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Falls Creek Historical Society
Poster - Kangaroo Hoppet 2002
The Kangaroo Hoppet is Australia’s premier long distance cross country ski race, and a member of the Worldloppet series of international cross country ski events. The first race at Falls Creek was held in 1979 under the name of “Australian Birkebeiner”. It was a 21km race with about 80 participants organised by the Birkebeiner Nordic Ski Club of Mount Beauty. The course started and finished at Falls Creek Alpine Resort and took participants out into the Bogong High Plains. After running the event for 10 years, it was decided they should become part of the Worldloppet series of marathon ski races. Representatives from the Birkebeiner Nordic Ski Club and the Australian Ski Federation attended the Worldloppet Annual Meeting in Finland in June 1990 to put the case for the acceptance of an Australian event into the Worldloppet series. Before being admitted, they had to demonstrate that the Birkebeiner Club could run a world class event, so three months later in August 1990 a 42km event named the Australian International Ski Marathon was held at Falls Creek together with a 21km Birkebeiner race and a 7km event called the Birkebeiner Lite. The event was approved by delegates from USA, Norway and Austria, in 1991 Australia became the 12th member of Worldloppet, with the condition that there had to be a name change. After some late night discussion allegedly involving red wine from North East Victoria the main event became the 42km Kangaroo Hoppet, with the minor events being the 21km Australian Birkebeiner, and 7km Joey Hoppet. In the winter of 1991, the first Kangaroo Hoppet was held. It was a great success and has been a regular fixture on the international ski calendar ever since. It features the main 42km event as well as a 21km event and a 7km event. The Hoppet brings the Australian snowfields to an international audience. In 2002 the Men's Winner was Stanislav Rezac from the Czech Republic in a time of 2:10:40. The winner of the Women's event was Belinda Phillips of Australia in a time of 2:30:53.This poster is significant because it documents an event which brings international attention to Falls Creek and the surrounding region.A coloured poster featuring group of Hoppet competitors on a clear day. The heading is in gold text and the logos of Worldloppet, Falls Creek and Tourism Victoria are included towards the bottom.In gold text at the top: KANGAROO HOPPET 12 FALLS CREEK AUSTRALIA Beneath the image: 31st August 2002 Tel: (03) 5754 3103 - Fax: (03) 5754 4475 - P.O. Box 400 Mount Beauty 3699 Website: http://www.netc.net.au/-hoppet/ Email: [email protected] kangaroo hoppet, worldloppet events, falls creek, mt. beauty -
Melbourne Tram Museum
Photograph - Set of two Colour Prints, Ray Jackson, 1975
Set of two Colour prints on stippled paper with rounded corners of MMTB Leyland National bus 818 outside the Thornbury Tram depot building c1980. Bus built 1975 - see http://www.busaustralia.com/fleetlists/nationalslist.htm accessed 23/1/2019. Bus not registered, possibly at the time of its launch or an event and showing route 277.trams, tramways, buses, leyland, thornbury depot, tram 818 -
Melbourne Tram Museum
Newspaper, tram track construction in Spring St, mid 1993 for the future City Circle, mid 1993
Newspaper clipping from a newspaper (either The Age or Herald Sun) with a photograph of tram track construction in Spring St, mid 1993 for the future City Circle. Photo is looking south along Spring St. Don Storey's http://www.classicaustraliantv.com/Gunzel.html, tram history notes that the track was completed early Nov. 1993 with new junctions.trams, tramways, spring st, trackwork, new tramway, city circle -
Melbourne Tram Museum
Slide, Ron Scholten, Feb. 2002
Colour slide - Kodachrome plastic mount - of Z3 204 running into No. 2 shed at Malvern Depot. Note the Coin only sign on the front of the tram. Has a Vodaphone all over advertising scheme - Feb 2002 - see https://vicsig.net/index.php?page=trams&number=204&class=Z3 (accessed 17/6/2021)trams, tramways, z3 class, malvern depot, advertising trams, tram 204 -
Melbourne Tram Museum
Ephemera - Origami Finger Game Card, The Met, c1985
Origami Finger Game Card, printed with fold lines with a set of Question and Answers about giving some facts for the Met about trains, trams and bus systems. For instructions on how to use see - http://www.hellokids.com/c_31585/kids-crafts-and-activities/origami-how-to-videos/the-origami-finger-game - accessed 9/7/2021.trams, tramways, the met -
South Gippsland Shire Council
Letter, 1988
Letter of congratulations from the Borough of Wonthaggi to the Shire of Woorayl dated 24 May 1988. Sealed with Common seal and signed by the mayor, a councillor & the clerk. Note: Item approved for deaccession August 2023. SGSC will now follow deaccession procedures as outlined in the Arts and Civic Memorabilia Collection Policy - https://www.southgippsland.vic.gov.au/downloads/file/2763/arts_and_artefacts_collection_policy_c69. -
South Gippsland Shire Council
Photograph, 1983
Framed colour photograph showing the Shire of Korumburra Officers & Councillors 1983. Set in brown wood frame. Titles & names in print below. Note: Item approved for deaccession August 2023. SGSC will now follow deaccession procedures as outlined in the Arts and Civic Memorabilia Collection Policy - https://www.southgippsland.vic.gov.au/downloads/file/2763/arts_and_artefacts_collection_policy_c69. -
Coburg Historical Society
Handbag, HM Prison Pentridge, Handbag made by a prisoner, HM Prison Pentridge, 1987
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Federation University Historical Collection
Plan, Sketch of Elands River Siege, 1900
Plan based on the field notes of Captain David John Ham, V.B.C. For article written by Ham on the event, see http://trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/9542500 For obituary of Ham, see http://trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/11023251Sketched paper map of forces' distribution at the Elands River siege. Map details surrounding hills, roads, rivers, and names all soldiers involved in siege. boer war, map, sketch, victorian's bushmen contingent, hocking, fowles, methuens, david john ham -
Coburg Historical Society
Reckitt's Blue
https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=1410190715692930&extid=SZ3cFbRFxraPiuOs -
Ballarat Clarendon College
Book, Ruth Rae, Scarlet poppies, 2004
See https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/21030033-scarlet-poppiesSmall paperback bookworld war one, margaret anderson, gladys bennett, olive lee-brown, daisie llewellyn, jessie mathews, mary mcgregor, annie serjeant, muriel slater, florence vines -
Lara RSL Sub Branch
Photo Album, Montgomery Visit Australia 1947
See details of visit at https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/2718943Rare photos of Field Marshal Montgomery's visit to Australia in 1947Hard Cover and Rear Photo Album with 15 sleeves containing eleven photos of the visitInside front cover - Field Marshall Montgomery Australia Visit 1947field marshal montgomery, ww2, army, world war 2 -
Victorian Interpretive Projects Inc.
Photograph - Colour, Clare Gervasoni, View from Nevin's Road towards the Swiss Italian Enclave at Yandoit Creek, 2014, 12/2013
For a 2004 comparative view see http://victoriancollections.net.au/items/52fdd83d2162ef1820380448 Two colour photographs showing the view from Nevin's Road towards the Swiss Italian Enclave at Yandoit Creek, 2014yandoit, yandoit creek, yandoit hill, gervasoni, drystone, swiis/italian -
South West Healthcare
Instrument - Thermometer with Metal Case, 1900-1999
https://collection.sciencemuseumgroup.org.uk/people/cp3421/g-h-zeal-limitedClinical thermometer, stubby bulb, lens stem"PATERSON'S PHARMACY WARRNAMBOOL" "MADE BY G.H. ZEAL LONDON ENG REG PAT" "210036"zeal -
Clunes Museum
Functional object - SEWING MACHINE, Singer Manufacturing Co, 1920
https://www.singermachines.co.uk/faq/singer-sewing-machine-company-history/Singer sewing machine, black with gold, green, red scroll pattern, hand operated, lift up machine attached to wooden base with a wooden coverIn gold on top of machine "The Singer Manufacturing Co." On metal plate base of machine "F9719565" Cover; Gold marking on front of cover "The Singer Mnft Co. TradeMark"sewing, domestic item, singer manufacturing co. -
Frankston RSL Sub Branch
Calculator, Course & Speed, E.R Watts & Son London Pty Ltd
Course and Speed calculator used as a navigational aid by Air Force pilots to calculate aircraft relative groundspeed whilst allowing for wind speed and direction. A similar example (MKIIA version) can be seen at the following Imperial War Museum web page: -
Waverley RSL Sub Branch
Print WWI Aircraft
Print of WWI Aircraft on ground showing damage to engine cowling This is a Royal Aircraft Factory RE.8. This plane was used by 3 Squadron, Australian Flying Corps from 1917 onwards, among others. It was nick-named "Harry Tate" after a popular musical artist of the time http://www.3squadron.org.au/indexpages/history1.htm#WW%20I .Signed Arthur Streeton -
South Gippsland Shire Council
Letter, 19/5/1988
Typed letter from Shire of Dimboola to Shire of Woorayl. Congratulations on achieving 100 years of Local Government. Signed by M. B. Molony, Shire Secretary Note: Item approved for deaccession August 2023. SGSC will now follow deaccession procedures as outlined in the Arts and Civic Memorabilia Collection Policy - https://www.southgippsland.vic.gov.au/downloads/file/2763/arts_and_artefacts_collection_policy_c69. -
South Gippsland Shire Council
Photograph, 1987
Framed colour photograph showing the Shire of Korumburra Officers & Councillors 1987. Set in brown wood frame with black and gold trim. Title and names printed below. Note: Item approved for deaccession August 2023. SGSC will now follow deaccession procedures as outlined in the Arts and Civic Memorabilia Collection Policy - https://www.southgippsland.vic.gov.au/downloads/file/2763/arts_and_artefacts_collection_policy_c69. -
South Gippsland Shire Council
Photograph, 1991
Framed colour photograph showing the Shir of Korumburra Officers & Councillors 1991. Set in brown wood frame with gold trim. Title text and names printed below Note: Item approved for deaccession August 2023. SGSC will now follow deaccession procedures as outlined in the Arts and Civic Memorabilia Collection Policy - https://www.southgippsland.vic.gov.au/downloads/file/2763/arts_and_artefacts_collection_policy_c69. -
Koroit & District Historical Society
Independent Order of Rechabites Koroit Branch Sash, belonging to William Anderson of "Rosemount"
Information on William Anderson http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/anderson-william-2885william anderson, rosemount, independent order of rechabites, rechabites, sash, koroit -
Eltham District Historical Society Inc
Negative - Photograph, J.A. McDonald, Hurstbridge Water Scheme, 11 May 1961
Showing layout of weir http://wikimapia.org/10473910/Running-Creek-ReservoirRecord of various Shire of Eltham infrastructure works undertaken during the period of 1952-1962 involving bridge and road reconstruction projects, sometimes with Eltham Shire Council Project Reference numbers quoted. It was during this period that a number of significant improvements were made to roads and new bridges constructed within the shire that remain in place as of present day (2022). In many situations, the photos provide a tangible visible record of infrastructure that existed throughout the early days of the Shire. The album was put together by or under the direction of the Shire Engineer, J.A. McDonald.infrastructure, road construction, shire of eltham, 1961-05-11, hurstbridge water scheme -
South West Healthcare
Hospital Employee Federation Badge, Brim, Nurse Badges, 20th Century
Hospital Employee Federation (1959 - 1991) http://www.atua.org.au/biogs/ALE0569b.htmMetal and enamel brooch with pin fastener.Face:"HOSPITAL EMPLOYEES FEDERATION" Reverse:"BRIM / MELB"nurse badges, hospital employee federation, health service trade union -
Ballarat and District Irish Association
Image, Land League Committee Meeting, Dublin, 1864
The Irish National Land League (Irish: Conradh na Talún) was an Irish political organisation of the late 19th century which sought to help poor tenant farmers. Its primary aim was to abolish landlordism in Ireland and enable tenant farmers to own the land they worked on. The period of the Land League's agitation is known as the Land War. Within decades of the league's foundation, through the efforts of William O'Brien and George Wyndham (a descendant of Lord Edward FitzGerald), the 1902 Land Conference produced the Land (Purchase) Act 1903 which allowed Irish tenant farmers buy out their freeholds with UK government loans over 68 years through the Land Commission (an arrangement that has never been possible in Britain itself). For agricultural labourers, D.D. Sheehan and the Irish Land and Labour Association secured their demands from the Liberal government elected in 1905 to pass the Labourers (Ireland) Act 1906, and the Labourers (Ireland) Act 1911, which paid County Councils to build over 40,000 new rural cottages, each on an acre of land. By 1914, 75% of occupiers were buying out their landlords, mostly under the two Acts. In all, under the pre-UK Land Acts over 316,000 tenants purchased their holdings amounting to 15 million acres (61,000 km2) out of a total of 20 million acres (81,000 km2) in the country. Sometimes the holdings were described as "uneconomic", but the overall sense of social justice was undeniable. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irish_National_Land_League, accessed 21 January 2014) The Irish National Land League was founded at the Imperial Hotel in Castlebar, the County town of Mayo, on 21 October 1879. At that meeting Charles Stewart Parnell was elected president of the league. Andrew Kettle, Michael Davitt, and Thomas Brennan were appointed as honorary secretaries. This united practically all the different strands of land agitation and tenant rights movements under a single organisation. The two aims of the Land League, as stated in the resolutions adopted in the meeting, were: ...first, to bring out a reduction of rack-rents; second, to facilitate the obtaining of the ownership of the soil by the occupiers. That the object of the League can be best attained by promoting organisation among the tenant-farmers; by defending those who may be threatened with eviction for refusing to pay unjust rents; by facilitating the working of the Bright clauses of the Irish Land Act during the winter; and by obtaining such reforms in the laws relating to land as will enable every tenant to become owner of his holding by paying a fair rent for a limited number of years. Charles Stewart Parnell, John Dillon, Michael Davitt, and others including Cal Lynn then went to America to raise funds for the League with spectacular results. Branches were also set up in Scotland, where the Crofters Party imitated the League and secured a reforming Act in 1886. The government had introduced the first ineffective Land Act in 1870, then the equally inadequate Acts of 1880 and 1881 followed. These established a Land Commission that started to reduce some rents. Parnell together with all of his party lieutenants, including Father Eugene Sheehy known as "the Land League priest", went into a bitter verbal offensive and were imprisoned in October 1881 under the Irish Coercion Act in Kilmainham Jail for "sabotaging the Land Act", from where the No-Rent Manifesto was issued, calling for a national tenant farmer rent strike which was partially followed. Although the League discouraged violence, agrarian crimes increased widely. Typically a rent strike would be followed by evictions by the police, or those tenants paying rent would be subject to a local boycott by League members. Where cases went to court, witnesses would change their stories, resulting in an unworkable legal system. This in turn led on to stronger criminal laws being passed that were described by the League as "Coercion Acts". The bitterness that developed helped Parnell later in his Home Rule campaign. Davitt's views were much more extreme, seeking to nationalise all land, as seen in his famous slogan: "The land of Ireland for the people of Ireland". Parnell aimed to harness the emotive element, but he and his party preferred for tenant farmers to become freeholders on the land they rented, instead of land being vested in "the people".(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irish_National_Land_League, accessed 21 January 2014)Image of a number of men sitting around a table. They are members of the Land League Committee during a meeting in Dublin.ballarat irish, land league, land league committee, dublin -
Eltham District Historical Society Inc
Photograph, Ardean Park, 315 Flat Rock Rd, Hurstbridge
Sold by Fletchers 3 Dec 2015 for $1.26m. See https://www.realestate.com.au/sold/property-house-vic-hurstbridge-121193850 Google Streetview Feb 2014 https://www.google.com.au/maps/@-37.6455525,145.2071828,3a,49.4y,333.82h,88.64t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sr2PfMo3UeXV_fqSDYToiuA!2e0!7i13312!8i6656Roll of 35mm colour negative film, 2 stripsKodak GA 100 5095shire of eltham, roads, flatrock road, hurstbridge, ardean park, cowan -
Flagstaff Hill Maritime Museum and Village
Domestic object - Brush, 20th Century
A broom is a cleaning tool. It consists of stiff fibres attached to, and roughly parallel to, a cylindrical handle, the broomstick. In the context of witchcraft, "broomstick" is likely to refer to the broom as a whole. A smaller whisk broom or brush is sometimes called a duster. History of broom design Brooms have changed very much in their construction, since they developed from ad-hoc use of branches and bundles of several natural fibres. Originally, all brooms were round, a shape that is easy to construct but inefficient for actually sweeping. Brooms could be attached to a handle, either short for a whisk broom, or long for a broom used to sweep the floor or fireplace. The word for the tool was originally besom, broom simply being the material of which it was normally made. The fibres used in modern brooms are from broom corn. They are long, straight, durable, and bound together in the plant. The newest major change is the flat broom, invented by the Shakers in the 1800s, which has far more width for pushing dirt and nearly all brooms produced today are flat brooms. https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/BroomThis object is an example of how a simple material can be turned into a useful item.Brush of plaited green & orange coloured rope like material. Brush section is like taffeta, blonde.None.flagstaff hill, warrnambool, shipwrecked-coast, flagstaff-hill, flagstaff-hill-maritime-museum, maritime-museum, shipwreck-coast, flagstaff-hill-maritime-village, brush, broom, rope -
Ringwood and District Historical Society
Painting - Oil, Charles Wheeler, Orchard In Wantirna Road - oil on board. Unsigned, reportedly by Charles Wheeler (1881-1977), c.1900
Charles Wheeler biography link http://www.portrait.gov.au/people/charles-wheeler-1881 Painted by a prominent artist. Refer to Sir Ronald East's history of the Greenwood family pp. 336-371, noteably page 343 that mentions about Henrietta Carr, only daughter on George F. Carr, who married AV Greenwood in 1896. Also reference to The Wattle Club pp. 356-7. Thus giving the connection of the Greenwood and Carr families, the subjects of Charles Wheeler's painting.Painting in glass-fronted frame.Typewritten notation behind the frame - "Greenwood oral family history says that this unsigned painting was done by Charles Wheeler as a demonstration for Rose Greenwood, (A.V. Greenwood's sister). They shared a studio at the Wattle Club Hall at Box Hill circa 1890s. The subject matter was said to be Grandfather Carr's orchard in Wantirna Road (Ringwood - Still standing in 2003). Source: Mary Greenwood, youngest Granddaughter of A.V. Greenwood." -
South West Healthcare
Hospital Employee Federation Badge, Swan & Hudson, Nurse Badges, 20th Century
Hospital Emplyee Fedration of Australia (1959-1991) http://www.atua.org.au/biogs/ALE0569b.htmMetal and enamel brooch with pin fastener.Face: "HOSPITAL EMPLOYEES FEDERATION" Reverse: "SWAN & HUDSON" nurse badges, hospital employee federation, health service trade union -
Flagstaff Hill Maritime Museum and Village
Domestic object - Iron
Before the introduction of electricity, irons were heated by combustion, either in a fire or with some internal arrangement. An "electric flatiron" was invented by American Henry Seely White and patented on June 6, 1882. It weighed almost 15 pounds (6.8 kg) and took a long time to heat. The UK Electricity Association is reported to have said that an electric iron with a carbon arc appeared in France in 1880, but this is considered doubtful. Two of the oldest sorts of iron were either containers filled with a burning substance, or solid lumps of metal which could be heated directly. Metal pans filled with hot coals were used for smoothing fabrics in China in the 1st century BC. A later design consisted of an iron box which could be filled with hot coals, which had to be periodically aerated by attaching a bellows. In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, there were many irons in use that were heated by fuels such as kerosene, ethanol, whale oil, natural gas, carbide gas (acetylene, as with carbide lamps), or even gasoline. Some houses were equipped with a system of pipes for distributing natural gas or carbide gas to different rooms in order to operate appliances such as irons, in addition to lights. Despite the risk of fire, liquid-fuel irons were sold in U.S. rural areas up through World War II. In Kerala in India, burning coconut shells were used instead of charcoal, as they have a similar heating capacity. This method is still in use as a backup device, since power outages are frequent. Other box irons had heated metal inserts instead of hot coals. From the 17th century, sadirons or sad irons (from Middle English "sad", meaning "solid", used in English through the 1800s[4]) began to be used. They were thick slabs of cast iron, triangular and with a handle, heated in a fire or on a stove. These were also called flat irons. A laundry worker would employ a cluster of solid irons that were heated from a single source: As the iron currently in use cooled down, it could be quickly replaced by a hot one. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clothes_ironThis iron is typical of the clothes iron used before electric irons superseded it.Salter iron no. 6, painted black but with rust showing through. Salter iron no. 6.flagstaff hill, warrnambool, shipwrecked-coast, flagstaff-hill, flagstaff-hill-maritime-museum, maritime-museum, shipwreck-coast, flagstaff-hill-maritime-village, iron, clothes, laundry -
City of Greater Bendigo - Civic Collection
Newspaper, Shire of Marong, Upfront, c 1989
Marong was first incorporated as a road district on 27 August 1861, and became a shire on 23 December 1864. On 1 October 1915, the Borough of Raywood, which was gazetted on 17 January 1865 on 23.31 square kilometres of land 28 kilometres north of Bendigo was united with Marong. On 1 October 1990, the Shire of Marong became a rural city, under the Local Government Act 1989. In a report on 17 February 1994, the Local Government Board recommended that the five councils in the Bendigo region merge to form a "super city", with a population of about 81,000. Marong, Eaglehawk and Huntly had earlier objected to the proposal, and the Board noted a weak no vote against the merger proposal in a referendum in the region; about 70% had voted against, but with a turnout of between 30% and 40% of eligible voters. The three councils filed a writ in the Supreme Court, alleging failure to follow process by the Minister for Local Government, Roger Hallam, but by the time the new "super city" was announced, the writ had not yet been heard, and on 24 March 1994, the Rural City of Marong successfully applied for an injunction blocking the publication of the gazette the following day abolishing the five councils and appointing three commissioners. The government responded by introducing legislation, the City of Greater Bendigo Bill 1994, to Parliament, to effectively override the Supreme Court action, with Hallam saying "the bill would make clear that the Government is determined to achieve its objective for a more efficient municipal structure for the Bendigo region." Marong mayor Robert Hynes described the action as "terribly disappointing", adding, "One way or another, I believe it does mean an end to our fight... it seems the Government are above the law to me." On 6 April 1994, Marong voted to drop the Supreme Court action, effectively in doing so voting itself out of existence, and on 7 April 1994, the Rural City of Marong was abolished, and along with the City of Bendigo, the Borough of Eaglehawk and the Shires of Huntly and Strathfieldsaye, was merged into the newly created City of Greater Bendigo. On 29 April 1994, the Minister confirmed the Bill was not being proceeded with. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rural_City_of_MarongEight page newspaper style council newsletter providing community updates, news and information. shire of marong, city of greater bendigo amalgamation, councillor phillip eddy, rural city of marong