Katherine "Kit" Primrose Mactier (nee Wilson). Date unknown.tatura, mactier k, locals, costume, female

Phonograph record, black shellac with red "His Master's Voice" label. A&B sides: Primrose Selection Part 1 & Part 2. Artist: Mayfair Orchestra.Cat. No. C 1180

A separator is a centrifugal device that separates milk into cream and skimmed milk. Separation was commonly performed on farms in the past where farmers milked a few cows, usually by hand, and separated by letting milk sit in a container until the cream floated to the top when it could be skimmed off by hand. Some of the skimmed milk was consumed while the rest was used to feed calves and pigs. Enough cream was saved to make butter, and the excess was sold. Manual rotation of the separator handle turns a mechanism which causes the separator bowl to spin at thousands of revolutions per minute. When spun, the heavier milk is pulled outward against the walls of the separator and the cream, which is lighter, collects in the middle. The cream and milk then flow out of separate spouts. Montgomery Ward was founded by Aaron Montgomery Ward in 1872.as a mail-order business in Chicago, Illinois USA. Rural customers were attracted by the wide selection of items that were unavailable to them locally and were also inspired by the innovative company policy of "satisfaction guaranteed or your money back".This milk separator is typical of the type used by early settlers in Moorabbin Shire where every family owned a 'house cow' to supply their dairy needs. Households also kept a few chickens for eggs and developed a vegetable garden with additional fruit trees. A 'primrose' manual milk separator 'Montgomery Ward', Chicago USA c1900'primrose ' / SATTLEY / MONTGOMERY WARD/ CHICAGOearly settlers, dairy farmers, milk products, dairies, market gardeners, blacksmiths, tools, moorabbin shire, bentleigh, mckinnon, highett, cheltenham, moorabbin

The Speedie electric jug is a classic piece of Australian domestic appliance history, known for its distinctive ceramic body and early electric heating design. This is rare piece as it is in new condition including electrical cord and box. A primrose color electric jug with box and electrical cord. A page of the Hearld Sun dated 21st January 1968 is inside the jug.Speedie Electric Jug J1 Colour Primrose Cat No J1 Volts 240 Watts 1600electric jug, jug, sunshine potteries

Hardcover w/ Dust Jacketwalsh st library

Softcoverwalsh st library

Index, p.256.non-fictionThe final years of Napoleonnapoleon emporer of the french - captivity, napoleon 1769-1821

This knitting pattern book was published by the Villawood Textile Company, Sydney and contains knitting patterns for baby clothes.Villawool / KNITTING BOOK / No. 64 / "PRIMROSE" See p. 8 / 1'6knitting handicrafts - history, villawood textile company, knitting, handicrafts - history

Nunawading Gazette advertisement for Springfield Heights Estate; cnr Springfield Road and Primrose Street, Blackburn.Springfield Heights Estate; cnr Springfield Road and Primrose Street, Blackburn.springfield heights estate, springfield road, blackburn north, primrose street, springfield holdings property developments, residential development

Vitclay Chimneys prior to demolition in 1995. Springfield Road, Blackburn North, looking West from Primrose Street.vitclay, springfield road, blackburn north, potteries, clay industries

Vitclay Chimney, prior to demolition in 1995. Springfield Road, Blackburn North, looking West from Primrose Street.vitclay, springfield road, blackburn north, potteries, clay industries

Duplicate from the Collection of Pat McGenniskin. Donated via Barbara Ballantyne. Mary Card design published in June 1928 issue of Everylady's Journal. See reference for pattern location. White circular Doily with Evening Primrose flower as the centre and outer border. Central flower surrounded by four butterflies. filet crochet, mary card

Vitclay Chimney, prior to demolition in 1995, with demolished shed in foreground. Springfield Road, Blackburn North, looking South from Primrose Street.vitclay, springfield road, blackburn north, potteries, clay industries

Vitclay Chimney, prior to Demolition in 1995, surrounded by demolished sheds. Springfield Road, Blackburn North, looking West from Primrose Street.vitclay, springfield road, blackburn north, potteries, clay industries

Vitclay Chimneys, prior to demolition in 1995, with demolished shed in foreground. Springfield Road, Blackburn North, looking South-West from Primrose Street.vitclay, springfield road, blackburn north, potteries, clay industries

Vitclay Chimneys, prior to demolition in 1995, with demolished sheds in foreground. Springfield Road, Blackburn North, looking South-West from Primrose Street.vitclay, springfield road, blackburn north, potteries, clay industries

Purchased from Miss E MacMillan, The Primrose Pottery shop who obtained it from an Hungarian refugee.White lawn applied to machine made net with "blind hemming". The design is based on traditional work from southern Europe. The edge of the mat is scalloped in buttonhole stitch.mats, 1940-60, hungary, applique

From Barbara Ballantyne's own personal collection. White Doily made of five wedge-shaped pieces worked separately then joined together to form a circular doily, with five gentle points beneath which are Primrose flowers. mary card, filet crochet

The Northern District School of Nursing opened in 1950 in to address the issues around nurse recruitment, training and education that had previously been hospital based. The residential school was to provide theoretical and in-house education and practical training over three years. The students would also receive practical hands-on training in the wards of associated hospitals. The Northern District School of Nursing operated from Lister House, Rowan Street, Bendigo. It was the first independent school of nursing in Victoria and continued until it closed in 1989.Staff of the Berega Mission hospital in Tanzania in nurses uniform (primrose colour) donated from Australia - colour photo. At the end of the back row is the hospital administrator, and a very good one.ndsn, nursing, lister house, berga mission tanzanier, bendigo

The evening bag belonged to Miss Love who bequeathed it to Catherine Primrose Mary Mactier (nee Wilson). Miss Love died in 1950 aged 88 years.Crocheted lime green with a white metal clasp and chain. Embroidered with white metal beads in a circular pattern front and back, Beading on lower edge.

Note from collector- "For more than 100 years blankets were made all over Australia in over 100 woollen mills. My aim, is to preserve 100 examples of these wonderful pieces of history. Ten years ago I started collecting the iconic Onkaparinga travel rugs, so that on movie nights at home there would be plenty to go around. Everyone had their favourite; even the cat had his own – a small red tartan one. Keeping an eye out for those travel rugs at op-shops and markets, collectable stores and bazaars, led to noticing vintage blankets. I'd never really thought about them before or paid much attention though of course I had grown up with them at my grandmother's. When I discovered my first Laconia cream blanket with blue stripes, my eyes just went gaga. Well that was it, I was hooked and since then over 500 blankets have passed through my hands. These common, everyday items, found in all households for so many decades, were traditional engagement gifts. Pairs were prized wedding presents turning into family heirlooms. They were fashionable dressers of beds, givers of warmth, bestowers of security and reliability. The comfort found in these objects resonates with almost all of us; we grew up with them ourselves or fondly recall them in a grandparent’s home. There is no modern replacement with the integrity of these old blankets, many of them now older than most of us. They are romantic, sensible, special, familiar, nostalgic and nothing else feels so appropriate in so many situations. No offense to the great Aussie doona, but from hippie to hipster, at a music festival, picnic, campsite or couch, a vintage blanket is something coveted by all. This industry that employed tens of thousands and must have been such a huge contributor to the economy is almost completely lost now. Blanket Fever is an ode to everything that came before: the land, the sheep, the shearers, the hands, the mills, the weavers, the designers, the distributors, the department stores. To the grandparents that gave them, the people that received them, the families that kept them; thank you. I’m passionate about my collection of Australian blankets manufactured in mostly Victoria, South Australia and Tasmania from the 1930s to the end of the 1960s. The collection has blankets from each of these four decades representing the styles and fashions of their time and includes dated advertisements which help determine the eras the blankets are from."Playing cards featuring Onkaparinga sales mottos and picturesOnkaparinga Pure Wool Blankets/Australia’s Best/Rugs, Blankets, Piece Goods, Men’s and Boy’s Clothing/Made from Pure Wool In White Pink Blue Green And Primrose/The Home Of The Famous Onkaparinga Pure Wool Products/White And Coloured Blankets Give Individuality And Charm/Made In Australiablanket fever, wool, playing cards, advertisements, onkaparinga

Karl Duldig’s ceramic bowl is a particularly interesting example of Karl’s ability to creatively respond to a new environment with a fresh visual repertoire, in this case, the flowering Eucalyptus in a design reminiscent of traditional European folk art. The bowl is an excellent example of the utilitarian and decorative studio pottery produced by Karl and his wife Slawa Horowitz-Duldig between 1944 and 1960. Clay was an important medium for Karl. When he was forced to flee Austria for Switzerland, working with clay became a convenient medium; and he continued to expand his use of clay in Singapore. In Australia his work in clay extended from domestic hand-made pottery to public sculptures and architectural reliefs. In 1944 Duldig purchased a kiln, which was installed in the garage of the family’s St. Kilda flat, soon after a pottery wheel was acquired. It was the beginning of a cottage industry that supplemented the family income during the war years and beyond. Duldig initially sold his decorative ceramic wares through a local florist in St. Kilda, and subsequently through shops such as the Chez Nous French Art Shop (Howey Place) and Light and Shade (Royal Arcade), and the Primrose Pottery shop in Collins Street. The Primrose Pottery shop was an extremely important commercial outlet, and hub, for emerging artists, potters and designers from 1929 until 1974. Its proprietors Edith and Betty MacMillan worked closely with their suppliers, commissioning and taking items on consignment. In the post war period important Melbourne studio potters such as Allan Lowe, Arthur Boyd, John Perceval and Neil Douglas exhibited and sold domestic wares in the Primrose Pottery shop. The Duldigs studio pottery provides a counterpoint to the ceramics produced at Arthur Merric Boyd Pottery in Murrumbeena, which was established in 1944 by Arthur Boyd, John Perceval and Peter Herbst. The emphasis on painterly decoration was important and the AMB potters also produced simple household wares decorated with Australian flora and wildlife, for example Neil Douglas also made small bowls decorated with the fairy wrens, lyrebirds, gumnuts and eucalypts. Ann Carew 2016The Duldig Studio’s collection of ceramics has national aesthetic and historic significance. It contains a representative sample of works of art in ceramics created by Karl Duldig during his lifetime, including small sculptures, as well as functional and novelty items for the tourist market during the 1956 Melbourne Olympic Games. The artist’s working methods and the development of his practice are comprehensively demonstrated in the collection. This in-situ collection demonstrates the philosophy of the Vienna Secession and its inheritors that handcrafted, simple functional domestic wares might enrich both the lives of the maker and the user. This bowl is part of a collection of ceramics that has national historic significance in providing a rich illustration of an immigrant and artistic experience, and touching on the themes of settlement adaptation of artistic practice. The collection is also associated with places of cultural and historical significance in Melbourne such as the Primrose Pottery Shop, and the story of Australian studio ceramics in the post-war years. Ann Carew 2016Cream earthenware bowl with flowering gum motif and sponged green background.Duldig in script incised under.

Early cylinders were coloured as their maker saw fit, usually black, perhaps with a white top for oxygen. The Americans first achieved standardisation, but other countries do not follow American Standards. Australia follows the colour-scheme of the British Oxygen Corporation. The body is coloured individually for each gas, viz: compressed air, grey; carbon dioxide, brown; oxygen, black; nitrous oxygen, blue’ cyclopropane, primrose-yellow’ ethylene, mauve. Panels of other colours may appear on the body, but indicate technical points of cylinder-design and do not concern the anaesthetist. (Penn catalogue entry)Empty small pale green painted cylinder with rounded base and attached outflow valve with circular 'On-Off' knob.Handwritten in red paint across the main body of the cylinder: ST. VINCENTS 32510 Printed on manufacturer's label: 'KEEP CYLINDER COOL / CIG [logo] / MADE IN AUSTRALIA / MEDICAL AIR COMPRESSED / DO NOT ALLOW OIL OR GREASE ON VALVE / OPEN VALVE SLOWLY CLOSE AFTER USEcompressed air, cylinder, colour standardisation

The company Philips Australia originated in 1926, and began manufacturing radios in the 1930s. It began mass production in its Hendon, South Australian plant in 1946. It produced valve radios, transistor models, and early television sets.Philips brand Australian made vintage valve radio model 123 circa 1950 - 1952. Dark brown mottled bakelite case with primrose coloured grille and control knobs: volume, on/off, tone and tuning are in white bakelite with grey insets. Philips emblems are in the centre of the control knobs and on the right side the radio station numbers are displayed. Stations for each state are displayed on clear perspex: SA-5, QLD-4, VIC-3, NSW-2, 6-WA, 7-TAS. Speaker grille cloth above stations display, circuit diagram sticker on rear of cabinet. Failed electrical safety inspection notice attached to electrical plug cordOn rear of cabinet: "PHILIPS MODEL 123" On electrical plug: "J.J. HOLLE PTY LTD AUSTRALIA / CAT. NO. H915 / 240V. TOTAL LOADING 10 AMPS. / UTILUX"radios, phillips