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Tatura Irrigation & Wartime Camps Museum
Artwork, other - Frieze, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, 1940's
Made by Roland Frank and drwan and coloured by Gudrun Frank-Heider-Gollong at Camp 3, compound BIn box of 3 ply - On left Snowwhite and one of the 7 dwarfs shaking hands. No. 2 has a lantern, 3 a shovel, 4 gunny bag, 5 axe and carrying front end of a cross cut saw with 6 and 7 carrying firewoodfrieze, gollong h, frank r, snow white, 7 dwarfs, vollmer h, camp 3, tatura, ww2 camp 3, handcrafts, woodcarving -
Eltham District Historical Society Inc
Photograph, Excavating Railway Cutting to Hurstbridge
Labourers excavate a cutting for the new railiway extension from Eltham to Hurstbridge. Men are working with shovels and buckets, dropping dirt into horse and carts. A pile of newly cut sleepers sit on the sidelines waiting to be laid. The new extension is approx. seven miles in length and opened on 2 January, 1912.This photo forms part of a collection of photographs gathered by the Shire of Eltham for their centenary project book, "Pioneers and Painters: 100 years of the Shire of Eltham" by Alan Marshall (1971). The collection of over 500 images is held in partnership between Eltham District Historical Society and Yarra Plenty Regional Library (Eltham Library) and is now formally known as 'The Shire of Eltham Pioneers Photograph Collection.' It is significant in being the first community sourced collection representing the places and people of the Shire's first one hundred years.Digital imagesepp, shire of eltham pioneers photograph collection, diamond creek, hurstbridge, wattle glen, railway line construction, railroad construction workers, railroad construction -
Bendigo Historical Society Inc.
Photograph - 'TRAM TRACK REPAIRS' VIEW STREET
Black and white photo of workmen with road repair machinery. Wheelbarrow, shovel, truck.Business signs on buildings in background, 'Peters Icecream, Sandhurst milk',trudgeons antiques view street unidentifiable signs on verandah posts. On reverse one mark of two lines in pencil.Alan Doney Photo.place, streetscape, view street, 2000 232 01 -
Melbourne Tram Museum
Document - Specification - set of 3 - Road Roller & equipment, Melbourne & Metropolitan Tramways Board (MMTB), mid 1950s
Three documents for the purchase of road pavement forming equipment 1 - "One (1) Road Roller (internal combustion Engined)" - 7 pages, undated 2 - "One mobile shovel and overhead loader" - five pages - undated 3 - :One(1) engine driven portable concrete mixer" - 9 pages - undatedYields information about the MMTB tender for road making equipmentSet of three documents - foolscap sheets stapled in top left hand corner and hole punched along the top edge.mmtb, tramways, contracts, purchases, trackwork, tools, road roller, loader, concrete -
Bendigo Historical Society Inc.
Slide - DIGGERS & MINING: THE DIGGINGS - THE DIGGERS
Diggers & Mining: The Digging - The Diggers. Slide depicts miners relaxing back at the camp site. Puddling machine, gold pan, shovel and other items needed by miners, there is also a tent. Not many trees. Markings: 31 994.LIF:6. Used as a teaching aid.Hanimounteducation, tertiary, goldfields -
Bendigo Historical Society Inc.
Newspaper - PURDY COLLECTION: WILFRED WATSON ARTICLE
Newspaper article: 'Years in the Mines". Article details the life of an Eaglehawk man who spent 22 years working in Bendigo mines and who is celebrating his 80th birthday ( no date on article) Wilfred worked at the Unity Mine in Long Guly, when the Prince of Wales, visited it. He also worked at the Red White and Blue, Big Deborah and South Virginia (between 1920 and 1942) He stated worked as a shoveler and then learnt to bore holes and fire with explosives. At the South Virginia, there were three shifts working the shaft. Each shaft shift had two miners and one shoveller and the mine has 20 or 30 workers.bendigo, mining, wilfred watsobn -
Bendigo Military Museum
Souvenir - PLAQUE, S.V Dormer
Belonged to Arthur Georga Holley No 13556 RAN, HMAS Hobart, refer 2134 for service history also 2135.3, 2137, 2147.Plaque, polished wood base with centre relief, crown incorporating flags at top with "Hobart" under, centre circle with a red lion with pick and shovel, under is a boomerang with 2 crossed items, at bottom is a scroll with "Sig Fortis, Hobartia Crevit", on rear is stamped makers details.plaques, mementos -
Stawell Historical Society Inc
Photograph, Rail Gang
1933 "Relief Men" at the Deep Lead to Glenorchy Rail Gang. Kith Mitchell in 2nd Row third from the right in white shirt holding shovel. Relief men were the Rail Gang. The Mitchell Family lived at "Thelmadale" which was on the North Side of the New Bridge.railways, transport -
Bendigo Historical Society Inc.
Slide - DIGGERS & MINING. STORES AT THE DIGGINGS, c1850s
Diggers & Mining. Stores at the diggings. Slide: Businesses were conducted in tents or, more generally, roughly-made huts. Picture displays stores with a small wagon, there are stacks of sacks and shovels which can be easily seen. Markings: 3 994.LIF. 5. Used as a teaching aid.hanimounteducation, tertiary, goldfields -
Bendigo Historical Society Inc.
Photograph - TRAIN DERAILMENT COLLECTION: 1961 CULGOA VICTORIA, 19th June, 1961
Black and white photograph. A collection, train derailment. Written on the back Sea Lake. Mileage 139, 19th June, 1961. Photo of men shovelling grain, derailed carriages, older man walking away from photo. A truck with a tank on it, partial registration being C-230.place, train, derailment, photograph, train derailment, sea lake, 19th june, 1961. mileage 139. -
Glenelg Shire Council Cultural Collection
Photograph - Photograph - Alcoa Berth, Port of Portland, 1980
Port of Portland Authority ArchivesBack: Pouring Pre-cast slabs - ALCOA BERTH Sept 1980 - pencil bottom right.port of portland archives, alcoa berth, slab, concrete, construction, construction worker -
Bendigo Historical Society Inc.
Photograph - COOK COLLECTION: MAN SEATED ON STOOL OUTSIDE HOUSE
Photograph: faded black and white photo of man seated on stool. On Left Hand side, shovel and pick leaning on wall beside man . On Right hand side, doorway, man seated in house (partly visible) . On step, cup and saucer, can of treacle. House is potentially the same as in 1610.2person, individual, cook, spring gully, mining -
Churchill Island Heritage Farm
Tool - Potato digger
The potato digger was harnessed to horse or tractor and dragged through the potato mounds. This digger could be set for deep or shallow mounds. The horizontal flat shovel unearthed the potatoes. The iron raddle would agitate the potatoes free from the soil. Some diggers had prongs to flip potatoes to the side. The crop was then collected by hand. Previously the crop would be dug up by hand with hoes.Single row potato digger, with upward prongson digger and depth adjuster at rear. Green/blue with red wheelsfarm machinery, digging, harvesting, potatoes, horse drawn -
Bendigo Historical Society Inc.
Slide - DIGGERS & MINING: THE DIGGINGS - THE DIGGERS, c1850s
Diggers & Mining: The Digging - The Diggers. Slide reads; But, typically, the digger wore a red or blue shirt, thick moleskin trousers, heavy boots, and a 'Jim Crow' or 'cabbage tree' hat. Picture of digger with shovel over right shoulder. Markings: 52 994.LIF:6. Used as a teaching aid.hanimounteducation, tertiary, goldfields -
Bendigo Historical Society Inc.
Slide - RALPH BIRRELL COLLECTION: EIG SCHOOL, c1966
EIG School - Ralph Birrell Collection - Construction of Latrobe Uni, Bendigo, Engineering School. 2 buildings for Applied Science. Latrobe Uni Archives have copies. 2 gentlemen standing in front of a marque, with a Holden, and shovel to the right. C1966. Markings, in red 14 66M8. In yellow, Made in Australia.Kodakeducation, tertiary, latrobe university bendigo, eig school - ralph birrell collection – construction of latrobe uni, bendigo, engineering school. 2 buildings for applied science. 2 gentlemen standing in front of a marque, with a holden, and shovel to the right. c1966 -
Ringwood and District Historical Society
Photograph, Hail storm in Warrandyte Road, Ringwood late 1950s
Clarrie Burns, father of Neville, shovelling hail stones from his driveway at 13 Warrandyte Road, Ringwood in the late 1950s. Clarrie worked for Ringwood City Council as Superintendent of Works. In the image, number 11 Warrandyte Road was Sherman's house, number 9 the Haywards, then (hidden) the Salvation Army citadel. -
Bendigo Historical Society Inc.
Photograph - CASTLEMAINE GAS COMPANY COLLECTION: PHOTO EXCAVATION
Worker on right hand side of trench leaning on shovel, excavator doing some digging and 2 truck on the left, 1 with rear to camera and other front to camera, middle foreground left is an attachment for the trenching machine, right side shows lawned nature strip with small tree and house in background next to excavator.Kodakorganisation, industry, gas and fuel -
Bendigo Historical Society Inc.
Photograph - MYERS CREEK DIGGINGS, c1867
Sepia photograph: Myers Creek Diggings, Victoria, Australia. Photographed by Claver Carroll from original photo by Batchelder. Hut under construction with man on top of it on left, two horse and carts in center, four men with shovels on right. Tents and partly constructed hut in background. Inscriptions/Markings Batchelder Photo, Sandhurst.Claver Carrollplace, mining site, myer's creek diggings -
Flagstaff Hill Maritime Museum and Village
Domestic object - Fire iron stand
Fire iron stand; black, all metal stand with a singular spine attached to rectangular base. below the handle on the spine is a horizontal 'U' shaped rack with a hook at each end and a hook at the centre back of the 'U' for hanging tools. Decorative metal handles on tools and rack. 4 parts; stand, brush, shovel, poker. Impressed into underside of stand "B1O2" and " ATWN"flagstaff hill, warrnambool, shipwrecked coast, flagstaff hill maritime museum, maritime museum, shipwreck coast, flagstaff hill maritime village, great ocean road, fire iron stand, fire iron, fire tools, fireplace set, fire iron set, domestic ware, heating -
Federation University Historical Collection
Book, Manual of Mining Tools, 1871
The author, William Morgans, was a lecturer on mining at the Bristol School of Mines. The owner of the book, William Baragwanath, was a former student of the Ballarat School of Mines who held the following positions: Department of Mines (1897-1922); director of the geological survey (1922-24); chief mining surveyor (1924-32); secretary for mines (1932-34); chief mining surveyor (1934-43); consultant to the Department of Mines (1943-50); President, Royal Society of Victoria (1943-44), councillor of the Ballarat School of Mines (1916-50).Hard cover book of 207 pages with buff cloth cover. The books covers materials andf processes used in the manufacture of tools, special uses, qualities and efficiciency. It includes 235 wood engravings of mining tools drawn to scale. Tools include borers, hammers, sledges, picks, shovels, spades, saws, helves and handles.Title page handwritten in ink 'W.B.' [William Baragwanath]mining, tools, ballarat school of mines, geology, bristol school of mines, government geologist, william baragwanath -
Orbost & District Historical Society
Photograph, 1930s
Maize has been grown on the Orbost flats for at least 70 years. When early settlers began to arrive on the Snowy River somewhere in the 1880s, the land was mostly swamps and heavily timbered jungle on the river frontages. The swamps were drained, bit by bit, with short handled shovels working in mud and water. The frontages were cleared by axe and shovel and fire. Several kinds of crops were experimented with such as hops, hemp and maize which grew particularly well and became the main crop of district. The problem then was to thresh and deliver the product to the market. A small single cob machine was brought here and one man turned the handle, while the boy or Mum fed the cobs singly into the machine. A good day’s work would thresh about 50 bushels or about 12 bags (4 bushels). The task then was to cart the maize to market. For a few years this was done by horses and dray carrying about 60 bushels to Mossiface, where it was loaded onto river boats to Lakes Entrance, and then by ocean boats to Melbourne. (information from NEWSLETTER OCTOBER, 2006)The growing of maize in the Orbost district contributed significantly to the economy of the township for many years, The many maize cribs once seen on the surrounding farms have now disappeared and this photograph is a pictorial record of that significance.A small sepia photograph with six men in front of a wooden barn. They are bagging maize. In the foreground are two rows of filled bags. On the right is a lifting machine to take the bags to the top storey. On the far right is a water tank on a stand"on back - "Thrashing Maize"maize-orbost agriculture-maize industry -
Red Cliffs Military Museum
Menu, POW Dinner Menu 1944, 1944 (exact)
Forms part of the A.J. (Blue) Roddy VX8007 Collection2 sheets of card used to make a menu, hand sketched xartoon on front in grey lead and ink of soldier leaning on a shovel. Inside is two menus. One is the ideal menu the second is the real menu, (Very Humerous) all hand written in ink. Brought home from POW camp by A.J. (Blue) Roddy VX8007Front page: 3rd POW/ Anniversary/ 1944/ Bottom Left corner: Notsch 10811/GW Page 1: MENU/ Hors-d'oeuores/Soup./ Consomme Minestrone Tomato Bouillon/ Fish/ Whiting Dover Soles Oysters./ Emtree/ Roast beef and Yorkshire Pudding/ Roast Pork and White sauce./ Grilled chops and peas./ Dessert. Peach Melba Fruit Salad and Cream/ Carlton Puding, Apple pie and Cream/ Ice Cream/ Coffee.// Page 2: Menu/ Horses Manoeures/ Etwas./ Yeatecomme,Tinned Tomato Bully./ Tons of it./ Salmon Red. Salmon Pink. Sardines Varied./ Enter./ Roast Bully and "Bengers" Yorkshire Pudding./ Roast Meat Roll and Horse radish sauce/ Garlic sausage Grilled spick and Etwas./ Desserted./ Rice Custard, custard,/ Fruit salad and klim, Notsch duff./ Currant Pudding and custard./ Cold klim./ Coffee - if lucky tea./ Captivity Plonk./ K.G.H. Schnapps, Soft Drinks/ Beer cocktails.of, world, war, prisoner, roddy, a j blue, menu, war11, notsch, 1944, stalag, xv111a -
Churchill Island Heritage Farm
Photograph - Photograph of two people and horse
Churchill Island Heritage Farm has a large photographic collection dating from the nineteenth century. This series showcases photographs taken in the 1930s and 1940s and shows people who lived and worked on the Island during the Jenkins period. This photograph shows two men gathering hay from the paddock in front of the dam on Churchill Island.Sepia photograph with white border of two people gathering hay. One man stands beside a loaded cart hitched to a horse, shovelling hay up towards a man standing on top. The dam and windmill is visible in the background, along with the shoreline on Churchill Island. Digitised from a high resolution copy (original Polaroid is in poor and fragile condition)nilchurchill island, photograph, arthur evans -
South Gippsland Shire Council
Photograph, Mounted, Frank Smith
Block mounted colour photograph featuring the artist Francis Smith. Shows a head and shoulders image of Smith, bare chested with long hair and full beard. He is resting his right hand on a wooden pole, possibly a shovel handle, and looks skywood. His fingers are dirty. Mounted on craftwood board with black painted edges. -
Bendigo Historical Society Inc.
Slide - DIGGERS & MINING. THE CHINESE ON THE GOLD FIELDS, C1867
Diggers & Mining. The Chinese on the Gold Fields. Slide: In a Ballarat Mine C. 1867. Only a few were employed in gold mines, and they usually did only surface work, Why? Picture; depicts miners pushing a loaded trolley, many of them have a shovel in hand. Markings: 17 (smudged number). Used as a teaching aid.hanimounteducation, tertiary, goldfields -
Bendigo Historical Society Inc.
Slide - DIGGERS & MINING: THE DIGGING - THE DIGGERS, c1850s
Diggers & Mining: The Digging - The Diggers. Slide; They were, of course, all kinds of diggers - but soon a recognizable digger ''type'' emerged. Slide shows a diggers with shovel on shoulder and cigarette in his mouth, cradle in background, tent 2 people and bushland in background. Black and white slide. Markings: 49 994.LIF:6. Used as a teaching aid.hanimounteducation, tertiary, goldfields -
Bendigo Historical Society Inc.
Postcard - ACC LOCK COLLECTION: ARMENTIERES AFTER GERMAN OFFENSIVE, AVENUE NEAR THE SQUARE, POSTCARD, 1914-1918
Postcard, WW1, B&W image of damaged buildings on an avenue near the square in Armentieres, after a German offensive. A group of men, some with shovels, walking down the avenue. Two men walking in front of corner building. One man digging in the road. Two men working in front of building down the avenue. Copy Y 5postcard, postcard, ww1, france, armentieres -
Otway Districts Historical Society
Photograph, Beech Forest: NA locomotive taking coal, c.1955
To a dead end spur at Beech Forest station a locomotive depot was provided with a coal stage, ash pit and water tank as part of the original facilities of the station. Coal was transported from Colac by rail and hand-shovelled up onto the stage from an NQ truck positioned alongside. Twin water columns on the stage ends enabled two NA class or both ends of a Garratt locomotive to take water simultaneously. Beneath the trestle was the ash pit.B/W. 200mm x 271mm. An NA locomotive on trestles taking coal at Beech Forest. A child watches.beech forest; railways; coal stage; na locomotive; -
Ballarat Tramway Museum
Photograph - Colour Photograph/s, William. F. Scott, 4/12/1995 12:00:00 AM
Colour photograph of installation of new sleepers into access track of Ballarat Tramway Museum, using a backhoe. Taken on 4.12.95. In photo are: Gary Wood (working with shovel), Richard Gilbert (with hat) and Greg Rogers. New sleeper being inserted. Remains of old sleeper by back hoe bucket. Photo appeared on page 22 of Trolley Wire, Feb. 1996.On rear in pencil is 4 inside a circle and stamp with sticker 'William F. Scott/ 4.12.95 23'btm, trackwork, sleepers -
Bendigo Historical Society Inc.
Slide - DIGGERS & MINING. THE DIGGING - THE DIGGERS, c1850s
Diggers & Mining. The Digging - The Diggers. Slide: (Strutt) OPEN AIR SERVICES AT THE DIGGINGS . . . In the open air . . . Slide depicts miners standing around a tree, a preacher at the tree giving a sermon, tents (one tent has mining flag on it) and trees in background, cradle, shovel and pick in foreground. Markings: 72 994.LIF:6. Used as a teaching aid.hanimounteducation, tertiary, goldfields