Souvenir glass for North Eastern Historical Soc Wangaratta, squat tumbler style with gold rim, gold lettering and crossed pick & shovel in gold.organization, society, wangaratta historical

Black and white photograph. 3 male students wearing fruit picking bags around their waists. One leaning against a wooden ladder. In the Orchard.On reverse, "Peter Smith C.S.I.R.O."students, fruit picking, peter smith, c.s.i.r.o., students working outside, orchard, fruit picking bags, wooden ladder

Used by Mr. Bob Fulton, Wandin East.3 x Wooden berry picking trays to hold punnets (includes punnets) 2 x 10 punnets and 1 x 6 punnets.packaging

(1) Used as an illustration in, "Green Grows Our Garden," A.P. Winzenried p77.Black and white photographs. Students Under Instruction in the Orchard Area (1) Picking poppies (opium?) (2) Students being shown how to harvest fruit.Names written on reverse and on an attached piece of paper.(1) On reverse, "Instructor Ted White with students during 1944-1945, Helen Dudley, Elizabeth Dawson, Helen Hanna & Brian Gebbs." (2) On reverse, "Instructor Ray Harding with students during 1944-1945, Rhonda Shaw, Helen Dudley, Helen Hanna, Viva Smith & Ruth Woods."helen dudley, poppies, opium, instructor, ted white, elizabeth dawson, helen hanna, brian gebbs, green grows our garden, a.p. winzenried, ray harding, rhonda shaw, viva smith, ruth woods, orchard, student outside class

Large varnished wooden board with crossed chromed shovel and pick. Inset above the crossed tools is a 5/6 Battalion shield shaped presentation plaque. wark vc club, support company, 5/6rvr, pioneers

Typical fruit picking attire1 pair of brown cotton, herringbone pattern men's trousers."Can't Tear Em" brandtrousers, mens clothing

Typical fruit picking attire.White cotton Argyle brand, half opening shirt, with 2 buttons.Previously used by Museum Sub-Committee in their display.shirts

Sketch Map of Bulldog-Wau Road New Guinea drawn to scale by 2/1 Aust Fd Coy dated 23.7.43 and signed by soldiers together with related newspaper article. Hand sketched by Peter Muncey VX10042 a Draughtsman who served in the Middle East Ceylon and New Guinea with the 2/2 and 2/1 Field Coy Royal Australian Engineers. The sketch contains 26 signatures including:- S/Sgt Raymond Hector Ibbotson NX14112 who served in the Middle East and New Guinea Lt Col Jack Graham Wilson NX 130646Bulldog Track also known as Bulldog-Wau road was longer, higher, steeper, wetter, colder and rougher than Kokoda Track. In 1943 Australian Army engineers; the 2/1 and 2/16 Field Company RAE, 9th Australian Field Company (AIF), veterans of Syria, Palestine, Egypt, Greece and Crete, the 1st and 3rd Australian Pack Transport Companies and local Papuan labour cut the road with pickaxes and dynamite over a period of eight months. During five months of operations over seventy per cent of the 2/1 Australian Field Company contracted malaria.Seventeen bridges were constructed; mostly single, but at least one with multiple spans. More than two thousand Australian army personnel and over two thousand Papuans and New Guineans were involved during nine months of construction. Thus the road, acclaimed as the greatest military engineering feat ever, was completed and for the only time in history motor vehicles crossed the high rugged mountains of Papua New Guinea. Carved brown timber frame with cream mount containing hand sketched map with soldiers signatures and two newspaper articles.Sketch Map of Bulldog-Wau Road 23.7.43 2/1 Aust Fd Coy Newspaper - Diggers pushed on with pick and shovelbulldog-wau road, map, new guinea, ww2

Fred Murgatroyd worked as a loom tuner at Yarra Falls, Tweedside and Collins mills in Victoria as well as in Sydney, and studied at Leeds University. "Federal Mill: Mending dept c1918-1920"The Murgatroyd CollectionF Murgatroyd Federal Mill/ Mending dept/ inspecting cloth for flaws eg broken pick/ or broken ends/ c1918-1920textile machinery textile mills weaving mills textile mills - staff textile mills, federal woollen mills ltd tweedside woollen mills yarra falls mill collins bros mill pty ltd, mending, murgatroyd, mr fred murgatroyd, mr james, textile machinery, textile mills, weaving mills, textile mills - staff

Black and white photo of front view of electric tram rigged with electric light decoration and design showing pick and shovel. In blue/green ink on back 'No 30'.person, individual, basil miller

Bendigo Advertiser "The way we were" from 1999. Out and about: trams pick up passengers outside Cooper's City Club Hotel at Charing Cross.newspaper, bendigo advertiser, the way we were

Black and white photograph of SEC No 30 in ?? St , picking up passenger at a stop. Taken from parklands opposite. Tram has SEC roof ad on side.trams, tramways, ballarat, barkly st. , tram 30

Used circa 1900.A steel Fettler's pick head. One end is flattened and squared off and it has a long point at the opposite end. It was used to maintain railway tracks in the 19th century.It is stamped - 1 with an arrow pointing downwards.tools, hand tools, picks

Possibly used for cleaning out animal pens.eg. horses and pigs. Used like a hoe but heavier and stronger.Used by residents of the Kiewa ValleyThick steel tool head with hole at one end for the handle and two parallel points. Possibly hand made.pick, double tyne prong pick, farming equipment, hand tool

Standard issue multi-use tool as used by Australian servicemen during the conflict in Vietnam (1962-1972).Folding digging toolpick, shovel, vietnam, entrenching tool

Standard issue multi-use tool as used by Australian servicemen during the conflict in Vietnam (1962-1972).Metal hinged shovel with green wooden handle which adjusts to various anglesentrenching tool, pick, shovel, vietnam

BHS CollectionTwo silver plated spoons with Sandhurst Town Bendigo inscription. One of the spoons has a gold pan at the top, the other a shovel and pick. Aileen and John Ellison Collection.Sandhurst Town Bendigocollectables, silver plated spoons, sandhurst

This promotional photograph by the Tobacco Growers Association was in response to a 1935 meeting of tobacco growers from Victoria, South Australia and Queensland which produced four major resolutions for the industry covering the remainder of the 1900s. These four resolutions were: (1) Adequate tariff protection (2) Control of pests and diseases (3) Orderly marketing (4) The formation of an advisory council of growers. History has produced the following results. (1) adequate tariff protection was never achieved,(2) control of disease through benzol vapour (CSIRO) breakthrough, was later identified as carcinogenic, (3) orderly marketing was achieved through (4) the establishment of the Tobacco Growers Association(1984). In October 2006, by way of Government buy back of tobacco leases from growers, resulted in the end of Tobacco farming in Australia (after 136 years of planting the first crop). It was also significant that the major tobacco companies such as Philip Morris and The British American Tobacco Australasia advised the industry that it would source its tobacco requirements overseas by 2009.The remnants of the Tobacco Industry can still be viewed throughout the Kiewa Valley and adjacent regions on the former tobacco farms which still have the tobacco drying sheds and now converted into hay sheds. The problems from the large quantities of carcinogenic infused soil of farmlands in the region, still remains a problem now and for future generations. This particular photograph shows the lack of understanding by farmers, at that time, and is demonstrated by the lack of protection of hands and no masks over their noses, when handling plants. Hand, nose and foot protection was rarely used, even when later warnings were issued of the carcinogenic toxicity of the soil. The majority of farm owners, up until Health authorities stepped in the latter stages of 1900s, were skeptical of city scientists' "carcinogenic" health warnings and it was only after the younger generation of farmers, who had graduated from Agricultural colleges, encompassed the scientific approach to farm management. The "she'll be right mate" attitude of the farming/rural community has since the 1970s been slowly dissipating. Stricter controls of herbicides and pesticides used in agriculture are now in force. The death of the tobacco industry(2006) resulted in the expansion of the dairy , sheep, beef cattle, venison and lama wool producers in the Kiewa Valley and surrounding regions.Coloured photograph pasted onto a thick wood chip backing. Two galvanised eyelets at the top of the frame, 50mm from each end, with a twine cord stretch from each, for hanging purposes. See also KVHS 0054A to KVHS 0054C and 0054E to KVHS 0054FA sign, which has been removed from the picture at some previous point in time is "The Tobacco fully grown prior to start picking"tobacco, farming, rural industry, licences, ollie mould, blue mould, benzol vapour

Tobacco farming began circa 1960 in the Kiewa Valley and consequently became one of its major industries. Many of the Italian families were involved in tobacco farming.Historical: This equipment was used on one of the first tobacco farms in the Kiewa Valley at Mongans Bridge. The picking bag was home-made showing the resourcefulness of farmers living in the Kiewa Valley. Provenance: This tobacco farmer came from Italy and was sponsored to visit a tobacco farmer in Myrtleford to learn how to grow tobacco so that he could transfer those skills to his own farm in the Kiewa Valley.Picking bag known as 'Sacco'. The bag was used as a liner to the collecting bin in front of each of the 4 pickers on the picking machine. The bag was then hooked closed and held the leaf together for transport to the shed. Brown hessian woven length with 2 thick wires at 1 end hooked through 'bag' 100 mm from each side and hook on other end. Shaped in 1 rectangle rather than like a bag.Edges rough with wear and tear. A couple of holes where weave in 1 direction has torn.tobacco. picking bag. mongans bridge. kiewa valley. sacco. parmesan. rossaro. lorenzi brothers.

Black and white photo showing boys from Sandhurst Boys Centre picking vegetables. In background, small hill, broadacre vegetable garden in foreground. Photo taken in 1960's ?bendigo, institutions, sandhurst boys centre, sandhurst boys centre; gardening; occupational therapy

Typical of fruit picking attire. Used for Bicentennial tableau in 1988.Mens black wool waistcoat, with 5 plastic buttons, lined pockets, and satin lining.waistcoats

Wool picking machine designed to separate locks of wool before it is carded and spun. The picker opens the wool’s locks which makes it easier to send the fleece through a carding machine. It does this by teasing the fibres (which can also be done by hand just by pulling the lock structure apart), but a picker does this in bulk and much quicker than what can be done by hand. It is possible to spin fibres directly after the picking stage; however, it is usually more desirable to card and blend them with other fibres. Typically, at a textile mill, a picking machine can separate enough lengths of fibre for a full day’s work after just a single hour. It will also help to remove any vegetation matter or other any unwanted elements that may be present in the wool. The quality of the casting on this machine suggest that it was made locally, either in Australia or New Zealand. Mike Leggett, the donor of the machine, acquired it from New Zealand where the seller said it had been used by his father to pick wool to make hand stuffed horse saddles. Mike attempted to used it a couple of times to pick alpaca hair, but the speed of the attached motor caused damage to the fibres. The motor is thought to be an added attachment, sometime around the 1960s judging by its age, while the machine itself is thought to be dated around the 1920s. The machine works by inserting wool through the rollers. Initially there was a conveyor belt feeder system which was powered by the handle on the side. This conveyor belt has been removed however, most likely due to age and deterioration. Wool is now fed through the initial teeth and is met by a spiked rotating drum which works to separate the fibres. The separated fibres would then complete a loop of the drum before being dispatched somewhere below, around where the motor presently sits, at a rapid rate of speed. Typically this wool will be collected in a closet or large catchment area, as can be seen from the 8:47 minute marker in the linked video (link - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kMjx-t3tH3A). It is not apparent how the wool is collected with this machine. Red and green machine with four green legs currently attached to a wooden pallet with wheels for easy movement. The green legs lead up to a red central circular barrel from which many attachments are present. Also present on the wooden pallet is a small black motor which is attached by a rubber belt to the central drum inside the red barrel. The belt spins the wooden drum via a dark red circular plate attached to the side of the drum. On the other side of the red barrel, a green handle extends for turning the picker’s conveyor belt feeder system. Two green walls extend forward from the central red barrel, guarding either side of where the conveyor belt would have been. At the start of these walls is a wooden cylinder, which the conveyor belt would have wrapped around, followed by two interlocking gears which rotate and accept the fed wool. The red roof extends over the central cylinder from here, securing the wool inside and protecting hands from the heavily spiked internal wooden cylinder which rotates and separates (picks) the wool. Extending over the top of this red roof is a green handle which reaches to the back of the machine (not pictured). Here it accepts a weight to ensure pressure is always present for the initial feeder interlocked gear teeth. There are two large gear cogs on the rubber belt side of the machine and 3 small gear cogs on the handle side of the machine, all coloured green. A green handle is also present at the rear of the machine, below the location from which the weight is hanging. A power cable extends from the motor and there are two adjustable metal rods on the top of the machine, the purpose of these rods is presently unknown. Black texter. On top of drum. Wording: HG3707 Wording. Imprint: BRACEWIND BLYN On motor. Wording AEIwool picking, textile manufacturing, wool processing

School of Mines Stawell - Student Group. Note Geology picks probably on excursion.stawell education

Laura Annie and Amy Rogers picking grapes on the Rogers Property Deep Lead.stawell

Mrs Camfield, nursing home resident, picking blooms from the garden at Kelaston.1 x col. photograph1985association for the blind, kelaston home (ballarat)