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Melbourne Tram Museum
Photograph - Clifton Hill - Northcote cable trams, c1900
Has one cable tram vehicle by itself, lettered Northcote, and three cable tram sets in the photo. The nearest cable tram set is well loaded. Photo reproduced c1970 by the TMSV from an original photo - c1900Yields information about the change over point between MTOCo and Northcote cable carss.Black and white photo of High Street Northcote cable tram terminus. Two copies held.On the rear is a TMSV 332 Flinders St Melbourne stamp.trams, tramways, terminus, northcote, cable trams -
Flagstaff Hill Maritime Museum and Village
Planisphere, Early 20th Century
The word Planisphere (Latin planisphaerium) was originally used in the second century by Claudius Ptolemy to describe the representation of a spherical Earth by a map drawn in the plane. This usage continued into the Renaissance: for example Gerardus Mercator described his 1569 world map as a Planisphere. The word describes the representation of the star-filled celestial sphere on the plane. The first star chart to have the name "Planisphere" was made in 1624 by Jacob Bartsch. Bartsch was the son-in-law of Johannes Kepler, discoverer of Kepler's laws of planetary motion. A significant item of celestial mapping used by marine navigators This particular item was made and used in the first quarter to half of the 20th centuryPlanisphere of northern hemisphere, with canvas bag. Planisphere consists of a circular star chart attached at its centre to an opaque circular overlay that has a clear elliptical window or hole so that only a portion of the sky map will be visible in the window or hole area at any given time. The chart and overlay are mounted so that they are free to rotate about a common pivot point at their centres. The star chart contains the brightest stars, constellations and (possibly) deep-sky objects visible from a particular latitude on Earth. The night sky that one sees from the Earth depends on whether the observer is in the northern or southern hemispheres and the latitude. A Planisphere window is designed for a particular latitude and will be accurate enough for a certain band either side of that. Planisphere makers will usually offer them in a number of versions for different latitudes. Planispheres only show the stars visible from the observer's latitude; stars below the horizon are not included. A complete twenty-four-hour time cycle is marked on the rim of the overlay. A full twelve months of calendar dates are marked on the rim of the starchart. The window is marked to show the direction of the eastern and western horizons. The disc and overlay are adjusted so that the observer's local time of day on the overlay corresponds to that day's date on the star chart disc. The portion of the star chart visible in the window then represents (with a distortion because it is a flat surface representing a spherical volume) the distribution of stars in the sky at that moment for the Planispheres designed location. Users hold the Planisphere above their head with the eastern and western horizons correctly aligned to match the chart to actual star positions. "Made in Germany for GEORGE PHILIP & SONS Ltd. Geographical and Educational Depot, 32 Fleet Street, London" Canvas bag has "Capt. H (Howard) Tyler from Captain H. F. Woolf" "Tyler 22 ? St East Brighton" also "13 Halls St Flinders"flagstaff hill, warrnambool, shipwrecked-coast, flagstaff-hill, flagstaff-hill-maritime-museum, maritime-museum, shipwreck-coast, flagstaff-hill-maritime-village, planisphere, star map, marine navigation, maps, george philip & sons -
Melbourne Tram Museum
Postcard, Rose Stereograph Co, "Elizabeth Street Melbourne", late 1940s
Rose Series postcard No. P 3279, titled "Elizabeth Street Melbourne" with a W5 class car (City route 19), southbound in Elizabeth St, crossing Lonsdale St. The Flinders St station is in the far distance.Yields information Swanston St late 1940s.Postcard - printed real photograph with Rose Stereograph Co. name on the rear.tramways, trams, w5 class, elizabeth st -
Melbourne Tram Museum
Postcard, Rose Stereograph Co, "Flinders St, Station and St Kilda Road, Melbourne", 1941
Rose Series postcard No. P 200, "Flinders St, Station and St Kilda Road, Melbourne" looking south from the roof top of the Nicholas Building in Swanston Street. Has at least eight trams in the view. The trams have a white panel under the driver's windows indicating a war time black out precaution. Has adverts for buying bonds and savings certificates and The Herald learn to Swim advertisement on the end of the verandah for Friday next January 10th at Princes Bridge. This gives a year of 1941.Yields information about St Kilda Road 1941Postcard - printed real photograph with Rose Stereograph Co. name on the rear.tramways, flinders st station, st kilda road, railways, world war ii, trams, mmtb -
Melbourne Tram Museum
Postcard, Rose Stereograph Co, "Elizabeth Street Melbourne", late 1930s
Rose Series postcard No. P 3541, titled "Elizabeth Street Melbourne", taken from The Argus Building tower on the corner of Elizabeth and La Trobe Sts looking south to Flinders St, Has 8 trams in the view and one horse drawn card in Lonsdale St near the corner.Yields information Swanston St late 1930s.Postcard - printed real photograph with Rose Stereograph Co. name on the rear.tramways, trams, w5 class, elizabeth st -
Melbourne Tram Museum
Postcard, Rose Stereograph Co, "Swanston Street Melbourne", early 1940s
Rose Series postcard No. P 1633, titled "Swanston Street Melbourne", looking north from about Flinders Lane. There are a number of W2's in the street with white painted panels under the driver's windows, and one car with a gas producer back. A set of traffic lights can be seen on both sides of Flinders Lane.Yields information about Flinders St station early 1940s.Postcard - printed real photograph with Rose Stereograph Co. name on the rear.tramways, trams, w2 class, swanston st, world war ii -
Melbourne Tram Museum
Postcard, Rose Stereograph Co, "Cathedral Corner Melboune", 1934
Rose Series postcard No. P 4718, titled "Cathedral Corner Melboune". There are two W2 class tramcars in Swanston St. In the photo are the Melbourne Centenary "Lollypop" street decorations of 1934Yields information St Paul's Cathedral and the Melbourne Centenary in 1934.Postcard - printed real photograph with Rose Stereograph Co. name on the rear.st pauls, st pauls cathedral, swanston st, flinders st, melbourne centenary