Views of Stawell. INCLUDES view of Main Street looking East showing from right Strangio & Pizione fruit shop. Sun Printing Works. Tea Rooms. King. Carters Boot Shop. Taylor. Bull and Mouth in distance. Car visible. ALSO Main Street Looking West showing from right Norman A Harding Taylor and Outfitter. Geo Mitchell & Sons stawell businesses streetscape

Upper Main Street looking West c1920's. Vehicles and bunting hanging from buildings. Carters Boot shop visible.stawell businesses streetscape

Colour photo c1980's of Old Post Office Hotel Building now occupied by a number of shops. Public toilet on right.stawell businesses

Sign from top of Charlie Carter’s Grocery Shop - Lamont Street Stawellstawell business

Main Street Procession c1900 in front of Methodist Church looking East. Constable on Horseback visible. Possibly the Ballarat dragon making the date 1906 or it could be the Chinese See Yup Society Dragon, the head of which is still preserved in their South Melbourne temple. Businesses from left, Carters Boot Shop, Post Office Hotel, G. Mahanke Bakery, J.H. Stabb Stawell Coach Factory, Speedwell Cycles, W.J. Jenkinson Bootmakers, Bone Saddle & Harness Factory, W. Whiteside Taylors. Big Hill is visible in background and possibly the Market Building roof above the G. Mahnke sign. Sop In Trove the only mentions of a Chinese parade at Stawell was for Easter Monday 1906, and this occasion did feature a dragon – the costumes, banners, and dragon appear to have been borrowed from Melbourne, and it is suspected that this was the See Yup Society Dragon, the head of which is still preserved in their South Melbourne temple. At the time that this photo was taken there were only three Chinese communities in Victoria which are now known to have had parade regalia and a dragon – Bendigo, Ballarat, and Melbourne. The Melbourne dragon was the smaller of these, and that seems to match with what you can see in the photo, as does what appears to be a striped horn (frustratingly the pole obscures most of the dragon’s face). All three dragon heads still survive today, as does some of the original parade regalia, but Bendigo’s collection and dragon is the most complete. The remains of the See Yup Society collection have still to be properly studied and conserved. I would also note that if this photo was from Easter Monday 1906 then Bendigo and possibly Ballarat Chinese communities would not have been able to make their dragons available as both would have been preoccupied with their own towns’ Easter festivities. Photo taken from the Town Hall balcony of procession looking towards corner of Wimmera Street stawell businesses streetscape, chinese

Charlie Carter’s Grocery Shop - Lamont Street Stawellstawell business

A. E. Miller Grocer and Stawell West Post Office Longfield Street Stawell opposite Historical Centre complex. Millers ran the shop from 1908. Men Standing in doorway and picket fence in foreground.stawell business

Heal’s Blacksmith Shop - Byrne Streetstawell

E. Salinger. Merchant. General Store. Great Western (shop) 1868 on Western Highwaystawell

B/W photo of watercolour painting Mr F Baylie - Blacksmith Shop. Glenorchystawell

Workshop scene . Two workmen in a blacksmith shop with Forge Anvil and vice. Male on left Percy Ledger. Part of a set of photos of Wimmera Motor Works.stawell industry

Red Cross in street procession of floats. In Main Street in front of R.J. & L.A. Heslop Shop and Electricity Showroom.stawell medical

Stawell Main Street looking East from Wimmera Street. Post office on left Toy Shop on right Bull & Mouth in Centre. Vehicle entering intersection from left and angle parked in Street. Two people crossing road at centre.stawell streetscape

C. Hunt and Sons Shop upper Main Street with man in suit and hat standing out frontstawell business

B/W photo of C. Hunt shop with male (Alf Hunt) standing out front. Note petrol bowser stawell business

Shopping Area Halls Gap 1985businesses

W.J. Rodger Grocer 54 Patrick Street - Shop c1959stawell

Lower Main Street Stawell 1906 Bull and Mouth Hotel. Carters Boot Shop. Main Street looking Weststawell streetscape

Mitchell J.J. Glenorchy. Baker.stawell

Callawadda - Hemley’s Post Office & Shopstawell

M.W. Edwards General Merchant - Lubeckstawell

Small wooden Cabinet used to store retail Dye, Door front and back. From Chemist Shop. Dyolastawell

Green Bottle Stawell Cordial Factory. Found underfloor of a shop in Main Street stawell

"Browse In” Shop Signstawell

Mitchell Bros. Shop. Main Streetstawell

Louis Robert JAMES (22 September 1920-1997) Born Adelaide, South Australia Died Sydney, New South Wales Louis James worked as a draughtsman in Adelaide. Although he had no formal art training, he started painting after World War Two quickly acquiring a wide reputation in Australia and London. Known as a printmaker he worked in England between 1949 to 1964. This item is part of the Federation University Art Collection. The Art Collection features over 1000 works and was listed as a 'Ballarat Treasure' in 2007.Framed black and white lithographart, artwork, louis james, printmaking, shopping, available