Book. Blue coloured hardcover book with black embossed floral pattern. Gold coloured title plate with black lettering stating 'The Three Little Kittens & C'. Second gold coloured title plate with black & blue lettering reads, 'Coloured Picture Book for the Nursery'. Book has oval coloured floral emblem in centre. Printed by Thomas Nelson and Sons, London, Edinburgh and New York. 'Florrie' is pencilled on one of the inner pages.book, childrens, the three little kittens & c, thomas nelson and sons london edinburgh and new york

Nelson’s New Drawing Course was in use around the early part of the 20th century. The owner of this particular copy Mary Norman, was born in Ararat in July 1883. She produced her first public work in 1900 and came to Warrnambool in 1901 and worked with S. Pearce Fuller. She taught at Warrnambool Ladies’ High School at Upton in Canterbury Road and also took art classes at Fullers Art School. She left Warrnambool in 1906, going first to Echuca before returning to Ararat where she set up her studio and held her first public exhibition in 1908. She married Jesse Bail in 1922 and had one child Jessica in 1923. She died in 1962 in Ararat, aged 79. Mary Norman worked in Warrnambool, and has left a significant amount of work of scenes from around the district. The Warrnambool and District Historical Society has five in its collection, Gaul’s Cave, Mermaid Cave, Seascape, Wreck of “La Bella”, Clifton Banks, Hopkins River.Dark olive green hardcover book with black scrolling and coat of arms at bottom of cover. Text in black. It covers such subjects as freehand and freearm drawing, mechanical drawing clay modelling colour work and paper cutting. It contains diagrams as well as instructions. Handwritten in black ink inside front cover, “Mary Norman, Ch of Eng DHS Echuca May 1908. Black ink stamp, 1909 Mary Norman Studio Ingor St Ararat. Thomas Nelson and Sons London Edinburgh and New York 1905.warrnambool, nelson's drawing course, teacher's handbook, mary norman, warrnambool artists

No dust cover. Book is bound in blue with the title and author in black on the front cover and the spine.fictionJim and his friend Nugget are air pilot and observer employed as scouts by a Norwegian whaling expedition. Sent out to find the Oslo, a whale-chaser which seems to be out of wireless touch with the parent ship, they find her all right, but deserted! Deserted in that desert of snow and ice the Antartic Circle. This is only the beginning of a great adventure, of plots and counter plots centered around a Spanish treasure-ship locked for three centuries in the ice.whaling, whaling ship, adventure, arthur catherall, fiction

Front dust cover shows a boy holding a rope lasso hiding behind tall grasses watching a black horse. There are other horses in the background. Also in the background is a grass plain which is ringed by mountains. The book itself is bound in red with the title in black writing. On the front of the book there is a logo of the Panther Library. The name of the author, the title and the publisher are written in black down the spine of the book.fictionPete Cimarron, the wild boy, was raised by Indians in the Wild Grass Country of Texas. When the Indians moved on to new hunting grounds Pete was left to take care of himself. This he does by roaming over the Wild Grass Country catching wild horses, which he sells to his friend Murky Joe. When the wagon trains from the east begin to settle near the Wild Grass Country, Pete finds himself swept into an exciting struggle to claim and hold his land.indians, texas, horses, rex dixon, panther library, fiction

Hard cover book. The People of The Abyss Author: Jack London Publisher: Thomas Nelson & Sons Date: 1903 Further Information: A plain volume bound in pale blue cloth, with a stuck-on library classification label ("PAT FIC LON") on the spine and no visible date, edition statement, or printer's imprint on the pages shown the copyright/date page. There's no gilt decoration, no illustrated boards, and no dust jacket. fictionIn the summer of 1902, Jack London disguised himself as a stranded American sailor and spent about six to seven weeks living among the poor of London's East End, sleeping in workhouses, doss-houses and on the street, and living for a time with a poor family in Whitechapel. These conditions were shared by roughly five hundred thousand working-class people at the time. The resulting book, published in 1903, is an immersive, first-person exposé of poverty, hunger, homelessness and the failures of social and government institutions in the world's wealthiest city at the height of the British Empire. In the book's conclusion, London blamed the deprivation on the incompetence of the governing institutions, calling out 'the political machine' managing the country. It combines reportage, statistics and personal narrative, and was illustrated with photographic plates documenting the conditions he witnessed.warrnambool, shipwrecked-coast, flagstaff-hill, flagstaff-hill-maritime-museum, maritime-museum, shipwreck-coast, flagstaff-hill-maritime-village, shipwrecked-artefact, book, the people of the abyss, jack london

Hard cover book: Kidnapped Author: Robert Louis Stevenson Publisher: T Nelson & Sons Date: 1900s–1930s Further Information: Red hardcover with decoratively blind-stamped cloth binding with a circular medallion design, and title to spine in white texter. The spine also has a label with a libraries registration.fictionKidnapped (1886) follows David Balfour, a young orphaned Scot who is swindled out of his inheritance by his uncle Ebenezer, kidnapped and shipped off to be sold into slavery in the Carolinas. After a shipwreck strands him on the west coast of Scotland, he falls in with the Jacobite outlaw Alan Breck Stewart, and the two become fugitives together through the Highlands in the aftermath of the 1745 Jacobite uprising, before eventually returning to Edinburgh so David can reclaim his birthright. It's a historical adventure novel written as a boys' novel, first published in the magazine Young Folks from May to July 1886, before appearing in book form the same year.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, kidnapped, robert louis stevenson