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Port Melbourne Historical & Preservation Society
Photograph - Betty Rohan at 'Thirst Aid' kiosk, Station Pier, Port Melbourne, Lloyd Holmes, 1991
Photographed by volunteer Lloyd Holmes, who did copying as well as originals for the Vintage Port Worth Preserving oral history project 1989-1991. Used in 'They Can Carry Me Out'Black and white photograph of Betty Rohan behind the 'fishing' counter of 'Thirst Aid' (western) Kiosk, Station Pier, 1991On back:'Betty Rohan 1991 - 25 years at Station Pier Western Kiosk (fishing tackle and baits added to sales stock at request of the many who fish from the per) Duplicate copy of Library's VP photo'piers and wharves - station pier, business and traders - kiosk, lloyd holmes, betty rohan, thirst-aid kiosk -
Port Melbourne Historical & Preservation Society
Photograph - Kiosk owner, Ted Rohan, Emerlad Hill Times, Apr 1996
Colour lasercopy from front page of Emerald Hill Times 3.4.1996 of kiosk owner Ted Rohan on Station Pier, at closing of western 'Thirst Aid' kiosk for demolitionbusiness and traders - kiosk, piers and wharves - station pier, demolitions, edward j (ted) rohan, thirst-aid kiosk -
Port Melbourne Historical & Preservation Society
Financial record - Invoice, Thirst Aid kiosk, Station Pier, Port Melbourne, 1950s
Various receipts and invoices from the Thirst Aid kiosk located on the western wing of Station Pier, 1953 to 1957 (Ref 1612)business and traders - kiosk, piers and wharves - station pier, melbourne harbor trust - port of melbourne authority, thirst aid kiosk, edward j (ted) rohan, kraft -
Coal Creek Community Park & Museum
Functional object - Three hat blocks
Oliver Gilpin (1874-1942), chain store proprietor, was born on 8 July 1874 at Seven Creeks near Euroa, Victoria, fourth child and second son of William Gilpin, farmer, and his wife Dinah, née Barton, both from Tyrone, Ireland. He was educated at local state schools and became a draper's assistant at Euroa. A testimonial as 'an energetic, pushing salesman, a careful stock-keeper … honest and industrious' gained him city experience with Ball & Welch Ltd, drapers, in their Carlton store. He used an inheritance to open a drapery store at Korumburra, south Gippsland, in 1895, moving to Rutherglen in the upper Murray valley in 1899. Frustrated by irregular stock deliveries, he moved to Fitzroy, Melbourne, in 1902, seeking a warehouse and the benefits of combined supplies for effective development of country trading. By 1905 he was producing many stock items at Northcote and had established retail outlets at Bendigo and Warracknabeal. Branches at Echuca, Numurkah and Yarrawonga followed in 1906, with ten more in 1907. He moved his city establishment to East Malvern in 1911, and had opened forty shops by 1920 and seventy-four by 1928. All were managed by women, on a strictly cash basis. Drapery remained the main line, supplemented by ironmongery, crockery, school requisites and toys. Gilpin saw the Depression years as a challenge. Between 1928 and 1931 he established eighteen new branches, including two in Tasmania, at Devonport and Ulverstone. The chain included South Australian branches at Mount Gambier, Millicent and Renmark, twenty-five stores in southern and western New South Wales, and ten in suburban Melbourne. Gilpin's Chain Store News was issued monthly. In 1944 Foy & Gibson acquired a controlling interest in Gilpin's business and in 1951 the chain was bought by G. J. Coles & Co. Ltd for £1,250,000. Three wooden blocks used to display hats. 9042.1 Slightly head shaped on top 9042.2 Light timber, flat on top, a wedge at back. 9042.3 Dark timber, flat on top.hat blocks, millinery, haberdashery, gilpin, korumburra -
Ithacan Historical Society
Photograph, Papadopoulos brothers, 1916
Pictured are brothers, on the left, Yiannis (Soufis) and on the right Anastasios (Stravolemis) Papadopoulos. Unknown man in centre. Anastasios migrated to Western Australia from Ithaca in 1912 and Yiannis (John) followed in 1913. They found work in Kalgoorlie where they experienced the race riots of 1916. In that same year they left W.A. and hitchhiked across the Nullarbor travelling by camel train, van and on foot to reach Melbourne where they both settled. John operated a fruit business in South Melbourne; Anastasios a fish and chips shop in Chapel Street South Yarra.A studio sepia photograph of an old torn photograph of two young men with an older man.pappas -
Bendigo Historical Society Inc.
Document - KELLY AND ALLSOP COLLECTION: CORRYONG GOLD MINING SYNDICATE - CIRCULAR, 12/07/1926 to 18/08/1926
Report of the Rising Sun Lease of 25 acres situated at Lake La Page, Western Australia, over which the Company has taken an option on the recommendation of Mr. F. J. Rashleigh, who inspected and reported on the property on behalf of the option holders.Corryong Gold Mining Co.business, stockbroker, kelly & allsop, kelly & allsop collection, corryong gold mining syndicate., lake la page, r.t.trembath, fred tricks. -
Bendigo Historical Society Inc.
Photograph - CARWARDINE COLLECTION: STREETVIEW CHARING CROSS AND VIEW POINT, BENDIGO
Black and white photo. Image shows Charing Cross and View Point, looking northwards up Pall Mall (taken from City Family Hotel?) View Point businesses evident are : National and Mutual Life; A.M. Armstrong newsagents with 'The Argus popular daily ' on front; Moran and Cato, Warren's View Point Hotel, with two storey veranda ( on side: Cameo Cigarettes). Tram in foreground in View Street approaching fountain. Hustler's Royal Reserve poppet head and chimney on western side of Pall Mall, smoke rising from engine house? Post Office building with clock tower in distance. On RH side of image: written on verandah, Woodrow's Southern Cross Hotel; E.L. Holdsworth Chemist and Shamrock Hotel in distance. Four horse drawn taxis in centre of Charing Cross roadway, near fountain. Receipt number 355/16bendigo, business, carwardine soap and candle -
Myrtleford and District Historical Society
Butcher's Knives, Circa 1850
Knives were retrieved from the shipwreck of the "Schomberg" at Curdies River, Western Victoria on December 26, 1855 by Joseph Paul, who subsequently moved to the Myrtleford district.A shipwreck retrieval which assisted the Paul family to establish a business to supply the gold mining fraternity with provisions after their arrival (via Beechworth) from 1857. The provender's site then became known as the Myrtle Creek HotelSteel butcher's knives with rivetted wooden handles and curved blades.Engraved "Pipe Brand"butcher's tools schomberg paul family -
Tatura Irrigation & Wartime Camps Museum
Photograph, Thomas Flanagan
... /9! Prior to this he had a travelling drapery business... to this he had a travelling drapery business in the Western District ...Thomas Flanagan opened his first store in Tatura in 1895 at the earnest persuasion of Cr. Thomas Hogan, with stock valued at .33/3/9! Prior to this he had a travelling drapery business in the Western District of N.S.W. with Mick Hogan.|In 1900 he built a new shop on the corner of Ross and Hogan Streets where he remained until a larger store was erected on the site where Foodwork's Supermarket now stands. The latter store was sold in 1973 when his son Tom retired from the business.tatura, flanagans store, costume, male -
Uniting Church Archives - Synod of Victoria
Photograph, 1986
Hamilton and Western District Boys' College was established in 1872 as a private business. It was acquired by the Presbyterian Church in 1911, relinquished in 1919 and re-acquired by the Presbyterian Church of Victoria in 1956. It amalgamated with Alexandra College in the 1962. Alexandra College for Girls was opened in 1872 as a private school and taken over by the Presbyterian Church in 1954.B & W exterior view of the entrance and tower of Hamilton College, Chaucer St. Hamilton.hamilton college, hamilton and western district boys' college, alexandra college, presbyterian church of victoria -
Victorian Aboriginal Corporation for Languages
Book, Joseph Lo Bianco, Australian policy activism in language and literacy, 2001
Australian Policy Activism in Language and Literacy presents the dynamics of language and literacy policy activism in Australia by capturing accounts of many of those most deeply engaged in Australia?s distinctive practice of Language and Literacy policy-making and its effects. This book describes how policy texts came about. 1. From policy to anti-policy: how fear of language rights took policy-making out of community hands /? Joseph Lo Bianco 2. Australia's language /? Paul Brock 3. Politics, activism and processes of policy production: adult literacy in Australia /? Rosie Wickert 4. Although it wasn't broken, it certainly was fixed: interventions in the Australian Adult Migrant English Program 1991-1996 /? Helen Moore 5. Advocating the sustainability of linguistic diversity /? Michael Singh 6. The cost of literacy for some /? Anthea Taylor 7. (E)merging discourses at work: bringing together new and old ways to account for workplace literacy policy /? Geraldine Castleton 8. The melody changes but the dance goes on - tracking adult literacy education in Western Australia from 'learning for life' to 'lifelong learning': policy impacts on practice 1973-1999 /? Margaret McHugh, Jennifer Nevard and Anthea Taylor 9. Sleight of hand: job myths, literacy and social capital /? Ian Falk 10. National literacy benchmarks and the outstreaming of ESL learners /? Penny McKay 11. Open for business: the market, the state and adult literacy in Australia up to and beyond 2000 /? Peter Kell 12. Inventiveness and regression: interpreting/?translating and the vicissitudes of Australian language policy /? Uldis Ozolins 13. Deafness and sign language in government policy documents 1983-1990 /? Des Power 14. Imprisoned by a landmark narrative? Student/?teacher ratios and the making of policy /? Merilyn Childs 15. Ideologies, languages, policies: Australia's ambivalent relationship with learning to communicate in 'other' languages /? Angela Scarino and Leo Papademetre 16. Reconciled to what? Reconciliation and the Norther Territory's bilingual education program, 1973-1998 /? Christine Nicholls 17. Sing out that song: the textual activities of social technologies in an Aboriginal community /? Jack Frawley.language activism, linguistic diversity, adult literacy, education, sign language, reconciliation, esl programs -
Stawell Historical Society Inc
Memorabilia - Realia, c1930's
Business Plaque. Electroplated Bronze North western Woollen Mills Pty Ltd. Registered Office stawell -
Peterborough History Group
Booklet - 1934 Western District Centenary Magazine, Terang Express, Western District Centenary Souvenir, 1934
"The Western District Centenary Souviner"Published in 1934 as an anniversary edition for Edward Henty making his historic landing on the shores of Portland Bay on November 19, 1834Has tourism and business advertisements for Peterborough businesses. Refers to families and and early settlers of Peterborough. Sold for ? in Barry Jenkins General StoreA magazine shaped booklet. Cover replaced with wall paper and bound with tape and string. Forward stuck to front cover. Browned with age and taped on a few pagesWholly set up, Printed and Published at THE TERANG EXPRESS""Office, Terangmoyne shire, peterborough 3270, western district souvenir, peterborough general store, london bridge, great ocean road -
Stawell Historical Society Inc
Product Stamps, Prodcut Stamps
Stamps different sizes used on Norwellen blankets. Norwellan is now clsoed North Western Woolen Mills became Norwellan Textiles then AUNDEEngraved Metal4 Legible stamps 4 ? Stamps 3 Pieces holding stampsstawell business industry -
Stawell Historical Society Inc
Banner, NORWELLAN
Norwellan Now clsoed Produced by Iver Evans Flags 220 Albion Street Brunswick Vic. 03 383 1388 Epol Bunting Type Size North Western Woolen Mills became Norwellan Textiles then AUNDEWhite Material Loose end frayed Norwellan sewn on in green logo BurgundyNorwellanstawell business industry -
Stawell Historical Society Inc
Banner, Aunde
North Western Woolen Mills became Norwellan Textiles then AUNDEWhite Material Blue Printed Aunde LogoAunde whith logo - Bluestawell business industry -
National Wool Museum
Stencil
Used by John Mitchell and perhaps by his father during the course of their wool growing business to mark wool bales at properties around Harrow in Western Australia and more recently in Bunninyong near Ballarat. Originally used with water based inks.1wool transportation, wool sales, export wool, wool brokering, wool - transportation, export - wool -
National Wool Museum
Stencil
Used by John Mitchell and perhaps by his father during the course of their wool growing business to mark wool bales at properties around Harrow in Western Australia and more recently in Bunninyong near Ballarat. Originally used with water based inks.2wool transportation, wool sales, export wool, wool brokering, wool - transportation, export - wool -
National Wool Museum
Stencil
Used by John Mitchell and perhaps by his father during the course of their wool growing business to mark wool bales at properties around Harrow in Western Australia and more recently in Bunninyong near Ballarat. Originally used with water based inks.5wool transportation, wool sales, export wool, wool brokering, wool - transportation, export - wool -
National Wool Museum
Stencil
Used by John Mitchell and perhaps by his father during the course of their wool growing business to mark wool bales at properties around Harrow in Western Australia and more recently in Bunninyong near Ballarat. Originally used with water based inks.Fleecewool transportation, wool sales, export wool, wool - transportation, export - wool -
National Wool Museum
Stencil
Used by John Mitchell and perhaps by his father during the course of their wool growing business to mark wool bales at properties around Harrow in Western Australia and more recently in Bunninyong near Ballarat. Originally used with water based inks.Owool transportation, wool sales, export wool, wool brokering, wool - transportation, export - wool -
National Wool Museum
Stencil
Wool bale marking stencil used by John 00 and perhaps by his father during the course of their wool growing business at properties around Harrow in Western Victoria and more latterly at Buninyong near Ballarat. (see worksheet)PIECESwool - transportation wool sales export - wool, wool - transportation, wool sales, export - wool -
Ballarat Heritage Services
Ceramic, Ceramic vessel with cork lid, c19701-1980s
Hof Pottery was established in 1971 in Fremantle, Western Australia by German born Helmut Hof and Australian born Elizabeth Hof. They set up a commercial pottery business in a small converted house in Naval Base, south of Fremantle. They later built a factory on the site and employed a team of people to make a wide range of slip cast wares. These were sold through retail garden centres and large department stores. The business name was deregistered in 2003. Work may be marked with an incised 'Hof' and/or have a paper label reading 'Hof Pottery made in Australia'.Ceramic vessel with cork lid incised 'Hof'ceramics, hoff, australian studio pottery -
Whitehorse Historical Society Inc.
Photograph, Canon
The East Burwood Canon building is at 33 Lakeside Drive, Burwood East. Canon makes cameras, lenses, printers, scanners, video-cameras, photo copiers and so on.Three coloured photographs of the Canon office in Tally Ho Business Park, which is on the corner of Burwood Highway and Springvale Road. One photo shows the western side of the Canon building (with the pond), one shows the curved southern side, and one shows the building looking east from Springvale Road.tally ho business park, east burwood, canon pty ltd -
City of Ballarat Libraries
Photograph, North Western Fruit Growers, Ballarat circa 1928
North Western Fruit Growers building, Ballarat c.1920s. This business was operated by F. Morrell, the building was located on the corner of Peel and Sheppard Streets. Peel St railway bridge can be seen in the distance.north western fruit growers, ballarat, f. morrell, commercial, railway bridge, peel street, sherrard street -
Robin Boyd Foundation
Card, Western Assurance Company
Business card for Gregory A Murrihy, Inspector, Western Assurance Company. -
Ballarat Tramway Museum
Manual, Bell Punch Co, "The Automaticket Bell Punch System of Fare Collection and Control", c1935
Yields information about the method that the State Electricity Commission of Vic undertook interviews for staff appointments. Gave advice of the era for such interviews and objectives of the interview.Thirty page book printed on heavy light brown paper, stapled with an folded card cover titled "The Automaticket Bell Punch System of Fare Collection and Control". Describes the Automaticket system, has samples of traffic tickets pasted in the book, diagrams, drawings, gives details of the components and method of operation in particular ticket inspection, ticket and checking back office functions. Published by the Bell Punch Company of London early to mid 1930's? Cover and each page headed "Confidential Information for Executives". Has a photo of South Western Roadlines double deck bus with a conductor. See also Reg. Item 3629 for another version of the pamphlet for this machine. In the rear cover of the book, folded and stapled to give a pocket, are listed three forms that would have been provided with the book - not with the collected copy. -However in the pocket were eleven 11 "Ticket Issue Machine" or "TIM" tickets - eg City of South Melbourne library fine, packing slips, sample meal tickets, Army canteen beer tickets, and sample bus tickets - including one pinned to a business card - John Bolland of Eastern Suburbs Omnibus Service who were the agents for the TIM machines. (image btm3645i3) Card has date of "4-1-50". Also three sample Bell punch tickets and one ultimate machine ticket - two 1d tickets. As well at the time of acquisition were a SEC Special Pass - to Reg Item 3648 and a SEC Staff Pass ticket - to Reg item 3649. Full scan of document added as a pdf file 5/6/2019. trams, tramways, tickets, ticket machines, buses, bell punch -
Bendigo Historical Society Inc.
Document - IAN DYETT COLLECTION: AUCTION CATALOGUE - BIG BELL GOLD MINE
Two red covered ( one with cloth tape on the spine and edges) auction catalogues for a sale at the Big Bell Gold Mine, Big Bell, Western Australia, held on the 22nd to 27th August 1955 and 29th to 31st August and 1st to 3rd September, 1955. Sale consisted of Mining Machinery, Engines, Electrical Equipment, Pumps, Stores, Housing, Rolling Stock and Costly Equipment by Order of Big Bell Mines Ltd. J. H. Curnow & Son Pty. Ltd. Were the auctioneers. One catalogue has Mr. Curnow written on the front.business, auctioneers, j h curnow & son pty ltd, ian dyett collection - auction catalogue - big bell gold mine, big bell mines ltd, j h curnow & son pty ltd, prahran telegraph printing co pty ltd -
Bendigo Historical Society Inc.
Administrative record - Account Book, 1859
John Mitchell was born c. 1830 in Cornwall and travelled to Victoria with his father in 1853. Arriving in Bendigo they both worked as blacksmiths before his father returned to Cornwall. John plied his trade in Mundy Street, Bendigo before selling the business in 1865 after 11 years. Upon the discovery of gold in Western Australia, John travelled there and back three times before dying in Bendigo in 1902. He lived in Violet st., and left a wife, Elizabeth Hannah, and daughter, Mrs E Morris. Early business in Sandhurst in 1850s.An account book used by the John Mitchell to record the purchases and services made with his business. Records date from 1859 - 1868. The book has lost its front cover, but the back cover is still attached. The book is made up of several sections stitched together and bound with three pieces of cotton cloth. The pages are light blue with ruled columns. There are alphabetical tabs at the front of the book with lists of names. Individual customers are allocated a double page entry. Pages numbers are written at the top of pages. The book is in very poor condition having obvious signs of water and insect damage with visible patches of mold. The writing in the first quarter of the book is barely legible, remaining pages can be read.bendigo businesses, blacksmith, horse shoer, wheelwright -
Kew Historical Society Inc
Plan - Subdivision Plan, Jas R Mathers Son & McMillan, Eastlawn Estate : East Kew Auction Sale, 1914
The Kew Historical Society's map collection includes a substantial number of real estate subdivision plans, mainly of Kew but also of surrounding suburbs in Melbourne. Most of the subdivision plans date from the 1920s and 1930s when the districts old homes and local farmland were being split up to accommodate residential growth in the postwar period. These early plans were assembled by a local firm, Jas R Mather & McMillan, which had an office in Cotham Road. Many of the plans, and sometimes photos, were annotated by the agents.Subdivision plans are historically important documents used as evidence for the growth of suburbs in Australia. They frequently provide information about when the land was sold as well as evidence relating to surveyors and real estate and financial agents. The numerous subdivision plans in the Kew Historical Society's collection represent working documents, ranging from the initial sketches made in planning a subdivision to printed plans on which auctioneers or agents listed the prices for which individual lots were sold. In a number of cases, the reverse of a subdivision plan in the collection includes a photograph of a house that was also for sale by the agent. These photographs provide significant heritage information relating house design and decoration, fencing and household gardens.The photograph may also be aesthetically significant depending on the importance of the photographic atelier.The ‘Eastlawn Estate’ was surveyed and ready for auction in March 1914, three months before the outbreak of World War I. Sixty-six allotments, created on the ‘order of Mr & Miss Preston’ surrounded the mansion of Woodlands in Harp Road. Woodlands formed part of the Estate, being advertised as lot 1. The allotments faced High, Station and Wright Streets, Harp and Normanby Roads, and Woodlands Avenue. Pru Sanderson in the Kew Conservation Study (Vol.2, 1988) wrote that the Eastlawn Estate ‘covered the western half of the failed Harp of Erin Estate’. Contemporary advertisements promoted the Eastlawn Estate as: ‘There will be no more convenient district nor pleasant Suburb than East Kew for the busy business man. When the Electric Tram is laid, he will be able to journey quickly and pleasantly direct from Collins Street to his home in the Eastlawn Estate in about 20 minutes’. The actual plans of subdivision were included in advertisements in The Argus and in the local newspapers."C" top left. Various annotations.subdivision plans - kew, station street, normanby road, high street, woodlands avenue, harp road, woodlands - kew