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Phillip Island and District Historical Society Inc.
Photograph, Early 20th Century
One of 20 photographs/postcards donated by Mary KarneyBlack & White copy of postcard. View taken from San Remo overlooking township across the water to Newhaven, with Churchill Island and Rhyll in the background."Overlooking San Remo, Newhaven, Churchill Island; Rhyll in the distance. 285"san remo, newhaven phillip island, churchill island, rhyll phillip island, mary karney -
Glenelg Shire Council Cultural Collection
Postcard - Postcard - Nelson, Victoria, n.d
Coloured photo postcard, aerial view of Nelson, Victoria, showing the bridge, township and river mouth. Rose Series De Luxe colorview NO 1213Back: Maker details. 'Aerial view of Nelson Victoria'postcard, nelson -
Kiewa Valley Historical Society
Map - Kiewa Hydro Electric Works Area
An early map of the Kiewa Hydro Electric Scheme Works Area prepared by the SECV for use when requesting access to the area. The regulations are printed regarding permits.During construction of the KHES there were restrictions on access to the area. This map identifies the land marks and states the regulations for entry to the area.Black and white map folded into three showing a legend with the townships, camps, gates and dams marked.Also indicating the roads, rivers, mountains and infrastructure of the KHES. khes works area, map of khes -
Kiewa Valley Historical Society
Photos x53 - Ewan Stebbins Collection
Photos were digitized (instead of printed) onto CDs for preservation, easy storage and enabling multiple copies.These photos are a record of the early days of the Kiewa Hydro Electric Scheme including the town of Mt Beauty in the late 1940s to early 1950s Bronwyn Gray inherited these photos of Mt Beauty and the construction of the KHES. Her uncle Ewan Stebbins puchased a piece of furniture from a garage sale in Boston Rd., Torquay in 1981. The developed film were photos of Mt Beauty and surrounding area. He was an SEC employee and knew the area well.Case is hard plastic, black on the back and clear on the front. The 53 black and white photos are of Mt Beauty township and the Kiewa Hydro Electric Scheme. On the CD in black texta: "Mt Beauty / Film found in / furniture from house / in Boston Rd. / Torquay in 1981" Added in blue texta: "MTB 001 - MTB 053"mt beauty c1949, bogong c1949, stebbins photo collection -
Federation University Historical Collection
Image, Batman's Map of Port Phillip
Scanned from "The Old Pioneers' Memorial History of Melbourne From the Discovery of Port Phillip to the World War". It is a facsimile map from the House of Commons Reports of Committee.John Batman's map of Port Phillip showing Dutigalla (Batman's Tract), a township reserve, open plains, public common reserve, fresh water"A tract of country [called?] by the native chief of Southern Ausralia to be John Batman 6th June 1935."port phillip bay, john batman, melbourne, iramoo, r. sarsh, river sarsh, river batman, yarra river -
Lakes Entrance Regional Historical Society (operating as Lakes Entrance History Centre & Museum)
Postcard, 1908
Message on reverse: From Mabel at Tarnagulla to Zilpah Westerson at Clifcrest CunninghameBlack and white postcard showing buildings around shore line, ferry docked at business wharfe , steam train around bay , township in distancetourism -
Lakes Entrance Regional Historical Society (operating as Lakes Entrance History Centre & Museum)
Book, Maddern I T, Shire of Rosedale Centenary 1871-1971, 1971
The history of the Rosedale Shire written for the centenary in 1971 includes history of the township schools churches cemetery and the original settlers who developed this region of Victoria.township, settlers -
Lakes Entrance Regional Historical Society (operating as Lakes Entrance History Centre & Museum)
Postcard, H D Bulmer, 1910 c
Black and white postcard taken from the hummocks looking across one of the low islands and the Snowy River showing view of the township of Marlo Victoriawaterways, jetties, boats and boating -
Clunes Museum
Photograph, KODAK, 1999
VIEW OF POWDER MAGAZINE USED IN MINING DAYS TO STORE EXPLOSIVES. BUILDING MATERIALS SOLID BRICKCOLOURED REPRINT PHOTOGRAPH OF POWDER MAGAZINE INTERIOR. SITUATED IN A PADOCK ON SMEATON ROAD APPROX. 2 KM. FROM TOWNSHIP ON LEFT HAND SIDE.local history, photographs, mining, powder magazine -
Clunes Museum
Negative - NEGATIVES, Mar-00
COLLECTION OF NEGATIVES -CLUNES TOWN HALL & COURT HOUSE, CLUNES HOSPITAL, CLUNES IN THE 60S, TOWNSHIP OF CLUNES FROM THE ROCKS , BUTTER FACTORY CLUNES.CLUNES BOROUGH COUNCIL ELECTED COUNCILLOR 28/8/1930.MAYOR 1934-35. HORNSBY STUDIO BALLARAT.photography, photography, negatives -
Clunes Museum
Photograph, J. BAWDEN PHOTOGRAPHER STUDIO FRASER STREET, CLUNES, CIRCA 1890
TULLAROOP CREEK FROM "ROCKS" NEAR SITE OF PORT PHILLIP MINE. ABOUT 1890 - NOTE GOVERNMENT BRIDGE IN DISTANCE. THIS WAS REBUILT IN STRAIGHT STEEL GIRDERS IN 1896.ORIGINAL SEPIA PHOTOGRAPH OF TULLAROOP CREEK, IN FOREGROUND VIEWS OF CLUNES TOWNSHIP. TWO MILE HILL IN LEFT FAR DISTANCE. (SUSPENSION BRIDGE IN FOREGROUND)local history, photography, bridges - buildings and landscape of clunes -
Lakes Entrance Regional Historical Society (operating as Lakes Entrance History Centre & Museum)
Photograph, 1960c
Copied from postcardColour photograph aerial view of the township, shows also Cunninghame Arm, the hummocks and distant view of Bullock Island and the entrance. Lakes Entrance Victoriaislands, jetties, memorials, hotels -
Southern Sherbrooke Historical Society Inc.
Postcard - Postcard-original-Beauty Bend, Belgrave, Vic. c. early 1930s, Beauty Bend
Sepia-toned postcard featuring Beauty Bend just outside Belgrave Township on Monbulk Road. There is heavy bush to either side. A house is in the distance. -
Wodonga & District Historical Society Inc
Album - Hume Reservoir Australia Album - Workmen's Dwellings during Hume Reservoir construction, Department of Public Works, N.S.W, C. 1927
This set of photos is from a leather bound album bearing the inscription "HUME RESERVOIR AUSTRALIA" plus 'The Rt. Hon. L. C. M. S. Amery, P. C., M .P.' all inscribed in gold. It was presented to The Rt. Hon. L. C. M. S. Amery, P. C., M. P, Secretary of State for Dominion Affairs on the occasion of his visit to the Hume Reservoir on 2nd November 1927. This album is of local and national significance as it documents the planning and development of the Hume Reservoir up to 1927. It was the largest water reservoir in the British Empire. The album records the pioneering engineering work that went into its construction.DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC WORKS, N.S.W. RIVER MURRAY WATERS SCHEME. HUME RESERVOIR. 8. Types of Workmen's Dwellings in the New South Wales Township. hume reservoir australia, river murray waters scheme, workmen's dwellings hume -
Ringwood and District Historical Society
Photograph, Heathmont Youth Club Fair Stall 1955
Written on back of photograph, "'Mail' 8/12/1955 - Heathmont Youth Club Fair. Plenty of eager customers at the sweet stall." -
Whittlesea Historical Society Inc.
Photograph, Evan Meades, Mill Park, Aug 1988
One of a series of photographs taken in 1988-1989 around the Shire of Whittlesea by Evan Meades.Print copy of a photograph"Northern fringe of Mill Park Plenty Road, 300 metres Nth of new Telecom building, looking west Aug 88"evan meades collection, plenty road, mill park, mill park estate, plenty road mill park, red gum tree -
Warrnambool and District Historical Society Inc.
Document - Alexander Gibson McPherson Letters of Administration 1884, 1884
Tait collection: item 35 of 62 This is a document giving details of the Letters of Administration following the death of Alexander Gibson McPherson, a farmer of Rochester, Victoria, in December 1883. He died intestate and left an estate worth £215. The beneficiary was his sister, Mary Wright of Somerton. No other details are available on Alexander McPherson. The lawyer in the case was Ernest Chambers who had legal offices in Port Fairy, Warrnambool and Koroit at the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century. This document was in his possession at his Warrnambool office and passed down to successive lawyers occupying legal premises in Kepler Street. The document was found in the same building, the former premises of the legal firm, Mackay Taylor, where it was located in 2014 and handed over to the Warrnambool and District Historical Society.This document is only of interest as being originally in the possession of Ernest Chambers, a lawyer who was in Warrnambool for several years at the end of the 19th century. No connection between Warrnambool and Alexander McPherson has been found. This is a cream-coloured sheet of parchment paper, folded twice. It contains hand written material in brown ink giving details of the Letters of Administration following the death of Alexander McPherson of Rochester in 1883. A seal of the Supreme Court of Victoria is attached with a green ribbon and it has ,a black stamp of the Master in Equity of the Supreme Court of Victoria. One page has been ruled at the edges with brown lines. The writing is somewhat faded but the document is legible. In the Supreme Court of the Colony of Victoria in its probate jurisdiction in the Estate of Alexander Gibson McPherson late of Rochester in the Colony of Victoria Farmer a bachelor deceasedalexander mcpherson, ernest chambers, warrnambool, tait collection -
Lakes Entrance Regional Historical Society (operating as Lakes Entrance History Centre & Museum)
Photograph, Gippsland Ports, 2006 c
Colour aerial photograph showing Shaving Point at Metung including Chinamans Creek at the right housing subdivisions of Kingscove Estate Tambo Bluff Estate and Lake King on Gippsland Lakes Victoriaaerial photograph, topography, the entrance, waterways -
Warrnambool and District Historical Society Inc.
Document - Alexander F Cameron Letters of Administration 1887, 1887
This document concerns the estate of Alexander Florida Cameron, a seedsman from Melbourne in the firm of Grant and Cameron of 41 Bourke Street West, Melbourne. He died intestate in 1887 and left real estate to the value of £263 and personal estate to the value of £4744. This estate was to be administered by his son, Richard Ross Cameron. Tait collection: item 8 of 62This document has no apparent local significance and is of interest only as an example of the Letters of Administration issued in the 1880s. This is a piece of cream parchment with ruled black lines and the lower edge folded back with a seal of the Supreme Court of the Colony of Victoria attached to the document by a black ribbon. The document contains handwritten material in black ink and a blue stamp from the Revenue and Pay Office and a red stamp from the Master in Equity of the Supreme Court. The document is somewhat stained but is otherwise in good condition.‘In the Supreme Court of the Colony of Victoria in its probate jurisdiction in the Estate of Alexander Florida Cameron, late of Bourke Street West in the City of Melbourne, Seed Merchant, deceased intestate, Letters of Administration, I certify that the sum of £40-7-0 duty of the within Letters of Administration has been paid, Drake and Gair, 3 St. James Buildings, 59 William Street Melbourne, Proctors. W. Ravent Stephen, Office under Section 6, Act 388, 10/6/87’alexander florida cameron, drake & gair, solicitors, warrnambool -
Hume City Civic Collection
Photograph, c late 1980s
The series of photographs show a number of sites included in the Rupertswood Estate. By 1851 William Clarke had acquired 31,375 acres of land in the Sunbury district. The foundation stone for Rupertswood Mansion was laid on 29th August 1874 by Mrs. W. J. Clarke, daughter-in-law of 'Big Bull'. The Salesian Fathers bought the Rupertswood property in June 1927 and established Salesian College.A coloured photograph of the bluestone and iron rail bridge over the Jacksons Creek on the Rupertswood Estate. One stone pylon at the top of the embankment and an iron pylon are visible along with the stone wall at the base of the embankment and part of the iron span. A post and wire fence is in the foreground.rupertswood estate, clarke, william j. t. 'big bull', salesian brothers, george evans collection -
Canterbury History Group
Ephemera - Maling's Tramway Estate, 1924
Brochure for the auction on Saturday 13 December 1924 of 40 home sites comprising Maling's Tramway Estate, Balwyn. Includes photographs of Whitehorse and Balwyn Roads corner, and two houses on the border of the estate.balwyn, malings tramway estate, land sales, land subdivision, whitehorse road, arthur tuckett & son, geo. m hume -
Ringwood and District Historical Society
Map - State Aerial Survey, Dandenong Ranges Area, Parishes of Warrandyte and Ringwood - 1956
Map of central and southern areas of Ringwood and part of Ringwood East and Heathmont compiled by Dept of Lands and Survey, July 1956, from aerial photographs and Cadastral Survey information. Subsequent hand-drawn addition of streets showing layout of "Township of Ballyduffy Estate 1858-60", an earlier proposed subdivision that did not eventuate. (See attached 5009b Ballyshanassy_ Melbourne’s lost suburb.pdf for Ballyduffy historical naming relevance). Ballyduffy Estate streets include City Road, West Prussia Road, Duffy Street, Ireland Street, Evans Street, Victoria Street, Regina Street, Short Road, Prussia Road, Duffy Street East, Ireland Street East, Evans Street East, Chapman Street. Misc Topo 93 Sheet 22, Ringwood A4B2. Scale: 4 chains to 1 inch. Contour interval 20 feet. -
Bendigo Historical Society Inc.
Document - H. A. & S. R. WILKINSON COLLECTION: CONTRACT OF SALE
Contract of sale dated 23rd August, 1957 between Mr. E. M. Hope (vendor) and Mr. L. W. & Mrs G. E. Pearmain. Solicitor for vendor: Tatchell, Dunlop, Smalley & Balmer, Williamson Street Bendigo. Solicitor for purchaser: Tatchell, Dunlop, Smalley & Balmer, Williamson Street, Bendigo. Property: Lot 5 Lindsay Street, Kangaroo Flat being lot 5 on plan of subdivision in red ink no. A167046 part of allotment 4 section 23 township of Kangaroo Flat. Price 3,200 pounds. Attached Statement pursuant to section 34 of the estate agents act 1956 and Engagement or appointment in writing pursuant to section 33 of the estate agents act 1956.organization, business, h.a. & s.r wilkinson real estate -
Ringwood and District Historical Society
Book, The Golden History of Warrandyte - Louis R. Cranfield
History of more than a 100 years from the earliest days of the discovery of gold and the setting up of a mining camp through to the transition of becoming a thriving township -
Bendigo Historical Society Inc.
Newspaper - JENNY FOLEY COLLECTION: BENDIGO SUBURB
Bendigo Advertiser ''The way we were'' from 2000. Bendigo suburb: township of Long Gully, Ironbark Hill in the distance; date unknown. The clip is in a folder.newspaper, bendigo advertiser, the way we were -
Bendigo Historical Society Inc.
Map - PROPOSED TOWNSHIP PARISH OF CAMPASPE, 24th May 1875
Map: Proposed Township, Parish of Campaspe(This has been crossed out and 'Creek View' written above). Hand Draughted Parish plan Stapled to the backingmap, township, proposed township, campaspe, creek view -
Clunes Museum
Map, FENTON CHARLES, 1987
TRANSPARENT PLASTIC SHEET WITH A MAP OF CLUNES TOWNSHIP DRAWN IN BLACK WITH TINY WHITE STICKERS DENOTING POINTS OF INTEREST, MOUNTED TO BROWN PAPER AND PINNED IN PLACE ON REVERSE OF BROWN PAPER WRITTEN IN BLACK IN "CLUNES 1987 TRACINGS"clunes 1987, clunes township map -
Tatura Irrigation & Wartime Camps Museum
Book, Warwick Finlay, The Doctor, The Captain, The Poet and Others, 2004
This book was printed to commemorate the 150th Anniversary of the survey, naming of the town and sale of land at Murchison.Black and white cover featuring the Goulburn River and portraits of Doctor McMillan, Captain John Murchison and Orion Horne over and early plan of Murchison Townshipmurchison -
Lakes Entrance Regional Historical Society (operating as Lakes Entrance History Centre & Museum)
Postcard, 1915 c
Black and white postcard showing SS Gippsland in Cunninghame Arm opposite New Works houses and works buildings with township in background Lakes Entrance Victoriaships and shipping, jetties -
Clunes Museum
Photograph, BAWDEN - PHOTOGRAPHER, CLUNES, VICTORIA
SEPIA POSTCARD / PHOTOGRAPH - OVERVIEW OF CLUNES TOWNSHIP. S.S. BANK. CLUB HOTEL, POST OFFICE, TOWNHALL, WESLEY CHURCH AND TWO MILE HILL IN BACKGROUND.TO WISH YOU ALL GOOD CHRISTMAS BLESSINGS AND A HAPPY NEW YEAR. J. PATIENCE DEC. 1907.local history, photography, photographs, clunes township