This pessary came from Professor Geoff Bishop's rooms, Mollison House, 386 Albert Street, East Melbourne. As well as the UK, Portex had divisions in the USA and Canada. The pessary was originally regarded as an instrument and made from cork, ivory, hard rubber or gum-elastic. In later times, they were made from black vulcanite, flexible tin, soft copper wire covered with Indian rubber, and celluloid. The form of the pessary was and still is variable -either round, oval, or moulded in some cases combining three or four curves depending on the size of the pessary. In ancient time, medicated pessaries were made from emollient. astringent and aperient. Several of these are still used, but in more modem times are called vaginal suppositories. Anal suppositories are still used to suppress the pain of haemorrhoids.Portex brand ring pessary in original packaging. Consists of circular ring of cream vinyl, in sterile sealed pouch with transparent plastic at back. Stamped on pouch "PORTEX/MADE IN ENGLAND", and the text "USE BY JAN 77" and "CONTROL No 06 88". The ring is size 700/300/065 - 65mm. A sticker on the back of pouch gives instruction for cleaning the pessary. A red dot is also stuck to the back of the pouch.pessary, intrauterine device

Newspaper cutting from The Courier, Ballarat, Saturday March 30, 1985 about Jacki (Jacqui) Edwards working at the BTPS as part of the Commonwealth Employment Scheme. Details work being done by her, quotes Mr. John O'Loughlin CEP area project officer and the work being done by the scheme. Was on the front page of the paper. Includes two photographs in item. 2nd copy added 18/06/2006.trams, tramways, cep, jacki (jacqui) edwards, employment, btps

Black and white photograph of bogie tram No. 40, in bound on Albert St. Sebastopol at a stop picking up a lady passenger. Taken after tram has passed the photographer. Has destination of Lydiard St. Nth. Possibly taken mid to late 1960's as the roof ads do not appear to be all of SEC origin. Colour photocopy, laminated, of this photograph on display 5/2000 at 02-02-06trams, tramways, albert st, sebastopol, tram stops, tram 40

A collection of nine postcards donated by the Bass Coast Op Shop. Information on the back of No. 276-05. "Koala Bears were first seen by white explorers in the Blue Mountains, 1798. Early colonists from N.S.W. called it a "monkey bear". Koala means in Aboriginal "does not drink" or "no drink". They are slow-moving, tree-climbing, friendly marsupials with thick woolly fur coats, large ears and rubber nose. They live in gum trees and feed upon their leaves. Babies are born every two years, spending nine months in mother's pouch and then on her back for about six months, then leaving its parents and looking for a tree with comfortable branches."Nine coloured postcards of Phillip Island and wildlife. 276-01. Postcard showing four vintage vehicles displayed in the Len Lukey Memorial Museum & Gardens at the GP Race Track. 1. 1928 Austin Chummy. 2. 1926 Maxwell. 3. 1924 Model T Ford. 4. 1913 Model T Ford. 276-02. Postcard showing penguin in burrow possibly on egg/s 276-03. Postcard with two photographs of penguins coming up the beach at dusk. 276-04. Postcard with three photographs of penguins coming up the beach and people looking over the railing at them. 276-05. Postcard of a koala sitting on a branch. 276-06. Postcard of seals at Seal Rocks with man sitting on the rocks beside one. 276-07. Postcard with four photographs of koalas, penguins, Cowes Jetty and Cowes beach. 276-08. Postcard with three photographs of koalas, penguins and a seal. 276-09. Postcard with four photographs of penguins, koalas, seals and penguins.276-01. Len Lukey Memorial Museum & Gardens. Vehicle description as above in Physical Description. 276-02. Phillip Island, Victoria, Australia. On back: Australian Penguin Reserve, Phillip Island Victoria. 276-03. Australian Penguin Parade Phillip Island. 276-04. Penguins at Phillip Island, Victoria, Australia 276-05. On back: Full description of Koalas - see Historical Information below. 276-06. On back: Making friends at Seal Rocks, Phillip island, Vic. 276-07. Cowes Phillip Island. 276-08. Phillip Island Victoria 276-09. Greetings from Phillip Island. On back: Phillip Island, Victoria, Australia. Interesting aspects of this fascinating Island which gives shelter to some of Australia's unique fauna.wildlife - seals, wildlife - koala, wildlife - penguins, vintage cars, t model ford, len lukey musem, cowes beach, cowes pier, bass coast op shop

A green paper document titled 'Historical Record 1873 to 1945. St. John's Presbyterian Church Forest Street, Bendigo. Historical Record 1873 to 1956. 72nd Anniversary Sunday, May 6th, 1945. A three page outline of the history of the Church. 1945. Part of the Mr. Ken Hesse Collection donated by Mr. James Lerk. schurch, history, presbyterian church forest st bendigo, ken hesse collection, collection, bendigo, history, religions, christianity, anniversary, st. john's bendigo, presbyterian church

Has a strong association with the Geelong tramway system as being identified as being used on the system and for which trip on a specific date.Set of two SEC 6d teal colour tickets, Nos. H806802 and H806992 and a hand written note advising that they were used on tram No. 7 in Geelong from Little Ryrie St to Belmont and back on Sunday 1 January 1956 and that Alan and Ian travelled. Both tickets have been printed with a teal cross hatching on the rear.trams, tramways, tickets, secv, geelong, belmont

Black and white photograph of Bendigo 25, at Eaglehawk terminus with the driver and conductor alongside the tram. Has the Eaglehawk Town Hall in the background. Note the fire training stand on the right hand side of the photograph. Photographer unknown - see history of object. See Keith Kings, The Bendigo Tramways, re the fitting of reflective tape in 1956, page 59.In the rear in ink "Bendigo"trams, tramways, eaglehawk, tram 25

Coloured photograph showing the Sandhurst Hotel building on corner. The Sandhurst Hotel stood on the corner of St Andrew's Avenue and Lyttleton Terrace, near where the City of Greater Bendigo council chambers are now. Owned by Mr Sannerman and passed to his wife Flora Silverman on his death. The parents of Peter Ellis were licensees circa 1956.buildings, hotel, sandhurst hotel

Coloured photograph. Old Holden car. Rocky hill. Back of photo reads: Between Coober Pedy and Marla on route to Alice Springs National Folk Festival Easter 1987. (then in different writing) This car, FJ Holden (1954-1956) was Peter Ellis's, previously used by Doc Robbins to map the Whipstick before Peter bought it.photo, individual, peter ellis car

Three foolscap sheets - notes on the St Kilda Brighton Electric railway, including length, authorisation and a newspaper cutting, from the Sun, 28/2/1956 about the closure of the tramway that night. Items 2062, 614 and 2063 within box 72.3 in a brown folder marked "Brighton Electric Street Railway" in ink on the front cover.trams, tramways, vr, melbourne, brighton, st kilda, closure

A series of letters written in 1956 and 1957 between Lydia Chancellor and her network of pen friends, all cat lovers. A network of pen friends united by their love of cats. Topics covered in this correspondence include news of pets but also items of interest of the day. An envelope includes a photo of Agnew Bushby a friend from Auckland, New Zealand.communication, postal, letters, lydia chancellor collection

Robin Boyd developed a close friendship with the founder of the Bauhaus in Weimar Germany, Walter Gropius, who had moved to the USA in the 1930s. Through this connection, Boyd was invited to be the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Bemis Professor at the School in the North American academic year 1956-7. Robin and Patricia Boyd, with their youngest daughter Suzy, were based in Cambridge, Massachusetts for the year. Boyd gave some lectures at MIT and he was also invited to give lectures at many other universities, allowing him to travel widely within the USA, especially on the East Coast. This gave him the opportunity to meet architects like Frank Lloyd Wright, Eero Saarinen, Paul Rudolph and many others, and visit the offices of Skidmore, Owings and Merrill, and places like Taliesin and the General Motors Technical Center Detroit. On the way home, the Boyds visited London, Berlin, Paris and Le Corbusier’s Ronchamp Chapel in France.Colour slide in a mount. Honolulu with Diamond Head in the background, Hawaii, USAMade in USA / 7mit bemis professorship, mit, robin boyd, slide

Robin Boyd developed a close friendship with the founder of the Bauhaus in Weimar Germany, Walter Gropius, who had moved to the USA in the 1930s. Through this connection, Boyd was invited to be the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Bemis Professor at the School in the North American academic year 1956-7. Robin and Patricia Boyd, with their youngest daughter Suzy, were based in Cambridge, Massachusetts for the year. Boyd gave some lectures at MIT and he was also invited to give lectures at many other universities, allowing him to travel widely within the USA, especially on the East Coast. This gave him the opportunity to meet architects like Frank Lloyd Wright, Eero Saarinen, Paul Rudolph and many others, and visit the offices of Skidmore, Owings and Merrill, and places like Taliesin and the General Motors Technical Center Detroit. On the way home, the Boyds visited London, Berlin, Paris and Le Corbusier’s Ronchamp Chapel in France.Colour slide in a mount. Taliesin East, Spring Green, Wisconsin, USA. (Architect: Frank Lloyd Wright.)Made in USA / 24 / Encircled 20 (Handwritten)mit bemis professorship, mit, robin boyd, slide

Robin Boyd developed a close friendship with the founder of the Bauhaus in Weimar Germany, Walter Gropius, who had moved to the USA in the 1930s. Through this connection, Boyd was invited to be the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Bemis Professor at the School in the North American academic year 1956-7. Robin and Patricia Boyd, with their youngest daughter Suzy, were based in Cambridge, Massachusetts for the year. Boyd gave some lectures at MIT and he was also invited to give lectures at many other universities, allowing him to travel widely within the USA, especially on the East Coast. This gave him the opportunity to meet architects like Frank Lloyd Wright, Eero Saarinen, Paul Rudolph and many others, and visit the offices of Skidmore, Owings and Merrill, and places like Taliesin and the General Motors Technical Center Detroit. On the way home, the Boyds visited London, Berlin, Paris and Le Corbusier’s Ronchamp Chapel in France.Colour slide in a mount. Taliesin East, Spring Green, Wisconsin, USA. (Architect: Frank Lloyd Wright.)Made in USA / 28 / 04819 / C (Handwritten)mit bemis professorship, mit, robin boyd, slide

Robin Boyd developed a close friendship with the founder of the Bauhaus in Weimar Germany, Walter Gropius, who had moved to the USA in the 1930s. Through this connection, Boyd was invited to be the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Bemis Professor at the School in the North American academic year 1956-7. Robin and Patricia Boyd, with their youngest daughter Suzy, were based in Cambridge, Massachusetts for the year. Boyd gave some lectures at MIT and he was also invited to give lectures at many other universities, allowing him to travel widely within the USA, especially on the East Coast. This gave him the opportunity to meet architects like Frank Lloyd Wright, Eero Saarinen, Paul Rudolph and many others, and visit the offices of Skidmore, Owings and Merrill, and places like Taliesin and the General Motors Technical Center Detroit. On the way home, the Boyds visited London, Berlin, Paris and Le Corbusier’s Ronchamp Chapel in France.Colour slide in a mount. House, unknown location, USAMade in USA / Patened / 04819 / C (Handwritten)mit bemis professorship, mit, robin boyd, slide

Robin Boyd developed a close friendship with the founder of the Bauhaus in Weimar Germany, Walter Gropius, who had moved to the USA in the 1930s. Through this connection, Boyd was invited to be the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Bemis Professor at the School in the North American academic year 1956-7. Robin and Patricia Boyd, with their youngest daughter Suzy, were based in Cambridge, Massachusetts for the year. Boyd gave some lectures at MIT and he was also invited to give lectures at many other universities, allowing him to travel widely within the USA, especially on the East Coast. This gave him the opportunity to meet architects like Frank Lloyd Wright, Eero Saarinen, Paul Rudolph and many others, and visit the offices of Skidmore, Owings and Merrill, and places like Taliesin and the General Motors Technical Center Detroit. On the way home, the Boyds visited London, Berlin, Paris and Le Corbusier’s Ronchamp Chapel in France.Colour slide in a mount. Unknown location, USA (see also items S0472, S0476, S0515)Made in USA / Patentedmit bemis professorship, mit, robin boyd, slide

Robin Boyd developed a close friendship with the founder of the Bauhaus in Weimar Germany, Walter Gropius, who had moved to the USA in the 1930s. Through this connection, Boyd was invited to be the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Bemis Professor at the School in the North American academic year 1956-7. Robin and Patricia Boyd, with their youngest daughter Suzy, were based in Cambridge, Massachusetts for the year. Boyd gave some lectures at MIT and he was also invited to give lectures at many other universities, allowing him to travel widely within the USA, especially on the East Coast. This gave him the opportunity to meet architects like Frank Lloyd Wright, Eero Saarinen, Paul Rudolph and many others, and visit the offices of Skidmore, Owings and Merrill, and places like Taliesin and the General Motors Technical Center Detroit. On the way home, the Boyds visited London, Berlin, Paris and Le Corbusier’s Ronchamp Chapel in France.Colour slide in a mount. Unknown location, USA (see also items S0471, S0476, S0515)Made in USA / Patented / 04819 / G (Handwritten) / Encircled 16 (Handwritten)mit bemis professorship, mit, robin boyd, slide

Robin Boyd developed a close friendship with the founder of the Bauhaus in Weimar Germany, Walter Gropius, who had moved to the USA in the 1930s. Through this connection, Boyd was invited to be the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Bemis Professor at the School in the North American academic year 1956-7. Robin and Patricia Boyd, with their youngest daughter Suzy, were based in Cambridge, Massachusetts for the year. Boyd gave some lectures at MIT and he was also invited to give lectures at many other universities, allowing him to travel widely within the USA, especially on the East Coast. This gave him the opportunity to meet architects like Frank Lloyd Wright, Eero Saarinen, Paul Rudolph and many others, and visit the offices of Skidmore, Owings and Merrill, and places like Taliesin and the General Motors Technical Center Detroit. On the way home, the Boyds visited London, Berlin, Paris and Le Corbusier’s Ronchamp Chapel in France.Colour slide in a mount. Arthur Huertley House, Oak Park, Illinois, USA, 1902. (Architect: Frank Lloyd Wright.)Made in USA / 04819 / FLLW:CHC: '08 House OAK PK. (Handwritten) / C (Handwritten) / 46 (Handwritten) / Encircled 15 (Handwritten)mit bemis professorship, mit, robin boyd, slide

Robin Boyd developed a close friendship with the founder of the Bauhaus in Weimar Germany, Walter Gropius, who had moved to the USA in the 1930s. Through this connection, Boyd was invited to be the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Bemis Professor at the School in the North American academic year 1956-7. Robin and Patricia Boyd, with their youngest daughter Suzy, were based in Cambridge, Massachusetts for the year. Boyd gave some lectures at MIT and he was also invited to give lectures at many other universities, allowing him to travel widely within the USA, especially on the East Coast. This gave him the opportunity to meet architects like Frank Lloyd Wright, Eero Saarinen, Paul Rudolph and many others, and visit the offices of Skidmore, Owings and Merrill, and places like Taliesin and the General Motors Technical Center Detroit. On the way home, the Boyds visited London, Berlin, Paris and Le Corbusier’s Ronchamp Chapel in France.Colour slide in a mount. One of the three chapels around the Chapel Pond at Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts, USA, 1955. (Architect: Max Abramowitz.)Made in USA / Patentedusa, slide

Robin Boyd developed a close friendship with the founder of the Bauhaus in Weimar Germany, Walter Gropius, who had moved to the USA in the 1930s. Through this connection, Boyd was invited to be the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Bemis Professor at the School in the North American academic year 1956-7. Robin and Patricia Boyd, with their youngest daughter Suzy, were based in Cambridge, Massachusetts for the year. Boyd gave some lectures at MIT and he was also invited to give lectures at many other universities, allowing him to travel widely within the USA, especially on the East Coast. This gave him the opportunity to meet architects like Frank Lloyd Wright, Eero Saarinen, Paul Rudolph and many others, and visit the offices of Skidmore, Owings and Merrill, and places like Taliesin and the General Motors Technical Center Detroit. On the way home, the Boyds visited London, Berlin, Paris and Le Corbusier’s Ronchamp Chapel in France.Colour slide in a mount. Unknown location, USA (see also items S0471, S0472, S0515)Made in USA / Patented / Encircled 10 (Handwritten) / 6 (Handwritten)mit bemis professorship, mit, robin boyd, slide

Robin Boyd developed a close friendship with the founder of the Bauhaus in Weimar Germany, Walter Gropius, who had moved to the USA in the 1930s. Through this connection, Boyd was invited to be the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Bemis Professor at the School in the North American academic year 1956-7. Robin and Patricia Boyd, with their youngest daughter Suzy, were based in Cambridge, Massachusetts for the year. Boyd gave some lectures at MIT and he was also invited to give lectures at many other universities, allowing him to travel widely within the USA, especially on the East Coast. This gave him the opportunity to meet architects like Frank Lloyd Wright, Eero Saarinen, Paul Rudolph and many others, and visit the offices of Skidmore, Owings and Merrill, and places like Taliesin and the General Motors Technical Center Detroit. On the way home, the Boyds visited London, Berlin, Paris and Le Corbusier’s Ronchamp Chapel in France.Colour slide in a mount. Edward Kauffman House, Westwood, Los Angeles, California. (Architect: Richard Neutra.)mit bemis professorship, mit, robin boyd, slide

Robin Boyd developed a close friendship with the founder of the Bauhaus in Weimar Germany, Walter Gropius, who had moved to the USA in the 1930s. Through this connection, Boyd was invited to be the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Bemis Professor at the School in the North American academic year 1956-7. Robin and Patricia Boyd, with their youngest daughter Suzy, were based in Cambridge, Massachusetts for the year. Boyd gave some lectures at MIT and he was also invited to give lectures at many other universities, allowing him to travel widely within the USA, especially on the East Coast. This gave him the opportunity to meet architects like Frank Lloyd Wright, Eero Saarinen, Paul Rudolph and many others, and visit the offices of Skidmore, Owings and Merrill, and places like Taliesin and the General Motors Technical Center Detroit. On the way home, the Boyds visited London, Berlin, Paris and Le Corbusier’s Ronchamp Chapel in France.Colour slide in a mount. Unknown house, possibly California, USAMade in USA / 15mit bemis professorship, mit, robin boyd, slide

Robin Boyd developed a close friendship with the founder of the Bauhaus in Weimar Germany, Walter Gropius, who had moved to the USA in the 1930s. Through this connection, Boyd was invited to be the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Bemis Professor at the School in the North American academic year 1956-7. Robin and Patricia Boyd, with their youngest daughter Suzy, were based in Cambridge, Massachusetts for the year. Boyd gave some lectures at MIT and he was also invited to give lectures at many other universities, allowing him to travel widely within the USA, especially on the East Coast. This gave him the opportunity to meet architects like Frank Lloyd Wright, Eero Saarinen, Paul Rudolph and many others, and visit the offices of Skidmore, Owings and Merrill, and places like Taliesin and the General Motors Technical Center Detroit. On the way home, the Boyds visited London, Berlin, Paris and Le Corbusier’s Ronchamp Chapel in France.Colour slide in a mount. 660 Fifth Avenue, New York City, New York, USA, 1957. (Architects: Carson and Lundin.)Made in USA / Patented / 04819 / B (Handwritten) / Encircled 15 (Handwritten) / Encircled 21 (Handwritten)mit bemis professorship, mit, robin boyd, slide