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Port Melbourne Historical & Preservation Society
Audio - Oral history, June KIRBY and Perce WHITE, Glen Stuart, 1995
Oral History of June KIRBY and Perce WHITE recorded by Glen STUART on 02.08.1995 at Liardet Community Centre. Experiences of June as the Port Melbourne History Librarian. And of Perce in local government. Period 1970s to 1994. Recording duration 22:20local government - city of port melbourne, june kirby, perce mcguire white, perce white, port melbourne library -
Whitehorse Historical Society Inc.
Article, Recorded history, 1995
Forest Hill Cricket Club celebrated its 40th anniversary, also the club's history was unveiled in a book 'A History of the Forest Hill Cricket Club'.Forest Hill Cricket Club celebrated its 40th anniversary, also the club's history was unveiled in a book 'A History of the Forest Hill Cricket Club'. Murray Howell with help from others has researched and collated the history.Forest Hill Cricket Club celebrated its 40th anniversary, also the club's history was unveiled in a book 'A History of the Forest Hill Cricket Club'. cricket, forest hill cricket club, howell, murray, mercuri, michael, mccormack, mark, gemma, marshall, bruce, dearing, peter, watson, della -
Melbourne Tram Museum
Document - Timeline - date history of Melbourne's tramways and public transport, 1983
Gives a timeline history of Melbourne's government (with some private, VR) tramway and bus transport from 1868 to 6 June 1983. Gives opening and closing dates for each electric and cable line. Provides information on events on specific and approx dates. Very similar in style to that of Barrry George et al and Don Storey work, with more details in some years. Not known who authored it, See item 840 for Don Storey version and 715 for Barry George et al version,Yields information about Melbourne's transport history.Document - 97 pages or 194 sheets photocopied and scanned,tramcars, tramways, melbourne, history, mmtb, cable trams -
Glen Eira City Council History and Heritage Collection
Book, "Moorabbin: A Pictorial History, 1862 - 1994", 1995
Copy of pictorial history book written by John Cribbin significantly signed by councillors and the author on the first page.The words "Moorabbin: A Pictorial History, 1862 - 1994" printed in brown colour in and oval at the top of a red, hard paper cover book, copy of an image of horse and carts and Gregg's Plough and Harrow Hotel, South Brighton below. Below that name of author "John Cribbin" is printed. -
Warrnambool and District Historical Society Inc.
Audio - Audio CD, Tapestry: our Pye family history through all generations, Early 21st century
This DVD gives information about the Pye family. Thomas Pye came to Sydney as convict in 1837 and was assigned to work for Captain Sylvester Brown and came to the Port Philip district with his master. Sylvester's son, Thomas, travelled to the Western District in 1844 and took Thomas and his wife. Mary with him. Thomas Browne later wrote novels under the name of Rolf Boldrewood . In his book " Old Melbourne Memories " Thomas Pye is given the name Joe Burge. Thomas Browne established the property "Squattlesea Mere" and Thomas Pye and his family settled in Port Fairy and then in Bessiebelle. Today this little settlement has many Pye descendants. The other matter of interest is that Thomas Pye's son,Charles Pye, gained the Victoria Cross in India and is buried at Tower Hill. his DVD is of historical interest because it records the story of the Pye family in the Western District.This is a DVD with blue hand writing on the front and an accompanying sheet of paper showing an English country scene. It is enclosed in a plastic mesh envelope.TAPESTRY Our Pye Family history through all generations by Elizabeth Pye.pye family, warrnambool, captain sylvester brown, thomas browne, rolf boldrewood -
Stawell Historical Society Inc
Book, Ken Hyslop, Campbells Bridge – Development and Social History 1861-1991, 1991
Compiled by Ken Hyslop for the Back to Campbells Bridge in November/ December 1991.Fawn Card Cover brown border enclosing title and sketch of house, and authors nameCampbell's Bridge Development and Social History 1861-1991. Compiled By Ken Hyslop.stawell -
The Beechworth Burke Museum
Audio - Oral History, Jennifer Williams, Mrs Margaret Galbriath, 24th May 2000
Mrs Margaret Galbraith was born in Beechworth in 1913 on the 5th February. Her parents immigrated to Australia in 1910 from England. Her father was killed after being thrown from a cart in 1912, and her mother eventually purchased the general store in which she worked from the Ladson family. Margaret has some insights into the local area during the Depression from the perspective of a store owner, as well as the presence of 'tramps' in the town, and Chinese immigrants in the community. She speaks a lot about her mother who was a very strong woman. She retired at 80. Margaret married a Ladson in Melbourne and had children. She lived at 47 Finch Street, Beechworth. This oral history recording was part of a project by Jennifer Williams in 2000 to capture the everyday life and struggles in Beechworth during the 20th century. This project involved recording 70 oral history stories on cassette tapes of local Beechworth residents, which were then published in a book called Listen to What they Say: Voices of 20th Century Beechworth. The cassettes were digitised in 2021 with funds made available by the Friends of Bourke.Mrs Margaret Galbraith's account of her life in Beechworth and the local area during the 20th century is historically and socially significant to the cultural heritage of the region. She details important historical events and hardships in the region's history that had a lasting local, regional and national impact, including Australia during war time, the Great Depression, immmigration, economic struggles, and women's societal roles in a rural area. This oral history account is socially and historically significant as it is a part of a broader collection of interviews conducted by Jennifer Williams which were published in the book 'Listen to what they say: voices of twentieth-century Beechworth.' While the township of Beechworth is known for its history as a gold rush town, these accounts provide a unique insight into the day-to-day life of the town's residents during the 20th century, many of which will have now been lost if they had not been preserved.This is a digital copy of a recording that was originally captured on a cassette tape. The cassette tape is black with a horizontal white strip and is stored in a clear, flat, plastic, rectangular container. It holds up to 40 minutes of recordings each sideMrs Margaret Galbraithlisten to what they say, ladson, oral history, bourke museum, beechworth, galbraith, margaret galbraith, general store -
The Beechworth Burke Museum
Audio - Oral History, Jennifer Williams, Mr Herbert McFeeters, 4 May 2000
Herbert McFeeters as born in Wooragee Creek in 11th July 1905. Mr McFeeters would walk to school in Beechworth by foot, about 3.5 miles through the hills. It would take him and his siblings one hour to get to school. Mr McFeeters worked at the local tannery from the age of 14 for 11 years. After which he worked for himself, farming cattle and selling milk around the region. Mr McFeeters bought land from the Crown, who were selling lands after many miners had left the region. Mr McFeeters recalls the Chinese community that remained the Beechworth area and the social activities in the town, including the pictures, football games and Harvest Festivals. This oral history recording was part of a project conducted by Jennifer Williams in the year 2000 to capture the everyday life and struggles in Beechworth during the twentieth century. This project involved recording seventy oral histories on cassette tapes of local Beechworth residents which were then published in a book titled: Listen to what they say: voices of twentieth century Beechworth. These cassette tapes were digitised in July 2021 with funds made available by the Friends of the Burke. Mr McFeeters oral history provides detail of life in rural Victoria during the early 20th Century. Mr McFeeters describes his early childhood and working life, including details of the social activities This oral history recording was part of a project conducted by Jennifer Williams in the year 2000 to capture the everyday life and struggles in Beechworth during the twentieth century. This project involved recording seventy oral histories on cassette tapes of local Beechworth residents which were then published in a book titled: Listen to what they say: voices of twentieth century Beechworth. These cassette tapes were digitised in July 2021 with funds made available by the Friends of the Burke. This is a digital copy of a recording that was originally captured on a cassette tape. The cassette tape is black with a horizontal white strip and is currently stored in a clear flat plastic rectangular container. It holds up 40 minutes of recordings on each side.Mr Herbert McFeeters /listen to what they say, beechworth, oral history, burke museum, herbert mcfeeters, wooragee creek, reid's creek -
The Beechworth Burke Museum
Audio - Oral History, Jennifer Williams, Mrs Elva Hill & Mrs Mary Martina, 22nd August 2000
This oral history interview was conducted with two sisters, Mrs Elva Hill and Mrs Mary Martina. They describe growing up in Beechworth, living a fairly well-off life compared to others around them. Mrs Martina in particular talks about going to school, becoming a teacher, and helping to set up Beechworth Secondary School. She talks briefly about gender roles for girls in the classroom and how teaching has changed over time. Mrs Hill and Mrs Martina describe the Beechworth community as friendly, including towards migrants, and suggest they were not particularly involved in political movements except for protesting after the dismissal of the Whitlam Government. They discuss visiting the Albury Show. The sisters briefly discuss 'them pushing the wheelbarrow to Mt Buffalo'. This refers to a publicised wager between garage proprietor Tom Parkinson and Post Office Hotel licensee Tony Evans in 1935. Evans challenged Parkinson to push him in a wheelbarrow for over 80km (with an elevation of 1000m) from the Beechworth Post Office to Mt Buffalo in just eight days, with the winner awarded twenty pounds. A brochure was published with official rules, and the incident made international news in the New York Times. They briefly discussed that their parents worked at the 'Mental Hospital', the full name of which was the Mayday Hills Mental Hospital, known at other points as the Beechworth Asylum and the Beechworth Hospital for the Insane. This oral history recording was part of a project conducted by Jennifer Williams in the year 2000 to capture the everyday life and struggles in Beechworth during the twentieth century. This project involved recording seventy oral histories on cassette tapes of local Beechworth residents which were then published in a book titled: Listen to what they say: voices of twentieth century Beechworth. These cassette tapes were digitised in July 2021 with funds made available by the Friends of the Burke.The statement captures a personal perspective on the teaching profession and education at rural schools during the mid-twentieth century, with a focus on the experience of young girls and women going to school. It specifically discusses the establishment of Beechworth Secondary School. Mrs Hill and Mrs Martina also provide insights into the social dynamics of the town, as two girls from a well-off family discuss how they believed people from different backgrounds interacted with one another. The interview also puts Beechworth into a wider social context, as the women discuss how they were perceived when they went to College and how they interacted with wider politics. This oral history account is socially and historically significant as it is a part of a broader collection of interviews conducted by Jennifer Williams which were published in the book 'Listen to what they say: voices of twentieth-century Beechworth.' While the township of Beechworth is known for its history as a gold rush town, these accounts provide a unique insight into the day-to-day life of the town's residents during the 20th century, many of which will have now been lost if they had not been preserved.This is a digital copy of a recording that was originally captured on a cassette tape. The cassette tape is black with a horizontal white strip and is currently stored in a clear flat plastic rectangular container. It holds up 40 minutes of recordings on each side.Mrs Elva & Mrs Mary Martina /listen to what they say, beechworth, oral history, burke museum, hill, martina, sisters, boarding school, rural school, primary school, beechworth secondary school, mayday hills mental hospital, gender, gender at school, entertainment, albury show, dress codes, wealth gap, whitlam dismissal -
Victorian Aboriginal Corporation for Languages
Book, First Australians : an illustrated history, 2008
"A landmark history of Indigenous Australia which accompanies a major nine part Australian television series. It combines the most rigorous academic research with capitvating contemporary story-telling. Richly illustrated book that includes images of the landscape, evocative ninteenth-century photography and Aboriginal art. Written by Australia's leading Indigenous historian and public intellectuals"--Provided by publisher.maps, document reproductions, b&w illustrations, colour illustrations, colour photographs, b&w photographscolonisation, race relations, australian aboriginal history, pictorial histories -
Ringwood and District Historical Society
Book, History of Ringwood East Transport (Red Cross), 2007
History of Ringwood East Red Cross Transport 1958-2007 plus Histories of Red Cross in Maroondah area - 45 pages -
Eltham District Historical Society Inc
Document - Award Certificate, Local History Grants Program 2017-2018 Awards, Eltham District Historical Society; Public Record Office Victoria, 2018
Local History Grant issued to Eltham District Historical Society to assist in furthering collection management objectives14 A4 pageseltham district historical society, local history grants program 2017-2018, public record office victoria (prov) -
Eltham District Historical Society Inc
Photograph, Local History Centre display for Opening Day, 12 Jul 1998
Opening Ceremony of Local History Centre, 728 Main Road, Eltham, Sunday, July 12th, 19982 colour photographseltham, main road, police residence, local history centre, eltham district historical society, opening day -
Eltham District Historical Society Inc
Photograph, Afternoon Tea in the Courthouse in celebration of the opening of the Local History Centre, 12 July 1998, 12/07/1998
Opening Ceremony of Local History Centre, 728 Main Road, Eltham, Sunday, July 12th, 19982 colour photographseltham, main road, police residence, local history centre, eltham district historical society, opening day, doug orford, gwen orford, jo mccormick, john graves, mary ryan, opal smith, peter bassett-smith -
Eltham District Historical Society Inc
Photograph, Diana and Peter Bassett-Smith unlocking the door to the Local History Centre, 12 July 1998, 12/07/1998
Opening Ceremony of Local History Centre, 728 Main Road, Eltham, Sunday, July 12th, 1998Roll of 35mm colour negative film, 7 stripsKodak Gold 200-6activities, eltham, eltham district historical society, main road, opening ceremony, local history centre, peter bassett-smith, diana bassett-smith -
Melbourne Tram Museum
Document, "History of Kew Depot", 21/6/2024
Digital document - "History of Kew Depot" by Hugh Waldron from the establishment of tramways in the area including steam tramways, horse tramways, background history to tramways, cable trams, building of the depot by the PMTT in 1915, operation by the MMTB, events, people, incidents, through to July 2017. Includes a bio of the author on page 54. Updated to 21/6/2024.Yields information about the history of Kew Depot and its relationship with Melbourne tramways.Digital document - 54 A4 pagestramways, crews, depots, kew depot, history, hugh waldron -
Lara RSL Sub Branch
Book, The Australian Army - A Brief History - 1993
The Australian Army - A Brief History - 1993 -
Ringwood and District Historical Society
Envelope, Ringwood Local history - E. M. Robertson
Local history - E. M. Robertson -
Ringwood and District Historical Society
Book, History of Croydon, 2005
Highlights of the History of Croydon published 2005 -
Ringwood and District Historical Society
Book, A Short History of Templestowe
A Short History of Templestowe published in 1982 -
Ringwood and District Historical Society
Book, Healesville - History in the Hills, 1982
Healesville - History in the Hills published 1982 -
National Vietnam Veterans Museum (NVVM)
Film - Film, USB, Photos of the history of 4th Battalion RAR
USB - History of the 4th Battalion RAR.4 rar -
Lakes Entrance Regional Historical Society (operating as Lakes Entrance History Centre & Museum)
Book, The Official History of the Avon Shire 1840-1900, 1951
A history of the Shire of Avon, Gippsland, Victoriasettlers, government -
Whitehorse Historical Society Inc.
Book, A History of Nunawading, 1972
A history of the area covered by the City of NunawadingA history of the area covered by the City of NunawadingA history of the area covered by the City of Nunawadingnunawading, blackburn, mitcham, vermont, burwood east, forest hill -
Tarnagulla History Archive
Booklet, Tarnagulla: A History, 1984-1985
A4 history booklet about Tarnagulla. -
National Vietnam Veterans Museum (NVVM)
Book, The Pentagon Papers: The Secret History of the Vietnam War, 1971
This is the definitive edition of the Pentagon Papers as published by the New York Times.The Pentagon history was obtained by Neil Sheehan.This is the definitive edition of the Pentagon Papers as published by the New York Times.vietnam war (1961-1975), united states - foreign relations - vietnam, vietnam - politics and government - 1945-1975 -
Unions Ballarat
Book - Australian Labour History (D.J. Spiers Collection), Patmore, Gred
Australian Industrial Relations series. Chapter headings: 1. Australian labour history 2. Convicts and free labour 1788-1850 3. A working man's paradise? Labour 1850-91 4. Labour and politics 1891-1957 5. Labour and the state: Compulsory arbitration and wages boards 1890-1914 6. Labour and capital: The labour process in Australia before 1972 7. Gender and work: Feminist labour historiography and equal pay in Australia 8. Race, ethnicity and work: Australia 1788-1972Significant to labour relations and unions in Australia.Book; paper.Front cover: Author's name and title. btlc, ballarat trades and labour council, history - labour -
Bialik College
Audio - Oral history interviews with Israel Kipen and Sara Segal, 1987, 1987
Four audio cassette tapes of approximately three hours of interviews with Israel Kipen, a founder of Bialik and its longest serving Council President. One audio tape of a one hour interview with Sara Segal, an early teacher at Bialik in Carlton. Both interviewed by librarian Jan Marshall in April 1987. There is also an associated file of notes and correspondence between Jan Marshall and Hilary Rubinstein, co-author of a bicentennial history of Australian Jewry. The interviews have been digitised. Please contact [email protected] to request access to this record.oral history, foundations -
Tatura Irrigation & Wartime Camps Museum
Booklet, Achieving Together A history of the Tatura Primary School 1874 - 1995, 1995
Compiled by school Council 1995. Dawes and Vary, Trevaskis Engineering and Bruce McTier and Associates contributed to cost of printing. Tells history of Tatura Primary School from 1874 - 1995.White cover with black writing. Title "Achieving Together. A history of Tatura Primary School 1874-1995. A celebration of 25 years at the new school" and a picture of Tatura State School Football Premiers 1959 on front cover. 39 pages.as abovetatura primary school, schools in victoria, education in victoria -
Greensborough Historical Society
Book - Digital Image, Greensborough - A History 1835-1988, with reference to Greensborough Primary School, 1835-1988
A History of Greensborough from 1835 to 1988, with details on Greensborough Primary School. Includes scanned photographs and newspaper articles.Digital copy of book.greensborough history, greensborough primary school