Postcard, WW1, B&W photo of dismounted soldiers clambouring up sandhills and a group of mounted soldiers standing in foreground. Camera on a tripod with a figure in the centre. Factory chimney in far distance. Handwritten in ink on the back Cinema Film Series LH dismounting & taking up position on crest Zeitoun Feby '16postcard, postcard, ww1, light horse, zeitoun, egypt, cinema film series

Postcard, WW1, B&W photo of three 18 pounder guns practice firing in a desert landscape. Smoke coming from the near gun. Two mounted soldiers observing in foreground. Two horse drawn guns and soldiers standing in right background. An indistinct row of mounted horsemen on a ridge in far distance. Handwritten in ink on the back Cinema Film Series 18 pders in action Zeitoun Feby '16postcard, postcard, ww1, zeitoun, egypt, 18 pounder guns

Hard cover book. Gentlemen Prefer Blondes Author: Anita Loos Publisher: Brentanos Ltd Illustrator: Ralph Barton Date: 1926 Further Information: Plain blue Cloth hardcover with lettering and patterning to spine in black. The spine has a Library label with an inscription. fictionGentlemen Prefer Blondes is the Illuminating Diary of a Professional Lady that follows Lorelei Lee, a self-absorbed, gold-digging blonde flapper from Arkansas, as she journals her romantic and financial conquests travelling from New York to Europe (Paris, London) with her more sensible friend Dorothy, collecting rich admirers, diamonds and comic misadventures along the way. It was published the same year as F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby and Carl Van Vechten's Firecrackers, and is considered one of several notable 1925 American novels focused on the carefree hedonism of the Jazz Age. The London/Brentano's edition you're describing (1926) came out shortly after the original 1925 American edition, illustrated throughout in Art Deco style by caricaturist Ralph Barton.shipwrecked-coast, flagstaff-hill, flagstaff-hill-maritime-museum, warrnambool, maritime-museum, shipwreck-coast, flagstaff-hill-maritime-village, shipwrecked-artefact, book, pattison collection, warrnambool library, warrnambool mechanics’ institute, ralph eric pattison, corangamite regional library service, warrnambool city librarian, mechanics’ institute library, victorian library board, warrnambool books and records, warrnambool children’s library, gentlemen prefer blondes, anita loos

Hanimex Corporation was an importer and distributor of cameras, lenses, and other photographic equipment in Australia and New Zealand. It was founded in 1947 by German refugee, Jack Hannes, who had fled Germany for Australia in 1939. Hanimex was very significant in the development of the photographic market in Australia. The Hanimex MPF 830 is a super 8 film camera which is part of the Hanimex Loadmatic series and recognized for its use in 1970's cinema. The donor, a member of the Emerald Museum Committee for several years, donated other items of used photographic equipment which suggests they were a keen photographer. The airways tag shows that the donor took the camera with him when he visited England.This camera owned and used by a local person was made by a company which is significant in Australian photographic history.Black camera case lined with black leather on outside and red felt on inside. Secured with clasp of silver metal. Black leather carry strap. A British Airways baggage tag is tied to the strap, and a completed airways address label is affixed to the front of the case. Camera is a cine (movie) camera - Hanimex Loadmatic MPF 830.On lower right front of case: 'HANIMEX' Inside case is the owner's name and address and telephone number on embossed tape. On side of camera: 'AUTOMATIC / MANUAL / OFF / AUS' and 'HANIMEX / METER / FEET'. On other side of camera: 'LOADMATIC / MPF / 830' On front of camera: HANIMEX'hanimex