Black and white photograph showing two tourist ferries, MV Rubeena and possibly MV Loch Ard, tied up below the old Swan Reach bridge on the Tambo River. Shows three ladies on the Rubeena, and one man on the Loch Ard. The Union Jack flag flying on the Loch Ard. Swan Reach Victoriawaterways, boats and boating, tourism

Note Walings are completeBlack and white photograph showing passenger boat, Eclipse near walings on west side of entrance, six people on board, small boats against walings, crane on end. Lakes Entrance Victoriawaterways, township, islands, jetties, aerial photograph

Names of students in file.Sepia photograph showing group of fifty six children at Lakes Entrance Secondary School, Lakes Entrance Victoriaschools

Also on loose piece of paper, names of children, in fileBlack and white digital computer print out of Primary School class photograph twenty three children. Teacher not included. Johnsonville Victoriaschools

Black and white photograph of the Harold Peel family showing a man and woman standing with two women and four children dressed up as if for church, baby in cane pram. Lakes Entrance Victoriagenealogy, celebrations

Green hardcovers, red spine, front cover damaged

Harold HERBERT (1891–1945) A well known watercolour painter who was principal of the Ballarat Technical Art School.A framed etching showing a farmer with a plough which is being pulled by a team of horses.Lower right corner - Harold Herbert for the Old Colonists' Club 1931harold herbert, old colonists' club ballarat, agriculture, farming, horses, animals, plough

A Dayton tennis racquet, with a steel head, and small, open throat, and, wooden shaft and deep-grooved handle. Racquet strings made from piano wire. Decal inscription on obverse: NEW/DAYTON/RACQUETS. Materials: Wood, Metal, Glue, Lacquer, Leather, String, Ink, Painttennis

Shows the buildings, vehicles and trams c1923 at the east end of Sturt St - photo has been coloured.Digital image from the Wal Jack Ballarat Album of a coloured print of Sturt St looking west from Grenville St with an ESCo tramcar standing along side the old tram shelter - c1923. Note the advertisement on normally what is a Suttons advert and the Indian - along side the horse drawn cart. High resolution image scanned at 2400dpi.No details on back of photo - see image i2trams, tramways, esco, sturt st, grenville st

watercolourhampton, evening, beach, foreshore, landscape, victor cobb, coast, bayside, sand, shrub, tree

In 1888, in the section of Park Hill Road between Belmont Avenue and Normanby Road there was only one street running between Park Hill Road and Cotham Road. This was Park Road, later to be named Adeney Avenue. Subsequent 20th century subdivisions created the ‘through roads’ of Cecil Street, Wimba Avenue, Florence Avenue, Marshall Avenue, Uvadale Road, and Barrington Avenue. This subdivision represents an attempt by auctioneers, rather than town planners to create an urban environment from larger residential allotments or in many cases farmland. Existing streets such as Parkhill and Normanby Roads provided a convenient starting point for the surveyors, but the Road named ‘Street Street’ indicates the role of the private surveyor in creating streets. Given that a number of allotments are listed as sold on the plan, the street is presumably Cecil Street. Even those lots that had been sold do not quite match the dimensions of the blocks in this parcel of land today, indicating that either further subdivisions or boundary alterations occurred.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.Hand-drawn subdivision plan of 19 lots facing Parkhill Road, Normanby Road, and an unnamed street [now Cecil Street] in Kew.Estate Agent notes in ink indicate those lots which had sold.subdivision plans - kew, parkhill road - kew, cecil street - kew, normanby road - kew, cecil street -kew, parkhill road - kew, normanby road - kew, crown portion 83 - kew

A Spalding 'Geneva 3D' tennis racquet, featuring: solid convex throat; and, fine-grooved, octagonal handle. 'A.G. Spalding & Bros. Made in U.S.A.' logo encircling ball trademark features on throat on reverse. Decal of model name features across throat on obverse. Materials: Wood, Lacquer, Glue, Metal, Ink, Gut, Leather, Paint, Stringtennis

A Spalding 'Lakeside no.5' model tennis racquet, featuring concave throat & fine-grooved octagonal wooden handle. Has string whipping and plastic reinforcements around shoulders. Plastic reinforcement around shaft too. Also has a leather end wrap and leather butt cloth. Model name printed on throat on obverse, and manufacturer logo printed on throat on reverse. Logo also printed on butt cloth. Materials: Wood, Metal, Lacquer, Glue, Gut, Ink, String, Leather, Plastictennis

Book: 'Singles & Doubles'. 195 pages. First Edition. Hardcover. Materials: Paper, Ink, Cardboardtennis

Booklet: 'How To Play Lawn Tennis' fromthe Spaldings Athletic Library. Softcover. Issue number: 'Group IV No. 157'. Materials: Paper, Inktennis

A cardboard advertisement shaped in the form of a tennis bat/paddle, promoting Emerson's Ginger-Mint Julep. Front features illustration of a young ladt playing tennis. Materials: Cardboard, Inktennis

A four page instruction manual for the game of Paddle tennis (known in Australia as Bat Tennis). The cover features a photo image of boys and girls playing a bat tennis game in Washington Square, New York City. Materials: Paper, Inktennis

A small poster promoting the game of Paddle tennis (known in Australia as Bat Tennis). It features a photo image of boys and girls playing a bat tennis game in Washington Square, New York City; an illustration of a 'paddle'; lawn tennis player endorsements; and media reports. Materials: Paper, Inktennis

A 64-page booklet entitled: TENNIS SIMPLIFIED. Written by Eleanore Tennant and Maurice McLoughlin. Materials: Paper, Ink, Metaltennis

James Venn Morgan was known affectionately as ‘The Father of Kew’. Born in Somersetshire on February 21, 1823, he sailed to Australia in April, 1851. Morgan was one the most important landowners and pioneers in Kew. He founded the Model Dairies. Studio portrait, mounted on card, of James Venn Morgan on the occasion of his 100th birthday. JAMES VENN MORGAN ON HIS 100TH BIRTHDAY / 21/2/23james venn morgan, model dairy, pioneers -- kew (vic.)

James Venn Morgan was one of the early landowners in Kew. In later life he owned the Model Dairy. This work forms part of the collection assembled by the historian Dorothy Rogers, that was donated to the Kew Historical Society by her son John Rogers in 2015. The manuscripts, photographs, maps, and documents were sourced by her from both family and local collections or produced as references for her print publications. Many were directly used by Rogers in writing ‘Lovely Old Homes of Kew’ (1961) and 'A History of Kew' (1973), or the numerous articles on local history that she produced for suburban newspapers. Most of the photographs in the collection include detailed annotations in her hand. The Rogers Collection provides a comprehensive insight into the working habits of a historian in the 1960s and 1970s. Together it forms the largest privately-donated collection within the archives of the Kew Historical Society.James Venn Morgan and his three daughtersJames Morgan and 3 daughtersjames venn morgan, dorothy rogers

The Kew Historical Society collection includes almost 100 subdivision plans pertaining to suburbs of the City of Melbourne. Most of these are of Kew, Kew East or Studley Park, although a smaller number are plans of Camberwell, Deepdene, Balwyn and Hawthorn. It is believed that the majority of the plans were gifted to the Society by persons connected with the real estate firm - J. R. Mathers and McMillan, 136 Cotham Road, Kew. The Plans in the collection are rarely in pristine form, being working plans on which the agent would write notes and record lots sold and the prices of these. The subdivision plans are historically significant examples of the growth of urban Melbourne from the beginning of the 20th Century up until the 1980s. A number of the plans are double-sided and often include a photograph on the reverse. A number of the latter are by noted photographers such as J.E. Barnes.An agent’s board on which parts of an advertisement for the Central Park Estate have been pasted. [The State Library of Victoria holds a complete plan]. Whereas the original plan included black and white photographs and effusive prose about the virtues of the Estate, the item in our collection includes only the actual blocks. The agent has annotated particular blocks to indicate that they have been sold.subdivision plans - deepdene - camberwell, central park estate

The Kew Historical Society collection includes almost 100 subdivision plans pertaining to suburbs of the City of Melbourne. Most of these are of Kew, Kew East or Studley Park, although a smaller number are plans of Camberwell, Deepdene, Balwyn and Hawthorn. It is believed that the majority of the plans were gifted to the Society by persons connected with the real estate firm - J. R. Mathers and McMillan, 136 Cotham Road, Kew. The Plans in the collection are rarely in pristine form, being working plans on which the agent would write notes and record lots sold and the prices of these. The subdivision plans are historically significant examples of the growth of urban Melbourne from the beginning of the 20th Century up until the 1980s. A number of the plans are double-sided and often include a photograph on the reverse. A number of the latter are by noted photographers such as J.E. Barnes.The so-called Camberwell Mountain View Estate was a subdivision on ‘the corner [of] Burke Road, Eyre and Wills Streets, Deepdene’. The Estate was not the first attempt to subdivide this land holding. In 1884, 1888 and 1894 the Belmore Park subdivision proposed 18 allotments for this parcel of land. The final stages of the Belmore Park subdivision occurred during the Depression of the 1890s. Apart from perhaps one block facing Burke Road, which is unnumbered in the Mountain View Estate subdivision, the rest must have remained unsold. The later subdivision would redraw the original 18 allotments, creating 22 new lots. In the Locality Plan on the left side of the subdivision plan, Deepdene Station, which formed part of the Outer Circle Railway is represented, as is the location of Deepdene Primary School. A selling point was the proposed extension of the Burke Road tram beyond its terminus at Cotham Road. The extension did not eventuate.subdivision plans - camberwell, mountain view estate

Frances Rigg was a local business identity in Kew, at one stage managing the local branch of the English, Scottish and Australian (ES&A) Bank at 175 High Street from c. 1920 until the 1940s. After Francis Rigg’s death, the collection of buttons and medallions was inherited by his son, Ken Rigg (1922-2014). The collection was subsequently donated to the Kew Historical Society in 2015 by Francis' grandson, Adrian Rigg, at the time of the Gallipoli & Beyond Commemoration in 2015. The collection covers a period of almost 40 years. The majority of the buttons are patriotic buttons, issued and sold during and immediately after the First World World War (1914-1918) to raise funds for national and overseas causes. The collection also includes a number of locally significant sporting event buttons and sporting club medallions, issued in the 1920s and 1930s.Patriotic and other pressed tin buttons and badges were produced in large numbers in the first decades of the twentieth century. By nature, insubstantial and ephemeral, they have not always survived. The collections of badges, buttons and medallions in the Kew Historical Society collection is homogenous and yet diverse, ranging from buttons sold to raise funds for the war efforts in 1914-18 and 1939-45, to those used at festivals and sporting events. Because of the manufacturing process, many surviving buttons and badges have been affected by inadequate storage, suffering from oxidisation and physical damage. These survivors are now historically and socially significant artefacts, revealing much about the attitudes and values of the period in which they were produced. Their widespread distribution means that they are frequently significant at a local, state, national and international level.Small circular pressed tinplate badge, produces for fundraising purposes featuring an image of Santa Claus and a nurse beside a hospital bed. The words Queen Victoria Hospital surround the image."QV / Queen Victoria Hospital"queen victoria hospital, patriotic buttons, badges

Floods in North Kew in the vicinity of Willsmere Park, donated by Kerry Woollard.floods (kew), yarra river

Programme for NSW Lawn Tennis Championships 1938. Cover torn off. Materials: Paper, Inktennis