A Crown Melbourne tennis racquet, produced in association with the ABC program, Wide World of Sports. Materials: Wood, Ink, Glue, Lacquer, Metal, Synthetic material, Nylon, Plastic, Adhesive tape, String, Painttennis

Denis Gibbons (1937 – 2011) Trained with the Australian Army, before travelling to Vietnam in January 1966, Denis stayed with the 1st Australian Task Force in Nui Dat working as a photographer. For almost five years Gibbons toured with nine Australian infantry battalions, posting compelling war images from within many combat zones before being flown out in late November 1970 after sustaining injuries. The images held within the National Vietnam Veterans Museum make up the Gibbons Collection. A black and white photograph of Dinah Lee and Digger Friend from the audience have the Diggers swinging with a song and dance act at the ABC Dance Band Concert Party at the 1st ATF Base, Nui Datdinah lee, abc dance band concert party, photograph, 1st atf base, entertainment, nui dat, gibbons collection catalogue, digger, diggers, denis gibbons

An unknown singer entertaining the troops in Vietnam backed by the ABC Showband, Christmas 1970.Black and white photograph of a woman singer with a hand held microphone on stage. she is wearing a floral patterned full-length kaftan. Male in the background behind a drumkit.abc showband, vietnam, entertainer, performer

Letters covering the period of the Gallipoli and the subsequent evacuationGeneral Monash considered to be one of the best strategists of WW1. The letters from Monash to his wife were deeply moving.small soft cover non-fiction booksticker on the cover of the book Property of: Program Resource Centre ABC- Southbank Centre sticker on the inside of the book: Acc no 26856 call no. 940.394. MON

Vocalist Gabrielle Hartley performing with the ABC Showband, conducted by Brian May, Vietnam, Christmas 1970.Black and white photograph of a woman on stage with a handheld microphone. She is wearing a long tight-fitting lurex dress and has long hair. There are three males in the background , two sitting and one standing with his back to her.women singing, abc showband, gabrielle hartley, vietnam

Black and White Photograph. See also ABC silent movie of the event in VC record 11129. Ringwood Mail Newspaper article about the ceremony and parade is in VC 11129 Lt. Col. E.R. Baldwin Being challenged. Written on back of one copy of photograph, 'Photo ... Southern Command, Army Public Relations.' Catalogue card reads, 'Freedom of the City. Taken when Ben Hubbard was mayor.' Typed on back of another copy: Police Inspector A. Angus challenging the R.A.E. on their right to enter Rignwood. O.C. replies. this took place outside the entrane to the Railways Station. Date Stamp 27 Mar 1965.

Small booklet with yellow cover.International Bowling Board Laws of the Game of Bowls. ABC By-laws and Constitution. RVBA Constitution, By-laws and Rules for Competitions. May 1988. Secretary: P.J. Wiltshire.

A4 pageThe Leader Newspaper Groups thanks Southwood Primary School for its contribution and participation in the From ABC to VCE special edition for State Education Week, 1991

2 copies black and white photograph, one an enlargement. 2 men holding day old chicks surrounded by fruit, vegetables and blossom.On reverse of enlarged copy, "John Sparkes and Bill Nicholls (Field Superintendent)," and, "Please Quote No. ABC 2166 when ordering. Laurie Richards JW 1528."fruits, vegetables, blossoms, john sparkes, w.j. nicholls, bill nicholls, field superintendent, publicity, show display

203 p., illus.non-fictionA collection of interviews with Australiansoral history, biographies, australia - social conditions

ABC journalist and presenter Edwin Maher is given an award from the Association for the Blind offices in Mount Eliza.3 x col. photographsassociation for the blind, edwin maher

Four page Programme for ABC Orchestral Concert - Melbourne Symphony Orchestra. Held at Capital Theatre, Bendigo, July 29th (year not stated). Conductor, soloists and orchestra members listed. (Other concerts on this same programme - Ballarat and Geelong)place, bendigo, capital theatre

,Unknown female singer, Gabrielle Hartley and Linda George entertaining the troops with the ABC Showband in Vietnam, Christmas 1970.Black and white photograph of three women singing into two microphones on stands. They are dressed formally.singing, vietnam, linda george, abc showband, 1970, gabrielle hartley, entertainers, performers

Educational worksheets and activities used to teach children about Australia's role in the Gallipoli Campaign.Book: 80 p., illus. (some col.), maps, worksheets. Includes 2 discs: Disc 1 (video) Australians at War Episode 2; Disc 2 (DVD-ROM) Interactive activities and ABCs Gallipoli: the First Day website.australia department of veterans affairs, gallipoli, world war i, educational aids

Transcript: Athenaeum building celebrates 170 years Australian Broadcasting Corporation Broadcast: 11/11/2009 Reporter: Lisa Whitehead Tomorrow marks the 170th birthday of one of the nation's historic cultural landmarks. Melbourne’s Athenaeum building has, in one form or other, provided education and entertainment for the Victorian colony as it became a city; and along the way, documented its growth. Transcript KERRY O’BRIEN, PRESENTER: Tomorrow marks the 170th birthday of one of the nation's historic cultural landmarks. Melbourne's Athenaeum building has, in one form or another, provided education and entertainment. For the Victorian colonies it became a city and along the way documented its growth. The building's original library and theatre still draw devotees and as Lisa Whitehead reports, a loyal band of volunteers. KEVIN QUIGLEY, ATHENAEUM PRESIDENT: There's nothing like us that has been here from day one, four years after the boat pushed ashore, here we are. It's a thread that runs through the life of Melbourne. LISA WHITEHEAD, REPORTER: In the heart of Melbourne's CBD, the Athenaeum is a celebrity in disguise, the oldest cultural icon in the city, but barely noticed. MARJORIE DALVEAN, VOLUNTEER HISTORIAN: People of Melbourne walk past this area and they have no idea what it is. RAY LAWLER, PLAYWRIGHT: It seemed to me to be a place that absolutely, or breathes Melbourne, I suppose, culture. LISA WHITEHEAD: Just four years after Melbourne was founded, the colony built a Mechanic's Institution, one of the first in the world, a place where the working class could meet and learn. KEVIN QUIGLEY: People think of it as Wild West sort of place where these hearty types drank and rushed about, but Melbourne was freely settled. It was a city of people who wanted to better themselves - entrepreneurs. And the Mechanic's Institution was that innovative idea that had grown up in Edinburgh and London about providing an opportunity for education for the working people. LISA WHITEHEAD: Mark Twain lectured there. Later, other buildings were added and a theatre to host classic plays. And it adopted its more bourgeois friendly title of the Athenaeum. Crucially from the start there was the library, the first to offer affordable lending to the working man. And it still attracts devotees. Former University lecturer Margaret Bowman, 89, comes in every Wednesday, along with her dog to join an enthusiastic band of volunteers sorting through the archives. MARGARET BOWMAN, FORMER UNIVERSITY LECTURER: Doing research is something that I find actually I enjoy more than anything. Every old lady needs to have a project and now I've got a project. MARJORIE DALVEAN: Margaret, Christine has just found out that Alfred Deakin was a member here from 1874 to 1877. This place is not flashy, we've never been flashy. But book lovers walk in here and they know this is the place for them. ARCHIVAL FOOTAGE: Old times and old names. The Athenaeum theatre in Melbourne for more than 40 years has been one of the city's best known cinemas. LISA WHITEHEAD: In the 20th century, the theatre surrendered to the new craze of talking pictures, and one particular fan was famous Australian playwright Ray Lawler. At 13, he dropped out of school to work in a Footscray factory and two years later his first trip to the glamorous Athenaeum cinema hinted at the education he was missing. RAY LAWLER: It just had a style about it which I responded to, I think. I was looking for something and this seemed to be part of it. Ray Lawler went on to write "Summer of the Seventeenth Doll" and found literary fame overseas. About a century after it had started as an educational place for the working man, Ray Lawler had, in effect, become an Athenaeum graduate. RAL LAWLER: If they had been looking for the sort of person that they were hoping to encourage along the way, I suppose I would have been somebody that might have fitted the mould, you know. LISA WHITEHEAD: In time, the cinema was returned to its theatrical roots. FRANK THRING, 1977: It has a great resemblance to the Theatre Royal in Hobart which Larry Olivier has called the best theatre he's ever worked in. And it's almost identical. It is the true Victorian playhouse. The horseshoe shaped thing: stalls, dress circle and gallery. And you're close to the audience and they're close to you. Marvellous feeling. LISA WHITEHEAD: Today, it's still a theatre. But time has brought compromises. The once vaunted art gallery has now covered its windows and become a comedy club and performance space. TV and suburban life have eaten away at the library membership. It offers an online service now, and a recent federal government grant will pay for the upkeep of its gracious interior, including the 1930s elevator Ray Lawler used to ride. For him, it's money well spent on history quietly made and discreetly observed. RAY LAWLER: It's the lack of awareness, I think, that people don't know what they've got here. They've really got the whole history of Melbourne almost. KEVIN QUIGLEY: It was a similar organisation in Sydney but we are the only one that's got a continual lineage on the same spot. We started here and we're still here and we'll be here for another 100 years. KERRY O'BRIEN: Lisa Whitehead on a great Melbourne landmark. © 2010 ABC | Privacy Policy Beginning as the Melbourne Mechanics' Institution in 1839, the Melbourne Athenaeum has a long history that reflects the cultural and social development of Melbourne. It continues to be managed as a not-for-profit organisation by a volunteer board, with a subscription library (maintained since 1839) and a leased theatre.Video broadcast ABC 7:30 Report for 11/11/2009. "Tomorrow marks the 170th birthday of one of the nation's historic cultural landmarks. Melbourne’s Athenaeum building has, in one form or other, provided education and entertainment for the Victorian colony as it became a city; and along the way, documented its growth."athenaeum, australian broadcasting corporation, kerry o’brien, kevin quigley, lisa whitehead, marjorie dalvean, ray lawler, margaret bowman, frank thring.

Book belonged to Rudolf Himmer, programme controller for ABC Radio Victoria who had holiday home in Cowes on Phillip Island.Book belonged to Rudolf Himmer, Programme Controller for ABC Radio Victoria, who had a holiday home in Cowes on Phillip Island.387 p. : illus. 2d ed. Bibliography: p. 364-369. Stamped Cowes Library Labelled Himmer Bequestwalter george bell, the great fire of london in 1666, bodley head, john lane, rudolf himmer

Book belonged to Rudolf Himmer, programme controller for ABC Radio Victoria, who had holiday home in Cowes on Phillip Island.Book belonged to Rudolf Himmer, Programme Controller for ABC Radio Victoria, who had a holiday home in Cowes on Phillip Island.comprising Australia Felix, The way home, Ultima Thule 990 p.Signed: Rudolf Himmer Labelled: Himmer Bequest Stamped: Cowes Libraryhenry handel richardson, the fortunes of richard mahony, australia felix, the way home, ultima thule, heinemann, rudolf himmer

Book belonged to Rudolf Himmer, Programme Controller for ABC Radio Victoria, who had a holiday home in Cowes on Phillip Island.Book belonged to Rudolf Himmer, Programme Controller for ABC Radio Victoria, who had a holiday home in Cowes on Phillip Island.as first published in 1950 from the original mss. prepared for the press with introduction and notes by Frederick A. Pottle. xii, 360 p. Labelled: Himmer Bequest Stamped: Cowes Public Libraryboswell's london journal, 1762-1763, boswell, james, 1740-1795, pottle, frederick a. (frederick albert), 1897-1987, reprint society, heinemann, rudolf himmer

This cassette was taped by the Rats of Tobruk Association. ABC war correspondent Chester Wilmot (1911-1954) pioneered the use of recording equipment in the field. He spent several months in Tobruk in 1941. In October 1941 the ABC Field Unit recorded a concert put on by 400 Australian soldiers in an ammunition cave. Wilmot’s introduction sets the scene and items feature individual and chorus items and a saxophone and piano accordion performance.This item is part of a collection of items owned by Arthur Lock, a member of the 2/23rd Battalion, an all-volunteer Second Australian Imperial Force which served as part of the garrison during the Siege of Tobruk, then at El Alamein, New Guinea and Borneo. It has particular local significance as the battalion was know as "Albury's Own" because a large majority of the battalion's initial intake of volunteers came from the Albury–Wodonga region. A cassette of the Tobruk Concert held in 1941 in the caves behind the lines in an armament cave in Tobruk. "TOBRUK CONCERT 1941"world war 11, rats of tobruk, tobruk, chester wilmot, concert in tobruk

Educational worksheets and activities used to teach children about Australia's role in the Gallipoli Campaign.Book: 120 p., illus. (some col.), maps, worksheets. Includes 2 discs: Disc 1 (video) Australians at War Episode 2 and, Revealing Gallipoli; Disc 2 (DVD-ROM) Interactive activities and ABCs Gallipoli: the First Day website.australia department of veterans affairs, gallipoli, world war i, educational aids

A black and white photograph of Dinah Lee & Digger Friend from the audience have the Diggers swinging with a song and dance act at the ABC Dance Band Concert Party at the 1st ATF Base, Nui Dat (note text is missing from the bottom of the photograph).photograph, dinah lee, entertainers, abc dance band concert party, 1 atf, nui dat, gibbons collection catalogue, digger

Yields information about the gold tram in service.Negative and Digital image of the Wal Jack Ballarat Negative file of No. 23, as the Gold Tram No. 23 east bound in Sturt St at Dawson St, though it has the destination of Grey St Sebastopol. In the background is the ABC Cafe, selling Swallow's Ice Cream. trams, tramways, sturt st, gold tram, dawson st, tram 23

A photograph of Linda George singing for the troops in Vietnam, Xmas 1970, you can see the back of Brian May conducting the ABC show band.Black and white photograph of young woman on stage with a hand held microphone. She is wearing an abstract -patterned mini-dress with halter neck. Man in the background standing with back to her.abc show band, xmas 1970, vietnam, linda george, brian may, performers, entertainers