcribed onto a telegram form for delivery. The original tape was presented to the Honourable Frederick Palgrave Barlee, Colonial Secretary of Western Australia, as a souvenir. "FPB" appears on an engraved shield on the lid. James Coats Fleming, the first telegraphist and later Superintendent of Telegraphs, sent the telegram. During 1875, Colonial Secretary Barlee transferred from Perth to Belize and then to Trinidad where he died in 1884. The fate of the case and spool, souvenir of that first telegram, was unknown. In July 1940, the WA Agent-General in London advised the Premier's Department in Western Australia that a Mrs EW Hillyer of Hertfordshire had the spool and case and was willing to sell it for ten guineas ($21). The Postmaster General's Department agree to the purchase and it duly arrived by registered mail. As a communications museum was planned in Melbourne, it was sent there to be included in the collection. Nothing more was heard until early 1980s when the relic arrived at the Post and Telecommunication museum in Perth. The case had been found in an old Melbourne strongroom where it had apparently been placed for safe-keeping and then forgotten. Initial attempts to decode the message on the tape were unsuccessful. Eventually, it was discovered that the Western Australian Telegraph Company, responsible for that first transmission, had devised its own code. A copy was obtained from the Battye Library and the message deciphered.This Morse tape is of historic significance as the first telegram ever sent in Western Australia. The occasion was momentous as the transition point between isolation and ease of connection for business and personal communications. The case is of aesthetic interest for the craftsmanship involved in the engraved text. Further, the tape has research potential owing to the unique information contained within this tape; that is, the code of the Western Australian Telegraph Company. This tape, may in turn be used to decode further messages sent by the Western Australian Telegraph Company. As the first telegraph message sent in Western Australia, this tape is rare. Despite a tumultuous journey from 1869 to the early 1980s, the tape's ceremonial wooden case provides provenance information which supports the tape's historic importance.Small wooden case (.1) holding a length of morse tape (.2) which was the first telegram ever sent in Western Australia . Wound onto a mother of pearl reel (.3). Accompanying signs and decoded message (.4,.5)..1 engraved on a metal shield shaped plaque on the lid: "WESTERN AUSTRALIAN / TELEGRAPHS / FPB" Inside: 'TRANSLATION OF REGISTER / TO THE CHAIRMAN OF FREMANTLE TOWN TRUST / His Excellency Colonel Bruce heartily congratulates the / inhabitants of Fremantle on this annihilation of distance / between the Port and the Capital, and he requests that this, / the first message, may be made publicly known. / GOVERNMENT HOUSE, / PERTH, June 21, 1869 / Transmitted 11 am / J.C.F."|.2: "Instrument Register / of the First / Telegraphic Message / in / Western Australia"|.3: "The first Telegraph Pole / in / WESTERN AUSTRALIA / was erected by / The Hon. Frederick P. Barlee / Colonial Secretary / on 19th Febr. 1869"telegram, commemorative item, morse inker, morse tape, morse code, code, postmaster-general's department -
Bendigo Military Museum
Book, Sid Harta Publishers, The Happy Warrior-An Anthology of Australian and New Zealand Military Poetry, 2001
ISBN 0-9577-8246-2Softcover book with illustrations. Front cover has title in white at top, grainy image of soldiers in a trench and a poppy with wattle sprig at bottom."Donated by Bgo Y Men's Club"books, military, amy -
4th/19th Prince of Wales's Light Horse Regiment Unit History Room
Booklet, Ramsay, Ware Publishing Pty Ltd, Small Arms Training Vol 1 Pam 3 Grenades, 1943
World War 2 training bookletA soft covered booklet for training soldiers in the use of grenadesNot for publicationgrenades, training -
4th/19th Prince of Wales's Light Horse Regiment Unit History Room
Manual, General Motors at Canada Ltd, Driving Instructions and Workshop Manual Car Armoured Canadian GM Mark I Fox I, 1942
World War 2 armoured vehicleA semi-hard covered manual. (Photocopy also held)armoured car canadian -
Federation University Historical Collection
Newspaper, The Sun, 15/08/1945
World War 2 Japan surrenders12 pages, pages yellowing, folded in twoPeace Japan surrenders japan, allies, attlee, britain, peace, world war two, general thomas blamey, admiral chester nimitz, atomic bomb, surrender, bombing of darwin, darwin bombing, world war 2, end of the war -
Women's Art Register
Women's Art Register Bulletin
Bulletin volume 2 number 1joan rodriquez, nancy clifton, anne graham, harriet and helena scott, ellen jose, susan stamp, davida allen -
Creswick Campus Historical Collection - University of Melbourne
Still Image
2 copies of original botanical printsPhotographs -
Stawell Historical Society Inc
Photograph - Mining Scene, Close up
See Holtman Panarama photo 2Sepia Print Mining Scene, map of Victoria marking Stawellmining, stawell -
Whitehorse Historical Society Inc.
Souvenir - Vase
A souvenir from World War 2An army shell casing with a badge "Australian Commonwealth Military Forces" on it which has been made into a vase.Australian Commonwealth Military Forcesmitcham rsl, second world war -
Moorabbin Air Museum
Book, Mark Lax, Malayan Emergency and Indonesian Confrontation - 1950 to 1966, 2021
Malayan Emergency and Indonesian Confrontation - 1950 - 1966BOOKnon-fictionMalayan Emergency and Indonesian Confrontation - 1950 - 1966 -
University of Melbourne, Burnley Campus Archives
Photograph - Black and white print, Series 2.4, 1942
Series 2: September 1 1942View of ditch beside Yarra Boulevard.ditch, yarra boulevard, james leslie provan, j.l. provan -
University of Melbourne, Burnley Campus Archives
Photograph - Black and white print, Series 2.9, 1942
Series 2: September 1 1942Female student in the Orchard.female students, orchards, james leslie provan, j.l. provan -
University of Melbourne, Burnley Campus Archives
Photograph - Black and white print, Series 2.10, 1942
Series 2: September 1 1942Orchard.orchards, james leslie provan, j.l. provan -
University of Melbourne, Burnley Campus Archives
Photograph - Black and white print, Series 2.11, 1942
Series 2: September 1 1942Students working in the Orchard.students, orchards, james leslie provan, j.l. provan -
University of Melbourne, Burnley Campus Archives
Photograph - Black and white print, Series 2.12, 1942
Series 2: September 1 1942Students working in the Orchard.students, orchards, james leslie provan, j.l. provan -
University of Melbourne, Burnley Campus Archives
Photograph - Black and white print, Series 2.13, 1942
Series 2: September 1 1942Students working in the Orchard.students, orchards, james leslie provan, j.l. provan -
University of Melbourne, Burnley Campus Archives
Photograph - Black and white print, Series 2.14, 1942
Series 2: September 1 1942Vegetable rows with Boxthorn Hedge in background.vegetables, boxthorn hedge, james leslie provan, j.l. provan -
University of Melbourne, Burnley Campus Archives
Photograph - Black and white print, Series 2.15, 1942
Series 2: September 1 1942Student spraying in the Orchard.students, spraying, orchards, james leslie provan, j.l. provan -
University of Melbourne, Burnley Campus Archives
Photograph - Black and white print, Series 2.18, 1942
Series 2: September 1 1942Orchard Border.orchards, james leslie provan, j.l. provan -
University of Melbourne, Burnley Campus Archives
Photograph - Black and white print, Series 2.27, 1942
Series 2: September 1 1942Corner of Pavilion looking towards Summer House.pavilion, summer house, james leslie provan, j.l. provan -
University of Melbourne, Burnley Campus Archives
Photograph - Black and white print, Series 2.28, 1942
Series 2: September 1 1942View from Lily Ponds towards Sequoia sempervirens.lily ponds, sequoia, trees, james leslie provan, j.l. provan -
University of Melbourne, Burnley Campus Archives
Photograph - Black and white print, Series 2.29, 1942
Series 2: September 1 1942View across Oak lawn.oak tree, lawns, james leslie provan, j.l. provan -
University of Melbourne, Burnley Campus Archives
Photograph - Black and white print, Series 2.30, 1942
Series 2: September 1 1942Oak tree and lawn.oak tree, lawns, james leslie provan, j.l. provan -
University of Melbourne, Burnley Campus Archives
Photograph - Black and white print, Series 2.32, 1942
Series 2: September 1 1942Garden view with Lily Ponds in foreground.garden views, lily ponds, james leslie provan, j.l. provan -
University of Melbourne, Burnley Campus Archives
Photograph - Black and white print, Series 2.33, 1942
Series 2: September 1 1942Island in Lily Pond.island, lily ponds, james leslie provan, j.l. provan -
University of Melbourne, Burnley Campus Archives
Photograph - Black and white print, Series 2.37, 1942
Series 2: September 1 1942Lily Ponds.lily ponds, james leslie provan, j.l. provan -
University of Melbourne, Burnley Campus Archives
Photograph - Black and white print, Series 2.35, 1942
Series 2: September 1 1942View across lawn towards Sequoia sempervirens.lawns, sequoia sempervirens, james leslie provan, j.l. provan -
Kadimah Jewish Cultural Centre and National Library
Programme, The Marriage Licence (Di Ketuba); 1967
By Efraim Kishon comedy in 2 actsdovid herman theatre, y. sher, l. zuker, r. gawenda, m. szmerling, s. migdalek, b. schenkel -
Kadimah Jewish Cultural Centre and National Library
Programme, In the Heart of Tel Aviv; 1992
Israeli comedy in 2 acts by A. Karpinovichdovid herman theatre, m. szmerling, j. sher, y. chaberman, t. rosenbloom, r. livita, i. lustig, a. wiguszyn, s. kessel, b. lustig, s. freedman, l. koltiniuk, h. lustig, s. kesselschmidt -
Lakes Entrance Historical Society
Photograph - Caltex Service Station, 1998
Date made 2 February 1998Colour photograph of Esplanade, showing the Caltex Service Station, Cunninghame Arm Nursery with Sallys Restaurant upstairs, cypress trees on verge between road and lake, Ocean Rescue headquarters on bank of lake with rescue vessel moored at jetty, glimpse of Eastern Wharf in background. Lakes Entrance Victoriatownship, waterfront, memorials, retail trade, emergency services