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Benalla Art Gallery
Painting, H. L. VAN DEN HOUTEN, Marysville Courthouse, Not dated
... Animals ...Born: The Hague, Netherlands 1801; Arrived: Melbourne, Victoria, Australia 1853; Died: Melbourne, Victoria, Australia 1879VictorianGift of Wooleen Pty. Ltd., 1980Rural colonial forested landscape with animals, figures trees and mountains. Gold brushed timber frame.Recto: Signed "H.L.V.d.Houten / [illegible]" in brown oil in l.r.c of composition; Not dated; Not titledpainting, landscape, trees, figures, animals, buildings, mountains, colonial, horse, dog -
The 69 Collective
Photograph, Aneta Bozic, After Life: Mouse, 2012
This artwork is part of 69Fifteen, the book published in 2013 celebrating 69 Smith Street Gallery’s 15th year in operation as an artist-run space.Colour digital print of a dead mouse. Image is a cropped detail of the animal's hind legs and tail.aneta bozic, 69 smith street gallery, artist-run initiative, artist-run space, melbourne art galleries, photography, colour photography, animal photography, death in art, www.anetabozic.com -
Stawell Historical Society Inc
Memorabilia - Realia, 1910-1920
Dog Catchers Noose used to control animals by council employee known as a Proper Officer. Herdsman.stawell -
Churchill Island Heritage Farm
Photograph - Photograph of people around stables and barns
Churchill Island Heritage Farm has a large photograph collection.Colour photograph of people standing and sitting around the barns and stables at Churchill Island looking at the animals Catalogue number written on reverse in pencil churchill island, photograph -
Clunes Museum
Domestic object - BUSHELLS TEA TIN
TWO BLUE METAL TINS WITH AUSTRLIAN ANIMALS PAINTED ON SIDES, METAL LID. THERE IS TEA INSIDEBUSHELLS TEA OF FLAVOR FIRST GRADE 1 LB NETbushells tea, tea tins -
Whitehorse Historical Society Inc.
Photograph, Wisteria Garden Party 2001, 12/10/2001
Coloured photograph of children at Animal Farm at Society's Wisteria Garden Party on 12 October 2001wisteria garden party 2001, nunawading and district historical society, children -
Whitehorse Historical Society Inc.
Photograph, Wisteria Garden Party 2001, 12/10/2001
Coloured photograph of children at animal farm with at Society's Wisteria Garden Party on 12 October 2001wisteria garden party 2001, nunawading and district historical society, children -
National Vietnam Veterans Museum (NVVM)
Book, Animal Heroes, 2005
Thrilling true stories of animals who have worked & played alongside Australia's fighting forces.animals - war use - fiction, animal heroes - fiction -
Federation University Historical Collection
Photograph - Photograph - Colour, Sandra Opie, Victoria School, Villers Bretonneux, 18/05/2012
Built in 1923-1927, the school is the gift from the children of the state of Victoria, Australia, to the children of Villers-Bretonneux as proof of their love and good-will towards France. Twelve hundred Australian soldiers, fathers and brothers of these children, gave their lives for the heroic recapture of the town on April 24th and 25th, 1918. On the front of the building there are two plaques (one in French and one in English) referring to this. In the School Yard, as well as an Aboriginal style mural created by the students of the school and inaugurated on ANZAC Day 2009, is an inscription over the porch on a green background in yellow writing saying : DO NOT FORGET AUSTRALIA Due to the strong bond of friendship between the Australian population and the inhabitants of Villers-Bretonneux. This message expresses the need to remember and show gratitude. Also situated in the school is the Victoria Hall, with its wooden paneling, co-ordinated by the Ballarat Technical Art School with most of the carving being undertaken by Australian sculptor John Grant of Daylesford Technical College in Victoria. The carvings represent fauna and flora from Australia. (http://www.museeaustralien.com/en/?Victoria_school, accessed 04/02/2014)Photographs of each of the Pilister at Victoria School, Villers Bretonneux. Each pilister is carved with an Australian Animal.villers-bretonneux, ballarat technical art school, victoria school, victoria hall, world war, world war 1, australian animals, possum, cockatoo, kookaburra, platypus, lyrebird, koala -
Ringwood and District Historical Society
Books, Ladies Benevolent Society, 1987 - 2005
The Ladies Benevolent Society was started in 1927 under the auspices of the Lady Mayoress and Councillors' wives to aid the wives and families of the poor and unemployed in times of need. In those days there was very little social support. The Society worked closely with the Citizens Advice Bureau after it started in 1967 until lack of volunteers and the improvement of social services reduced the need for the service.Collection of books from the former Ladies Benevolent Society comprising:; 2 account books; 2 treasurers petty cash books; 3 cash receipt books; 1 Ladies Benevolent stamp; 1 Marbig folder with memorabilia; 1 bundle depression letters +Additional Keywords: East, Lorna / Lavis, Audrey -
Bendigo Historical Society Inc.
Document - LETTER
Letter fromCharles Patersonaccompanying donation of two books 5316.1 Letters from Bendigo 5316.2 Letters from the Bendigo Diggings Both books spiral bound and contain coloured prints & maps. Books enclosed in plastic sleeve.John Owensperson, family, john owens, history-bendigo-goldfields-family-owens -
Warrnambool and District Historical Society Inc.
Book, The Journals of Major-Gen. C.G. Gordon, C.B. at Kartoum (sic), 1885
Journals of General Gordon of KhartoumThis is a book of 316 pages, plus 33 pages of information on other books for sale by the publisher.The book has a dark red cover with gold lettering on the front cover and the spine. The pages contain printed text, two maps, a portrait and thirty black and white illustrations.non-fictionJournals of General Gordon of Khartoumgeneral gordon of khartoum, gordon, kartoum -
Federation University Historical Collection
Book, Touching the Full Redemption of Mankind by the Death and Blood of Christ Jesus (human skin cover), 1599
Anthropodermic Bibliopegy is the name given to the use of human leather to bind books. The name stems from the combination of the Greek root words, human (Anthropos), skin (derma), book (biblion), and fasten (pegia). The practice of creating anthropodermic books was popular throughout the 17th and 18th centuries. Most commonly, anthropodermic books are medical tomes, with the human leather taken from medical cadavers. Others were produced after criminal trials, with the criminal’s skin used to enclose the record of their own death sentences, creating a form of punishment that would surpass death. Other anthropodermic books contain poems or are religious texts. This book was written and printed in 1599 but most probably was rebound later when creation of anthropodermic books became more predominant. The book is a small tome of a religious nature containing the work of Bishop Thomas Bilson, who in a puritanical voice states that the primary argument articulated in this book is that “the metaphorical Calvinist interpretation of Hell as an exclusion from God was accurate then Christ's descent into hell after his crucifixion must refer to an actual existent hell as Christ was neither subject to sin nor able to be separated from the Divine.” The unusual cover of the book has led to many questions, the main being whether the book is covered with human skin. It was confirmed as such in 2014 with DNA testing undertaken by honours student Talanna Buckley at Federation University finding an 100% match to human DNA on the outside cover of the book. This is one of only two confirmed anthropodermic books in Australia, the other is housed at the National Library of Australia. Other forms of testing the leather of books have been found to be more accurate than DNA testing. For example, before DNA testing or PMF (Peptide Mass Fingerprinting) are undertaken many books have been identified as made from human skin through the close examination of the skins patterning. Hair follicles are the focus of the examination as certain patterns and sizes lend themselves to being human. However, many of these books have been proven to not be bound in human skin, the same can be said of books with inscriptions claiming them as anthropodermic. Peptide Mass Fingerprinting (PMF) testing has been found to be the most reliable way of confirming a leather bindings origin. This process involves the sampling of collagen-based materials, cutting the protein to gain specific amino acid combinations which form individual peptide sequences. Each mammal has an individual amino acid sequence in its collagen therefore its peptide mass combination is unique. This form of test can provide a more accurate outcome as collagen will be preserved for longer after the tanning process and will not be damaged in the same way DNA can be by the tanning process. DNA testing can also provide false positives as trace DNA from someone touching the book could be amplified and provide the reading instead of that of the leather itself. However, this book was tested with many controls as well as specific decontamination procedures in order to ensure that it was not trace DNA being tested. This book is historically and spiritually significant because it is a rare example of an early printed English Christian religious tract produced in Old English and Latin.. Its association with Thomas Bilson, who oversaw the final printing and publication of the King James Bible, is important. The covering of this book has been tested for human dna. Findings prove the book is covered with human skin, increasing the rarity of the object.420 page book with unusual leather cover. The book is written in Old English with passages in latin. There is a pressed petal between p.68 and 69. The covering of this book is made of human skin. The practice of binding books in human skin, also known as anthropodermic bibliopegy.Inside cover - James Hendy No 17 (Fu)gends Road Palmers Village Westminster. The gift of his mother Mrs Thomas Hendy. Some notes made through text eg p.112, and a passage written on the last page.religion, bible, edward lowe, edward lotos, thomas bilson, anthropodermic bibliopegy, james hendy, full redemption, religious, leather, wilson, winchester, jesus, puritanical, puritans, bungey, bilson, human skin, skin, human skin cover, human skin binding -
Federation University Historical Collection
Book - ledger, Ballarat Junior Technical School General Cash Book, 1926-1930
Quarter leather bound, green covered ledger.Cover title "Technical School No. General Cash Books"cash book, ballarat school of mines cash book, technical school cash book, ballarat junior technical school cash book -
Warrnambool and District Historical Society Inc.
Ledger, Mortgagee
This ledger appears to have been a mortgage document held by the law firm of Mackay Taylor and Co. with the evidence for this the presence of two loose sheets of paper in the ledger with that firm’s letterhead. Mackay Taylor was established in 1893 with the merger of the firms of George Sutherland Mackay and James Fletcher, independent practising lawyers at the time. The new firm became Fletcher and Mackay and later changed to Mackay and Taylor when J. McD. Taylor became a partner in the 1920s and the business was at 131 Kepler Street, with a new building erected in the late 1920s. The legal business closed in the 1990s with the mortgage section of the firm becoming Mackay Taylor Securities in 1990 (later Southern Securities). The ledger was recovered when the building was being cleared out and Percy Eccles, a real estate agent, handed it to the Warrnambool and District Historical SocietyThis ledger has considerable significance as an example of a law firm’s business activities in the mid 20th century. It also contains personal details of loans made to Warrnambool and district people and could be useful for research, with limited and supervised access to researchers because of the sensitive nature of the material contained therein.Ledger with leather covers and straps and metal sides; black covers are very worn leather alphabet tabs; handwritten entries for mortgagees and mortgagors and vendors and purchasers, 1938-1962; 3 loose sheetsKalamazoo Loose Leaf Books, 10/1/1938warrnambool, george sutherland mackay -
Port Melbourne Historical & Preservation Society
Plan - Annotated and handcoloured by Peter Libbis to indicate his research into Libbis family residences and hotels on copy of a section of an MMBW map, Melbourne and Metropolitan Board of Works, c. 1980s
Peter Libbis obtained these copies from the MMBW when he researched his family history in the 1980s. He has annotated them, colour in hotels etc. Donated to Society in 1997.One of a group of 19 photocopies of various 20th century MMBW plans, annotated/coloured in to indicate residences of Libbis family and local hotels, by Peter Libbis in family and hotel research - Princes, Graham to LiardetAnnotation: referenced on back to our valuation books (302)hotels, built environment, melbourne & metropolitan board of works, thomas libbis -
Clunes Museum
Book - FREE LENDING LIBRARY
HARD COVER WITH COTTON SPINE MINUTES OF MEETINGS AT THE FREE LENDING LIBRARY 1879 TO 1884WHITE STICKER ON FRONT: "BOOKS PRESENTED BY RH BLAND"free lending library, rh bland -
Ringwood RSL Sub-Branch
Book, Burma Railway Artist, 1994
Hard cover with many copies of hand written drawings, maps etc.132 pages, The war drawings of Jack ChalkerFirst published in 1994 in GB by Pen and Sword Books -
Vision Australia
Administrative record - Text, RVIB Ocean Grove Auxiliary, 1944-2005
The Ocean Grove RVIB Auxiliary formed on July 31, 1944. This collection of papers includes the minute books from 1944 until 2002 and printed minutes from 2002 to the conclusion of the Auxiliiary in 2004. The papers include newspaper clippings, correspondence, secretary and annual reports, 1999-2005 syllabus (list of events), lists of office bearers and balance sheets. A signboard for the Auxiliary's kiosk in 1951, a poem from the last President Dot Whitehead and the acknowledgement letter from RVIB regarding the Auxiliary's final donation and decision to conclude are also here. The index cards were maintained by RVIB and contain the amount of donations made by the Auxiliary between 1976-1995, as well as the presentations delivered by RVIB employees to Auxiliary meetings between 1973-1985.6 minute books -- 1 receipts book -- 2 index cards -- various loose papers -- signboard -- receipts & expenditure book -- certificate.royal victorian institute for the blind, auxiliaries -
Federation University Historical Collection
Book, Dianne Campbell, Lawyers of the Goldfields Research Notes, 2004
Two research books on goldfields lawyers.henry cuthbert, dianne campbell goldfields lawyers collection, cutherbert's archives, william boykett, richard oakley, richard coverdale -
Federation University Historical Collection
Books, Edward Tomkins, Machine Contruction and Drawing; Being an introduction to The Study of Machine Construction and to the Applicaition of Geometrical Drawing for the representati0n of Machinery, Volumes 1 and 2, 1873
Edward Tomkins was a lecturer on Engineering at Queen's COllege, Liverpool. Two brown, hard covered books..1) Inside front page "Presented by Philip Leeis Albert Street Sebastopol to J A Burritt -
Ballarat Clarendon College
Book, Various
Presented to school by J Coltman, Possibly old collegian John Coltman, Dux of School 1919, School Captain 1920, andcCaptain football, rowing, athleticsExample of ongoing commmunity support of the school. Four books various size and coversBook plate on flyleaf: Crest / Ballarat & Clarendon College / Library / Presented by / J Coltman...j-coltman, ballarat clarendon-college, library -
Ballarat Clarendon College
Book, Various titles
This book was donated by Principal R E Thwaites to the Ballarat College Library, in the final year of his tenure (1933-45). Example of ongoing community support of the school. The Weatherly Library was opened in 1936 and its collection significantly established by donation or bequest of old collegians and members of the college community and associates.Four books of various titles and bindingsBook plate inside front cover: Crest / Ballarat College / Library / Presented by / R E Thwaites 1945r-e-thwaites, weatherly-library, library, ballarat-college -
Federation University Historical Collection
Booklet, L.T. Frazer et al, A Guide to the Ballaarat & District Planning Scheme, 1959
Two blue soft covered booksballarat planning scheme, town planning, h.r. maddern -
Federation University Historical Collection
Book, Edward Hart, A Handbook of Volumetric Analysis, 1878
Brown/black book of 326 booksnon-fictionvolume, analysis -
Tatura Irrigation & Wartime Camps Museum
Book, Register of Lands 54-55, 1955
Records of apportioned Water Rights for farmers in Tatura District 1954-1955Books - Irrigation|Rural Industry - Irrigationirrigation, farming -
Federation University Art Collection
Booklet - Artwork - bookplate, V.S.Hewett Ex Libris, not dated
Bookplate featuring a vase of flowers and booksV.S.Hewett Ex Librisbookplate, vase, books -
Moorabbin Air Museum
Work on paper (item) - K.N. McDonald lecture notes on Aviation topics
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Stawell Historical Society Inc
Archive - Laboratory Books, Worsted Preparing and Spinning Vol1 & Vol2. J M Bennett
From Dye Laborataory AUNDE / Norwellan North Western Woolen Mills became Norwellan Textiles then AUNDETwo Small Dark Blue BooksJ.M. Bennett manufacturing -
Stawell Historical Society Inc
Archive - Books & Papers, Norwellan Woollen Mills, Norwellen Financial records, 1930's
Records related to financial sales and some production records of Nowellan Woollen Mills Stawell North Western Woollen Mills became Norwellan Textiles then AUNDELedgers, Books & Records 1930 Onwardsmanufacture