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Port Fairy Historical Society Museum and Archives
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Leura Station homestead owned by Horace Flowers EsqBlack and white photograph of Leura station homestead with several women and children standing outsideleura, h flowers esq, house, station, farm, princes highway, building, horace -
Wodonga & District Historical Society Inc
Journal - Hamilton-Smith Collection Stock Farmers Diary c. 1921 "The Cooper Diary"
The Hamilton-Smith collection was donated by the children of Grace Mary Hamilton-Smith nee Ellwood (1911-2004) and John Hamilton-Smith (1909-1984) who settled in Wodonga in the 1940s. The Ellwood family had lived in north-east Victoria since the late 1800s. Grace’s mother, Rosina Ellwood nee Smale, was the first teacher at Baranduda in 1888, and a foundation member of the C.W.A. Rosina and her husband Mark retired to Wodonga in 1934. Grace and John married at St. David’s Church, Albury in 1941. John was a grazier, and actively involved in Agricultural Societies. The collection contains significant items which reflect the local history of Wodonga, including handmade needlework, books, photographs, a wedding dress, maps, and material relating to the world wars. This item has well documented provenance and a known owner. It forms part of a significant and representative historical collection which reflects the local history of Wodonga. It contributes to our understanding of social and family life in early twentieth century Wodonga, as well as providing interpretative capacity for themes including local history and social history. A small burgundy leather diary with silver embossing containing agricultural information and advertisements for farmers. agriculture, farm, farming, cattle, wodonga, hamilton-smith, hamilton-smith collection, grazier -
Wodonga & District Historical Society Inc
Booklet - Hamilton-Smith Collection "The Cooper Note Book for Stockowners" 1938 - 39
The Hamilton-Smith collection was donated by the children of Grace Mary Hamilton-Smith nee Ellwood (1911-2004) and John Hamilton-Smith (1909-1984) who settled in Wodonga in the 1940s. The Ellwood family had lived in north-east Victoria since the late 1800s. Grace’s mother, Rosina Ellwood nee Smale, was the first teacher at Baranduda in 1888, and a foundation member of the C.W.A. Rosina and her husband Mark retired to Wodonga in 1934. Grace and John married at St. David’s Church, Albury in 1941. John was a grazier, and actively involved in Agricultural Societies. The collection contains significant items which reflect the local history of Wodonga, including handmade needlework, books, photographs, a wedding dress, maps, and material relating to the world wars.This item has well documented provenance and a known owner. It forms part of a significant and representative historical collection which reflects the local history of Wodonga. It contributes to our understanding of life in mid-twentieth century Wodonga, as well as providing interpretative capacity for themes including local history and social history.A small red cloth bound note book with white embossed textstock, farm, farming, agriculture, cows, wodonga, hamilton-smith, hamilton-smith collection -
Bendigo Historical Society Inc.
Photograph - FARM BUILDINGS, HILLS IN BACKGROUND
Black and white photograph. Hand tinted photograph of farm buildings, hill in background. 1960's station wagon next to building. Windmill in centre of photo. Two tanks in centre (L) of picture. Gate swung open. Chicken wire fence. History: With note 'Photographs from Mrs Ella Bourke, 131 Barnard St, Bendigo, Ph 438269', Photographs Francis (Frank) Thomas Kennedy:.Francis (Frank) Thomas Kennedytopic, farming, see also 2001.152.01, 2001.153.01, 2001.154.01, 2001.157.01, 2001.158.01, 2001.160.01, 2001.161.01, 2001.162.01 -
Whitehorse Historical Society Inc.
Mixed media - Doll House, Yvonne Fitzmaurice, Doll House Bathroom - contents, 1974
Hand-made child's doll's house. Built by Mrs Yvonne Fitzmaurice and finished in 1979. This house was built as a 1:12 scale and is a model of a Californian house called Peppercorn farm. House was built by Yvonne and her family and took a period of three years. A lot of the furniture is handmade and the rest is collected from various shops. Catalogued books, manuals, repair kits etc used when building the house.house, dolls -
Whitehorse Historical Society Inc.
Mixed media - Doll House, Yvonne Fitzmaurice, Doll House Front Bedroom -contents, 1974
Hand-made child's doll's house. Built by Mrs Yvonne Fitzmaurice and finished in 1979. This house was built as a 1:12 scale and is a model of a Californian house called Peppercorn farm. House was built by Yvonne and her family and took a period of three years. A lot of the furniture is handmade and the rest is collected from various shops. Catalogued books, manuals, repair kits etc used when building the house.house, dolls -
Whitehorse Historical Society Inc.
Mixed media - Doll House, Yvonne Fitzmaurice, Doll House Sitting Room - contents, 1976 - 1978
Handmade and imported furniture for doll's house made by Yvonne Fitzmaurice for the daughter, Susan, on her birthday.Hand-made child's doll's house. Built by Mrs Yvonne Fitzmaurice and finished in 1979. This house was built as a 1:12 scale and is a model of a Californian house called Peppercorn farm. House was built by Yvonne and her family and took a period of three years. A lot of the furniture is handmade and the rest is collected from various shops. Catalogued books, manuals, repair kits etc used when building the house.house, dolls, tongue depressors -
Whitehorse Historical Society Inc.
Mixed media - Doll House, Yvonne Fitzmaurice, Doll House Dining Room - contents, 1976-1978
Hand-made child's doll's house. Built by Mrs Yvonne Fitzmaurice and finished in 1979. This house was built as a 1:12 scale and is a model of a Californian house called Peppercorn farm. House was built by Yvonne and her family and took a period of three years. A lot of the furniture is handmade and the rest is collected from various shops. Catalogued books, manuals, repair kits etc used when building the house. house, dolls -
Whitehorse Historical Society Inc.
Mixed media - Doll House, Yvonne Fitzmaurice, Doll House Veranda, 1974
Hand-made child's doll's house. Built by Mrs Yvonne Fitzmaurice and finished in 1979. This house was built as a 1:12 scale and is a model of a Californian house called Peppercorn farm. House was built by Yvonne and her family and took a period of three years. A lot of the furniture is handmade and the rest is collected from various shops. Catalogued books, manuals, repair kits etc used when building the house."Susan Fitzmaurice" name on front of building. Date on plaque on top of front wall. Contents: - flower box with flowers, wooden swing, door mat. -
Whitehorse Historical Society Inc.
Mixed media - Doll House, Yvonne Fitzmaurice, Doll House Kitchen - contents, 1974
Hand-made child's doll's house. Built by Mrs Yvonne Fitzmaurice and finished in 1979. This house was built as a 1:12 scale and is a model of a Californian house called Peppercorn farm. House was built by Yvonne and her family and took a period of three years. A lot of the furniture is handmade and the rest is collected from various shops. Catalogued books, manuals, repair kits etc used when building the house. -
Ballarat Tramway Museum
Slide - 35mm slide/s - set of 6, John Theodore, 1972 - 1973
Yields information about tram 11 following its disposal and how it was placed at the Daylesford Museum.Set of 1 Kodachrome cardboard slides and 5 AGFA blue and white plastic mount 27mm sq slides of former Ballarat tram 11 at the Daylesford Historical Society yard. .1 - view from the roadway .2 - late view with other farm machinery placed around it. .3 - interior view .4 - interior view .5 - view showing how the tram was placed. .6 - interior viewed.Various notations by John as to the slide number and the trams in pencil and ink.tramways, trams, closure, tramcars, disposal, daylesford, tram 11 -
Bendigo Historical Society Inc.
Document - NEVILLE KING COLLECTION: OCCUPATION CERTIFICATE HOMESTEAD FARM NO. 15/939 IN THE NAME OF DAVID WILLIAMS AT A COST OF ONE POUND, DATED 25 SEPTEMBER 1897, 1897
Under the Western Australia 'the Homestead act 1893' an Occupation Certificate, Homestead Farm No. 15/939 for David Williams of Bendigo for 160 acres (near Woolkabunning near Bunbury WA); at a cost of one pound. Signed by order of the Commissioner of Crown Lands. Dated 25 September 1897. The land is marked and distinguished in the maps and books of the Department of Lands and Surveys of the said (WA) Colony as Williams Location No. 702. -
Kiewa Valley Historical Society
Book - English, Dr Morell's English Series / Advanced. / Grammar / and / Analysis / With Exercises
Educational book for teaching English. Appears to be old with the text very detailed. G. Cooper is from a dairy farm in the Kiewa Valley.Historical: Educational teaching of English in the past compared to the current day. Provenance: G. Cooper is from a well known farming family in the Kiewa ValleyBrown cloth hard cover. 3 straight lines embossed around the perimeter of front and back in black .Title in blackOn back of front cover: written in pen 'G. Cooper' and scribble in pencil. education. english. grammar. school. language. -
Greensborough Historical Society
Article, Naming of Barclay Park, 07/11/2015
Formerly McKenzie Park Greensborough; renamed Barclay Park 7 November 2015. Named for the Barclay family who farmed in this area.2p., col. photograph.barclay park greensborough, barclay family -
City of Moorabbin Historical Society (Operating the Box Cottage Museum)
Tools, steel leather punch, c1900
This steel leather punch would be used by early settlers in Moorabbin Shire c1900when making and repairing, farm and household leather goods.Early settlers in Moorabbin Shire had to be self sufficient and made and repaired their farm and household equipment. Blacksmiths made the toolsA solid steel leather punchleatherwork, craftwork, moorabbin, bentleigh, cheltenham, early settlers -
Hamilton Pastoral Museum
mouse trap, 1870-1900
possibly made by an early Lutheran settler who farmed in these districts. there is another one that exists in the private Burger museum at Penshurst Vichome made mouse trap of two large blocks of wood suspended vertically by trip lever arrangement connected by strings and chocked up by wooden pegs when set up as a trapwood, trap, german, mouse trap, vermin control, lutheran -
Orbost & District Historical Society
silage knife, c. early 20th century
Called a silage or hay knife, this implement is used to cut through compacted silage or hay and was in common use on farms in the Orbost area. An implement used in the farming industry which was, and is still, very significant to the Orbost region.A flat iron blade with large serrations on one side, two handles both with round wooden hand-holders. farming-implement hay-knife silage-knife -
Churchill Island Heritage Farm
Book - Farm diary 1944
Farm diary kept by Harry Jenkins and transferred to Sister Margaret Campbell. Given to Arthur Evans on auction day, c 1973.Small green diary with '1944' written on the cover. Contains details about the running Churchill Islandchurchill island, harry jenkins, farm history, margaret campbell, diary -
Churchill Island Heritage Farm
Book, Rigby Publishers, Australia's Heritage Watch: An overview of Australian conservation, 1981
Churchill Island Heritage Farm has a collection of books and information which include sections about the formation or development of the heritage precinctHardcover book with dust-jacket, written by Robert Ingpen. Large ship and dingy on the cover.australia's heritage watch, churchill island, robert ingpen -
Churchill Island Heritage Farm
Photograph - Photograph of standing woman
Churchill Island Heritage Farm has a large collection of photographs dating from the nineteenth century. The woman in this photograph is Sally O'NeilPhotograph of a woman standing in front of a Visitors' Centre display for Dr Harry Jenkinscatalogue number written on reverse in pencilchurchill island, photograph, sally o'neil -
Tatura Irrigation & Wartime Camps Museum
Dumpy Level, Dumpty Level, 1920
Used by Mr. Craven to survey agricultural land in the Goulburn Valley for the purposes of setting out farm irrigation channels and check banksStanlley Dumpy Level on tripod, complete with carrying case and sixteen foot telescopic staffPatent Stanlley, Great Turnside, Holborn, London 11182surveying, irrigation, terrestrial -
Malmsbury Historical Society
Photograph (Item), "Ellis Family Members Near Haystack At ""The Falls""", Malmsbury
People - "Ellis, Min (Nelson); Ellis, Em Jack Max And Hal" Buildings - "House, Haystack" Associated with - "Farm ""The Falls"" Malmsbury" -
National Wool Museum
Booklet, The Corriedale
"The Corriedale", produced for the Australian Corriedale Association by the Australian Stud Monthly, June 1965. Reprinted from "Stud and farm" June 1965.corriedale sheep sheep breeding, australian corriedale association, pettitt, mr r. w., corriedale sheep, sheep breeding -
Whitehorse Historical Society Inc.
Photograph, Daniel Harvey Headstone
Daniel Harvey was born in the Mallee. He came to work in an orchard owned by Kurt Hillman. He was known as "The Father of Farm Machinery.Three black and white photographs of Daniel Harvey's headstone at Box Hill Cemetery.daniel harvey, gravestones, box hill cemetary -
Parks Victoria - Days Mill and Farm
Container - Bottle
Was found in an above ground rubbish pile at Days Mill and Farm. Once contained a poisonous liquid substance. Probably used on site.Amber coloured bottle with a cork intact. It has several flat sides, some with raised bumps and "NOT TO BE TAKEN" in raised lettering on the front panel of the bottle. "NOT TO BE TAKEN" william day, ann day, joseph day, robert day -
Sunbury Family History and Heritage Society Inc.
Photograph, School Camp, 1988
The children from Mickleham and Bulla Primary Schools were attending a school camp near Beechworth and were visiting a trout farm.A non- digital coloured photograph of a group of children by a river. Three people are standing very close to the edge, while the rest of the children are sitting further up on the river bank.school camps, beechworth -
University of Melbourne, Burnley Campus Archives
Plan - Coloured plan, Plan of Burnley Gardens, 1929?
Layout of gardens, farm buildings, orchard, etc. overlaid on part of Lands Department map. See paper catalogue for full descriptionPart of larger plan (Lands Department Parish Plan). Partly hand-drawn. Area bounded by Yarra River, Swan St, Glen Iris railway line. Shows Burnley Gardens layout, handwritten amendments and explanation of existing and proposed structures including: Pavilion, sketch of unbuilt Administrative Building, poultry yard, contours of old orchard, sketch for Plant Research Institute, ditch, silo, milking shed, laying pens. See aboveburnley gardens, pavilion, burnley school of horticulture, farm buildings, poultry -
Melton City Libraries
Photograph, Glengallon, Melton, Unknown
Albert the youngest son of Willam and Mary Ann, farmed at Epping and settled at the ‘Kirkton’ Melton c1925 farming until he retired to a house in Unitt Street Melton. He died in 1965 and his wife Minnie died in 1969. Their son Hugh worked with his father at the family farm and later moving to ‘Glengallon’ as a mixed farmer and horse breeder. His ‘Haylands’ Clydesdale stud was registered in 1951.House belonged to Dot and Hugh Barrie local identities -
Eltham District Historical Society Inc
Negative - Photograph, Harry Gilham, Grave of Michael and Mary Carrucan, Eltham Cemetery, Victoria, Sep 2009
Michael Carrucan was the oldest son of Patrick and Mary Carrucan of Ireland who travelled to Melbourne in 1856 and settled in Eltham. They purchased a small farm property at the corner of Bible Street and Dalton Street and lived there for the rest of their lives. By the time Patrick died in 1896 they had substantial land holdings around Eltham. Michael inherited the Dalton Street farm from his father Patrick and farmed it until his death in 1943. His wife Mary was one of the grand daughters of Thomas Sweeney and married Michael in 1910. Sacred to the Memory of Michael Carrucan Dearly beloved husband of Mary Carrucan Died 15th Dec. 1943. Sacred to the Memory of Mary Carrucan Died 20th Nov. 1961Roll of 35mm colour negative film, 6 stripsKodak GC 400-9eltham cemetery, gravestones, mary carrucan (nee sweeney), michael carrucan -
Phillip Island and District Historical Society Inc.
Booklet, Henry Cleeland - a biography
Henry [Harry ] is the son of John Blake and Ethel May Cleeland. He farmed near Surf Beach estate and lived at Woolamai House.HistoricalPhotocopy of a 9 page booklet of writing and photos on Henry Cleeland and family by Jessica WalshHenry Cleeland a biography by Jessica Walshhenry cleeland, woolamai house, world war 2 lifestyle