Forty two page book with red covers, titled "The Picturesque Folio of Ballarat - 'The Modern Athens". Sheets have been individually printed both sides, stapled and then glued to the covers. Cover - gives title and printer details First sheet - with a greetings sheet for Good wishes and seasons greetings. Has a printed date of 1905. See Inscriptions. Dated 22/11/1904. Pages 3 - 10 - a historical sketch of Ballarat, compiled by Lieut-Colonel R. W. Williams V.D. Pages 12 - 41 - photos of Ballarat and district - such as: Sturt St The Lakes Post Office - note the trams clock board - taken at corner of Lydiard and Sturt Streets, looking east. The Gardens Queen Victoria Square Lydiard and Sturt St with a horse tram in the photo Victoria Park Eureka Monument The Statues Botanical Gardens Benevolent Asylum Hospital The City Oval - Richards & Co Photograph Fairy Land - the Lake Railway Station with a D class loco waiting for a signal, 3 post home before the level crossing. Has Irwin's Provincial hotel in view. Gong Gong Lake School of Mines and Methodist Church Lake Fountain A Ballarat view - 1853 - 54. View Point Gong Gong reservoir embankment South Star Mine Lal Lal Falls Band & Loch Mine On last page has the logo for the printers - Ballarat Litho & Printing Co, successors to F. W. Niven & Co. 56 and 58 Lydiard St. Ballarat. PDF scan of book added 21/9/2019 as btm3326i.pdfOn first page in black ink " to Chorus? Dodds, from Robert Dodds, and dated 22 Nov 1904.trams, tramways, ballarat, horse trams, sturt st, gardens, railway station, hospital

Colour photograph, printed on a postcard back format of SEC Ballarat No. 40, to the east of the King St Loop in Victoria St. Tram has the destination of Victoria St. Taken from a motor car travelling in the same direction. Conductor on footstep, signalling cars to stop.trams, tramways, victoria st, tram 21, tram 40

Cardboard, Kodachrome slide, white with red band around slide on non viewing side of Geelong No. 18 at East Terminus. Photo shows a crewman boarding the front end of the tram. Possibly taken on the last day of the Chilwell - East West line, 8/1/1956. See Reg. Item 476.5 for a similar photograph taken by Geoff Grant and 2675 for another copy of the slide. Photographer unknown.tramways, trams, geelong, east, tram 18

Agfachrome Professional plastic mount (blue base, white cover) reproduction slide of a colour slide of Geelong No. 7 outside the depot, turning onto the double track in Corio Tce. The tram has the destination of East. Photo taken mid 1950's. "G 9" and "1 -9" in pencil.tramways, trams, geelong, depot, corio st, tram 7

Agfachrome Professional plastic mount (blue base, white cover) reproduction slide of a colour slide of Geelong Pengelley No. 18 at East Terminus. Photo shows a crewman boarding the front end of the tram. Possibly taken on the last day of the Chilwell - East West line, 8/1/1956. See Reg. Item 476.5 for a similar photograph taken by Geoff Grant and 2610 for another copy of the slide. Photographer unknown. "G 15" and "1 -15" in pencil.tramways, trams, geelong, east, tram 18

Yields information about the Geelong tramway system and one of the terminus and the appearance at the time.Agfachrome Professional plastic mount (blue base, white cover) reproduction slide of a colour slide of Geelong Pengelley No. 18 at East Terminus Ormond and Boundary Roads. Photo shows a child walking away from the tram. Tram has the destination of East. Photographer unknown. Taken on the last day of the first closures, 8/1/1956. See also Reg Item 4389 for a print of this slide. "G 16" and "1 -16" in pencil.tramways, trams, geelong, east, closure, last day, tram 18

Agfachrome Professional plastic mount (blue base, white cover) reproduction slide of a colour slide of Geelong Pengelley No. 18 at West Terminus. Tram destination part way between "East" and "West". Photographer unknown. Taken after 1951, probably near time of closure. "G 17" and "1 -17" in pencil.tramways, trams, geelong, west, tram 18

Colour print of No. 33, showing SPECIAL in the loop, Wendouree Parade, during the COTMA Conference tram day, 22/11/2000. Taken from the tram on the east track. Tram has Twin Lakes sign. Photos taken by Stuart Keenan. Printed on Agfa paper.btm, cotma, wendouree parade, tram 33

Black and White photograph mounted onto heavy cardboard, original Victorian Railways Print, of Sturt St, looking east from the Ballarat City Fire Station tower, late 1930's, 1938? Photo has two trams east bound in the photo, along with a few motor vehicles. In the photo are a street side Garage, a bakery, Golden City Hotel, Town Hall, St. Patricks Church and Harry Davies & Co. Drapers and importers. Has title "Sturt Street, Ballarat" printed onto a label and fixed to the print. Victorian Railways Photograph - now held by State Library. Original photo will have copyright provisions. On rear of photograph, notes print ex ARHS, ex carriage 30AV, and in top right hand corner date 1938. On rear of photograph in top right hand corner "1938", central area of photo "725" in pencil, and lower central portion of the photo (in Warren Doubleday hand writing), "From A.R.H.S ex 30 AV".trams, tramways, sturt st, gold city hotel, st patricks, victorian railways

Black and White photograph, copy print of Reg. Item 2741, of Sturt St, looking east from the Ballarat City Fire Station tower, late 1930's, possibly 1938. Photo has two trams east bound in the photo, along with a few motor vehicles. In the photo are a street side Garage, a bakery, Golden City Hotel, Town Hall, St. Patricks Church and Harry Davies & Co. Drapers and importers. Has title "Sturt Street, Ballarat". Victorian Railways Photograph - now held by State Library. Original photo will have copyright provisions. Print made by John Phillips c1998 from negative of Reg. Item 2741 on Kodak paper.tramways, trams, sturt st, golden city hotel, st patricks

Printed black and white photographic postcard of Ballarat ESCo crossbench tram No. 19 at the intersection of Armstrong and Sturt St. travelling east along the north side of Sturt Street. Photo appears to be taken in the early days of tram operation - small destination box. Has the Ballarat Town Hall, the National Mutual Life building, Snows and other buildings on the south side of Sturt. St. Has a number of horse drawn vehicles in the image as well. Titled "Sturt Street, Ballarat" in bottom right hand corner". On rear of postcard, printed is the words "Post Card", areas for "Correspondence" and "Address Only" and in stamp area in a square "Kodak Australia" twice. Handwritten on the card is "With Best Wishes for a Happy New Year to all Rostella / W. Lovett". Images .1 - shows postcard, .2 - close up, of No. 19, note Inspector along side tram, the stance of the motorman/driver, and conductor on the rear platform of the tram. Appears to have a destination of "Gardens ?" .3 - rear of postcard Handwritten letter on card.trams, tramways, esco, sturt st, postcards, armstrong st

Yields information about Sturt Street east end in the late 1920's or early 1930's with motor cars and people.Black and White photograph mounted on heavy cardboard backing. Image titled "Sturt Street Ballarat", with a view from the median strip looking east with an ESCo tram at the bottom of the street. Has a number of motor vehicles in the photo, probably late 1920's early 1930's. Prominent in the photo is the store, Suttons store along with and "Indian Store", Alf Dawson - ironmonger, The Courier , and Seidel Bros shoes and boots. Has 7 Velcro dots on rear and marks where mounting devices have been removed on the rear. Note image scanned in two runs through a scanner, resulting in the shading in the image file. trams, tramways, sturt st, suttons, esco

Shows the details of buildings in the east end of Sturt St, c1916.Digital image from a postcard from the collection of David Critchley, of Ballarat, Sturt St c1916. This 'birds eye' view of Sturt St reveals on of the early fleet standing at the city terminus probably during the Great War. Note the absence of motor cars and women's skirts are somewhat shorter - an economy concession with the shortage of cloth during the war years. A Valentines photo postcard. David scanned this pic at a higher resolution than normal, so you should be able to zoom in on the tram, which has been fitted with windshields and looks typically well used and unloved as did most of the original Ballarat fleet in their latter years. Image supplied by email 30/8/2011 - not to be published without David's authority.trams, tramways, sturt st, bridge st, esco

Yields information about Ballarat streetscape and its trams in the closing days of the SEC tramway system.Digital image from a black and white print of tram 42 southbound in Lydiard St North, for Sebastopol. Tram has an "Everything is under control in my all electric kitchen" In the background is the streetscape on the east side of Lydiard St Nth, including the Colonists Hotel, Davidsons shop and the Art Gallery. Photo by Marc Dahlstrom c1971. On rear is the Marc Dahlstrom stamp.trams, tramways, lydiard st north, tram 42

Yields information about Ballarat streetscape and its trams in the closing days of the SEC tramway system.Digital image from a black and white print of tram 40 outbound in Albert St Sebastopol, on the east side of Albert St. Marcs motor bike is alongside. Photo by Marc Dahlstrom c1971. On rear is the Marc Dahlstrom stamp.trams, tramways, albert st, sebastopol, tram 40

Yields information about the appearance of Sturt St Ballarat c1971.Digital image copy of a black and white print of Sturt St from the Fire Brigade tower looking east. Has title "Sturt St from fire Brigade Tower, Mount Warrenheip (in the distance), St. Patricks RC Church (on the right), and Spire of St Andrew's (on the left). Has a well loaded horse tram outbound on the north side of Sturt St. C1890's, trees in the median strip are still young. On rear is "BTPS Sales department" in green ink. trams, tramways, sturt st, horse trams

Demonstrates the use of horse trams as trailers after the start of the electric trams in Ballarat and the street scape and tramway loading at the same time.B&W print of an ESCo tram just past the intersection of Doveton St. and Sturt St. travelling east along the north side of Sturt. Steet towing a heavily laden horse tram as a trailer. Photo appears to be taken soon after opening of the electric trams, as the tram does not have any destination box above the driver. Possibly summer 1905/1906. Numerous people in the street, some horse drawn vehicles in the photograph. Shows buildings along the south side of Sturt St. and part of the verandah of the building at the NE corner of Doveton St. On textured photographic paper. For a list and description of the same base image see Archives file - "Notes on ESCo Tram towing a heavily loaded trailer" 2nd copy added 6-8-2016 from a donation of Mike Ryan via Hawthorn Tram Depot.On reverse side - black ink stamp "E.G.Butland" Copy 2 has "TMSV 332 Flinders St, Melbourne 3000" stamped on the rear.tramways, trams, sturt st, trailers, horse tram, town hall, esco

Has a strong association with the work of the Royal South Street Society, who published a handbook/guide or manual for their competitions. Used a photograph published at about the same time.Set of 15 photocopies of pages from the Royal South Street Society Guide showing trams in Sturt St Ballarat. .1 - Sturt St Looking East - with an ESCo tram outside the town hall and other horse drawn vehicles - 1907 .2 - Sturt St Looking West - same image as in Reg item 2688 - 1907 .3 - Sturt St Looking East - with many vehicles and people - 1910 and the "Chef" kitch range stove advertisement sold by Middleton and Morris of Sturt St. .4 - Sturt and Lydiard St, with a tram turning from Sturt into Lydiard St, 1910 with the post office in the background - 1910 and an advertisement for Woderine medicine sold by Jas. A. Gear, herbalist. .5 - Sturt St looking West - tram turning from Sturt into Lydiard St, taken from near post office corner - 1911 and a advertisement for Williams the Shoeman. .6 - Sturt St. West - with an ESC0o tram outbound - the only vehicle - 1913. .7 - same photo as .3, with a Monster Military Carnival Advertisement for Nov. 8th - 1913 .8 - Sturt and Lydiard St from next to post office, looking west with two trams, one horse trailer and many people - a busy scene - 1914 .9 - Sebastopol tram No. 21 at Grenville St - 1928 - with the Ballarat Gas Company Show rooms in the background, the Sturt St shelter. The tram has a Suttons Organs roof advertisement. .10 - View of Sturt Street, showing City Hall Buildings, with an ESCo Sebastopol type tramcar crossing the street, taken from the post office stops. - 1928 - Advertisements for G. Ludbrook Furnishing Undertaker (Motor Service and Horse drawn vehicles) and R. Young Grocer. .11 - Sturt St looking West, looking west, with a Sebastopol type tram at Grenville St and the big shelter removed. Has many buildings and many people in the background - 1928. .12 - same photo as for .10 and Clarendon Presbyterian Ladies Collection, Ballarat photograph - 1929. .13 - Advertisement for Ballarat Tramways - cars for Coliseum, fare box, route numbers and route colour scheme - 1929. .14 - as for above, no date, but opposite is the is an item for the Mouth Organ Band Contest, "A" Grade - c1933, notes the Coburg Tramway Athletic Club Harmonica Band and the Malvern Tramways Harmonica band amongst the contestants. .15 - same as .9, with a advertisement for the Melbourne Coffee Palace - Bourke St. Photocopies made by Neville Hasket for the BTM 10/2008. See also Reg item 675 for alternative source details.Handwritten note on photocopiestrams, tramways, ballarat, sturt st., royal south street society, lydiard st, town hall, post office, esco

Photograph of Geelong No. 12 towing a trailer with other trams in the background, following a football match, Corio football ground, Ryrie St East, with the Garden St junction in the background. See btm9211 for another print, Dave O'Neil advised 20/7/2009 - Geelong High School to the left and other photos in the series. Laminated A3 size print added 3-08-2014 - to be used for display purposes.Yields information about the form and style of the Geelong tram depot during the Second World War era.Black and white photograph, printed onto card (inkjet printer?) "21 / Geelong Trmys" "Ryrie Street East / Garden Street Jtn in background, / Spectators returning from a Victoria Football League football match, played at Corio Oval, early 1920's" and a "William F Scott" address labels in the bottom right hand corner.trams, tramways, geelong, football, ryrie st, tram 12

Yields information about the appearance of three Ballarat trams, owned by the BTM in front of the depot 1992.Colour photograph of the BTM depot from the south east perspective with horse tram on No. 7 road, 26, 27 and a SEC tram, 11.1992, photograph by Earl Ewers. Printed on Agfa paper. On rear in pencil in bottom left hand corner. "Earl R. Ewers / 11.1992 Ballarat"trams, tramways, depot, horse tram, tram 1, tram 26, tram 27

Yields information about the appearance of Bendigo electric trams at the time of opening, how passengers could be seated, staff, paint schemes, decorations, and truck arrangements.Black and White photograph of four trams at Charing Cross, taken from the south east corner, looking towards the Beehive building and Ezywalkin stores. Trams 7, 5 and 26 in the photograph. Photo by Andrew Ward 15.1.1972.On rear in ink "Sat 15.1.72" / "single truck car 7 and bogie cars 5 & 26" in the top left hand corner and in a mix of ink and pencil "Bendigo Trust / Andrew C. Ward, Bendigo Vic 3550".trams, tramways, bendigo, charing cross, pall mall, tram 7, tram 5, tram 26

Demonstrates aspects of Ballarat tramway operation with horse tram trailers, Sturt St buildings, yields information about the appearance of Ballarat in colour.Colour postcard, presented within a wooden framed image of an ESCo tram just past the intersection of Doveton St. and Sturt St. travelling east along the north side of Sturt. Street towing a heavily laden horse tram as a trailer. Photo appears to be taken soon after opening of the electric trams, as the tram does not have any destination box above the driver. Possibly summer 1905/1906. Numerous people in the street, some horse drawn vehicles in the photograph. Shows buildings along the south side of Sturt St. and part of the verandah of the building at the NE corner of Doveton St. For a list and description of the same base image see Archives file - "Notes on ESCo Tram towing a heavily loaded trailer" On rear is "Made in Germany", areas for correspond, a Victoria one penny postage stamp, an din the bottom right hand corner, "09 3851" The card has been addressed to a Miss Seymour "Larramea", Mulwala NSW. Has a handwritten note to her sister (signed Flo?) about a trip arrangements to Melbourne and other details. Date 13 April, but year not apparent. Has been postmark, Melbourne (appears)In pencil along top edge "9269 V and $5"trams, tramways, sturt st, trailers, horse tram, town hall, esco

Demonstrates aspects of Ballarat tramway operation with horse tram trailers, - copy of a postcard photograph.B&W print of an ESCo tram just past the intersection of travelling east along the north side of Sturt. Steet towing a heavily laden horse tram as a trailer. Photo appears to be taken soon after opening of the electric trams, as the tram does not have any destination box above the driver. Possibly summer 1905/1906. Numerous people in the street, some horse drawn vehicles in the photograph. Shows buildings along the south side of Sturt St. and part of the verandah of the building at the NE corner of Doveton St. Horse Trailer No. 4 In top of image are the words "Town Hall and Sturt Street, Ballarat" Two copies Larger version than normal, obtained by Bill Scott for publication. For a list and description of the same base image see Archives file - "Notes on ESCo Tram towing a heavily loaded trailer" See Reg Item 4370i1 for a colour postcard.On rear of copy 1, "WFS Collection" in ink and on rear of Copy2 - "William F Scott" address label and "WF Scott collection" in ink.trams, tramways, esco, horse trams, postcards, doveton st, sturt st, tram 8, tram 2

Yields information - Photo printed from a slide of Geelong No. 4 decorated for the last tram in Geelong.Colour print from a Agfachrome Professional plastic mount reproduction slide of a colour slide of Geelong No. 18 at East terminus on the last day of the first closures, 8.1.1956 Shows a young boy walking away from the tram and the driver closing the door. Tram has the destination of East. See also Reg Item 2676 for a the original slide of this photograph. Two copies held.On rear in ink on both copies: "Geelong Trmys SEC 4a) (crossed out) East terminus on last day of first closures 8.1.1956 - Ballarat Try Museum"trams, tramways, geelong, east, last tram, closure, tram 18

Yields information about Geelong 8 at the depot soon after the commencement of the closure of the Geelong system.Black and White Photograph of Geelong No.1, 3/1/1945, Ryrie St and turning into Garden St en route to East. Two copies held. Photo Wal Jack, 3-1-1945, copied onto Kodak Picture maker paper. See Reg Item 5824 for another copy from the Wal Jack album and actual date details.In hand writing on the rear in pencil "Geelong / 'Butterbox' car 1 carrying the first livery of the SEC in Ryrie Street and turning into Garden Street en route to East." / "Mid 1930s Walter Jack / Randall Wilson Collection / Kodak digital copy. This copy William F Scott Collection"trams, tramways, geelong, ryrie st, secv, tram 1

Yields information about the appearance of the official last Geelong tram, No. 4, prior to its use that evening.4403.1 - Black and white (sepia coloured) reproduction of a photograph from an album photo from the Geelong Heritage Centre collection of the Post office, in Ryrie St Geelong, looking east, with tram 7 proceeding east, from Album No. 1954, photograph No. 50, 1915. 4403 - as above, but photos Nos. 48 and ?, also showing the Post Office, prior to the construction of the tramway and another view of the Post Office. Printed on Hewlett Packard paper.4303.1 - in ink on the front "Car 7, also proceeding East. Photograph album reference Nos. 1954, photograph No. 50, / 1915 / Geelong Heritage Centre" 4303.2 - "Geelong Heritage Centre / Photograph album ref no. 1954/50 1915" trams, tramways, geelong, ryrie st, tram 7

Yields information about Ballarat's trams in the early 1970's and the street scape around Lake Wendouree.Black and white print of Ballarat 35, northbound in Drummond St North (check on this ). Tram has the destination of "Gardens via Drummond Nth" and SEC roof advertisement "Everything's under control in my all electric kitchen. Two copies. Photo by Doug Colquhoun, 5/1969. Note the conductor standing on the footstep on the wrong side (for traffic operation) of the tram - could have been a posed photograph. Photo print courtesy of Port Dock Railway Museum, now the National Railway Museum. See worksheet 4311 for letter and details of prints sent to Bill Scott, 19/10/2001. Any photo credit to mention NRM Collection.On rear of copy 1 "SEC Ballarat / 39 /Sturt St East / 5/1969 3743 / D.A. Colquhoun" and "75" in the top right hand corner. Copy 2 "DAC" in ink, bottom right hand corner.trams, tramways, conductors, drummond st nth, tram 39

Newspaper clipping from the Ballarat Courier? - 26-11-1955, titled "Geelong's trams go by March 31", replacing Geelong's 17 trams by 100 buses using five private companies. Quotes Mr A. J. Decon, Transport Operators Association President, and of Trans Otway Ltd. - about the take over of the first route in Jan. East-West. Contained originally within Reg Item 5623 at the front of this note book. For items see btm5623 loose items list.pdf.has date "26-11-55" in ink on right hand side at top.geelong, buses, closure

Yields information about the east end of Sturt St showing a number of tramcars, the shelter and the street scene.Black and white photograph, digital print, of a view looking west from Grenville St along Sturt St Ballarat. Has four ESCo trams in the view, 20, 11, 13 and 9? Photo shows the large ESCo waiting shelter with the weighing machine. Adjacent to the shelter in the median strip is the 8 hour monument. Has a number of horse drawn vehicles, bicycles and a few pedestrians. In the view are the Suttons building, Town Hall, Courier and Star Office. Photo taken c1910.trams, tramways, grenville st, sturt st, esco, shelters, tram 20, tram 11, tram 13, tram 9?

Black and white photograph, reproduced for sale, of Mitchell St Bendigo looking east towards the Railway Station. Has the title "Mitchell Street Bendigo" in the bottom left hand corner and " No. 5" in the bottom right hand corner. Shows the tramway overhead, track, centre poles. Photo early 1950's. trams, tramways, bendigo, mitchell st