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Bendigo Historical Society Inc.
Map - MAP WHITE HILL TO HUNTLY
Map of Bendigo creek and adjacent leads - White Hills to Huntly replotted from old 4 chain to 1 inch survey of 1860 by G. W. Hart - Surveyor. Base of roads and streets taken from D.L.S. 1 . 10000 base maps. Legend: battery site, puddling mill site, dam bank site, cutting altering course of creek, lead boundaries.bendigo, mining -
Port Melbourne Historical & Preservation Society
Photograph - Lagoon, Port Melbourne, 1970s
Copy of B&W photograph c1920 taken from the Eastern Jetty looking across Lagoon to Esplanade West. Yacht 'Hero' in foreground, pumphouse at right, flour mill at left. Nets drying along Western Jetty. The ketch 'Ripple' off left belonged to the Stennikens. Known as a 'ti-tree' ketch, it was used to transport ti-tree and shell grit from down the bay.On rear: 'D Beazley photo collection Neg Nos PM004/19 and 20'sandridge lagoon, industry - fishing, sport - yachting, hero, ripple, robert harper & co ltd, piers and wharves - miscellaneous -
Bendigo Historical Society Inc.
Newspaper - JENNY FOLEY COLLECTION: LOOP-PILE
Bendigo Advertiser "The way we were" from Friday, May 28, 2004. Loop-pile: this float is not likely to be forgotten easily! It is the Easter Fair entry believed to be 1958 of Hanro Knitting Mills and features June Richards, under the shag-pile brolly, Joan Simpson (Jobe) and Pam Sheckelton at the front, modelling the company's sleepwear range, the theme that year being water-lilies.newspaper, bendigo advertiser, the way we were -
National Vietnam Veterans Museum (NVVM)
Photograph, Successful Ambush
A black and white photograph of NVA/VietCong killed in a successful ambush by 2 Troop, B Squadron, 3rd Cavalry Regiment, commanded by Captain Tom Arrowsmith, Campbelltown, NSW, and his 2IC Dallas Mills, Liverpool, NSW, and the 1st Australian TaskForces' D & E Platoon at Xuyen Moc.30/5/1969. The ambush nettedtwenty five enemy killed, there were no Australian casualtiesphotograph, nva/vc, 2 troop b squadron, 3rd cavalry regiment, capt tom arrowsmith, dallas mills, 1 atf base, xuyen moc, gibbons collection catalogue -
Lakes Entrance Regional Historical Society (operating as Lakes Entrance History Centre & Museum)
Photograph, Lakes Post Newspaper, 1992
Black and white photograph Officials Mabel Rennie, Ron Smith, Yvonne Smith, RVBA President Norm Knopp, Ann Knopp, Fred Maxwell, Rod Mills, Phyl Allen, Vida Gidley, Keith Gidley, Beryl Chesters, Ken Mitchell, Jean Mitchell, Phyl Flanagan lined up across the green at the opening of the new bowls season at Bowls Club Lakes Entrance Victoriabowls club, sports -
Federation University Historical Collection
Book, Machinery for Metalliferous Mines, 1894, 1894
The 1st edition of this famous work, giving an excellent account of the machinery used in late 19th century metal mining in the UK and overseas is very rare. It covers a wide range of equipment - pumps, steam engines, drills, winding engines, stamps & concentration mills, aerial ropeways, tramways and early uses of electricity etc. Brown hard cloth covered book. xvi 564 pages with additional advertisements, with over 300 illustrations and drawings, some fold out. Chapters include Water as a motive power, Wind engines and ventilating machinery, Steam boilers/engines and oil engines, hoisting machinery, draining of Mines, pumping engines, rock drilling machinery, boring machinery, concentration machinery, sizing and classifications trommels, joggers and jigging, fine concentration, milling of gold ores, milling of silver ores, amalgamation plates and machinery, dry and roasting machinery, chlorination and cyandide processes for the extraction of gold, electricity as a motive power for mining, electric lighting and blasting, aerial wire ropeways, transport by rail and road. There a a number of lovely line illustrations in the book including: Poncelot's undershot waterwheel; Fromont furnace;Victor turbine; Pelton waterwheel; Root's positive blower;Cross section and front elevation of Lancashire boiler; Robey's Compound Mill Engine; Portable Winding Plant; Iron Pit Head Gear ; Loading Arrangement in an Incline Shaft; kibble; Worthington Pump; California Pump; Scram's Air Compressor; Rock drill Bits; Special Sharpening tools; Boring tools;Rotating Picking table; Ore Feeder; roller crusher; stamp battery; round buddle; slime table; vanner; amalgamating plant; belt elevator;roasting furnace;splicing wire rope; capel; tipping waggon;mining, cornish pump, linkenbach table, water wheel, ventilation, oil engine, california, america, water, steam boilers, steam engines, oil engines, pumpimg, rock drilling, boring, jiggers, milling, silver, gold, drying and roasting, chlorination, cyaniding, lead, zinc, copper, electricity, electric lighting, wire ropes, transport, wind engine, poppet head -
National Wool Museum
Photograph Album page, 1930s
Photographs are all from the 1930s as below: 1. Nellie Bawden; 2. Federal Mill Basketball Team (pre WWII) from left to right: Eva Fagen (Ball), ? Darling, Glad. Rand, Nellie Bawden, Jean Devlin, Beryl Haddon, Mavis Anderson; 3. Inter-house Sports Team from right to left: Mollie O'Brien (Ball), Beryl Haddon, Jean Devlin, Ann Lagan, N.Bawden. 4. the New Zealand Team who played against Geelong Unity Clubs; 5. Mixed Geelong Federal Basketball team, from right to left: Phylis Bryant (Ball), ?, ?, Eva Fagen, Nellie Bawden, Lorna Farrell, ? Hose. Mrs Alsop was a mill worker from early 1930s till early 1970s. She worked at Federal and Foster Mills in Geelong District and Yarra Falls, Melbourne.Photograph album sheet of heavy brown paper. Contains five black and white photographs and a space where one has been removed. Four of the photos depict teams of female basketball players and one depicts a single basketball player holding a ball.Fed. Team / Fed. Team / N. Zealand Team. / Geelong Team.textile mills sporting teams, textile mills staff, federal woollen mills ltd, sport, textile mills - sporting teams, textile mills - staff -
Warrnambool and District Historical Society Inc.
Booklet, Pay Newcombe Pty Ltd
A small booklet relating to fire insurance offered by Royal Exchange Assurance. The schedule relates to the area as outlined on the map in red. Newcombe PTY Ltd operated a timber mill in Warrnambool.A small item with a local social interest.Small yellow covered booklet. Black text. 9 pages with fold out map.Newcombe Pty Ltd on front cover. BCE Warrnambool Vic inside front cover.newcombe pty ltd, warrnambool -
Eltham District Historical Society Inc
Negative - Photograph, Windmill, Were Street, Montmorency, 1998c
Winner of Eltham Art Award "Tower" (1993-1994) by Barry Mills and Simon Barley Wood, polycarbonate, brass and corrugated iron 8.1 x 3.75 x 3.75 mRoll of 35mm colour negative film, 8 strips and associated 10 x 15 cm colour printKodak Gold 100-5montmorency, art in public places, barry mills, eltham art award, simon barley, tower (1993/94), were street, windmill -
Churchill Island Heritage Farm
Photograph - Photograph of a horse in a wooden pen
Churchill Island Heritage Farm has a large photographic collection dating from the nineteenth century. This photograph shows Sophie - a Clydesdale brought to Churchill Island in 1997 - hitched to a mill.Photograph of a horse in a wooden pen operating some machinery with a group of onlookerscatalogue number written on reverse in pencil photograph, churchill island, clydesdale, working horse, sophie -
Hume City Civic Collection
Photograph, c1900s
The photograph has been printed from a glass negative which is part of the collection held by the Sunbury and District Heritage Association Inc. It is a view of Jackson's Creek near Eadies Mill.A black and white photo of a group of people sitting on an embankment and one man sitting on a large rock by Jackson's Creek. The men and women are dressed in suits and/or dresses. There is a waterfall behind and to the left of the party and a tree trunk in the foreground. Black and white with broad black margin on either side of the photograph.jackson's creek, sunbury, sunbury and district heritage association inc., clothing and dress, george evans collection -
National Wool Museum
Book, The Australian Textile Workers Union. Geelong Division Contributrion Book, 1970
This book was used to pay membership fees to the union. You could pay monthly or yearly. Was donated by a person who worked at Federal Woollen Mills and after Classweave Federal Industries.Cream booklet with black lettering.union, federal woollen mills, classweave federal industries., fees, textile workers union -
National Wool Museum
Book, Cloth Sample
One of four tarpaper covered sample books. These samples were made up at mills (often R S & S) to Alexander Lau designs, they did not necessarily go into production..LADIES' MATERIALtextile design fashion textile industry - history, alexander lau pty ltd, lau, mr alexander - alexander lau pty ltd, textile design, fashion, textile industry - history -
National Wool Museum
Letter
Letter from Dr Phillip Law, Director, Dept of External Affairs, Antarctic Division, to the manager of the Albany Woollen Mills, 1959, regarding the use of "Albany" grey single blankets.P G Law AL/29.3.59woollen mills, albany woollen mills, blankets, lau, mr alexander - alexander lau pty ltd law, dr phillip - c. of a. - dept of external affairs, antarctic division -
National Wool Museum
Photograph
Photograph probably for promotional purposes, of a "David Sowden & Sons" loom. Photograph was with other photographs in an envelope printed "David Sowden & Sons" among items from Yarra Falls MillPhotograph. black and white, of a "David Sowden & Sons" loom.textile machinery weaving, yarra falls mill david sowden & sons, weaving looms, weaving machinery, textile machinery, weaving -
National Wool Museum
Photograph
Photograph probably for promotional purposes, of a "David Sowden & Sons" loom. Photograph was with other photographs in an envelope printed "David Sowden & Sons" among items from Yarra Falls MillPhotograph. black and white, of a "David Sowden & Sons" loom.textile machinery weaving textile mills textile mills, yarra falls mill david sowden & sons, weaving looms, weaving machinery, textile machinery, weaving, textile mills -
National Wool Museum
Photograph
Photograph probably for promotional purposes, of a "David Sowden & Sons" loom. Photograph was with other photographs in an envelope printed "David Sowden & Sons" among items from Yarra Falls MillPhotograph probably for promotional purposes, of a "David Sowden & Sons" loom.No4textile machinery weaving textile mills textile mills, yarra falls mill david sowden & sons, weaving looms, weaving machinery, textile machinery, weaving, textile mills -
National Wool Museum
Photograph
Photograph probably for promotional purposes, of a "David Sowden & Sons" loom. Photograph was with other photographs in an envelope printed "David Sowden & Sons" among items from Yarra Falls MillPhotograph. black and white, of a "David Sowden & Sons" loom. There is a label ot the front of the loom with 190 on it.David Sowden & Sons, Shipley Sowden's/ Patent Automatic shuttle changing loom/ for eweaving all kinds of single shuttle/ clothes/ Fitted with outside tread /Underpicktextile machinery weaving textile mills textile mills, yarra falls mill david sowden & sons, weaving looms, weaving machinery, textile machinery, weaving, textile mills -
National Wool Museum
Photograph
Photograph probably for promotional purposes, of a "David Sowden & Sons" loom. Photograph was with other photographs in an envelope printed "David Sowden & Sons" among items from Yarra Falls MillPhotograph. black and white, of a "David Sowden & Sons" loom.DAVIS SOWDEN & SONS SHIPLEY/Power loom and jacquard machine makerstextile machinery weaving textile mills textile mills, yarra falls mill david sowden & sons, weaving looms, weaving machinery, textile machinery, weaving, textile mills -
National Wool Museum
Photograph
Photograph probably for promotional purposes, of a "David Sowden & Sons" loom. Photograph was with other photographs in an envelope printed "David Sowden & Sons" among items from Yarra Falls Mill.Photograph. black and white, of a "David Sowden & Sons" loom.textile machinery weaving, yarra falls mill david sowden & sons, weaving looms, weaving machinery, textile machinery, weaving -
National Wool Museum
Photograph
Photograph probably for promotional purposes, of a "David Sowden & Sons" loom. Photograph was with other photographs in an envelope printed "David Sowden & Sons" among items from Yarra Falls Mill.Photograph, sepia, of a "David Sowden & Sons" loom.41textile machinery weaving, yarra falls mill david sowden & sons, weaving looms, weaving machinery, textile machinery, weaving -
National Wool Museum
Photograph
Photograph probably for promotional purposes, of a "David Sowden and Sons" loom. Photograph was with other photographs in an envelope printed "David Sowden & Sons" among items from Yarra Falls Mill.Photograph, black and white, of a "David Sowden & Sons" loom.textile machinery weaving, yarra falls mill david sowden & sons, weaving looms, weaving machinery, textile machinery, weaving -
National Wool Museum
Photograph
Photograph probably for promotional purposes, of a "David Sowden and Sons" loom. Photograph was with other photographs in an envelope printed "David Sowden & Sons" among items from Yarra Falls Mill.Photograph, sepia, of a "David Sowden & Sons, " loom.76textile machinery weaving, yarra falls mill david sowden & sons, weaving looms, weaving machinery, textile machinery, weaving -
National Wool Museum
Photograph
Photograph probably for promotional purposes, of a "David Sowden and Sons" loom. Photograph was with other photographs in an envelope printed "David Sowden & Sons" among items from Yarra Falls Mill.Photograph, black and white, of a "David Sowden & Sons," loom.textile machinery weaving, yarra falls mill david sowden & sons, weaving looms, weaving machinery, textile machinery, weaving -
National Wool Museum
Photograph
Photograph probably for promotional purposes, of a "David Sowden & Sons" loom, No105, "Patent Fast Running Drop Box Loom". Photograph was among items from Yarra Falls Mill.Photograph, sepia, of a "David Sowden & Sons" loom, No105, "Patent Fast Running Drop Box Loom".PATENT FAST RUNNING /DROP BOX LOOM/ DAVID SOWDEN & SONS/SHIPLEY/NO105/YORKSHIREtextile machinery weaving, yarra falls mill david sowden & sons, weaving looms, weaving machinery, textile machinery, weaving -
National Wool Museum
Catalogue, Illustrated catalogue of power looms for weaving, manufactured by George Hodgson Ltd: treading tappet section
"Illustrated catalogue of power looms for weaving, manufactured by George Hodgson Limited, Frizinghall Works, Bradford Yorkshire: treading tappet section". Among items from Yarra Falls Mill."Illustrated catalogue of power looms for weaving, manufactured by George Hodgson Limited, Frizinghall Works, Bradford Yorkshire: treading tappet section".textile machinery weaving, yarra falls mill george hodgson limited, weaving looms, weaving machinery, textile machinery, weaving -
National Wool Museum
Book, Knitting, Lincoln Knitting Book no. 676
This book was owned by the late Dr Elizabeth Kerr and was donated to the Museum by the executor of her estate, Margaret Cameron. It was produced by the Lincoln Mills in Coburg and contains knitting patterns for womens garments.HANDKNITS / for / Special Fittings / LINCOLN / MODEL No L1113 / 6D / BOOK No 676knitting handicrafts - history, lincoln mills (australia) limited, knitting, handicrafts - history -
National Wool Museum
Book, Knitting, Lincoln Knitting Book no. 675
This book was owned by the late Dr Elizabeth Kerr and was donated to the Museum by the executor of her estate, Margaret Cameron. It was produced by Lincoln Mills, Coburg and contains knitting patterns for womens garments.LINCOLN / BOOK No 675 / MODEL No L 1159 / STYLES FOR / OUT OF DOORS / 6Dknitting handicrafts - history, lincoln mills (australia) limited, knitting, handicrafts - history -
National Wool Museum
Book, Knitting, Lincoln Book no. 734
This book was owned by the late Dr Elizabeth Kerr and was donated to the Museum by the executor of her estate, Margaret Cameron. It was produced by the Lincoln Mill, Coburg and contains knitting patterns for womens garments.Lincoln / BOOK 734 / 1'3knitting handicrafts - history, lincoln mills (australia) limited, knitting, handicrafts - history -
National Wool Museum
Clothing - Dress, Park Avenue Gowns, c. 1940s
The dress was worn by Dorothy Hirst (nee Cust) who was married to Cedric Hirst of the Godfrey Hirst Woollen Mills. Dorothy was born in 1908 and passed away in 2010 aged 102. Sleeveless teal and blue gown with sash at the waist and tie at back. Clear, silver and blue beaded detail is featured on the front and bodice. There are pleats when centre lower back of skirt is parted, the back also features a zip and two hook and eyes.dorothy hirst, godfrey hirst & co. pty. ltd., gown, dress, melbourne, design, fashion, park avenue, style