Bown Card Cover with Drawing of a lady Jane Valentine "The Bushranger" a lady whose reputation was somewhat more than doubtful Phil Waringhistory of jane valentine

BREAD AND BUTTER PLATE WITH FLORAL TRANSFER PATTERN ON EDGES IN BOWN COLOURNilplate, domestic item

Letter October 1993 from Lexie Bown, Maritime Workers Union, to Port Melbourne Council re booking hall for Tom Hills' 90th birthday partycelebrations fetes and exhibitions, tom hills, lexie bown

A Red Cross Christmas gift to Helga Wied at Camp 312 parts of handmade doll's furniture. Handpainted floral designs in colours red, blue, green, yellow, white, dark bown and black. All made of woodHW (on each item)doll's furniture, wied l, camp 3, tatura, ww2, toys, doll, furniture

Letter December 1993 from Port Melbourne Town Clerk David Graham to Lexie Bown, Maritime Workers Union, confirming free booking of hall for Tom Hills' 90th birthday partycelebrations fetes and exhibitions, tom hills, lexie bown, david graham

Handknitted by internee Helene Hoefer, at Camp 3, for her daughter Traude.Child's knitted long sleeved woollen frock, green in colour with bands of yellow and red at edgings. Has knitted tie belt and 4 bown wooden shank buttons on centre opening of bodice.traude glenk, traude hoefer, knitted clothing, internment camp hand crafts, children's clothing, helene hoefer

Facsimile sent to Jerry McASEY in Sydney by Lexie BOWN of the Maritime Union of Australia after the death of Tom HILLS. Contains eulogy given by MUA president Reg SIMS (4 pages) and several items copied from "Under the Hook" 5 June 1995Eulogy annotated first pagedeaths and funerals, piers and wharves - waterside workers, tom hills, reg sims, lexie bown, wendy lowenstein

The first building at the Mt Helen Campus was opened in October 1970. Students first starting using the campus in the same year. The programme includes the following historical information: "On 26th October, 1870, Sir Redmond Barry officially opened the first venture into formal technical education in Australia - the Ballarat School of Mines. Over the preceding year a small group of Ballarat citizens interested in mining had conceived and brought into being the idea of creating such a school. They leased a derelict Court House next to the Ballarat Gaol in Lydiard St., at a nominal rental for15 years, and started classes with 4 students and an honorary lecturer. The School developed its courses beyond the initially intended range of studies related to mining, increased in enrolments, took over neighbouring properties and buildings and developed three levels of education - tertiary, trade and secondary. From the latter part of the 19th Century, even though remaining under the control of its own autonomous Council, it developed close links with the State Education Department. From the earliest times the School achieved widespread recognition and a particularly high reputation, and its graduates spread across Australia and the world. For several years it was affiliated with Melbourne University. In the last decade its scope has been further broadened by the introduction of new tertiary courses. During 1965 the State Government created the Victoria Institute of Colleges - a non-teaching body empowered to award degrees and directed towards the task of co-ordinating and developing tertiary education in Victorian in institutions other than universities. the tertiary division of the School became affiliated with the V.I.C. at the end of that same year. Subsequently the Council of the School decided that, whilst retaining for the whole establishment the time honoured title - The School of Mines and Industries, Ballarat - it should more distinctly sub-title the three divisions. the tertiary division then became known as the Ballarat Institute of Advanced Education. On receipt of substantial Commonwealth-State Grants, made to it as a college of advanced education, the Council was enabled at the start of 1967, to purchase for the Institute the 20 acre campus at Mt Helen. A master plan has been produced to develop this beautiful and spacious site as a tertiary institution enrolling, in due course, some 3000 full time students. the first sod was turned, to initiate this development, by the then Governor General of Australia, The Right Honourable Lord Casey, on 19th October, 1967. The first building group, now completed and occupied, has involved an expenditure approaching $1,000,000. It contains the departments of Mechanical, Civil and Mining Engineering, Metallurgy and Geology. it also contains the Computer Centre, a temporary Library and temporary student amenities. Over the next two years a further four buildings, costing about $2,500,000, will be erected, and a further major portion of the Institute will move to Mt Helen. these buildings, in addition to one for direct teaching work, will include a Library, a Union and the first stage of a Hall of Residence."White, folded, paper programme printed on the occasion of the official opening of the Ballarat Institute of Advanced Education (BIAE) Mount Helen Campus on the occasion of the centenary of the Ballarat School of Minesuniversity of ballarat, ballarat school of mines, biae, mount helen, mt helen campus, mb john, jack barker, e.j. barker, rolly parfenovics, parfenovics, nigel bown, campus. victorian institute of colleges, m.b. john

Large blue binder with slipcover containing photos and documents from or about waterside worker Tom Hills 1904-1995, including items 2525.02 to 2525.19, plus 169.02, 262.01-.06, 466, 508,01 -.02, 852 and 1062.piers and wharves - waterside workers, arts and entertainment - literature, celebrations fetes and exhibitions, awards and presentations, oral history, memorials, deaths and funerals, social activities, societies clubs unions and other organisations., tom hills, wendy lowenstein, wendy morris, lexie bown, maritime union of australia, mua, retired waterside workers, unemployed workers union

Invitation to Tom Hills' 90th birthday party at PortMelbourne Town Hall 18 February 1994; blue A4, with drawing of wharfie from ''Under the Hook"celebrations fetes and exhibitions, tom hills, lexie bown, david graham

Letter of acceptance from Minister Clyde Holding MP for Tom Hills' 90th birthday party at Port Melbourne Town Hall 18 February 1994celebrations fetes and exhibitions, tom hills, lexie bown, clyde holding

Letter of acceptance from Dr and Mrs Jack Goldberg for Tom Hills' 90th birthday party at Port Melbourne Town Hall 18 February 1994celebrations fetes and exhibitions, tom hills, lexie bown, jack goldberg

Letter of regret from Simon Crean MP for Tom Hills' 90th birthday party at Port Melbourne Town Hall 18 February 1994celebrations fetes and exhibitions, tom hills, lexie bown, simon crean - mp

Newspaper aricle on Tom Hills from The Guardian (Socialist Weekly) 'Tom Hills -the making of a communist'celebrations fetes and exhibitions, tom hills, lexie bown, simon crean - mp

Photo of Maritime Union Australia President Reg SIMS giving the Eulogy for Tom HILLS 5 June 1995deaths and funerals, piers and wharves - waterside workers, tom hills, reg sims, lexie bown, wendy lowenstein