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Wodonga & District Historical Society Inc
Book - Chandeliers and Billy Tea: : a catalogue of Australian life 1880-1940, Peter Cuffley
Manufactured goods available in Australia over the period 1880 to 1940 underwent massive change. Australia moved from long skirts to shorter styles, from kerosene lamps to electric lights, from horse drawn vehicles to cars and aeroplanes. This collection reflects these changes in many aspects of people's life styles.This book documents the development of manufactured goods available in Australia over the period 1880 to 1940. This was the period between the end of the gold rushes and the Second World War. It consists of 224 pages including explanatory text, illustrations and a bibliography.Manufactured goods available in Australia over the period 1880 to 1940 underwent massive change. Australia moved from long skirts to shorter styles, from kerosene lamps to electric lights, from horse drawn vehicles to cars and aeroplanes. This collection reflects these changes in many aspects of people's life styles.manufactured goods australia 1880 - 1940, social life and customs, australian shopping directories -
Clunes Museum
Document - OBITUARY, CLUNES GUARDIAN & GAZETTE, 1942
PHOTOCOPY OF OBITUARY AND DEATH NOTICE OF ANNA RYAN OF "QUAMBY"'CLUNES, PUBLISHED IN THE CLUNES GUARDIAN AND GAZETTE ON FRIDAY 27TH 1942EDWIN DIED 1910-1942. ANNA RYAN DIED 1942local history, document, obituary, ryan family -
Ballarat Tramway Museum
Document - List, Melbourne and Metropolitan Tramways Board (MMTB), "M&MTB Rolling Stock Data - 1/10/38 with additions:- bringing data up to 27/4/1940", Apr. 1940
Three page hand written list titled "M&MTB Rolling Stock Data - 1/10/38 with additions:- bringing data up to 27/4/1940" , listing each class, car numbers, number in service, type, seating capacity - seats, crush, truck, wheelbase, motors, Horsepower, Tare Tons, Controllers, Compressors and Length over bumpers. Author lined foolscap paper in landscape format, carbon copy Extends to SW5 889, includes cable trams. Author unknown, written in CapitalsIndividual captions for each photo.mmtb, tramcars, melbourne, lists -
NMIT (Northern Melbourne Institute of TAFE)
Photographs - CTS 1940-1943, Collingwood Technical School. Defence Training Scheme, 1940-1943
Collingwood Technical School trained apprentices in many trades. CTS was also invlved in Training Schemes during the late 1930s and during World War II. These photographs depict some of the machines and machine parts built in class. These are high quality professional photographs taken circa 1940-1943. At this time , CTS was part of the Defence Training scheme. These photographs are a visual record of this scheme.6 black and white photographs mounted on brown card. Photographs depict various aspects of lathe work undertaken during the Defence Training Scheme, 1940-43. Also a smaller photograph of a Moultar Thread Milling Machine 1941.Each photograph has a hand written caption on the back. Captions: 1. Finished surface plates for R.A.A.F. / standing on trestle after scraping. Stack of / others in background waiting for scraping. 2. Lathe bodies in foreground, with machined / parts of lathes in middle distance, and milling / cutters, gauges and bearings in background. 3. Frames of glass splitting machines, thread / rectifying machines, and two types of milling / machine vises made in technical schools. 4.View of engineering machine shop. Carbon dioxide / freezing box in foreground, and stack of / surface plates for RAAF in middle / distance. 5.Fan geared lathes, 6 inch centres, with / self-contained motor drives, made for / cartridge factory. To be used for making / this 6.Freezing of cast iron surface plates / in layers of solid carbon dioxide / blocks. Smaller photograph has a handwritten note on the reverse: 'this photograph shows how, with the aid of a 3ft. extension mounted in front of the tool box, on which Mr. Grubb sen. is seated, these large milling machine bases ... machinists at Collingwood Technical School. A Strang, Principal 21.4.1941'. collingwood technical school, cts, apprentices, students, defence training scheme, lathes, machinery, machine parts, nmit, -
Ringwood and District Historical Society
Photograph, Ringwood Station Entrance circa 1940
Black and white photograph (2 copies)Written on rear of backing sheet: "Main St. Ringwood - Looking toward Railway Station entrance. Newsagent C.V. Ward 1940". -
Colac RSL Sub Branch
Book - Autograph Album, Autograph Album belonging to Valerie Jean Thompson from 1940
Autograph bookDark coloured book with pattern on the front cover and green stringnon-fictionAutograph book -
Melbourne Legacy
Book - Minutes, Minutes B. of M. meetings Dec 1941 - Dec 1942
Pages are of varying width, length and texture. Probably due to wartime shortages. Moved to Archive cupboard H with all other BOM minutes. Number to be reassigned TBCA record of administrative decisions made in that era.Blue cover, white pages, black type, pages numbered in handwritten black ink. 103 pages. In gold letters, Legacy Club Melbourne / Minutes B.of M. Meetings Conferences etc. Dec. 1941 - Dec. 1942 Spine Vol. xivminutes, activities, board of management -
Melbourne Tram Museum
Decorative object - Memento, Melbourne Cable Tramway /1885-1940 / Original Rail:, 1970's?
Memento - comprising a section of Melbourne grooved or flanged cable tram rail sawn and then mounted on a varnished wooden board with a plastic sign mounted in front "Melbourne Cable Tramway /1885-1940 / Original Rail: Not known who made the item.trams, tramways, cable trams, rail section, melbourne -
Stawell Historical Society Inc
Photograph, Mr Robert Gordon (Bob) Hyslop -- Deceased 1940 -- Studio Portrait
Portrait - Bob Hyslop (Died 1940)stawell -
The 5th/6th Battalion Royal Victoria Regiment Historical Collection
Photograph, Ceremonial Drums 32nd Battalion 1940
Ceremonial Drums 32nd Battalion 1940Brown wooden frame backing laminate is coming apart5/6 rvr, pipes & drums -
Phillip Island and District Historical Society Inc.
Photograph, Ventnor State School 1940, 1940
One of three Ventnor State School Student Photographs.Ventnor State School - No. 3895. School Student Photograph 1940. Back Row L-R: Shirley Hunter, Joan Hunter, Una Coels, Alice Clark, Alberta Harris, Harry Harris. 2nd Back Row L-R: Isobel Justice, Cefn Price, Billy Trew, Beryl Hunter. 2nd Front Row L-R: Ruth Harris, Ken Clark, Adele Justice. Front Row L-R: Sylvie Trew Elaine Jones Peter Justice Norman Jenner Unknown Visitor, Audrey Harris. ventnor state school phillip island, ventnor state school student photo, school photo - children, alice robinson (nee clark) -
Stawell Historical Society Inc
Photograph, Group of Males at the Stawell Town Hall 1940
Group of Males town hall Stawell 1940stawell -
Stawell Historical Society Inc
Photograph, Stawell Primary School Number 502, Grade 1B 1940
Primary School 502. Grade 1b 1940stawell education students -
Stawell Historical Society Inc
Photograph, Miss Millie Theos 1940 -- Studio Portrait
Chapman Studio portrait of Millie Theos 1940stawell -
Stawell Historical Society Inc
Photograph, North Western Woollen Mills -- Staff 1940
North Western Woollen Mills Staff 1940stawell industry -
Beaufort Historical Society
Newspaper (Item) - Periodicals, Weekly, The Riponshire Advocate February 1940
The Riponshire Advocate Newspapers Published February 1940A weekly recording of news and events of interest to people in the Beaufort and surrounding areas.beaufort, ripon shire, pyrenees shire, raglan, skipton -
Beaufort Historical Society
Newspaper (Item) - Periodicals, Weekly, The Riponshire Advocate January 1940
The Riponshire Advocate Newspapers Published January 1940A weekly recording of news and events of interest to people in the Beaufort and surrounding areas.beaufort, ripon shire, pyrenees shire, raglan, skipton -
Beaufort Historical Society
Newspaper (Item) - Periodicals, Weekly, The Riponshire Advocate March 1940
The Riponshire Advocate Newspapers Published March 1940A weekly recording of news and events of interest to people in the Beaufort and surrounding areas.beaufort, ripon shire, pyrenees shire, raglan, skipton -
Beaufort Historical Society
Newspaper (Item) - Periodicals, Weekly, The Riponshire Advocate April 1940
The Riponshire Advocate Newspapers Published April 1940A weekly recording of news and events of interest to people in the Beaufort and surrounding areas.beaufort, ripon shire, pyrenees shire, raglan, skipton -
Beaufort Historical Society
Newspaper (Item) - Periodicals, Weekly, The Riponshire Advocate June 1940
The Riponshire Advocate Newspapers Published June 1940A weekly recording of news and events of interest to people in the Beaufort and surrounding areas.beaufort, ripon shire, pyrenees shire, raglan, skipton -
Beaufort Historical Society
Newspaper (Item) - Periodicals, Weekly, The Riponshire Advocate May 1940
The Riponshire Advocate Newspapers Published May 1940A weekly recording of news and events of interest to people in the Beaufort and surrounding areas.beaufort, ripon shire, pyrenees shire, raglan, skipton -
Beaufort Historical Society
Newspaper (Item) - Periodicals, Weekly, The Riponshire Advocate September 1940
The Riponshire Advocate Newspapers Published September 1940A weekly recording of news and events of interest to people in the Beaufort and surrounding areas.beaufort, ripon shire, pyrenees shire, raglan, skipton -
Beaufort Historical Society
Newspaper (Item) - Periodicals, Weekly, The Riponshire Advocate December 1940
The Riponshire Advocate Newspapers Published December 1940A weekly recording of news and events of interest to people in the Beaufort and surrounding areas.beaufort, ripon shire, pyrenees shire, raglan, skipton -
Beaufort Historical Society
Newspaper (Item) - Periodicals, Weekly, The Riponshire Advocate November 1940
The Riponshire Advocate Newspapers Published November 1940A weekly recording of news and events of interest to people in the Beaufort and surrounding areas.beaufort, ripon shire, pyrenees shire, raglan, skipton -
Beaufort Historical Society
Newspaper (Item) - Periodicals, Weekly, The Riponshire Advocate October 1940
The Riponshire Advocate Newspapers Published October 1940A weekly recording of news and events of interest to people in the Beaufort and surrounding areas.beaufort, ripon shire, pyrenees shire, raglan, skipton -
Beaufort Historical Society
Newspaper (Item) - Periodicals, Weekly, The Riponshire Advocate August 1940
The Riponshire Advocate Newspapers Published August 1940A weekly recording of news and events of interest to people in the Beaufort and surrounding areas.beaufort, ripon shire, pyrenees shire, raglan, skipton -
Beaufort Historical Society
Newspaper (Item) - Periodicals, Weekly, The Riponshire Advocate July 1940
The Riponshire Advocate Newspapers Published July 1940A weekly recording of news and events of interest to people in the Beaufort and surrounding areas.beaufort, ripon shire, pyrenees shire, raglan, skipton -
Beechworth RSL Sub-Branch
Orient Line Dinner Menu, Orient Line Dinner Menu Thursday, 18th July, 1940, 1940
This menu would have been printed to distribute to guests attending dinner on the Orient Line, which embarked for the Middle East in 1940. The dinner was held on Thursday 18th July of the same year. Signatures on the reverse of this document were signed by Ken Williams, RW Sterrett, MR Campbell, J.H. Christie, JH McKinnon and F Finch. This item relates closely to a photograph of the 3rd Squadron, in RAAF uniform, boarding the Orient Line.This menu is an item of ephemera dating to the World War Two era. Items such as this are ordinarily lost over the passage of time. As the item contains signatures it is possible that further research and interpretation could be done regarding the men it relates to. The item is therefore of historic and social significance and has good interpretive capacity.Card with printed lettering centrally spaced and folded along horizontal centreline. There are hand written inscription on the front and reverse in pen ink.On the front, top: 3 Sqn RAAF boarding for the Middle East. On the front, lower left there are markings under and to the right of the printed word 'tourist'. The is a thick line under the word, two arrows pointing to it from beneath and a question mark to the right. On the reverse, upper left corner: Ken Williams, RW Sterrett MR Campbell JH Christie JH McKinnon F Finchdinner menu, orient line, raaf, royal australian air force, ken williams, r w sterrett, m r campbell, j h mckinnon, f finch, j h christie, 3 squadron -
Tatura Irrigation & Wartime Camps Museum
Photograph, Kormoran Certificate on crossing Equator, 1940
Kormoran Certificate on crossing Equator, 1940.|Paul Koenig.photograph, people -
Stawell Historical Society Inc
Photograph, Mr Jack Donaldson Memorial in Central Park Stawell 1940’s
Central Park - Jack Donaldson Memorial 1940’sstawell