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Warrnambool and District Historical Society Inc.
Typewriter maintenance kit, Early 20th century
This box contains maintenance equipment for a Remington typewriter. The Remington company was founded in U.S.A. and it produced the world’s first typewriter for commercial use in 1873. In 1886 the Remington family business was sold but the name was retained and typewriters with the Remington Rand brand name were sold from 1927 on. Typewriters have now been replaced by computers. This box of equipment belonged to Dr Horace Holmes who would have used a typewriter in his medical practice in Warrnambool in the first half of the 20th century and perhaps would also have used a typewriter in the activities of the many community groups with which he was associated. Horace Iles Holmes (1877-1959) was born and educated in Tasmania and he completed a medical degree at the University of Melbourne. He commenced a practice in Warrnambool in 1906 and was the honorary Medical Officer at the Warrnambool Hospital and Warrnambool’s Health Officer. His practice was at ‘Ierne’ at the corner of Spence and Kepler Streets. He was an early member of the Royal Australian College of Surgeons and was prominent in community affairs (foundation President of Warrnambool Rotary Club, a member of the Warrnambool Masonic Lodge for over 50 years, a Warrnambool Hospital Committee member, a long-term Trustee of the Warrnambool Methodist Church and President of the Lyndoch Hostel for the Aged Committee. Dr Holmes also had agricultural interests and enjoyed fishing, bowls and golf. This box of typewriter equipment is of interest as an item in the collection of Horace Iles Holmes, a doctor who was prominently associated with the professional and community life of Warrnambool for over 50 years. This is a rectangular-shaped black cardboard box with a detachable lid. The box contains eight items used for typewriter maintenance. They are a glass bottle containing typewriter oil, a round metal oil dispenser, a small metal hook, a small metal spanner, a metal wire brush, and three bristle brushes, one with a bone handle and one with a wooden handle enclosed in cellophane. The box is somewhat stained inside. On a brush: ‘Made in U.S.A. bristle’ On the glass bottle: ‘Specially refined typewriter oil, Chartres Pty Ltd 375 Collins St. Melbourne Australian Built Remington Typewriters Phone 9100 (8 lines)’ typewriters, remington, dr horace holmes, warrnambool, history of warrnambool, office equipment -
Moorabbin Air Museum
Manual (item) - Material Division U.S. Air Corps Drafting Room Manual, Drafting Room Manual
Prewar U.S.A. Air Corps Drafting Room Manual. Created by the Material Division of the USA Air Corpsdrafting room manual, 1929, u.s.a. air corps -
Orbost & District Historical Society
car wheel rim splitter, 1920's
A rim splitter was used on the outer rims of older vehicles to facilitate removal and replacement of tires. The tool was used to remove a tyre and replace it onto a split wheel rim. After the air was let out, the safety rim key was pulled. The swing arms were spread out and the three arms evenly spaced around the rim. The single arm with the screw gear needed to be close to the split so that the hooks fit on the rim and the rim was then pulled inward and the tyre could be be removed from the rim. After the tire was repaired or a new one was ready to be put on the collapsed rim the tool was used to push the rim back together and the safety key could be reinserted. A rim splitter were a universal type tool used for many cars of the 1920's and 1930's.A cast iron rim splitter which has two hinged side arms with hooked ends. The middle shaft has a hooked end and an inner bolt that can be screwed up or down.St Joseph Michigan Hercules Product Co Made in U.S.A. L 7motoring rim-splitter tyres tool -
Tatura Irrigation & Wartime Camps Museum
cream separator, Approx 1900
very old steel machine on solid stand. Vat (23 gallons per hour) is from a different machine (alfa laval). The separator is American with Australian agency. All parts are there but not put together. Two spouts,one for skim milk, one for cream. Run by hand with turning handle attached.Mc Cormick Deering U.S.A (maker) Chicago. International harvester company (Agent)dairy, cream, imported materials -
Warrnambool RSL Sub Branch
Book, BOOK: Soviet Military Power
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Tennis Australia
Scoring Chair, Circa 1900
A fold-up umpire's scoring chair. Metal plaque along back reads: "GOLD MEDAL" FOLDING FURNITURE CO./.../RACINE, WIS./MADE IN U.S.A. Materials: Wood, Metal, Lacquertennis -
Kew Historical Society Inc
Leisure object - Card Game, AMCO Playing Card Co, Bridge Card Bingo, 1955-1965
The Kew Historical Society’s collection includes a wide range of leisure objects. Many of the items are European-made, generally of British origin, however there are a number that were made for the Australian market by Australian manufacturers. In the Nineteenth and Twentieth centuries, there were large numbers of games produced for children and adults. These included: arcade games, board games, playing cards and puzzles. A representative sample, many now rare survivors, can be found in the collection.Bridge Card Bingo. U.S.A. 1938. AMCO Playing Card Company of New York & Chicago was an American company founded in the 1930s. It continued to produce playing cards up until 1987. binge card bingo, playing cards, card games -
Mont De Lancey
Shaving equipment
2 Cut-throat razors with black bakelite handles. Shaving travel kit in a tin, comprising silver Gilllette shaver and a packet of Gillette blades. Silver Gilllette shaver, made in U.S.A.safety razors, cut-throat razors -
Mont De Lancey
Glass bottle
Aqua glass bottle, 12.7 cm tall, embossed on three sides: ‘Hauthaway’s/ Peerless Gloss/ Made in U.S.A’. Hauthaway’s company, established in 1852, manufactured protective coatings for shoes. The bottles come in different colours. Some have the name Hauthaway’s repeated (instead of ‘Made in U.S.A). This example was discarded in 1908 after the death of Mary Everett. Embossed on base, ‘C/6’.Green, square-bottomed glass bottle"Hauthaway's" on one face, "Peerless Gloss" on the opposite facebottles, containers -
Bendigo Historical Society Inc.
Tool - GOLDEN SQUARE SCHOOL COLLECTION: HEYER PORTABLE PRINTER
Model 60 Portable Printer from Golden Square Primary School, made in U.S.A by Heyer Inc, Chicago, in brown cardboard box containing printer, writing plate, brush and instruction sheet.Heyer Inc, Chicagobendigo, education, golden square school -
Tennis Australia
Page from Magazine, Aug-02
Page 1058 of Harper's Weekly (August 1902), featuring black and white photo images of the players in the 1902 Davis Cup Challenge Round, from the U.S.A. and the British Isles. Materials: Paper, Inktennis -
Expression Australia
Report, Report to The Steering Committee on The Pilot Project on Secondary Education for Hearing-Impaired Students
Written by Jimmie Joan Wilson 23rd June 1983, National Technical Institute for the Deaf Rochester, New York, U.S.A.Green cover, 29.5cmHx20cmW, 37 pages, 2 copieshearing-impaired students, jimmie joan wilson -
Mont De Lancey
Food chopper, c1886
Mechanical food choppers or hashers (commonly called in the U.S.A.) were used around the 1880's to chop up food.Starrett cast iron mechanical food chopper with tin barrel, on green wooden base. With booklet. kitchenware, slicers, kitchen equipment -
Montmorency/Eltham RSL Sub Branch
Equipment - Machete, 1943
Machete with cord loop through handleLEGITIMUS COLLINS & CO MADE IN U.S.A. No 1250 1943 (see Media for further detail) -
Coal Creek Community Park & Museum
Gauze
8624.1 - Cardboard box 8624.2 - Treated wrapping paper 8624.3 - Gauze- Plain Absorbent Gauze - 36 inches wide - Seabury & Johnson - New York U.S.A -
Bendigo Historical Society Inc.
Clothing - CREAM SILK WEDDING BODICE, 1900-1910
Embroidered silk, with a swirl type embroidered pattern. Wide, and deep square neckline. Back opening with nine metal hook and eye fasteners. Seven 16cm long bones encased in ribbon - three in the front, and two either side of the back opening. The wide square neckline is edged with 4.5cm wide fine lace - (two narrower pieces stitched together). Five .5cm wide tucks border the front and back neckline. The sheer embroidered tulle sleeves have a silk panel under arm. Shoulders and sleeve cuff are trimmed with a feature of artificial roses and leaves - roses 2.5cm diameter. A 17cm frill extends from the back opening, passing under the armhole, across the tucked border at the neckline to the back opening of the left side. This frill is also trimmed with the artificial roses at 10cm intervals. The bands of lace that trim the neckline also border this frill. Stiffened circular shaped shields are stitched under the armhole, and on the adjoining under arm of the sleeve. Pink chenille type tufts interspersed on embroidered silk overlay. PART 0F WEDDING OUTFIT 11400.781; 782On the lining panels of the left sleeve is marked FLIRT, Made in U.S.A. 1 2 2.costume, female, cream silk wedding bodice -
Puffing Billy Railway
Steam Powered Water Pump, 1900s
Steam Powered Water Pump in active use on George & George BoilerHistoric - Industrial Steam Powered Water Pump in active use on George & George Boiler Steam Powered Water Pump Blue with steel rods and brass valves.Snow steam Pump works Bufflalo, N.Y.,U.S.A Size 3x2x3 Number 51520puffing billy, water pump, steam, blue, snow steam pump works -
Clunes Museum
Container - BOTTLE
Clear glass bottle, pale blue, round with smaller neckOn side of bottle; St Jakobs OEL The Charles A. Vogeler Company Baltimore MD U.S.A.bottle, medicinal bottle -
Mont De Lancey
Meat Juice Press, Landers, Frary & Clark, Circa 1895
Cast iron meat juice press, with hand operated screw mechanism.'Landers, Frary & Clark, New Britain, Conn. U.S.A.' 'Columbia Meat Juice Press'screw presses -
Mont De Lancey
Bread Saw/Knife, Landers, Frary & Clark, Circa 1897
Metal old-style bread saw/knife.'The Quick Cut Bread Knife Landers Frary & Clark, New Britain, Conn. U.S.A.'break knives -
Warrnambool RSL Sub Branch
Book, BOOK: The Two World Wars
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Flagstaff Hill Maritime Museum and Village
Gramophone cylinders, National Phonograph Co
Gramophone cylinders, blue. 6 grooves on interior stored in cardboard round container with detachable lid. Edison Amberol Record, made and sold by National Phonograph Co. at Orange N.J. U.S.A. No phonograph record. flagstaff hill, warrnambool, shipwrecked-coast, flagstaff-hill, flagstaff-hill-maritime-museum, maritime-museum, shipwreck-coast, flagstaff-hill-maritime-village -
Whitehorse Historical Society Inc.
Document, 'The Stone House', 1965
Notes on Schwerkolt Family History written by Abigail Schwerkolt, wife of Charles Clarence Victor Schwerkolt, following her visit to Mary in the U.S.A. in 1965. Nunawading Council bought the Cottage from Mary in 1964.schwerkolt, johann august, schwerkolt, abigail emmeline, schwerkolt, charles clarence victor, schwerkolt, paulina, schwerkolt wilhelmina, jackschowsky, mary, schwerkolt, mary -
Tennis Australia
Page from Magazine, Aug-02
Page 1058 of Harper's Weekly (August 1902), featuring tinted black and white photo images of the players in the 1902 Davis Cup Challenge Round, from the U.S.A. and the British Isles. Materials: Paper, Inktennis -
Warrnambool and District Historical Society Inc.
Cleaning Pad, Cleaning Pad Gramaphone Mrs Rowan, 1920s
John Brunswick from Switzerland came to U.S.A. in 1845 and established a business in Ohio making carriages and billiard tables. In 1874 a merger gave the company a new name of Brunswick and Balke Company and in 1884 it became Brunswick, Balke and Collender. In the early 20th century the company made other products including phonograph records and discs and in 1930 this section of the company was sold to Warner Brothers. Today it is known as the Brunswick Corporation. The patent for these cleaning pads was taken out in 1922. Matilda (Tilly) Rowan, the daughter of Robert and Ellen Lavery was born in Warrnambool in 1872 and by 1896 was advertising her stationery shop in the Oddfellows Hall in Koroit Street. She married Thomas Rowan in 1908. She had a music shop at 143 Liebig Street with one known date, 1930, and then transferred her business to the Oddfellows Hall building which she owned. She also operated the Plaza Picture Theatre in the same building. She died in 1948.Brunswick- Balke- Collender CompanyThese are two gramophone records cleaning pads. They are circular in shape with a tin top and felt cleaning pads. One pad is brown-coloured and the other is green-coloured. The metal tops have the name of the supplier and the name of the music shop in Warrnambool that gave out or sold the pads. The tops are painted black with gold-coloured printing. The tops have ornamental scrolls on the edges. ‘Brunswick, Mrs Rowan Music House, 143 Liebig Street, Warrnambool, ‘Phone 634, Agent for New Edison Diamond Disc Phonographs and Records, The Brunswick-Balke-Collender Company, Reg.U.S. Pat.Office, M de F. Marca Industrial Registrada, patented November 1922, Philadelphia Badge Co., Phila, U.S.A.’mrs tilly rowan, brunswick- balke- collender company -
Flagstaff Hill Maritime Museum and Village
Gramophone cylinders, National Phonograph Co
Gramophone cylinders, black, 6 grooves on interior stored in cardboard round container with detachable lid. Edison Gold Moulded Record, made and sold by National Phonograph Co. at Orange N.J. U.S.A Empty tube.flagstaff hill, warrnambool, shipwrecked-coast, flagstaff-hill, flagstaff-hill-maritime-museum, maritime-museum, shipwreck-coast, flagstaff-hill-maritime-village, gramophone cylinder, edison gold moulded record, national phonograph co -
Flagstaff Hill Maritime Museum and Village
Book, Ballarat and Vicinity
Ballarat and Vicinity Hand written on inside front loose end paper "Presented by Walter Davies Esq Warrnambool December 1928" Edited by W. B. Kimberly of Chicago U.S.A. Publisher: FW Niven & Co Label on spine cover with typed text RA 994.57 BAL Front loose endpaper has a stamp from Warrnambool Public Museumwarrnambool, shipwrecked-coast, flagstaff-hill, flagstaff-hill-maritime-museum, maritime-museum, shipwreck-coast, flagstaff-hill-maritime-village, shipwrecked-artefact, great ocean road, book, warrnambool library, warrnambool mechanics’ institute, mechanics’ institute library, victorian library board, warrnambool books and records, warrnambool children’s library, warrnambool public library, ballarat and vicinity, w. b. kimberly -
Federation University Historical Collection
Book, 'A Treatise on Surveying' by William Gillespie, 1888
William M. Gillespie Formerly Professor of Civil Engineering in Union College. Green and maroon hardcover, bound, 537 pages with Appendix A - Synopsis of Plane Trigonometry, Appendix B - Transversals and separate end section for Traverse Tables. Fold out Isogonic Chart for the U.S.A adjacent to title page. 'J A Burritt (Ballarat 1890) 'handwritten in pencil on two consecutive inside cover pages. -
Warrnambool and District Historical Society Inc.
Headwear - Lady's hat and hat shapes, 1960s
These items came from the Godfrey family who lived in Warrnambool in the mid 20th century. The hat was bought and worn by Barbara Phipps (nee Godfrey) some time in the 1960s. It was bought from the department store of Cramond and Dickson, a prominent and important business in Warrnambool from 1855 to 1973. The two felt hat shapes were bought in Italy during World War Two by Jim Godfrey and given to his wife Joy. They were never made into hats to wear but remain in their original state. These items are of interest because they are connected to a 20th century Warrnambool family and because they are good examples of women's fashions of the past..1 A beige=coloured lady's felt hat with a slight fold in the crown and with a strip of felt around the outside of the crown ending in a single knot. There are some multi=coloured feathers attached to the felt strip.The hat has a cream lining on the inside edge of the crown and the brim is stitched .2 A cream felt hat shape .3 A green felt hat shape.1 Doeskin Felt 100% Wool Geo. W. Bollman & Co. Inc. Made in U.S.A.vintage women's clothing -
Australian Jazz Museum
Musical Instrument
The brass cornet was owned by early Australian Jazz musician and multi-instrumentalist Benny Featherstone Benny Featherstone is considered "one of the most fascinating and gifted musicians in the history of Australian jazz" (Johnson, Oxford Companion to Australian Jazz, p 154). Once described as "Australia's Louis Armstrong"Buescher brass cornetTrue tone. Pat. Oct 89.07 287335 LP 262 The Buescher Elkhart Ind. U.S.A.benny featherstone, prince of good fellows, thirties, jazz musician, melbourne jazz musician, drummer, 1930 s, buescher cornet, trumpeter, trombonist, clarinetist, pianist, early australian jazz