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Federation University Historical Collection
Book, Gareth Sansom Transformer, 2017
Gareth Sansom is celebrated for his daring paintings, collages and watrerclours which comine diverse references and imagery. His colourful and densley layered canvasses explore psychological and material transformation and are charged with sexual energy. 198 page exhibition catalogue with essays and artwork plates relating to the paintings of Gareth Sansom. ashley crawford, simon maidment, sebastian smee, pip wallis -
Mont De Lancey
Functional object - Novelty Needle Book, Unknown
A home sewing needle kit. These paper sleeved novelty needle books were available in the late 19th Century. They were often free as a promotional give-away. In the 1900's they were colourful and fun.A vintage Novelty Needle Book made in Japan with 50 needles mounted inside a pop up card. The needles are presented in gold and red strips attached to a coloured card depicting two small children playing on a see-saw with their teddy bear in a garden. Five needles are missing. The back of the card is yellow and shows a girl holding a red rose.'Novelty Needle Book 50 Needles' is printed on the front of the card which shows two children playing on a see-saw with their teddy bear. 'Made in Japan' is printed at the bottom right on the front of the card.sewing equipment, sewing, sewing needles -
Port Melbourne Historical & Preservation Society
Decorative object - Wall Hanging, Noah's Ark, Nott Street State School, Year 3 children at Nott St Primary School, 1960s
Posted to the Society anonymously. Richmond postmark, explanatory note included. The Society investigated the origin with no success.Mustard coloured hessian wall hanging of Noah's Ark animals. Very colourful appligue work using wool, feathers, buttons, various fabrics. Made by Year 3 children at Nott Street State School in the early 1960s. Also 3.5 metre blue cord.education - primary schools, arts and entertainment - community arts, nott street state school -
Kew Historical Society Inc
Leisure object - Board Game, Solitaire: The well-known game, 1950s
Solitaire is a game for a single player that is played with pegs or marbles on a wooden board. The game consists of 32 marbles and a wooden board with 33 dents in it. The game is set up by placing 32 marbles in 32 dents, leaving the centre dent empty. The aim of the game is to remove every marble except one – and the last one must end up in the centre dent.To remove a marble, you have to move one marble over another marble, landing in an empty dent. Marbles can move up, down, left or right but never diagonally.Plain cardboard box with colourful graphic design of the game on the lid. The box encloses the round wooden playing board while the plastic marbles are contented in plastic wrapping in their own compartment. A note in pencil on the lid of the box, written by the donor, notes that three of the 36 marbles are missing.Label on box: "SOLITAIRE / THE WELL_KNOWN / GAME / Full Instructions Enclosed / Made in Germany"board game, games and puzzles, board games -- solitaire -
Sunbury Family History and Heritage Society Inc.
Postcard, Biscay Greetings, Greetings from Sunbury
Although the post card was available in Sunbury in the 1960s - 1970s, the picture is not an actual view of Sunbury. As the information supplied on the back of the postcard indicates that the colourful Poinciana Tree grows in tropical climates around Brisbane and further north.A coloured photograph in Post Card format of a Poinciana Tree in full bloom. Information about the tree is written on the back in the lower LH corner.n Printed in gold in the top RH Corner - 'Greetings from Sunbury' and in black in the lower LH corner ' Poinciana Tree, Australia'. -
Clunes Museum
Book - NOVEL, CONRAD H SAYCE, THE SPLENDID SAVAGE
THE STORY OF A YOUNGMAN ARRIVING BY SHIP IN AUSTRALIA AND HIS LIFE ON THE LAND WITH ABORIGINALS AND WHITE PEOPLERED-BROWN COVER. A YOUNG MAN WITH A RIFLE AND A BLACK MAN BEHIND HIMfictionTHE STORY OF A YOUNGMAN ARRIVING BY SHIP IN AUSTRALIA AND HIS LIFE ON THE LAND WITH ABORIGINALS AND WHITE PEOPLEthe splendid savage, conrad h sayce -
Dutch Australian Heritage Centre Victoria
Round tin with lid
Round tin with lid decorated with 6 colourful named pictures on both lid and tin. The pictures relate to words used in a series of early readers. The tin is empty but once contained sweets. It was likely a promotional item by the firm Wolters-Noordhof. Noordhoff is a large educational publisher in The Netherlands. Wolters-Noordhof © is printed on the underside of the tin. Also ALLEGRO, Gouderak ℗ -
Mont De Lancey
Book - Decorative Scrapbook, Exact date - Unknown but approx. 1870's
This is a child's sticker scrapbook album with many beautiful coloured stickers pasted in and includes several loose unused ones. Being 148 years old is impressive that it still exists with the wonderful stickers in excellent condition.An antique damaged dark green Album used as a scrapbook for many small coloured cut out stickers of flowers, children, animals and birds. The front cover has Album printed diagonally across it in gold lettering with gold decorations of flowers in the corners a well as a lined pattern around the edges. There is a small cardboard label inside the book, see inscription below.non-fictionThis is a child's sticker scrapbook album with many beautiful coloured stickers pasted in and includes several loose unused ones. Being 148 years old is impressive that it still exists with the wonderful stickers in excellent condition.scrapbooks, books, albums, sticker albums -
Bendigo Historical Society Inc.
Document - YOUTH MOVEMENT BOOKLET
Youth Movement booklet distributed to the Empire children, Youth Sunday 6th May 1951. Two booklets -titled 'An Empire Youth Movement booklet presented to young people taking part in Empire Youth Sunday 6th May 1951' Colourful Royal crest on the front and a knight on the backroyalty, british -
Bendigo Historical Society Inc.
Ephemera - LYDIA CHANCELLOR COLLECTION; SPECIALTY DATE BOOK 1966
A small booklet titled 'Specialty Date Book 1966.' The front cover has a picture of a colourful village. The booklet has a page for each month. It is a complimentary item from Edgars Authorised Newsagency Hargraves Street, Bendigo. Phone: 3-4738. 'Your Hallmark Specialty Card Centre.'lydia chancellor, collection, diary, calendar, newsagency, newsagent, ephemera, momentoes -
Orbost & District Historical Society
calendar, Pivot Limited, 1994
PIVOT is a company involved in agricultural fertilisers.This is a useful pictorial reference tool.A commemorative calendar with colourful photographs, one for each month. On the front cover are brown drawings of agricultural items and scenes. "Commemorative Calendar" is in a banner above "Pivot Promotions Productivity". above the banner is a sheaf of wheat around "75 YEARS" with two flags - one the Australian flag and the other a PIVOT flag.calendar-pivot -
Bendigo Historical Society Inc.
Accessory - GLATTOLIN COLLAR WAX
Old 1910's Glattolin Collar Wax, Made in Germany, sold all over the world and is written in 4 different languages making this very unique and attractive. Each box includes colourful instructions Old 1910’s. / Red small cardboard box containing wax block and instructions.personal effects -
Ballarat Heritage Services
Photograph - Image, Charles Gavin Duffy
ir Charles Gavan Duffy KCMG, Irish-Australian nationalist, journalist, poet and politician, was the 8th Premier of Victoria and one of the most colourful figures in Victorian political history. The suburb of Duffy in the Australian Capital Territory is named after him.(Wikipedia)Image of Charles Gavin Duffy. young ireland, charles gavin duffy, premier of victoria, gavin duffy -
Wycheproof & District Historical Society Inc.
Book, Roamin' Round the Mount
A town no matter how small has stories to tell. This book celebrates some of the colourful, creative, successful, struggling, non- conforming and sometimes irreverent locals who have called Wycheproof and District"home' - some for a short time , others for a life- time.This is a slice of local culture and life.A Wycheproof and District 95 page book of local stories and poems. The coloured wrap-around cover photopraphs show early Mt Wycheproof with cows grazing on the mountain. On the back cover are photographs of the early Wycheproof Railway Station and a later day view taken on Mount Wycheproof . On the lower part of the cover: THE WYCHEPROOF AND DISTRICT hISTORICAL sOCIETY INChistory, poetry, wycheproof, local residents, mallee bush poetry, mallee, local history, farming, economy -
Rutherglen Historical Society
Programme - Program, Sun Office Rutherglen, Football Extraordinary Barkly Park, Rutherglen, Sunday, August 13, c1944
Smith's Rutherglen Wreckers vs Strang's Stranglers. Apparently a match put on to help injured football players. Includes colourful description of team players. Program sponsored by Bray's Men's Wear, Jasper Bros Service Station and W.A.J. Lintermans Victoria HotelProgram, printed on paper for a Football Extraordinary match to aid injured players, about 1944football, afl, smith's rutherglen wreckers, strang's stranglers, bray's menswear, jasper brothers motors, victoria hotel, lintermans -
Rutherglen Historical Society
Programme - Program, Sun Office Rutherglen, Football Extraordinary Barkly Park, Rutherglen, Sunday, August 13, c1944
Smith's Rutherglen Wreckers vs Strang's Stranglers. Apparently a match put on to help injured football players. Includes colourful description of team players. Program sponsored by Bray's Men's Wear, Jasper Bros Service Station and W.A.J. Lintermans Victoria HotelProgram, printed on paper for a Football Extraordinary match to aid injured players, about 1944football, afl, smith's rutherglen wreckers, strang's stranglers, bray's menswear, jasper brothers motors, victoria hotel, lintermans -
Bendigo Historical Society Inc.
Document - MALONE COLLECTION: CALENDAR 1950
1950 calendar. Coloured garden scene with trees and colourful flowers, pathways and steps. An archway at the back. Picture glued to a heavy piece of card with a pale blue calendar booklet glued to the bottom with a piece of pale blue heavy paper. 'May each Day be a Happy One' printed in gold on the front of the booklet.religions, christian, calendar -
Tatura Irrigation & Wartime Camps Museum
Artwork, other - Puppet, Judy, WW2
The puppets were made by German POW's in camp 13 and sent to internment camp 3 as gifts for the children at Christmas time.Brown paper mache head and arms, no body. Long dark blue material trousers under the dress. At end of material legs are small paper wooden legs and black shoes intact. Judy has a colourful dress with yellow apron. Dress has many different pieces of material of various patterns.pow puppets, pow handcrafts, hand puppets, sharon lohe, ww2 internment camp puppet theatre, murchison internment camp -
Kew Historical Society Inc
Postcard, A Newhaven Fishwife, c.1928
Collection of thirty-nine postcards donated by Jillian Rigby which had been owned by her grandparents, George and Edith Weir, who from c.1917 lived at 84 Princess Street, Kew. The mostly 'mint' postcards were purchased in Victoria and while travelling overseas. The sole dated postcard is dated from 1929. The postcards are numbered sequentially from 2017.0058.01-39. The remainder of the collection donated by Jill Rigby which was once owned by the Weirs of Broken Hill and Kew consist of costumes, costume accessories, photographs, and documents.The postcards in the Weir collection, especially those purchased on a trip or trips to the mother country, i.e. United Kingdom, represent a representative sample of sites that were considered significant to those Australians undertaking a reverse grand tour by member of the erstwhile colonies. Those postcards which are early views of Melbourne must have been produced commercially for some decades from the early part of the 20th century.Newhaven is in Edinburgh, Scotland. Portraits of fishwives were popular subjects for postcards due to the colourful, layered, striped outfits that they wore. The fishwife sits on rocks beside a basket of fish. The postcard would appear to be a studio portrait. The postcard was probably purchased by George and Edith Weir on a trip to England and Scotland, circa 1928."A Newhaven Fishwife"postcards, george and edith weir, newhaven - east sussex, fishwife series, weir collection, postcards — england — uk -
Camberwell Historical Society
Poster (Item), Australian National Song
Taken from: Poulton, F. & Sheedy K. (2015) Boroondara Remembers. Stories from World War 1. City of Boroondara; Barnett, S. (2015) Personal communication.australia, military, national -
Bendigo Historical Society Inc.
Newspaper - JENNY FOLEY COLLECTION: COLOURFUL HISTORY
Bendigo Advertiser "The way we were" from Wednesday, April 6, 2005. Colourful history: the Eaglehawk Clothing Factory staff in Victoria Street, Eaglehawk. The site is now home to King's IGA supermarket, but was previously the roller-skating rink and the YMCA's original Star Picture Theatre, screening open air pictures.newspaper, bendigo advertiser, the way we were -
Hume City Civic Collection
Magazine - Directory, "Sunbury Times" 1st Edition, c1994
A local community magazine.A commercial publication issued by the local Sunbury community, featuring stories of people and events in Sunbury as well as advertising local businesses. It has been printed on glossy paper with a colourful cover with 8 small photos and the title written in different colours on the front and the rest of the cover contains advertisements. The inside pagesw are in black and white.non-fictionA local community magazine.community magazines, sunbury times -
Kew Historical Society Inc
Postcard, Newhaven Fishwife, c.1928
Collection of thirty-nine postcards donated by Jillian Rigby which had been owned by her grandparents, George and Edith Weir, who from c.1917 lived at 84 Princess Street, Kew. The mostly 'mint' postcards were purchased in Victoria and while travelling overseas. The sole dated postcard is dated from 1929. The postcards are numbered sequentially from 2017.0058.01-39. The remainder of the collection donated by Jill Rigby which was once owned by the Weirs of Broken Hill and Kew consist of costumes, costume accessories, photographs, and documents.The postcards in the Weir collection, especially those purchased on a trip or trips to the mother country, i.e. United Kingdom, represent a representative sample of sites that were considered significant to those Australians undertaking a reverse grand tour by member of the erstwhile colonies. Those postcards which are early views of Melbourne must have been produced commercially for some decades from the early part of the 20th century.Newhaven is in Edinburgh, Scotland. Portraits of fishwives were popular subjects for postcards due to the colourful, layered, striped outfits that they wore. The elderly fishwife stands beside a cane basket of fish. The postcard would appear to be a studio portrait. The postcard was probably purchased by George and Edith Weir on a trip to England and Scotland, circa 1928.NEWHAVEN FISHWIFEpostcards, george and edith weir, newhaven - east sussex, fishwife series -
Harcourt Valley Heritage & Tourist Centre
Certificate, 1915
Issued to Brother Clyde Warren on his enrollment as a member of the I O R Young Australia Tent No 142 (Harcourt), on the 4th May 1915, signed by Isaac James, Superintendant & Bro R Grant, Secretary of the Junior Rechabite Lodge. A necessary pre requisite to membership was 'signing the pledge' to abstain from liquor.A reminder of the Temperance movement and its important role in developing a moral framework for the youth of the district. Harcourt was a ‘dry’ district for upwards of eighty years due to the influence of the Temperance movement. Pre-printed certificate with gold-leaf heading over a colourful crest, , scenes of safety in the ark, a rowboat leaving a shipwreck & St George slaying the dragon, two heralds (male & female) bearing temperance banners and, at the foot, a tripartite crest bearing the southern cross and resting in wattle. Handwritten names, date and signatures. -
Brighton Historical Society
Accessory - Parasol, 1920s
Printed with colourful pyramids, palm trees and camels, this parasol tells a story of the changing society of the 1920s, the growth of the Art Deco movement and a wave of Egyptomania sparked by the discovery of Tutankhamun’s tomb. Parasols such as this one were used by holidaymakers on Brighton Beach, by this time a popular seaside destination.Parasol with a cotton canopy printed with an Egyptian-inspired design of the Sphinx, camels, palm trees and water carriers. Painted handle with plaited cotton tassel with pink wooden bead.parasol, 1920s, egyptomania -
Orbost & District Historical Society
book, Yates Garden Guide, 1952
In 1895 Arthur Yates wrote the first Yates Garden Guide, a basic gardening book that is still published today. This is an early example of a book commonly used as a gardening reference tool.A soft covered book, titled "Yates' Garden Guide". "YATES' is in red print and the rest in blue. In the centre is a circular picture of a smiling woman in a V-necked check dress holding a basket of colourful flowers. Below this on the right is "1952 25th EDITION THOROUGHLY REVISED Price 4/6" . On the left are details of the publishing company.gardening book-garden-guide yates -
Port Melbourne Historical & Preservation Society
Book, Margot Beasley, "Wharfies - The History of the Waterside Workers Federation", 1996
"Wharfies - The History of the Waterside Workers Federation"" A chronological overview of the main issues, events and characters in the Union's (i.e. WWF) history from it's formation 1n 1902 up to 1993 when it amalgamated with the Seaman's Union of Australia" Introduction pix. 320 page blue hard back book with very colourfully illustrated dust cover.piers and wharves - waterside workers, societies clubs unions and other organisations, transport - shipping -
National Vietnam Veterans Museum (NVVM)
Medal - Vietnam service medals
Medals awarded for service in the Vietnam War. This set is as presented to Private Lionel Leslie Corrie, Service number 1201398, who served in 9RAR from 09/11/1968 to 09/04/1969 (152 days).A rack of five replica medals attached to colourful striped ribbons. two have silver bars. Silver Australian active service medal 1945-75; Silver Elizabeth Reign DEI GRATIA; Silver Australian defence medal; Bronze anniversary of national service 1951-'72; Gold & Green enamel white star with peace sign. vietnam, adf, medal, awards, corrie, 9rar, service medals, vietnam service -
Dutch Australian Heritage Centre Victoria
Book, Uitgeverij Amsterdam Boek B.V, O Verrukkelijke Gekke Rotstad (O Delicious Crazy Rotten City) Amsterdam 700 Jaar, 1975
Amsterdam, with trade at its heart, is the oldest city in The Netherlands . Its multi-faceted and colourful history has engendered unique personality and behavioural traits in its people. The book attempts to record expressions of these along with the city's architectural attractions. The sub-title (translated) reads "A declaration of love by Amsterdam Boek". (The publishers)The book is a significant record of the Amsterdammers' pride in their city, its history, its present (in the seventies) and its people.A soft cover book of 160pp commemorating Amsterdam's 700 years existence. While the cover is in colour the countless illustrations are in black and white. Published in 1975 the book explores the strongly individual character of the city and its people. -
City of Ballarat
Artwork, other - Public Artwork - Temporary, Justine McAllister, Little Bridge Street Bus Interchange by Justine McAllister
"This project has extra meaning for me. It’s intended to create a positive effect on the local community” Ballarat-born artist, Justine McAllister's artwork was commissioned to bring a colourful facelift to the Little Bridge Street Bus Exchange precinct from December 2020-December 2021. The artwork installation is part of the extended City of Ballarat early works beautification program, designed to bring a fresh, bold and vibrant aesthetic to the location. painted work onto bus shelter