After a quiet period, interest in bookplates in Australia began to increase in the early 1970s, Entrepreneurial art and book collectors such as Edwin Jewell and others commissioned multiple Bookplate designs from a range of well known fine artists. At a 1997 meeting in Melbourne of the Ephemera Society of Australia Edwin Jewell and others announced the formation of the Australian Bookplate Society. The society was instrumental in promoting the art of the bookplate through establishment of the Australian Bookplate Design competition.A silhouetted fairy is depicted dancing with elves with a circle of leavesInitials D Rbookplate, printmaking, australian bookplate design award, keith wingrove memorial trust

Copy of correspondence to John Niemann Manager, Urban Design, City of Camberwell requesting the creek at the end of Vaughan Avenue and Flinders Street Canterbury be named Shrublands Creek Reserve, and the letter in reply from the City of Camberwell agreeing to the request.A 4 3 pagescanterbury, vaughan avenue, flinders street, city of camberwell, shrublands creek reserve, creeks, potts> annette, bennett> mavis

Sheet of 12 contact prints of rephotographed photographs: Identifying Numbers 5716 a, b, c, d, e, f, g, h, i, j, k, l Measurements for each print 3.2 x 5 cm (a) Julia Street (b) Lamb Inn (c) Britannia Hotel (d) British Fleet in Portland Bay (e) Warehouses Trangmar & Crouch, Corner Percy/Henty Streets (f) Builders Arms Hotel (g) Prospect (h) 3rd Baths (i) Henty Beach Cliffs (j) Old Portland Hospital (k) London Inn (l) Opening 3rd BathsFrom the front: (a) Julia Street (b) Portland Hotel (c) Britannia Hotel (d) British Fleet in Portland Bay Setp 30, 1891 (e) Trangmar & ....ush Store (f) Builders Arms Hotel (g) Prospect (h) Baths (i) Henty Beach (j) Portland Hospital (k) London Inn (l) Baths

Cameron, Ewen Hugh, M.L.A.., J.P. Kangaroo Ground, is a native of Inverness-shire, Scotland, and came out to Victoria in the ship Hurricane, 13th September, 1853. After he had been engaged for two years int eh building trade in Melbourne in company with is two brothers, since dead, he carried on storekeeping for several years at the Caledonia gold diggings. In 1860 he purchased 80 acres of land at Kangaroo Ground, where he now resides, and later 160 aces of lands at Yarra Flats; he has also 600 acres rented, and is occupied in grazing and agricultural pursuits generally. Mr Cameron holds the prize given by the agricultural society for the best-kept farm in the district. In 1863 he was elected a member of the shire council, and has held the position to represent the Castlemaine mining board, which office he still holds, and in 1874, he was elected to a seat in the Legislative Assembly for the County of Evelyn, which seat he still retains, having the contested the constituency five times, and been elected once without opposition from "Victoria and its Metropolis: Past and Present" written in 1888 by Alexander Sutherland. Chapter 19, "The Upper Yarra District" pages [402] - 415. Includes descriptions of some townships and short biographies of local residents. Page 405 Folder of information on J D and E Cameron, land purchasers, Eltham, c.1850sj.d cameron

Postcard with cartoon-like character on front, from B Brenim to Mr D Gordon

Article by D. F. Aldous from Arboricultural Journal [UK] 1990, Vol. 14burnley gardens, d.f. aldous, arboricultural journal, trees

Stawell and District Football Club Premiers 1925, 1926, 1930, 1931 dated July 23rd 1932. Back row: Ray Maddocks, Morrie Robson, unknown, unknown, unknow, unknown, D. J. Hall, A. Blachford. Middle row: A. (Hank) Neil. unknown, J. Carr, C. Fowler, Alf Hunt, Jim May, Bill Earle. Front row: unknown, unknown, L. Hutton, Harold Carr.Stawell Football TeamStawell & District Football Club. Premiers 1925, 1926, 1930, 1931 Presented to R. Maddocks on the occasion of his 100th consecutive games with the club. July 23rd 1932 Discaciati & Co Warracknabeal.stawell sport