This photograph depicts a group of H.E.S. schoolgirls and teachers in Beechworth, Victoria, in the 1900s. Miss M. Lowe and Miss Cruikshank are identified in association with the photograph. Miss Cruikshank was a teacher at Beechworth Higher Elementary School and was transferred to Brunswick in 1917. The photograph contributes to the visual record of education, students and teachers in Beechworth during the early twentieth century.This photograph is historically significant for its contribution to the visual record of education in Beechworth, documenting female students and teachers associated with the Higher Elementary School during the twentieth century.Black and white landscape orientated rectangular photograph mounted on cardReverse: Handwritten in pencil "A02866.1" and "1977.2866". Handwritten in ink "To the Folks at Home. What do you think of the H.E.S. girls? Fine lot aren't they? Nearly as fine as the teachers – Miss Cruikshank & myself Mollie". Handwritten on paper label: "This was in Mrs Mollie Lowe's possessions, which she left to our Historical Society. Mollie was your teacher." and "3102".1900s beechworth, beechworth higher elementary school, education, students, teachers

This photograph depicts a group of school students in 1937 standing outside a red-brick school building. The school itself is the Beechworth Higher Elementary School (H.E.S) which opened in 1912 along side the Beechworth Technical School. The school saw many students over the years and were prideful of their successful students. The school produced many university graduates which highlighted their pride in both the students that passed through and the teaching staff. These schools were also quite progressive in the sense that they sought to expand the teaching curriculum and education system. Girls from both the H.E.S and the Technical School had the opportunity to study subjects other than cooking while prioritising the interests and futures of students to best prepare them for Universtiy or the workforce they sought to join. Despite these schools opening at the same time, their relationship was somewhat strained. Some staff members site the lack of coordination and friction between the schools as a catalyst for the Technical Schools' closure in 1930, while others blame the lack of interest by parents alongside the steady decrease of students applying and attending the school as the main reason for its closure. It is unclear if or when the Beechwroth H.E.S had closed or whether it has been renamed over time, yet it is clear how integral its role was in the development of Beechworth and its community, as well as the Victorian education system of the time period. This postcard is of great historic significance as it depicts a time period and setting that is integral to the growth and legacy of Beechworth. Beechworth has evolved and grown from a small rural town to a centre for widespread economic and social development. With the mass migration which accompanied the gold rush, the need for schools and other institutions arose. It is of great importance to record these events and developments in order to preserve and remember the past. Black and white rectangluar postcard printed on card, unmounted.Obverse: Beechworth / H.E.S / 1937 Reverse: N.R.McGeehan, / (Flashlight Specialist) / 154 HOTHAM ST., / ST KILDA. S. 2 / POST CARD / CORRESPONDENCE / ADDRESS ONLY / KODAK / AUSTRAL / KODAK / AUSTRAL / A 2666beechworth h.e.s, beechworth school, class photo, 1937, class of 1937, school uniform, black and white, beechworth higher elementary school, beechworth technical school

A picture of the Beechworth Higher Elementary School students in uniform, taken in 1917, likely out the front of the school now called Beechworth Primary.This picture contains an early image of the students from Beechworth Elementary school from the early history of the town. It depicts this generation of young people from Beechworth, demonstrating their ways of dressing. Sepia rectangular postcard printed on card Reverse: Higher Elementary School/ Beechworth/ 1917/ Lorna Healrow (later Andrews), 2nd back row, 5th from left./ Dorrie Birtles (" "), front row, 9th from left.beechworth, beechworth elementary school, beechworth primary school, students, education, mixed school, burke museum

The events of the afternoon included lunch for the bandsmen at the Memorial Hall, a street march to the Park, and performances at the Park, concluding with a massed march back to town. 10 bands from the surrounding districts participated. The donor was teaching at the Rutherglen Higher Elementary School at the time of this event, and boarded at the Star Hotel.Program for a massed bands display, held by the Rutherglen & District Brass Band, on December 1939. Also included is a letter from the donor.bands, rutherglen town band, wangaratta town band, mooroopna town band, corowa town band, albury town band, goulburn valley pipe band, yarrawonga brass band, finley district citizens band, beechworth town band, benalla citizens band, rutherglen higher elementary school, star hotel