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Orbost & District Historical Society
book, John Sands Pty Ltd, Australia - a land of things to do, 1974
This item is a useful reference tool as a contemporary tourism guide for the mid 1970's.A 234 pp book titled, "australia a land of things to do" in bright red print. Below is a coloured photograph of a group of people in a small motor boat. It is a tour guide for travellers in Australia.on back - "Bairnsdale Tourist Bureau 211-213 Main Street Bairnsdale Vic 3875"tourism travel-guide book-australia-a-land-of-things-to-do -
Port Melbourne Historical & Preservation Society
Document - Thank you card for PMHPS school visit, Port Melbourne Primary School Grade 1 & 2, c 2005
Letters of appreciation and thank you's pasted onto bright green card. Some have drawings. All written by Grade 1 & 2 pupils from Port Melbourne Primary Schooleducation - primary schools, port melbourne primary school, john may -
Glenelg Shire Council Cultural Collection
Flyer - Flyer - Portland Aluminum Smelter, n.d
DL flyer, bi-fold, promotion of Portland Aluminium Smelter. Black and white photo of smelter on front, 'PORTLAND ALUMINIUM SMELTER' in bright blue print on light blue, above photo. -
Bendigo Historical Society Inc.
Book - Stories & History of Long Gully
Long Gully is a suburb of the City of Greater Bendigo.Bright blue soft cover book with photograph on front of Long Gully - Author George A Ellis Published by the Long Gully History Group 79 Pages includes black and white photographs long gully, george ellis -
The Beechworth Burke Museum
Photograph
This photograph dates to 1899, towards the end of the gold rush in the Mopoke Gully area. A slurry of rocks after they have been broken up is depicted, and this is part of the hydraulic sluicing mining process. Four men are relaxing under a wooden structure, with a fifth bearded man standing near a stone wall. This photograph interestingly contains dogs alongside the miners. While dogs have been recorded as deterrents to thieves in the Victorian goldfields, these dogs appear as companions to these men. Mopoke Gully mines came under the 'Fryer's Creek' division of the Castlemaine District during the Gold Rush. After the Gold Rush began in Victoria with the discovery of gold at Ballarat in 1851, Gold was found in Castlemaine by December of that year. 20,000 diggers were spread across the Castlemaine region, and the area was yielding about 23,000 ounces of gold per week. Mopoke Gully was the site of the Mopoke Gully Water Wheel, operating under the Bendigo and Fryers Goldmining Company from 1887 until 1900. This Water Wheel was used in the gold mining technique of 'sluicing'. Hydraulic sluicing uses high pressure water jets to blast away the earth, which runs through a sluice box, catching the gold with all remaining slurry washing away. Hydraulicking is the process of breaking up the rocks and suspending it in a slurry. This Water Wheel was built the same year as the more famous 'Chewton Water Wheel', but was smaller in diameter (60ft as opposed to Chewton's 72ft). The Mopoke Water Wheel ruins are quite intact today, and are a registered archaeological site.The search for gold is ingrained into the history of Victoria and therefore, images like this one which portray a sluicing site can reveal important information for society and technology for the date when the photograph was taken. This image is of important historical significance for its ability to convey information about sluicing and the methods used to find gold in 1899. It also shows a location where sluicing was undertook which provides insight into the impact of sluicing on the environment at a time when it was done. This photograph reveals important information on the use of dogs on Victorian goldfields in 1899. Dogs were used both as companions, such as this photograph depicts, as well as deterrents to thieves. Sepia coloured rectangular photograph printed on gloss photographic paper mounted on card.Obverse: Reverse: A02497/ 1997.2497/ 'Good/ Luck/ Mine'/ Morepork/ Gully/ Mrs Joyce/ Bright/ Tunnel/ 800 ft/ 1899. beechworth, burke museum, gold, gold mining, 1899, castlemaine, mopoke gully, good luck mine, fryer's creek, gold rush, victorian gold rush, water wheel, sluicing, chewton, slurry -
National Wool Museum
Trophy, YWCA Night Basket Ball Association 1936
Acquired when "Classweave Industries" closed downYWCA/ NIGHT BASKET BALL ASSOCIATION/ WON BY/ FEDERAL MILL TEAM/ 1936//PRESENTED BY DIRECTORS/ BRIGHT & HITCHCOCK PTY LTDwoollen mills textile mills - sporting teams textile mills - staff sporting teams, classweave industries pty ltd federal woollen mills ltd, sport, woollen mills, textile mills - sporting teams, textile mills - staff, sporting teams -
National Wool Museum
Trophy, YWCA Night Basket Ball Association 1937
Acquired when "Classweave Industries" closed downYWCA/ NIGHT BASKET BALL ASSOCIATION/ Won by/ FEDERAL MILL TEAM/ 1937/ PRESENTED BY DIRECTORS/ BRIGHT & HITCHCOCK PTY LTDwoollen mills textile mills - sporting teams textile mills - staff sporting teams, classweave industries pty ltd federal woollen mills ltd, sport, woollen mills, textile mills - sporting teams, textile mills - staff, sporting teams -
National Wool Museum
Trophy, YWCA Night Basket Ball Association 1938
Acquired when "Classweave Industries" closed downYWCA/ NIGHT BASKET BALL ASSOCIATION/ PREMIERS 1938/ Won by/ FEDERAL MILL / Presented by the Directors/ BRIGHT & HITCHCOCK PTY LTDwoollen mills textile mills - sporting teams textile mills - staff sporting teams, classweave industries pty ltd federal woollen mills ltd, sport, woollen mills, textile mills - sporting teams, textile mills - staff, sporting teams -
Bright & District Historical Society operating the Bright Museum
Book, Victorian Railways, Instructions relating to Transportation of Goods, 1959
This book was part of the working paraphernalia of the Bright railway station until it closed in 1978.Hard material cover manual, brown, 410 pages, marked Victorian Railways with Victorian Government insignia, Traffic branch 1959manual, 1959, victorian railways, goods, goods transportation, traffic branch, instructions, railways, transportation, trucks, goods trucks, trains, goods trains -
Bendigo Historical Society Inc.
Document - THE VLACH STRING QUARTET, MCGILLIVRAY HALL, BENDIGO, 14th May, 1964
The Vlach String Quartet, McGillivray Hall, Bendigo, Thursday, 14th May, 1964 at 8.15pm. Presented by The Music Advancement Society of Bendigo For the Second Concert 1964 series by arrangement with Musica Viva Society of Australia. Joseph Vlach - 1st Violin, Vaclav Snitil - 2nd Violin, Joseph Kodousek - Viola, Viktor Moucka - Cello. President: J Bright, Hon. Secs. Madge Edgar, Elsie Flanagan, E Bright. Advertisements: Allan's, Edgar's, Hesse Bros.Boltons Print., Bendigoprogram, music, music advancement society bendigo, vlach string quartet, mcgillivray hall, bendigo, 1964 at 8.15pm. music advancement society of bendigo second concert musica viva society of australia. joseph vlach - 1st violin, vaclav snitil - 2nd violin, joseph kodousek - viola, viktor moucka - cello. president: j bright, hon. secs. madge edgar, elsie flanagan, e bright. advertisements: allan's, edgar's, hesse bros. -
Ringwood and District Historical Society
Book - One Dragon's Dream, Peter Pavey
This book by Peter Pavey won the Australian Children's Picture Book of the Year in 1980. It was published as a Walker classic. Peter Pavey was a resident of Ringwood and now has retired to a walnut farm.Book by local Ringwood author. Brightly coloured covers with title on front and text on mustard coloured back page. 20 pages of multicoloured drawings and text with ten pages dedicated to counting animals.The Children's Book Council Of Australia - Picture Book Of The Year. -
Flagstaff Hill Maritime Museum and Village
Tool - Angular Bit Stock extension, 1897-1922
Millers Falls Co. is a tool manufacturing company originally based in Millers Falls, Massachusetts. It was established in Greenfield, Massachusetts in 1868 as Gunn & Amidon by Levi J. Gunn and Charles H. Amidon. Gunn and Amidon, along with a third partner, Henry L. Pratt built a factory in the north of Greenfield. After the Greenfield factory burned down, the company was reorganized as the Millers Falls Manufacturing Co. It merged with Backus Vise Co. in 1872 to form the Millers Falls Co. In 1931 Millers Falls tools purchased the majority of the shares of Goodell-Pratt tools and merged with that manufacturer in 1932.In 1962 the company was acquired by Ingersoll Rand. In 1982, Ingersoll Rand sold the Millers Falls business to the newly created Millers Falls Tool Co. The company was head quartered in Alpha, New Jersey. Since 2002 the company trademark has belonged to Hangzhou Great Star Industrial Co., Ltd, of Hangzhou, China.An interesting an unusual tool made by the Millers Falls Tool company that continued to be featured in it’s catalogue up and till 1922. The tool was manufactured from 1897 until this date and is sought out by collectors of vintage tools.Universal Angular hand operated bit stock with spring type alligator jaws, main casting is Japanned bright parts are nickel plated item used with a bit & brace as an extension or angular borer. Millers Falls Co. USA Model 109flagstaff hill, warrnambool, flagstaff-hill, flagstaff-hill-maritime-museum, maritime-museum, shipwreck-coast, flagstaff-hill-maritime-village, tools, screw driver, angular hand operated driver, tool accessory -
Ararat Gallery TAMA
Functional object, Miso container, c. 1900s
‘The Art of the Japanese Package’ was an exhibition that toured to 10 Australian and 11 New Zealand public galleries in 1979 and 1980. The touring exhibition comprised 221 objects of traditional Japanese packaging which extended from ceramics, wood and paper to woven fibre containers. At the conclusion of the tour, The Japan Foundation and the Crafts Board of the Australia Council donated the vast majority of the exhibition to the Ararat Gallery for its permanent collection. Combining the natural qualities of bamboo, paper and straw with delicate craftsmanship, these unique objects express Japanese aesthetics as applied through fibre crafts. In Japan, the qualities and traits of natural materials are exploited rather than hidden. The texture of straw, the septa of bamboo are not concealed but lovingly incorporated into the whole. In 1979 Hideyuki Oka, curator of ‘The Art of the Japanese Package’ wrote: “In no way self-conscious or assertive, these wrappings have an artless and obedient air that greatly moves the modern viewer. They are whispered evidence of the Japanese ability to create beauty from the simplest products of nature. They also teach us that wisdom and feeling are especially important in packaging because these qualities, or the lack of them, are almost immediately apparent. What is the use of a package if it shows no feeling?” The descriptions of the featured objects were written by Hideyuki Oka, curator of ‘The Art of the Japanese Package’, 1979.Gift of the Japan-Australia Foundation and the Crafts Board of the Australia Council, 1981These are containers for miso. The wooden box, a product of Osaka, is lacquered in black on the outside and in bright red on the inside. The binding of split bamboo, in natural colour, gives it a sturdy look. - Professor Hideyuki Oka, curator.japanese art, japanese packaging, tsutsumi, gift giving -
Glenelg Shire Council Cultural Collection
Certificate - Certificate of Discharge, c. 1919
Certificate of Discharge issued to Arthur John Thomas ,Australian Imperial Expeditionary Force, 22 Sept 1919. Bright light card form, printed in black. Details hand written in black inkworld war i, australian imperial force, discharge -
Bendigo Historical Society Inc.
Domestic Object - LYDIA CHANCELLOR COLLECTION : CUP SAUCER & PLATE
Grindley trio of cup saucer & plate, brightly coloured floral design with black bands, a note included reads this cup, saucer and plate belonged to Lydia Chancellor ''Taraxville'' Golden Square Vic.W.H.Grindley & Co Ltd Ivory England Reg No 714550domestic equipment, table setting, cups, lydia chancellor collection, collection -
Bendigo Historical Society Inc.
Newspaper - JENNY FOLEY COLLECTION: HAPPY CAMPERS
Bendigo Advertiser ''The way we were'' from 2003. Happy campers: do you recognise any of these bright, young faces from Gravel Hill primary school in 1946? The clip is in a folder.newspaper, bendigo advertiser, the way we were -
Bright & District Historical Society operating the Bright Museum
Brick, handmade
Henry Oakes' kiln was located near the current council depot in Churchill Avenue,Bright.Handmade brick of pale orange clay. Two corners damaged.Animal paw prints- 2 sets.handmade, brick, oakes, kiln -
Kiewa Valley Historical Society
Badge - School Prefect
Gilded metal badge with green and yellow enamelling on face. Elliptical shape with rectangular bar across face. Metal pin and lock on rear.Face: 'Prefect' in gold. Bright yellow background with gold lines and lettering. Rear: Stamped into metal: Stokes / A (backslash) Asia This is an abbreviation for Australasia.mt beauty high school, school prefect, badge, mt beauty secondary college -
National Wool Museum
Archive - Advertisement, Onkaparinga Woollen Mill Company, 1957
Note from collector- "For more than 100 years blankets were made all over Australia in over 100 woollen mills. My aim, is to preserve 100 examples of these wonderful pieces of history. Ten years ago I started collecting the iconic Onkaparinga travel rugs, so that on movie nights at home there would be plenty to go around. Everyone had their favourite; even the cat had his own – a small red tartan one. Keeping an eye out for those travel rugs at op-shops and markets, collectable stores and bazaars, led to noticing vintage blankets. I'd never really thought about them before or paid much attention though of course I had grown up with them at my grandmother's. When I discovered my first Laconia cream blanket with blue stripes, my eyes just went gaga. Well that was it, I was hooked and since then over 500 blankets have passed through my hands. These common, everyday items, found in all households for so many decades, were traditional engagement gifts. Pairs were prized wedding presents turning into family heirlooms. They were fashionable dressers of beds, givers of warmth, bestowers of security and reliability. The comfort found in these objects resonates with almost all of us; we grew up with them ourselves or fondly recall them in a grandparent’s home. There is no modern replacement with the integrity of these old blankets, many of them now older than most of us. They are romantic, sensible, special, familiar, nostalgic and nothing else feels so appropriate in so many situations. No offense to the great Aussie doona, but from hippie to hipster, at a music festival, picnic, campsite or couch, a vintage blanket is something coveted by all. This industry that employed tens of thousands and must have been such a huge contributor to the economy is almost completely lost now. Blanket Fever is an ode to everything that came before: the land, the sheep, the shearers, the hands, the mills, the weavers, the designers, the distributors, the department stores. To the grandparents that gave them, the people that received them, the families that kept them; thank you. I’m passionate about my collection of Australian blankets manufactured in mostly Victoria, South Australia and Tasmania from the 1930s to the end of the 1960s. The collection has blankets from each of these four decades representing the styles and fashions of their time and includes dated advertisements which help determine the eras the blankets are from." Crown of the glory box (ladies with blankets, lambs in bridal party)Crown of the glory box…./colour-bright….comfort-right….Onkaparinga/Choose Onkaparinga, the pure wool blankets you'll love and cherish for a lifetimeblanket, blanket fever, wool, onkaparinga, advertisement, australian women's weekly -
Uniting Church Archives - Synod of Victoria
photograph, 1927
Sister Martha (Florence Gertrude Edwards) was Kindergarten Superintendent at the Carlton Methodist Mission. She married the Reverend George Fielding Dyson in 1936 after the death of his first wife in 1934. Rev. Dyson's son Fielding George Martin Dyson was killed in a motorcycle accident on 9 April 1936. Two memorial windows for the first Mrs Dyson were installed in the Palmerston Street Methodist Church. Reverend Dyson died in 1956.B & W head and shoulders studio portrait of Sister Martha, wearing the uniform of a Methodist deaconess. Postcard format.To Eva, Wishing you a Happy Christmas & Bright New Year. Yours sincerely Sister Martha. Isa.50 1. 1926 - 1927sister martha, florence gertrude edwards, reverend george fielding dyson, fielding george martin dyson, carlton methodist mission, home missions, palmerston street methodist church -
Glenelg Shire Council Cultural Collection
Postcard - Postcard - Maretimo Portland, Victoria, n.d
Coloured photo postcard, wavy edge. Aerial view of 'Maretimo' historic home, Portland. view shows main house and outbuilding plus gardensFront: 'Maretimo', PORTLAND, VICTORIA' printed in bright pink, top right Back: 'Short history of Maretimo' printed in brown, top left -
Kiewa Valley Historical Society
Book - Voters' Roll - South Riding (excluding Mt Beauty) 1960/61, South Riding (excluding Mt Beauty)
Voters' Rolls for the South Riding excluding Mt Beauty of the Shire of Bright for the years 1960/61The Shire of Bright includes towns in the Kiewa Valley. Names and occupations are of historical interest.Red book with black print on over and 3 staples holding 4 pages. Alphabetical listing of Residents in the Ovens and Kiewa Valleys and their occupations.No.s in pen written beside some residents.bright shire, voters' roll 1960, tawonga, tawonga south -
Bright & District Historical Society operating the Bright Museum
Cup, Trophy, Circa 1889
Breen challenge cup. A Bright Cricket Club trophy for six clubs competing April 1893.Siver plated inscribed trophy cup, etched with floral design arranged in garlands.Presented by / T & T Breen / Ladies Nomination 1889 / Won by / M Duane / Nominated by Mrs. G.S. Larman / 22.4.89trophy, silver, cup, cricket, breen, duane, larman -
Tarnagulla History Archive
Registration of Birth form, 1872
A large lot of papers, including this and many other birth and death registration forms, were apparently found in the ceiling cavity of the Sandy Creek/Tarnagulla Post and Telegraph Office in the later 20th Century, during building works. Donald Clark Collection. Registration of Birth form for: Child's name: Fracis (Frances?) Jane Date of Birth: 13th May, 1872 Place of birth: Jones Creek Father: Simon Strachan Mother: Ann Strachan (nee Bright) -
Bendigo Military Museum
Uniform - BUTTONS
Buttons worn on dress uniforms of al ranks and differentiate between different areas.1-11. All buttons identical. Bright silver, metal and circular. Australian Army Armour emblem at front and a round hook at back. Circular shape, convex at front with emblem. Concave/hollow at "Back".On back inscribed "Stokes and Sons" Melb". On front inscribed Äustralian Army Armour Corps emblem.uniform buttons, armour -
Bendigo Historical Society Inc.
Negative - GERMAN HERITAGE SOCIETY COLLECTION: 3 NEGATIVES OF THE PENNY SCHOOL
Three negatives contained in a white Kodak negative re-order bag. Penny School negatives. Bag contained in a bright yellow Kodak re-order envelope. If not in Box 480 try Box 751negative, bendigo, german heritage society, german heritage society collection - 3 negatives -
Bendigo Historical Society Inc.
Document - MALONE COLLECTION: GREETING CARDS
Document. Greeting Cards. White card with embossed horseshoe and ivy at the top. Inside the horseshoe is a pig and Good Luck. With best wishes for a very Happy Christmas and a Bright New Year printed in light brown.Raphael Tuck & Sons Ltd. (Embossed on the back.)person, greeting cards, malone collection, malone collection, greeting cards -
Kiewa Valley Historical Society
Folder - Voters List x2, Voters List for Mr Beauty Riding (13) & (14), 1975-1976
List of voters living in Mt Beauty during 1975-1976 Mt Beauty Riding, Shire of Bright.Document listing adult inhabitants of Mt Beauty township in 1975-1976.Purple plastic cover holding (13) 21 and in (14) 19 foolscap blue sheets of typed pages stapled together with one staple in the top left hand corner. Each page lists (13) 569 and in (14) 597 people - their names and addresses. These people are living in Mt Beauty 1975 - 19761st plastic sleeve has sticker marked (13) 2nd plastic sleeve has sticker marked (14) Some people have been added to the 'roll' in pencilvoters' roll; mt beauty; shire of bright -
Kiewa Valley Historical Society
Folder - Tobacco Families of the Kiewa Valley 1930-2000
Tobacco was grown in the Kiewa Valley mainly by Italian families. The stories and photos in this folder give a history of the tobacco industry in the Kiewa Valley and also of the migrants that settled in the valley.Blue plastic A3 size folder with bright yellow paper attached to the front cover with the title printed in black. Enclosed in clear plastic sleeves are photos and descriptions of families of the Kiewa Valley who grew tobacco.tobacco. italian people. migrants. farming. kiewa valley. -
Clunes Museum
Card
CHRISTMAS GREETINGS CARDHAPPY THE ONE WHOSE LIFE IS SPENT IN FRIENDSHIPS CALM SECURITY.TODAY I SEND TO YOU, DEAR FRIEND, MY CORDIAL WISHES TRUE, THAT ALL BE WELL, AND YULETIDE'S SPELL BRING VISIONS BRIGHT TO YOU. F.G.B.TRUE REMEMBRANCES AND WARMEST GREETINGS FOR YOUR HAPPINESS. FROM F. TERRELL WITH LOVElocal history, document, cards, trembath, perry