16 page booklet covering the history of art school in Ballarat. A six page catalogue of exhibited work at the Art Gallery of Ballarat is qa seperate inclusion. ballarat school of mines, ballarat technical art school, maude glover, james oldham, thoma price, frederick martelll, ballaarat mechanics' institute school of design, ballarat gine art gallery association, ballarat west technical art school, south kensington schoo of design, satish sharma, judi woodward, ballarat west school of art, maude glover fleay, kevin rhodes, anne beggs sunter, ballarat fine art gallery school, ponsonbt carew-smyth, herbert h. smith, margaret young, ballarat east public library school of art, ballarat city school of arts, academy of arts, frederick procter, helen ross, greg bins, ballarat teachers' college

James Oldham (1840-1908) emigrated from Newark-on-Trent and went to Ballarat where he took up a teaching position at Mount Pleasant in 1860. He was appointed head teacher of the Wesleyan Lydiard Street School in 1864. In 1886, after other appointments he became Head teacher at the Dana Street Primary School No. 33. He married Rebecca Gundry, and had twelve children. He founded the School of Design at the Ballaarat Mechanics' Institute in 1870, and taught there as the Master until 1885. Email correspondence containing information on James Oldhamjames oldham, ballaarat mechanics' institute school of design, education, rebecca oldham, rebecca gundry, mount pleasant school