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Stawell Historical Society Inc
Photograph, Trio Doll Factory on the corner of St George and Victoria Streets after the 1947 fire
Trio Doll Factory c1947. Series of photographs taken after the 1947 fire. Building was situated on the corner of St George Street and Victoria Street.stawell -
RMIT Design Archives
Photographs
Black and white photograph of the Aborigines Advancement League Headquarters, Melbournesilver gelatin, paper -
Bendigo Historical Society Inc.
Photograph - BASIL MILLER COLLECTION: POSTCARD - CAMEL TRAIN
... Aborigines ...Australian aborigines using camels for goods transportation during their 'walkabout'.Bill Ramsden, P9841.basil miller, aborigines -
Melbourne Legacy
Photograph, Governor of Victoria, 31/08/1970
A photo of Sir Rohan Delacombe, Governor General of Victoria being shown a Legacy Club Melbourne Honour Roll. Perhaps it was used for promotion as the Governor of Victoria is the patron of Legacy. It came from a Legacy envelope marked "P3 Fund Raising" in red pen, with assorted photos of fundraising events, including appeal tins in different years and a charity concert, and a marathon run by WO2 Mike Hoffman (some are items 00433 to 00438, 01413 and 01414).A record of relationship with the Governor of Victoria.Black and white photo of the Governor looking at an Honour Roll.Stamped 31 Aug 1970 in purple ink. Stamped Copyright The Age in blue ink.fundraising, governor of victoria, patron, rohan delacombe -
Warrnambool and District Historical Society Inc.
Document, Booklet : Visit to Victoria of His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales Working Programme, 1977
This booklet details the minutae of the visit of His Royal Highness The Prince of Wales. It details aspects of his visit to Warrnambool on 8th November 1977. It lists procedures and local members of parliament, local councillors and officials. There was a visit to Tower Hill Reserve and a reception at the Warrnambool Racecourse. This booklet has local interest as it provides a snapshot of local people who were holding office in various roles in the 1970's.Small cream coloured booklet with mustard binding and text of the same colour. 84 pages white with a yellow and green section towards the back.On front cover : Visit to Victoria of His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales Working Programme. Monday 7thto Wednesday 9th November 1977. Issued by direction of the secretary , Premier's department Melbourne. John Kelly written in pen on the back cover.warrnambool, prince of wales 1977, prince of wales visit to warrnambool -
Ringwood and District Historical Society
Newspaper, Scrapbook Clipping, Library Collection, Ringwood, Victoria, `
``Newspaper clipping from the "Post", 10-2-98.The Maroondah community will lead the outer east with the development of a Public Internet Training and Access Centre. As part of the Multimedia Victoria funding allocation, a Learning Information Network and Community Service (LINCS) centre will be set-up at Eastland Shopping Centre in Ringwood. ` -
Victorian Aboriginal Corporation for Languages
Book, Koorie Heritage Trust et al, Koorie, 1991
Details the ?Koorie? exhibition presented by the Koorie Heritage Trust in association with the Museum of Victoria. Outlines the history of the Aboriginal people of south-eastern Australia.maps, b&w photographs, cartoons, illustrations, graphs -
Lakes Entrance Regional Historical Society (operating as Lakes Entrance History Centre & Museum)
Book, Public Records Office Victoria, Earth and Industry stories of Gippsland, 1985
Book in a series that aims to locate all official and related documents of permanent significance and sort them into categories communication trade and transport Victoriatransport, trades, communications -
Flagstaff Hill Maritime Museum and Village
Container - Beer Bottle, Bottle Co of Victoria Pty Ltd, 1930-1940s
The subject item was produced for the Carlton and United Breweries, in Melbourne, at one time, almost all breweries in Australia had their own brand of returnable bottle or were members of bottle co-operatives that managed returnable bottles. Instead of being crushed to make new bottles, as happens in most cases today, these returnable bottles were returned to the brewery or bottle co-operative, washed, inspected for cracks and chips and returned to service. An early item giving a snapshot into social history in 1930s - 1940s AustraliaBrown glass beer bottle, 26 fluid ounce capacity, "CUB" raised motif and in small spade motif on shoulder "MBCV" (Melbourne Bottle Company of Victoria)flagstaff hill, warrnambool, flagstaff hill maritime museum, shipwreck coast, flagstaff hill maritime village, great ocean road, bottle, brown glass bottle, cub, melbourne bottle company of victoria, beer bottle 1940s, carlton united breweries -
Greensborough Historical Society
Book, Historic Buildings of Victoria, 1966_
A listing of National Trust listed buildings from around Victoria in 1966. Each entry has a photograph and caption with some history of the building. Arranged by region.The development of architectural style in Victoria.278 pages, black and white illustrations. Hard cover. Dust jacket has illustration of interior of the Library of the Supreme Courtmelbourne architecture, victoria architecture, historic buildings victoria, national trust of australia, victoria -
Villa Alba Museum
Document (item), Villa Alba Museum Archaeological Test Excavations - A report to Villa Alba Museum and Heritage Victoria, 2002
Villa Alba Museum Landscape Reconstruction Archaeological Test Excavations. A Report to the VAMI and Heritage Victoria by Maddy Atkinson (Ripple Archaeologists), 18 April, 2002.Important record of archaeological excavations at Villa Alba in Kewconservation studies, conservation reports, archaeological reports, villa alba museum -
Expression Australia
Chronological Journal, Adult Deaf and Dumb Society of Victoria 1908-1925
Collection of newsletters (Our Monthly Letter) newspaper clipping and stories of the Adult Deaf and Dumb Society of Victoria and the Victorian Deaf Community from 1908 to 1925. Significant as the journal is a collection of material collected at the time and includes material that may not be available elsewhere.Size A3; 1459 pages -
Expression Australia
Chronological Journal, Adult Deaf & Dumb Society of Victoria 1925-1942, 1925-1942
Collection of newsletters (Our Monthly Letter) newspaper clipping and stories of the Adult Deaf and Dumb Society of Victoria and the Victorian Deaf Community from 1925 to 1942. Collection of newsletters (Our Monthly Letter) newspaper clipping and stories of the Adult Deaf and Dumb Society of Victoria and the Victorian Deaf Community from 1908 to 1925. Size A3; 1430 pagesUntitled -
Vision Australia
Photograph - Image, Vision Victoria week at Mirridong, 1989?
Images of people celebrating Vision Victoria week during May 1-7, 1989 at various events, or taking part in publicity shots to promote the week. School children receive Vision Victoria balloons from clowns at a carnival, a volunteer reads the Bendigo Advertiser to two Mirridong residents, a baby is held by a Mirridong resident whilst others look on, a game of chess is played, staff and residents enjoy a laugh in the gardens, plants are displayed and presentations are made.10 x black and white photographsassociation for the blind, mirridong home (bendigo) -
Ballarat Heritage Services
Photograph - Colour, The Hon. John Cain MP, Premier of Victoria 1982-1990, 21/02/2016
John Cain (26 April 1931-December 2019), Australian Labor Party politician and 41st Premier of Victoria, holding office from 1982 to 1990. During his time as Premier, changes were enforced to the practices of various institutions in Melbourne which discriminated against women, while other reforms were introduced such as libearlized shop trading hours and liquor laws, equal opportunity initiatives, and occupational health and safety legislation.Statue of John Cain Junior by Peter Corlett.john cain, john cain junior, treasury gardens -
Ringwood and District Historical Society
Certificate, United Grand Lodge of Mark Master Masons - Collection of Masonic Degrees and Correspondence maintained by Aird family of Ringwood, Victoria
Buff coloured certificate with red Lodge seal. Certification that Brother Arthur James Bromwich Aird was advanced to the honorable Degree of Mark Master on 18th August, 1936, in the Lilydale Lodge No.65on the Register of the United Grand Lodge of Mark Master Masons of Victoria. Signed by the Deputy Grand Master and given under the Seal of the Grand Lodge at Melbourne on 22nd March, 1937. -
NMIT (Northern Melbourne Institute of TAFE)
Book: Furniture and equipment layouts for TAFE colleges Victoria. 1981
A4 size loose pages published by the Public Works Department and the Education Department Victoria in 1981. The contents cover the following Colleges: Moorabin, Dandenong, Collingwood, Newport, Box Hill, Sunraysia, Yallourn, Footscray, RMIT, Preston, School of Mines & Industries Ballarat, McMillan Rural Studies, Loddon Valley Bendigo, Wangaratta and Latrobe Street Complex. Plans and diagrams included.manuals, tafe colleges, preston technical college, collingwood tedhnical college, nmit -
Kew Historical Society Inc
Album, Eva Grant, Historic Buildings in Victoria & New South Wales, 1919-c.1962
One of three scrapbooks created by Eva Grant, a past member of the Kew Historical Society which were donated by her niece, Julie Thomson, in 2013. The scrapbook includes photographs and descriptions of the following sites. (Many of these are now demolished and so the photographs and descriptions may be rare records of a site.) Sites include: Abbotsford (Vic) - Abbotsford Convent, Mayfield (c.1962), prefabricated house - Church street Armadale (Vic) - church (c.1959) - Thomson & Wattletree Roads Arthur’s Seat (Vic) - McCrae homestead Ballarat (Vic) - Memorial plaque on site of Bentley’s Hotel, Memorial on site of Eureka Stockade, Early municipal buildings - East Ballarat, Adam Lindsay Gordon’s cottage - Botanical Gardens, View from Sovereign Hill, Shell house Broken Hill (NSW) - panorama (1963), Flying Doctor’s base (?1963) Eltham (Vic) - Hassell’s outdoor art gallery Essendon (Vic) - Niddrie Homestead and stables (1963) Geelong (Vic) - first Bishopscourt Hawthorn (Vic) - Convent (1930), The Hawthorns, Keilor plains (Vic) - pioneer homes, pioneer cemetery Kew (Vic) - Roseneath (1951), Tarring - Ruyton, Turinville, house - Foley street (c.1960). Malvern (Vic) - church Mount Ridley (Vic) - Summerhill Melbourne (Vic) - Old Brewery - Custom’s House Lane (1960), Customs House, Scott’s Hotel (1962), Western market (c.1960) Phillip Island (Vic) - Grave Toorak (Vic) - Mandeville Hall, Merna (sic) - Arthur Streeton’s house, Toorak House Wentworth (NSW) - Harvey’s Hotel, Sturt Memorial, Sturt’s Tree, Wentworth Gaol Williamstown (Vic) - Williamstown Dairy Yan Yean (Vic) - Bear’s Castle (c.1947) Beveridge/Big Hill (Vic) - Kelly’s cottageImportant photograph record (and notes) about historic buildings in Victoria.38-page scrapbook with additional text created by Eva Grant, a past member of the Kew Historical Society. In addition to the 68 photographs, there are two postcards and a number of publications/handouts.collected by Eva on her trips to heritage sites in Victoria and New South Wales. The pages of the album can be viewed in the image carousel above. Most of the photographs of heritage buildings were taken in the early 1960s.See imagesheritage sites - victoria - australia, eva grant, scrapbooks - 20th century -
Marysville & District Historical Society
Postcard (item) - Colour postcard, Nucolorvue Productions Pty. Ltd, Steavenson Falls Illuminated at night, Pre 2009
A colour photograph of Steavenson Falls in Marysville in Victoria, illuminated at night.A colour photograph of Steavenson Falls in Marysville in Victoria, illuminated at night. The Steavenson Falls is named after the Victorian Assistant Commissioner of Roads and Bridges, John Steavenson who arrived in Victoria in the early 1860s. This postcard was produced by Nucolorvue Productions Pty. Ltd. as a souvenir of Marysville.NU-COLOR-VUE/ OF/ AUSTRALIA MARYSVILLE, VICTORIA. The Steavenson Falls illuminated at Night by its own hydro-electric/ power. (Ministry of Tourism and Forests/ Commission of Victoria) PLACE/ STAMP/ HERE POST CARD NCV.167 - NUCOLORVUE PRODUCTIONS PTY. LTD./ COPYRIGHT Printed in Australiamarysville, steavenson falls, victoria, postcard, nucolorvue productions, souvenir, john steavenson -
Lara RSL Sub Branch
Medal VC (Copy), Victorian Cross Medal (Copy of), 2020
A Copy of the Victoria Cross for display only purpose.Copy of Victoria Cross for Lara R.S.L. Display purposes only.Victoria Cross Medal with Red RibbonOn Reverse it a marking stating COPY. The Victoria Cross for Australia is the highest award in the Australian Honours System, superseding the British Victoria Cross for issue to Australians. The Victoria Cross for Australia is the "decoration for according recognition to persons who in the presence of the enemy, perform acts of the most conspicuous gallantry, or daring or pre-eminent acts of valour or self-sacrifice or display extreme devotion to duty. The Victoria Cross for Australia was created by letters patent signed by Elizabeth II, Queen of Australia, on 15 January 1991. It is listed equal first with the British Victoria Cross on the Australian Order of Wear with precedence in Australia over all orders, decorations and medals. The decoration may be awarded to members of the Australian Defence Force and to other persons determined by the Australian Minister for Defence.] A person to whom the Victoria Cross for Australia has been awarded is entitled to the post nominals VC placed after the person's name.copy of victoria cross -
Federation University Historical Collection
Book, The Plants Indigenous to the Colony of Victoria, 1865 (exact); "1864-1865, CR"
Baron Sir Ferdinand Jacob Heinrich von Mueller was born in Germany on 30 June 1825. Ferdinand was a German-Australian physician, geographer, and a botanist. After passing the pharmaceutical examinations he studied botany at Kiel University. In 1847 he received the degree of Doctor of Philosophy from Kiel University.when he was 21 years old for a thesis on the flora of Schleswig-Holstein. In 1847, he moved to Adelaide, Australia and worked as a chemist. From 1848 to 1852 he travelled through the colony, discovering and describing a large number of unknown to Western science plants. He wrote a few papers to German periodicals on botanical subjects. In 1851, Mueller moved to Melbourne, capital of the new colony of Victoria. In 1853, He was appointed Government Botanist for Victoria by Governor Charles La Trobe. In 1873, Ferdinand received an honorary doctorate of the University of Rostock. In 1883, he was awarded the Clarke Medal by the Royal Society of New South Wales. He published many volumes on the Victorian plants. Many of Australian geographical features were named after him such as: the Mueller Ranges (WA), Muellers Range (Qld), Mount Mueller (in WA, NT, Tas and Vic) and many more. Mueller died in Melbourne on 10 October 1896 and is buried in the St. Kilda Cemetery A green cloth hard cover book. Title and author's name is engraved in gold on spine. It includes an introduction, a table of contents and plates. Lithograms in b/w. Each plate accompanied by a page with descriptive print. Number of plates XIII-LXXI. No. of supplement plates XII-XVII. The book illustrates Victorian plants and outlines the principal characters of those species. This book is No 1290 in the Original Register of Books (Cat. No. 005)Hand written pencil notes on contents page. Stamped throughout with "The School of Mines, Industries & Science, Ballarat. Ingenio Effodere Opes. In the University of Melbourne."australia, botany victoria, plants, ferdinand mueller, ferdinand von mueller, biodiversity, flora -
Mission to Seafarers Victoria
Book (item) - Visitor logbook, The Victoria Missions to Seamen Melbourne- Sailor's Rest Williamstown Visitors' Book, 1933 - 1944
This book or register records the date, name and address and ship name and remarks of visiting seafarers from a wide range of origins. The logbook provides an insight into which ships and the origins of their crews were visiting Williamstown and Melbourne in 1933. This together with the 1945 register from Williamstown (see VC MtSV record) provides the earliest such register records surviving in the Mission heritage collection and Archive.Cover: The Victoria Missions to Seamen Melbourne / Sailors' Rest Williamstown/ Visitors' book/ 1933 ( February1933 - March-1944) / Spine:/Sailors' Rest, Williamstown - Visitors' book 1933. Inner page: details of Chaplains and caretakers and contact nos re the Mission.seafarers, seafarer registers, seafarer's rest, seafarer's rest williamstown, visitors log book, box 24, williamstown, sailors, seamen, mrs hodgkiss, j.g. sheel, crew, nationality, padre frank leslie oliver -
Phillip Island and District Historical Society Inc.
Book, HORTON, Thomas et al, Andersons of Western Port: the discovery and exploration of Western Port, Victoria, and the life of the first settler in Eastern Victoria, Samuel Anderson, and his two brothers, Hugh and Thomas. From 1797 to 1903, 1983
Signed by Thomas Horton.anderson family, crime, settlement, explorers, port victoria, western port, wonthaggi, pioneers, victoria, biography, history -
Phillip Island and District Historical Society Inc.
Book, Government Printer, Victorian statutes : the public general statutes of the colony of Victoria, to the close of the first session of the eighth parliament, holden in the thirty-eighth year of the reign of Her Majesty Queen Victoria, 1874, 1875-7
V. 1. A-F. Abattoirs to Friendly Societies. V. 2. G-N. Game to Neglected and Criminal Children. V. 3. P-W. Parliament to Wrongs. V. 4. Regulations, tables and index. V. 1 labelled 'S. West'. -
Federation University Historical Collection
Book, A.H. Ramsay, The Development of Tertiary Education In Victoria 1963-1972: Report and Recommendations of the Committee for Development of Tertiary Education in Victoria, 1963, 08/1963
Withdrawn from the Ballarat College of Advanced Education Library.Beige soft covered book of 178 pages. The report was known as the Ramsay Report,ramsay report, tertiary education, university, teachers' colleges, statistics, entrance standards, technical colleges, state colleges, junior colleges, film, radio, costs, enrolment projectuis, enrolment -
Victorian Interpretive Projects Inc.
Photograph, Victoria Square, Geelong, Victoria
Photograph of a postcard showing Victorian Square in Geelong. Sutton's Music Store is evident. geelong, victoria square, suttons, sutton's music store -
Victorian Apiarists Association
Publication, Beekeeping In Victoria - Dept Of Agriculture Govt Of Victoria, 1981
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Victorian Apiarists Association
Publication, Beekeeping In Victoria (Dept of Agriculture Victoria), June, 1934
A5 Hardcover book, cover is grey patterned with a tan coloured part cover on the front with light brown writing & picture of bees on flowersRevised June, 1934 with handwritten by J S Eagland -
Victorian Apiarists Association
Publication, Beekeeping In Victoria (Dept of Agriculture Victoria), 1945?
A5 sized soft covered book, cream coloured with green picture & cream writing on the front 168 pages -
Victorian Apiarists Association
Publication, Beekeeping In Victoria (Dept of Agriculture Victoria), 1958
Softcover A5 size, Red flowers on the front with blue writing, the back is cream