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Kiewa Valley Historical Society
Wringer - washing clothes
Wringers were used to wring clothes dry after washing. This is a manual one that can be attached to a trough or container that holds the washing. Later on washing machines were made with the wringer already attached and were operated by electricity. Afterwards washing machines spun the clothes dry as part of their cycle.This wringer was used by a resident of the Mount Beauty township during the Kiewa Hydro Electric Scheme in the 1940's and 1950's. White metal machine with 2 adjoining cloth cylinders in the middle. The metal rectangular shape forms a frame around the cylinders which have a metal shield above them and a metal flap below them. At the bottom, on each side is a protruding metal vice enabling the machine to be attached to a container. On one side is a lever with a wooden handle that can be wound around to rotate the cylinders towards each other."Acme" in red on the middle of the top front and "Acme" in white in the middle of the top of the back.washing machine; ringer; mount beauty; laundry; -
Bendigo Military Museum
Container - CONTAINER, LEATHER, Possibly 1930’s on
Cylindrical brown leather container with attached lid fastened with two straps and buckle. Shoulder strap attached. Container lined with velvetleatherwork, military-equipment -
Glenelg Shire Council Cultural Collection
Photograph - Photograph - Luxford Forklift, n.d
Port of Portland Authority Archivesport of portland archives, luxford forklift -
Parks Victoria - Mount Buffalo Chalet
Container
Straw container, original to the Cafe, which supplied afternoon teas and suppers to casual visitors and Chalet guests. Spiders and milkshakes were popular with yung guests after evening tournaments, films and concerts. 'When the Victorian railways took over managemen of the Chalet from 1 october 1924, they ran their dining room and cafe in similar fashion to the dining cars on their trains and refreshment rooms on their stations, using the same ceramic hotel-ware and electro plated nickel silverware (EPNS), all made to order items that are clearly idenitified by the distinctive 'VR' monogram. The Chalet retains a good selection of of the diverse range of EPNS item formerly used in the dining room..- which in all theoir variety and function help to interpret the dining room protocols of the 'tourist house' and the service provied by the Victorian Railways refreshment and Services Branch. Many of the items were manufactured by by Stoke & Sons of Melbourne (est. 1856.' (Pg 103. Historica) Listed in Draft Inventory of Significant Collection items. Appendix A.3.Tableware. (Pg 166 Historica).Electroplated silver drinking straw container. Tube shape. Moulded circular base with matching lid with central post which can be pulled up to reveal drinking straws resting on it.On front, "VR / Straws" Also silver stamp on base and inscription;"Parmount / plate / best / EP A1 NS / quality / warranted / hardsoldered / K. G. LUKE / MELB / 6889" -
Mission to Seafarers Victoria
Container - Square Based Glass Container with Metal Lid
Square based glass container with a circular opening on the top and a paper label with the text: ‘Cream of Tartar’. Features a corresponding metal lid with a red cork protrusion on the bottom to seal the container. Found in the top container location of the parent item.Cream of Tartarvolum collection -
Glenelg Shire Council Cultural Collection
Photograph - Photograph - Portland Harbour, n.d
Port of Portland Authority ArchivesBack: Border ruled 4 sides 'Reduce to 28 ems wide' - top border 50%- green pencil 14 bottom border - all in pencilport of portland archives, construction, harbour, portland -
Kiewa Valley Historical Society
Tin Coffee Cylindrical, circa mid to late 1900's
This "coffee" tin has by the "art deco" appearance its origins in the late 1950's to 1960's. This time period was one of accelerated growth both in the physical (housing) sense and the mental (new ideas and inventions) changes in "attitudes". These occurred more rapidly in cities but had its effects on the rural environment. The drinking of coffee was spurred on by easier distribution of imported food and drinks. Advertising by stronger radio links and then by television brought the variety of foods and drinks to semi isolated rural regions. The accessibility through greater information channels becoming available brought with it unbelievable ranges of goods and foodstuffs. Rural regions still relied on bulk supplies and relatively larger storage containers than those in cities. This "bulk" buying and storage "syndrome" was a lingering result of many years of "drought" periods when road transports met delays from flooded roadways in supplying population centres in the Kiewa Valley. The construction phases in building the SEC Vic Hydro electricity Scheme in the eastern sections of the Victorian Alps brought many changes to the quiet rural regions in the Kiewa Valley. Changes in population and social mores. The influx of a varied , mostly temporary, and "European flavoured cuisine" changes the "cuppa tea only" flavour to the have a "coffee break". The subliminal influence of the "American" films changed those children growing up in the post 1950s from the "English tea" to the "American coffee". This "Americanisation process has influenced not only rural Australia but also other areas throughout the world.This "insignificant" coffee tin is very significant as it demonstrates that the Kiewa Valley was becoming more accessible to reliable coffee supplies and general food items.The container was part of a "set" of containers that included tea, sugar,biscuits,flour, rice and other family condiments. This type of kitchen storage containers was brought about through changing patterns in tea and coffee useage and overall consumption. Household demands for faster "self help" cooking especially beveridges and the greater choice of kitchen "utensils" was brought on by easier access to products due to a lessening of the area's "isolation" by having a reliable (all weather) road system and an ever increasing population growth. The need for travelling goods/merchant supply caravans to service the area became a diminishing factor, as a result of the establishment of grocery stores in Tawonga and Mount Beauty in the supply of previously "hard to get" groceries. This transition was precipitated by the SEC Vic Hydro Scheme of the 1940's to 1960's which increased the valley's population level three fold.This cylindrical tin has a pull/push lid(for easy access to the contents). The container is labelled for "coffee" however it has no commercial manufacturer's label to establish that it was bought with coffee ingredients in it. The majority of the container's external surface has a "metallic" light blue colour with two sets of silver rings confining black (horizontal spotted) rectangles. "COFFEE" within an elongated spherical "art deco" four pointed banner of silver and black colouringkitchen containers, domestic food storage, bulk stocks of dried condiments -
Ballarat Base Hospital Trained Nurses League
Mixture Cup, Bottle & Container
Glass bottle, plastic container & cupmixture cup, bottle, container, ballarat -
Ballarat Base Hospital Trained Nurses League
Amyl Nitrite
Small metal container with writing on lid.amyl nitrite -
Ballarat Base Hospital Trained Nurses League
Graduated Connections
13 various types in metal container.graduated, connections -
Numurkah & District Historical Society
Container - Cooking tablets in a container
Junket tablets in a long cylindrical container -
Stawell Historical Society Inc
Memorabilia - Realia, 1800-1920
Collection of Hat Pins in Glass Containerstawell -
Stawell Historical Society Inc
Memorabilia - Realia, c1950-1960's
Blue/White Glass container with lidstawell -
Stawell Historical Society Inc
Memorabilia - Realia, c1950-1960's
Tinted Glass bowl container with basestawell -
Flagstaff Hill Maritime Museum and Village
Container
Container cardboard round of boracic powderflagstaff hill, warrnambool, shipwrecked-coast, flagstaff-hill, flagstaff-hill-maritime-museum, maritime-museum, shipwreck-coast, flagstaff-hill-maritime-village -
Running Rabbits Military Museum operated by the Upwey Belgrave RSL Sub Branch
Medical Equipment
Bakelite container / containing anticeptic powder.equipment, 1914, army -
Running Rabbits Military Museum operated by the Upwey Belgrave RSL Sub Branch
Medical Equipment
Metal container for ether part of Col021equipment, 1914, general -
Running Rabbits Military Museum operated by the Upwey Belgrave RSL Sub Branch
Medical Equipment
Container of Sodium Bicarbonate part of COL021equipment, 1914, general -
Running Rabbits Military Museum operated by the Upwey Belgrave RSL Sub Branch
Medical Equipment
Container of Boracic Acid part of COL021equipment -
Running Rabbits Military Museum operated by the Upwey Belgrave RSL Sub Branch
Medical Equipment
Container of Cotton Wool prt of COL021equipment, 1914, army -
Running Rabbits Military Museum operated by the Upwey Belgrave RSL Sub Branch
Medical Kit
Container of Strangulator Tubing part of COL021equipment, 1914, general -
Arapiles Historical Society
Milk Separator, Melleotte, Aprox. 1900
Val Webb's family's. The Olivers from Grass Flat. Used it for the family to separate skim milk from cream.Stand with handle and turning container and mechanismRobinson & co Agricultural implement makers Spotswood, vic -
Clunes Museum
Container, CLEVELAND'S DRUG LTD
POWDER USED TO HOLD DENTAL PLATES FIRMLY.CONTAINER OF 'FASTEETH' POWDER FOR PERSONAL USElocal history, personal effects, toilet requisites, cosmetics -
Clunes Museum
Functional object - TIN OF RAT POISON, FELTON, GRIMWADE & DUERDINS PTY. LTD. 342 FLINDERS LANE, MELBOURNE
POISON USED TO GET RID OF RATS.A SMALL TIN CONTAINER OF RAT POISONlocal history, domestic item, pest control, -
Trafalgar Holden Museum
Container - Neats foot oil
Used in the maintenance of leather saddles and harnesses Circa 1900As imported and sold by Holden and FrostMetal container with handle and cork plug Superior Neats foot oilharness oil, equine -
University of Melbourne, School of Chemistry
Demonstration Equipment
iv &v: go into 80b container -
Hand Tool Preservation Association of Australia Inc
Chain
This item is part of the Thomas Caine Tool Collection, owned by The National Trust of Australia (Victoria) and curated by the Hand Tools Preservation Association of Australia.chain, fob, plus match container -
Whitehorse Historical Society Inc.
Functional object - Soap Holder
Mottled pink soap container with lid.domestic items, ablutions -
Clunes Museum
GLASS MEASURED CONTAINER, CROWN
OBJECTS CAME FROM THE FORMER CLUNES HOSPITALTALL GLASS CONTAINER WITH POURING LIP"CROWN"local history, medicine, glassware, clunes hospital -
Whitehorse Historical Society Inc.
Container - Ointment container, Menthol camphor ointment, Unknown
Example of medical equipment.From equipment of trained infant welfare nurse.Small tin container for camphor ointment.9 ozs net weight, menthol camphor ointment phenol 2 1/4 grains per oz.medical equipment