"Geelong R S & S Woollen & Worsted Co-operative Manufacturing Coy: 44th Annual Report, 1964."woollen mills - history textile mills - history, returned soldiers and sailors mill, lau, mr alexander - alexander lau pty ltd, woollen mills - history, textile mills - history

"Geelong R S & S Woollen & Worsted Co-operative Manufacturing Coy: 45th Annual Report, 1965"woollen mills - history textile mills - history, returned soldiers and sailors mill, lau, mr alexander - alexander lau pty ltd, woollen mills - history, textile mills - history

"Geelong R S & S Woollen & Worsted Co-operative Manufacturing Coy: 46th Annual Report, 1966"woollen mills - history textile mills - history, returned soldiers and sailors mill, lau, mr alexander - alexander lau pty ltd, woollen mills - history, textile mills - history

"Geelong R S & S Woollen & Worsted Co-operative Manufacturing Coy: 47th Annual Report, 1967"woollen mills - history textile mills - history, returned soldiers and sailors mill, lau, mr alexander - alexander lau pty ltd, woollen mills - history, textile mills - history

"Geelong R S & S Woollen & Worsted Co-operative Manufacturing Coy: 49th Annual Report, 1969"woollen mills - history textile mills - history, returned soldiers and sailors mill, lau, mr alexander - alexander lau pty ltd, woollen mills - history, textile mills - history

"Geelong R S & S Woollen & Worsted Co-operative Manufacturing Coy: 50th Annual Report, 1970"Back coverwoollen mills - history textile mills - history, returned soldiers and sailors mill, lau, mr alexander - alexander lau pty ltd, woollen mills - history, textile mills - history

"Geelong R S & S Woollen & Worsted Co-operative Manufacturing Coy: 51st Annual Report, 1971"woollen mills - history textile mills - history, returned soldiers and sailors mill, lau, mr alexander - alexander lau pty ltd, woollen mills - history, textile mills - history

"Geelong R S & S Woollen & Worsted Co-operative Manufacturing Coy: 52nd Annual Report, 1972"woollen mills - history textile mills - history, returned soldiers and sailors mill, lau, mr alexander - alexander lau pty ltd, woollen mills - history, textile mills - history

Main Street Stawell looking West including Town Hall Shops and Motor Vehicles c 1960's. This photo was taken by M. Robson before being donated to the society. The photo of Main St. was taken before it was made into a Mall, now know as "Gold Reef Mall". The street reopened to traffic in 2005.Black & white photograph of Main St Stawell looking towards the Grampians. The view includes the Town Hall & Bank of Australia on the right, with shops either side and two vehicles travelling along the road with vehicles parked along the street c 1960's.stawell business streetscape

Wedding photograph of Alan and Marg Giles, bridesmaid on left and best man, Jack Rathgeber. Late 1940's early 1950's

Book - 130? pages - A4 - perfect bound with black binding tape on outside, colour printed card covers titled "Time-line history of Melbourne's Government Cable and Electric Trams and Buses", prepared by Barry George, Don Storey, John Birch with photographs by Ray Marsh. Gives a timeline history of Melbourne's government (with some private, VR) tramway and bus transport from 1868 to 1 October 1997 when the PTC was corporatised. Also gives opening and closing dates for each electric and cable line. Provides information on events on specific and approx. dates. See also Reg Item 840 for a similar 2003 document by Don Storey. See images 3 for pdf file - word searchable when opened as a separate file. timeline"Mike Ryan" in ink on top left hand corner of first page.trams, tramways, melbourne, history, mmtb, the met, ptc, cable trams, history

A Group photograph of construction workers - circa 1930's g.o.r; construction-work-circa-1930's;

Yields information about the fate of ESCo No. 3 after it was sold as a body in the 1930's - located somewhere in a backyard in the Ballarat district.Copy negative of a black and white photograph from Ray Pearson Collection, taken by Dave Macartney in 1975c of Ballarat No. 3 (ESCo) body in a backyard somewhere in the Ballarat district 1946. See Reg Item 5131 for a scan of the original negative and date.trams, tramways, esco, tramcar bodies

Historic BuildingsB/W Photo of original photo, NE Corner Warrenheip and Learmonth Sts. 1890's Wyatt;s Eagle Hotel centre, and surrounding single story shops.buninyong, wyatt's eagle hotel

Black and White photograph of grinder car 10 or 10W westbound in Victoria Parade late 1960's or early 1970's Shows the hedges that lined this section of track and a tram stop shelter at about Clarendon St East Melbourne.trams, tramways, victoria parade, grinder, shelters, tram stops, service tramcars, tram 10, tram 10w

TRACK OF THE YEARS. The Story of St.Arnaud by Yvonne S Palmer had aroused local interest when this book was presented in 1955.The fortunes of this prosperous community, whose origins go back to the excitement of of the New Bendigo gold-rush, gleaned from an unusual wealth of reminiscences,diaries, letters, newspapers and photograph albums, are now placed permanently on record in this fascinating narrative. Contents: The New Bendigo Goldrush, Pastoral Settlement, The Aborigines of the Eastern Wimmera, A Permanent Goldrush, The Township Surveyed, Councils at Work 1861- 1870, Local Government in the District. 1861-1870. Sons of the Antipodes, Diggers in Townsmen, Daughters and Wives, Companies and Miners, Mining Settlements, Increasing Needs, Not by Bread Alone, The beginning of Farming, The Changing Countryside, A New St.Arnaud has Come, Deep Sinking and Dividends, Fewer farmers- Larger farms, Pride but not Complacency.Track of The Years by Yvonne S. Palmer. The Story of St.Arnaud. Hardcover book, blue cover with black and white photograph on the dustcover.Includes photographs and maps.308 pages, 1st Edition.1st Edition Published by Melbourne University Press in 1955. 308 pages.

Postcard size colour photograph'Written on back of photograph" E S & A Bank - Maroondah Highway Ringwood -circa 1960's

Historic BuildingsB/W Photo North side Warrenheip St. 1970's, looking east towards Mount Buninyong down service road, corner shop to supermarketbuninyong, learmonth st., corner shop

Historic BuildingsB/W Photo Eyre Street, looking west from Warrenheip St in 1980's, corner shop built by Newman, Chemist is now Antique shop. buninyong, warrenheip st, eyre street, edward charles newman, antique store

This series of photographs captures life at sea and the conditions on the ship M/S "Mongabarra" in 1950. This photograph was reproduced and exhibited by the Mission to Seafarers as part of the exhibition "Letters from Abroad" in 2012.This photograph is part of the Allan Quinn collection, which is a pictorial autobiography, and it represents one of many moments of his time abroad as a seafarer.Black and white photograph of the M/S "Mongabarra" Goteborg in Eriksbergs dockyard, Gothenburg, Sweden. The ship is directly in the middle of the photograph taking from the very front of the ship in the dry-dock. There are several ladders lined up along the left-hand side of the ship beginning from the ships front. There are several wooden planks lying on the ground in front of the ship and walls either side of the ship.ship, sweden, mongabarra, allan quinn collection, allan quinn, gothenburg, drydock, shipyard, dockyard, eriksbergs, letters-from-abroad

Used as an illustration in, "Green Grows Our Garden, A.P. Winzenried p21. The caption reads, "Students in the garden. Iron-tyred wheelbarrows made at Pentridge Prison, were used at Burnley until the 1940's." 50 foot circular bed on right. 2 copies of a black and white photograph, original in Burnley Campus Rare Books Collection. 4 students working in the Ornamental Garden near the Californian Redwood (Sequoia sempervirens). One holding a watering can and one holding a wooden wheelbarrow.On reverse of 1 copy, "Burnley Gardens c 1890's The trees are still in Burnley Gardens." On reverse of other copy, "from Prize Essays" B91.457 A.E. Bennett a group following p116." green grows our garden, a.p. winzenried, pentridge prison, iron-tyred wheelbarrows, 50 foot circular bed, students working outside, wheelbarrow, watering can, californiann redwood, sequoia sempervirans, ornamental garden

Yields information through postcard and some photos of Ballarat during the tramway eras - provides reference photographs for researchers to find original copies.Set of 12 copy negatives, of black and white photographs of Ballarat trams and postcards from Ray Pearson Collection, taken by Dave Macartney in 1975c. Original negative held in the negative file. Scanned at 2400 dpi and cropped as necessary. Images as shown replaced by scan from the original Ray Pearson Album provided by Mal Rowe, April 2020 or that there is a better image. .1 - Rose Series postcard P4609 - looking east along south of Sturt St, late 1940's. .2 - Rose Series postcard P10050 - Bridge St looking west. - see item 8975 for the actual postcard. .3 - Line up of trams in Sturt St West, for March 1968 Vintage train. .4 - Postcards or photo folder of Craigs Hotel and the Post Office, late 1900's. .5 - Postcard with Post Office in background, with horse trams crossing. .6 - Postcard or photo folder with Sturt St and "Greetings from Ballarat" .7 - Rose Series postcard P10044 - Lydiard St south, looking North - late 1940's. See item 8978 for the actual postcard. .8 - Rose Series postcard P13492 - Lower Sturt St, north side looking east. .9 - Rose Series postcard P13493 - Sturt St, south side, lower section, looking east. .10 - Postcard with horse tram arriving Grenville St, dated 5.2.04, has a miner and farmer on the right-hand side. .11 - Postcard of train at Ballarat railway station and a large crowd of people in the photo. .12 - Postcard or photo folder of an ESCo tram in Sturt St, with a "Souvenir of United States Fleet's visit to Australia" TMSV now possibly has these albums.trams, tramways, ballarat, postcards, sturt st, bridge st, post office

Photo of crowd lining up in front of Main Street Stawell buildings near Town Hall Hotel. Prichard's Milk Bar. Taylor Draper. Town Hall Hotel. c1940's. The two story building in the center was once owned by W. Whiteside, Taylors and the Prichard's milk bar once owned by Bone, Saddler & Harness Factory. Sepia photograph of Crowd lining Main Street Stawell in the 1940's. The crowd is outside a two story building with an ornate balcony and between Prichard's Milk Bar and the Town Hall Hotel. Two people are leaning on the upstairs balcony. The crowd are all looking to the right and consist of a mixture of young and older people. Prichard's Milk Bar on one building. Taylor and Draper on another.stawell business, streetscape