Thousands of volunteers work tirelessly to conserve and protect the environment of Geelong and the Bellarine. Their work often goes unnoticed. In 'The Work of Nature' the National Wool Museum and the Environment Department at the City of Greater Geelong worked with photographer Nicole Marie to showcase the significant contribution of environment volunteers in our region. Each of the eight people showcased in these portraits were nominated by their peers and members of the community for their significant contribution to conserving and protecting the environment. John Fyfe - Friends of Edwards Point, the Bellarine Catchment Network and many more For over twenty years John Fyfe has been actively involved in all areas of restoring native vegetation on numerous locations throughout the Bellarine. John’s passion for caring for the environment and sharing his vast knowledge has earnt him wide respect from the community. John is not only approachable but a great communicator. His vast knowledge has made the go to person for help on support on all matters regarding revegetation. John introduced direct seeding to the Friends of Edwards Point team, which has been successful on numerous sites within Edwards Points Reserve. The approach has been adopted throughout the reserve. Reflecting on John’s impact to the local community, local residents widely refer to him as a “living legend,” while others simply say, “there should be more John Fyfe’s in the world.” Photo at Edwards Point Wildlife Reserve by Nicole Marie.Image showing an environmental portrait of a man standing in grasslands with trees in the background.environment, conservation, portraits, geelong, nature, exhibition, work of nature, geelong nature forum, volunteers, edwards point

This negative was found loose in the first of three albums compiled and owned by J W Allen, Secretary of New South Wales Grazier's, and is associated with the New South Wales Graziers Association world tour of sheep 1928-1929. The album contains photographs of travel, sheep, farms, stations, people and landscapes from around the world. Locations include Naples, Port Said, Suez, Birregurra (Vic), Alexandra (Vic), Ballangeich (Vic), Keith (SA), Mt Gambier (SA), Buckland Park (SA), Tasmania, Winton (QLD), Sydney Harbour, Canberra (ACT), Toowoomba (QLD), Rockhampton (QLD), Tocal (NSW), Deepwater (NSW), Glen Innes (NSW), Longreach (QLD), Moree (NSW), Barraba (NSW) and Mudgee (NSW). Properties depicted include Mooleric, Turkeith, Woolongoon, Minadale, Crower Station, Merrindie, Koomooloo Station, Cappeedee, Koonoona, Rathmore, Ellenthorpe, Camden Park Station, Glenlegh, Strathmore Station, Ilparran Station, Binneguy, Midkin, Terlings, Ashley, Bereen, Plumthorpe, Mayvale and Havilah. The album was found in a clean out at the Great Southern Agricultural Research Institute and donated to the National Wool Museum, along with other related material such as photographs, glass lantern slides and ephemera.Black and white negative showing sheep in stockyards with trees and hill in background.agriculture, sheep, farming, stations, research, breeding, photography, travel

This photograph was found loose in the first of three albums compiled and owned by J W Allen, Secretary of New South Wales Grazier's, and is associated with the New South Wales Graziers Association world tour of sheep 1928-1929. The album contains photographs of travel, sheep, farms, stations, people and landscapes from around the world. Locations include Naples, Port Said, Suez, Birregurra (Vic), Alexandra (Vic), Ballangeich (Vic), Keith (SA), Mt Gambier (SA), Buckland Park (SA), Tasmania, Winton (QLD), Sydney Harbour, Canberra (ACT), Toowoomba (QLD), Rockhampton (QLD), Tocal (NSW), Deepwater (NSW), Glen Innes (NSW), Longreach (QLD), Moree (NSW), Barraba (NSW) and Mudgee (NSW). Properties depicted include Mooleric, Turkeith, Woolongoon, Minadale, Crower Station, Merrindie, Koomooloo Station, Cappeedee, Koonoona, Rathmore, Ellenthorpe, Camden Park Station, Glenlegh, Strathmore Station, Ilparran Station, Binneguy, Midkin, Terlings, Ashley, Bereen, Plumthorpe, Mayvale and Havilah. The album was found in a clean out at the Great Southern Agricultural Research Institute and donated to the National Wool Museum, along with other related material such as photographs, glass lantern slides and ephemera.Black and white photograph showing sheep in the foreground with sheds and trees in the background. back: [handwritten] D / Terlings Moree / Flock ewes / [printed] VELOXagriculture, sheep, farming, stations, research, breeding, photography, travel

This photograph was found loose in the first of three albums compiled and owned by J W Allen, Secretary of New South Wales Grazier's, and is associated with the New South Wales Graziers Association world tour of sheep 1928-1929. The album contains photographs of travel, sheep, farms, stations, people and landscapes from around the world. Locations include Naples, Port Said, Suez, Birregurra (Vic), Alexandra (Vic), Ballangeich (Vic), Keith (SA), Mt Gambier (SA), Buckland Park (SA), Tasmania, Winton (QLD), Sydney Harbour, Canberra (ACT), Toowoomba (QLD), Rockhampton (QLD), Tocal (NSW), Deepwater (NSW), Glen Innes (NSW), Longreach (QLD), Moree (NSW), Barraba (NSW) and Mudgee (NSW). Properties depicted include Mooleric, Turkeith, Woolongoon, Minadale, Crower Station, Merrindie, Koomooloo Station, Cappeedee, Koonoona, Rathmore, Ellenthorpe, Camden Park Station, Glenlegh, Strathmore Station, Ilparran Station, Binneguy, Midkin, Terlings, Ashley, Bereen, Plumthorpe, Mayvale and Havilah. The album was found in a clean out at the Great Southern Agricultural Research Institute and donated to the National Wool Museum, along with other related material such as photographs, glass lantern slides and ephemera.Black and white photograph showing sheep in a field in the foreground with trees in the background. back: [handwritten] Lennoxville Farm / [printed] 265agriculture, sheep, farming, stations, research, breeding, photography, travel

This photograph was found loose in the first of three albums compiled and owned by J W Allen, Secretary of New South Wales Grazier's, and is associated with the New South Wales Graziers Association world tour of sheep 1928-1929. The album contains photographs of travel, sheep, farms, stations, people and landscapes from around the world. Locations include Naples, Port Said, Suez, Birregurra (Vic), Alexandra (Vic), Ballangeich (Vic), Keith (SA), Mt Gambier (SA), Buckland Park (SA), Tasmania, Winton (QLD), Sydney Harbour, Canberra (ACT), Toowoomba (QLD), Rockhampton (QLD), Tocal (NSW), Deepwater (NSW), Glen Innes (NSW), Longreach (QLD), Moree (NSW), Barraba (NSW) and Mudgee (NSW). Properties depicted include Mooleric, Turkeith, Woolongoon, Minadale, Crower Station, Merrindie, Koomooloo Station, Cappeedee, Koonoona, Rathmore, Ellenthorpe, Camden Park Station, Glenlegh, Strathmore Station, Ilparran Station, Binneguy, Midkin, Terlings, Ashley, Bereen, Plumthorpe, Mayvale and Havilah. The album was found in a clean out at the Great Southern Agricultural Research Institute and donated to the National Wool Museum, along with other related material such as photographs, glass lantern slides and ephemera.Black and white photograph showing sheep in a field in the foreground with trees in the background. back: [handwritten] Lennoxville Farm / [printed] 265agriculture, sheep, farming, stations, research, breeding, photography, travel

Wesley PEMBERTHY (1920- ) Born Broken Hill, New South Wales Wesley Pemberthy spent his childhood in Adelaide, South Australia. As an adult he lived in Bendigo, Ballarat, Clunes, Creswick, Daylesford and Perth. While in Perth he studied at Perth Technical School (1933-1937), followed by studies under the tutorship of Norman Lindsay in New South Wales (1938-1941). After service during World War Two Wes Pemberthy became the first Rehabilitation student at the National Gallery School, Victoria, undertaking research into the techniques of the Old Masters. He was the winner of the Sulman Award in 1955. The Sulman Prize is awarded for the best subject painting, genre painting or mural project by an Australian artist.Framed painting showing a number of brightly dressed people in a treed landscape. artists, artwork, wes pemberthy, wesley pemberthy, aborigines, aboriginal

Gardens, Port Fairy panoramic view. The Port Fairy Botanical Gardens were formed in 1856 making it one of the earliest gardens in Victoria. The first curator was James Prior, he was paid fifty-two pounds per annum. He was an outstanding curator having been apprenticed to the trade in England at the age of 12, his brother Edward in later years was the Curator of the Koroit Gardens. Prior retired in 1903. During the years of his curatorship Port Fairy was said to have the best gardens outside the city of Melbourne, he was constantly in touch with Baron Von Mueller and later Guilfoyle of the Royal Botanical Gardens of Melbourne. In the early years plants from all over the world were planted here with varying rates of success many of them sent by Baron Von Mueller. In the 1930’ and 40’s the gardens were still very beautiful, and the curator was Roy Manuell. The beautiful iron gates at the entrance were destroyed in the 1946 floods and were replaced in 1989 using some of the material from the original gates. From the 1950’s on the gardens went into a state of decline, much being taken up by the caravan park until in 1986, after a public meeting ‘Friends of the Gardens’ was founded when the entrance section was restored. Black and white panoramic photograph of the bare limbed trees in the botanical gardensGardens, Port Fairy- A.C.Aberline, 26 Faversham Road, Canterburygardens, winter, trees, botanical

Note by T.H. Kneen 19 November 1991, "The clipped shrub could be Ligustrum lucidum tricolor (a privet) - E.B. Littlejohn thinks it could be something else - possibly a variegated Euonymous."2 copies black and white photograph. Pathway with trees planted alongside.trees, shrubs, garden view

Georgina Whitehead-who is producing a book on public gardens of Melbourne City Council - believes it to be Sinclair's Cottage in the Fitzroy Gardens. Note by T.H. Kneen 19 November 1991, "subject of an excursion."Black and white photograph. View through canopy of trees to house in background.trees, georgina whitehead, sinclair's cottage, fitzroy gardens, excursion

Funding for the construction of the Rotunda was bequeathed in the Will of local resident Mrs Annie Williams, who was born in Daylesford in 1872 and died in Kew in 1930. Annie’s Will stipulated that the remaining value of her Estate be spent on erecting a Bandstand in the Port Fairy Botanical Gardens dedicated to the memory of her brother Hugh, a stretcher bearer in WW1 and who died in 1921 after being discharged with health issues, her husband Henry, and herself naturally. There is a plaque dedicated to Annie on the Bandstand She requested that the Bandstand be a replica of the one at Daylesford but by 1933 the value of her Estate had diminished to £76.4/8 which was insufficient to cover a similar design and the Borough Councillors felt it would be too extravagant for the Port Fairy Botanical Gardens. Local builder J.J.McLaren’s tender of £71.15/- was accepted and the octagonal concrete pillared construction was completed with the use of sustenance labour the following year. The Bandstand was opened in December, 1934 with a performance by the Port Fairy Band and local residents enjoying the entertainment and a picnic. In 1934 it was reported that there was some fuss in Council because of the whereabouts of the sum of approximately £3/- , being the amount left over from the build. After some months of debate, in which the Councillors suggested that the Engineer had used the money inappropriately, and to which he responded that the build had cost more than the quote, the matter seems to have ended there Coloured photograph (hand tinted) of the stand of cypress trees leading to the rotundaThe Park, Port Fairy - No. 3botanical, garden, cypress, tree, rotunda

significant as a work of art by local Pyrenees artist, locally significant to the Central Highlands Region of Victoria as a representation of local landscape and/or culture Landscape in oil paint, trees in foreground, possibly Mt Cole in backgroundverso: HEDGES 3091C

significant as a work of art by local Pyrenees artist, locally significant to the Central Highlands Region of Victoria as a representation of local landscape and/or culture pastel drawing of a street scene with old house, trees and unpaved road"Signed: IAN L ANDERSON 95 (lower right) Titled: SCHOOL ROAD - WATERLOO (lower centre) Verso (affixed): ""SCHOOL ROAD - WATERLOO"" PASTEL AND CHARCOAL PENCIL PAINTING by IAN L. ANDERSON 14 MILLAR CRESCENT MT WAVERLEY 3145 signed: Ian Anderson '95 $500"

Horse standing by a lake on the property of the Methodist Children's Homes, Cheltenham. The photograph is taken from Tennyson Street, looking towards Point Nepean Road.This image shows the land in Cheltenham, that later became Southland Shopping Centre. The land originally belonged to the Methodist Church, who operated a Children's Home on the property.Black and white image of a horse standing next to a tree trunk by a lake. cheltenham, methodist children's homes, southland, environment

Framed oil painting of Schwerkolt Cottage, smoke house & surrounding trees.Donald Camerondonald cameron, schwerkolt

294 p. : pale blue cover embossed with pattern of leaves/treesfictionBook centres around the life of Joseph Quinney, a London antique dealer. Explores Quinney's relationship with his family, his business rivalries, love, and romance. fiction, antique dealers, horace annesley vachell

Black and white photo: landscape view of Bendigo valley looking towards One Tree Hill in distance. Great Extended Hustlers timber mine buildings, chimney and poppet head in foreground, trees middle ground, One Tree Hill in background. On back 'Mng10' In pencil - 'Great Extended Hustlers Freehold looking south, Moore St., just north of mine'. James Lerk ' From Hustlers Hill looking over Bendigo to One Tree Hill' late 19C, early 20C ?bendigo, gold mining, great extended hustlers, great extended hustlers mine, mining, one tree hill, camp hill primary school

Carvings by more recent Wurundjeri people on three trees. This tree represents the tree of knowledge. Heriitage Excursion - Kileavey Walk and TalkBorn Digitalactivities, eltham district historical society, heritage excursion, kileavey, parks victoria, laughing waters road, eltham, wurundjeri

Written on backing sheet, "Inside front bedroom of miners cottage. Note split palings for walls. Round tree trunks".

Hardcover w/ Dust JacketPrint out from Victorian Arts Centre Artistically Speaking Luncheon with Boyd family tree & profile of Martin Boydjoan sutherland, soprano, opera, walsh st library

Silver metal plaque painted red, commemorating the life of student Chris Francis This tree was planted in memory of CHRIS FRANCIS. Loved and respected WHS student 1982-1993. Died 7th December 1994

Neilma Gantner, 7th November 1922 - 15 June 2015 was an author and the daughter of Merlyn (née Baillieu) and Sidney Myer. Her father Simcha Myer Baevski, was born in present day Belarus and began his retail dynasty with his brother Elcon Myer, establishing a small drapery shop in Bendigo and growing the business in the subsequent years to Myer Ltd 1925.Hand shovel currently in use for ceremonial plantings and sod turnings by the City. Plastic handle with silver rectangle head. Inscribed on the back.7th AUGUST, 1999 / TREE PLANTED IN ROSALIND PARK BY / MRS NEILMA GANTNER / TO COMMEMORATE / THE SIDNEY MYER CENETENARY CELEBRATIONS. myer, baillieu, gantner, city of greater bendigo ceremonial item, city of greater bendigo events

Good photo of Australian Light Horse showing the horses and equipment.Photo in wooden frameUnfortunately no details of location. Based on the background and the many gum trees it is likely to be in Australia during training prior to disembarkation to Egypt.

Postcard, WW1, B&W image of the Bois L'Abbe facing Villers Bretonneux. Defoliated trees in background, a tank at the right of the trees and part of a tank shown at the left. Grassland in foreground. Copy G 12postcard, postcard, ww1, bois l'abbe, villers bretonneux, tank

Photograph of a stone church with a distinctive bell tower at the front, having two sets of open air bells at the top.( place and denomination unknown) To the right of this there are some trees and behind the trees appears to be another church.buildings, church, stone, stone church, bell tower

Photograph - black and white. Photo of the Soldiers Memorial Hall, Bendigo, a different angle. Right hand corner of photo No.7. Iron fence surrounding gardens to the right. Palm tree and tree trunk to the left.buildings, government, soldiers memorial hall., soldiers memorial hall bendigo.

Oil on canvas board, landscape painting in muted tones of an dry creek bed. Trees line the creek banks and a log bridge crosses the creek bed, perhaps built from the local tree timbers.Lower right, black paint 'Yvonne Ball'