The original of this bookmark is held by the family of a former student of the Ballarat School of MinesPhotograph of a Ballarat School of Mines bookmark with the image of a redfish swimming around seaweed, Handwritten onto the bookmark 'Bill Rume"ballarat school of mines, bookmark, rume

This bookmark was found in a book called 'The English Lakes' owned by Elizabeth Chatham-Holmes. The bookmark is a Stevenograph. In 1854 Thomas Stevens began with weaving plain and fancy ribbons, but was soon experimenting with a development of jacquard weaving to produce pictures. For this, the picture was plotted on squared paper, in the fashion of a cross-stitch embroidery design, and a large card then perforated to represent each colour appearing in every "line" of the picture. The cards, arranged in an endless chain and attached to the loom, controlled the manipulation of the warp threads. Each time the shuttle crossed the loom a different card came into use, changing the arrangement of the warp threads and, consequently, the pattern woven..When the industry collapsed in 1860, Stevens determined to make use of his experiments by producing pictures in such variety as to appeal to all tastes. The earliest productions seem to have been bookmarkers... The pictures included portraits of celebrities and local scenes, scriptural texts, hymns and psalms, and verses from the poets. Stevens also introduced to the Admiralty a hat ribbon with the name of the ship woven in gold wire. This he patented; it was adopted and for many years the firm was the sole supplier to the Admiralty Contracts Department. https://stevengraphs.com/thomstevandh.html Also found in the book was a small card with dried flowers glued with the words 'Flowers from the Holy Land' and a WW2 photograph of the bust of a man in uniform with a cap..1) Red hard covered book called 'The English Lakes' by W.T. Palmer. .2) Woven silk bookmark with white (now cream) and yellow background and red, purple, green and yellow detail and the start of Psalm 23 woven into the bookmark. Possibly made in the late nineteenth century. .3) Small card with dried flowers glued with the words Flowers from the Holy Land .4) WW2 photograph of the bust of a man in uniform with a cap. .1) Inside front cover "E.S. Holmes Ascot" .2) Woven into the bookmark - The Lord is my Shepard I shall not want, & T. Stevens, Coventry .3) Printed on the front - Flowers from the Holy Land, Placed on the Holy Sepulchreholmes, ec holmes, ascot, religious, religion, bookmark, english lakes, w.t. palmer, chatham-holmes collection, flowers from the the holy land, stevengraph

The Geoffrey Blainey Resaerch Centre is located on the top floor of the Mt Helen Campus LibraryCard bookmark for University of Ballarat Geoffrey Blainey Research Centre, and combined bookmark for Federation University Geoffrey Blainey Research Centre, and Centre for Gippsland Studies. bookmark, geoffrey blainey research centre, centre for gippsland studies, geoffrey blainey

This work forms part of the collection assembled by the historian Dorothy Rogers, that was donated to the Kew Historical Society by her son John Rogers in 2015. The manuscripts, photographs, maps, and documents were sourced by her from both family and local collections or produced as references for her print publications. Many were directly used by Rogers in writing ‘Lovely Old Homes of Kew’ (1961) and 'A History of Kew' (1973), or the numerous articles on local history that she produced for suburban newspapers. Most of the photographs in the collection include detailed annotations in her hand. The Rogers Collection provides a comprehensive insight into the working habits of a historian in the 1960s and 1970s. Together it forms the largest privately-donated collection within the archives of the Kew Historical Society.A Calendar bookmark for 1955 and 1956 published by the Department of Health and the City of Kew. The rear of the bookmark lists the locations of the x-rays (Kew Recreation Hall; St Hilary's Church Hall; North Kew Willsmere Service Station) and the dates when they will take place.health, x-ray, chest xray, bookmark

This silver bookmark with a kookaburra motif is stamped Stg Silver on the reverse. A commercial souvenir item as a bookmark from an unknown maker or date but c.1990s.This bookmark is a part of the biggest collection of bookmarks in Australia, these silver bookmarks originally being intended as souvenirs make up the smallest portion of bookmarks in the collection.bookmark, silver, kookaburra, collection

A silver bookmark of a Koala on branch stamped 925 indicating high silver content. Both a functional and decorative commercial object sold as a souvenir. Date unknown.This bookmark is a part of the biggest collection of bookmarks in Australia, these silver bookmarks originally being intended as souvenirs constituting the smallest portion of bookmarks in the collection.bookmark, koala

Bookmark from the period of the Great War possibly sent to someone serving overseas with inscribed message from Australia.Inset watercolour of gum tree with inscription "Greetings from Australia" and on the reverse of image "1915-1916 from Marjorie".craft, bookmark, australia

One of a group being an example of home art-craft work in the form of a bookmark popular in 1935, with Christmas Greetings inscribed on the reverse. Seasons Greetings written on the reverse with names, Melbourne address and the date of 1935.art board, craft, bookmark

Owned by Charles Mc Gregor in 1866, Pyramid Rock Road. Donated by G W GliddonNeedlework. Cross stitch bookmark on perforated board. Black stitches-possibly human hair- with red border. Enclosed in carboard and plasticForget me not "words on the bookmark are made with human hair according to Jessie's story, which is doubtless correct. The writer remembers similar things being done with hair inthe 1890s" JWG [ J W Gliddon] 1970charles mcgregor, needlework, j w gliddon

This small handcrafted bookmark was made by one of the Jones sisters, Gwen or Edna of The Union homestead at Woolsthorpe in Western Victoria. Two small pieces of blue felt cut into shape of lady's face and stitched together with features added with wool stitching. Wool thread as hair stitched to hang outside the pages.Nilbookmark, felt, woolsthorpe, victoria

John Sands were the first stationers established in Australia c. 1837 and by the 1920s were producing a range of greeting cards and bookmarks.Printed on front the word Calendar and on the reverse the John Sands Hourglass logo.john sands, bookmark, calendar, gum tree

An example of a bookmark that is handmade in a convent. The message is that the recipient have a happy feastday. A reminder of when religious in the Catholic church took the name of a saint as their patron and the feast-day of that saint was celebrated annually as a birthday being the recipients birthday into the order. When a person entered a Catholic religious order prior to the Second Vatican Council they adopted a saint's name and celebrated that saint's feast-day as their birthday into the order. This bookmark is a rare survivor and reminder of this cultural and religious practice still observed in some cases.A small shaped card with a colour print of a briar rose sealed with celluloid stitched around the edges and having a thin brocade silk ribbon threaded through. The words A Happy Feast are written on the small card.Inscribed 'A Happy Feast'.catholic, bookmark, religious, feast-day

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A 1954 Australian Calendar Bookmark advertising a range of local businesses headed with the Victoria Lending Library and Gears Pharmacy. The preponderance of circulating lending libraries on bookmarks with general advertising of this era is significant in that this was probably the high point of a form of lending library that was popuar from the Victorian era until government supported municipal libraries took over the role by the 1960s.ballarat, gears pharmacy

This bookmark illustrates advertising techniques using this medium in the 1940s Melbourne suburbs with a calendar for 1945 and 1946. It highlights a variety of businesses including a local circulating library.The Hymettus Bookmark Collection provides a comprehensive insight into commercial advertising and promotion using the medium of the bookmark in Australia and also places Australia's bookmarks in a transnational context from the nineteenth to the twenty-first centuries. This collection of bookmarks forms arguably the largest private collection in Australia. This bookmark highlights local businesses in the area in the 1940s and the place of circulating libraries in the suburbs.advertising, ormond, mckinnon, cheltenham

Edward and Alexander were crowned in 1902 and it is believed that this long marker was used as the marker in the bible used at that ceremony in Westminster Abbey.bookmark, coronation, edward vii

Punched cards or Bristol cards were a popular stationary product for embroidery from the 1850s until the 1930s. These cards could be bought as sheets and cut to size for the craft of embroidery.This example of a Victorian embroidered card bookmark on silk is notable in that it is dated 1889. These cards were a popular form of bookmark from the 1850s until the early twentieth century. embroidery, bookmark, bristol card, punch cards, stationary

Maude Jeffries was an acclaimed actress who performed in USA, Britain, New Zealand and Australia from the 1890s until the early twentieth century when she married and settled in New South Wales with her husband on his property, Bowylie, Gundaroo, New South Wales. A rare bookmark produced to act also as a postcard relating to an American actress who as a British citizen settled in Australian. This bookmark sent in 1906 from Melbourne to Ballarat in Victoria demonstrates her popularity in Australia where it was estimated that over Christmas New Year 1906 over 200,000 postcards were sold in Sydney alone.Image of Miss Jeffries.Used with two Victorian postage stamps, address and Seasons Greetings inscribed to verso from Melbourne sender to Tattersalls Hotel Ballarat 1906.bookmark, postcard, maude jeffries, actress, australian, ballarat, tattersalls hotel, melbourne

Ballarat College of Advanced Education is a predecessor institution of Federation University Australia. Yellow card bookmark wit library hours, loans, and other details. On verso is information on counter reserve, the cataogue, copytex, and contacts.mt helen library, e.j. barker library, ballarat college of advanced education, library, librarians, catalogues, loans, counter reserve, bookmark

The bookmark was part of a miscellaneous collection of items owned by Mrs Stella Surman.Decorative green and white bookmark, produced as an advertisement for an insurance company. The bookmark features a photograph of and information about Lord Roberts.Text: " GENERAL / ACCIDENT / FIRE & LIFE / ASSURANCE / CORPORATION, LTD. "bookmarks, advertising, surman collection

This souvenir bookmark was for an international conference that highlighted the role Australia archives in an international forum held in Brisbane and in Australia for the first time. It is one of a large collection of bookmarks held at Hymettus that records historical events from the mid-nineteenth century to 2020. small Australian boomerang shaped bookmark with aboriginal motifs.

This bookmark was found loose inside one of our antiquarian books and no connection to the book or its unknown original owner have been found. The word Mizpah means Watchtower in Hebrew and a Mizpah card or bookmark was sent or given to Jewish people who were separated from their loved ones, with the message that the Lord was watching over those absent. The bookmark has been made by the firm of Thomas Stevens of Coventry. This city was the English centre of ribbon weaving in the 19th century and Thomas Stevens, a local weaver, invented and developed in the 1860s the art of making woven silk items - book marks, greeting cards, art works etc. These were called Stevengraphs. Stevens opened a factory in London in 1878 and by the 1880s was producing over 900 woven silk designs. Stevengraphs are a collectors' Items today and this Mizpah bookmark is a fine example of one.This is a woven silk bookmark with multi-coloured patterns. coloured script and a sprig of fuchsia flowers, all on a yellow background. There is a red tassel at the end of the bookmark. The bookmark was affixed to a rectangular sheet of paper containing details of the maker but the bookmark is now detached. The backing sheet is partly torn.Mizpah The Lord watch between Me and thee when we are Absent one from anotherreligious book marks, stevengraphs

Bookmark of Mrs. Edward Hunter Snr, circa 1890Silk bookmark, with fringed edges, and a 'Forget Me Not' motif and text."When with varied scenes, you wander. Whatsoever be your lot. As on bygone days you ponder then I ask forget me not."bookmarks

This bookmark may have belonged to, and was possibly made by, Miss Mary Leviny, the eldest of the Leviny sisters, who was a founding member of the Castlemaine Red Cross. This bookmark was found in the book 'Half Mile Down' by William Blake (Reg. No. 1081).A rare, intact memento of Australia Day in the form of a gum leaf made into bookmark. It was possibly sold as a fundraiser for the newly formed Red Cross in Castlemaine to aid the war efforts abroad during World War One.Hand-paInted bookmark made from a gum (eucalyptus) leaf. P Gum leaf with stem. Inscribed in white "Australia Day/1915" and painted with a red cross. A length of narrow ribbon, red, white and blue has been inserted, folded through a slit near the base, used as a book mark.Inscribed in white "Australia Day/1915"leviny family, gum leaf, bookmark, red cross, australia day, 1915, buda, castlemaine, world war one

Cream silk, frayed at one end and torn at the bottom. Embroidered black and red picture of a man & woman embracing under a street lamp. Red embroidered inscription underneath pictureBeider Laterne Wollen Sir Stehn, Wei Einst. Lili Marlen

The Rachel Forster Hospital was a hospital founded and run by women, for women, in Redfern NSW in 1922. It became a public hospital in 1930, The Rachel Forster Hospital was significant in breaking down prejudice against women doctors. hospital, health services, new south wales

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