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Greensborough Historical Society
Book, Christopher Baker et al, Depressions: 1890s, 1930s: a social history, by Christopher Baker, 1982_
... Depressions: 1890s, 1930s: a social history, by Christopher ...This secondary school textbook looks at life in Australia during the depressions of the 1890s and 1930s.Paperback, 92 p. illus.Signed Faye Fort on title page.australia history, great depression 1930s, economic depressions -
Bendigo Historical Society Inc.
Book - WEEVILS IN THE FLOUR, 1978
... depressions ...Weevils In The Flour, an oral record of the 1930s depression in Australia.464 pages.Wendy. Lowenstein.book, depressions -
Ringwood and District Historical Society
Book, Typewritten essay by Peter Whittaker - 1970. - "Some aspects of unemployment relief in Ringwood during the depression of the 1930s"
Book by Peter Whittaker: "Some aspects of unemployment relief in Ringwood during the depression of the 1930s". Fourth year BA Honours 1970. 67 pages.Pencilled on front cover: The 1930 Depression and Ringwood -
Stawell Historical Society Inc
Brick, HAMMER STAWELL
Bricks Locally made in Stawell8556 - Red Brick With Centre Depression 8556a - RED Brick - Dirt - Chipped, with flat surface8556 - HAMMER STAWELL In Centre of Depression 8856a HAMMER STAWELL on flat top of brickbricks, stawell, inductry -
National Vietnam Veterans Museum (NVVM)
Equipment - Equipment, Navy, Aluminium honeycomb helicopter blades
Aluminium honeycombe - internal of helicopter rotor blades (such as Iroquois/Huey)17 depressions or dentsairplanes - design and construction -
Surrey Hills Historical Society Collection
Book, The rise and fall of Marvellous Melbourne, 1978
Includes: Clerical salaries chart p.16|Part 1: The City|Part 2: The Suburbs|Picture of Camberwell Railway Station p. 160 (from Latrobe Pictorial Collection. Graeme Davison is a local resident.Text records how the experience of boom and Depression touched the lives of ordinary Melburnians during the years 1880-1900.Apart from its significance as an academic work, Graeme Davison is a local resident.Text records how the experience of boom and Depression touched the lives of ordinary Melburnians during the years 1880-1900.melbourne - history- 1880-1900, (mr) graeme john davison, depression, graeme davison -
Kew Historical Society Inc
Functional object - Bird cage, 1930s
One of a collection of Depression-era items donated by Mrs Elizabeth Angel. The cage, and another similar cage is constructed of found or recycled materials including what appear to be kerosone tinsDepression-era handmade birdcage, constructed out of painted tin and chicken wire. The cage has an overhanging piece of iron at the front for protection from the weather. It is open on three sides. bird cages -
Kew Historical Society Inc
Functional object - Bird cage, 1930s
One of a collection of Depression-era items donated by Mrs Elizabeth Angel. The cage, and another similar cage, is constructed of found or recycled materials including what appear to be kerosene tinsDepression-era handmade birdcage, constructed out of painted tin and chicken wire. The cage has an overhanging piece of iron at the front for protection from the weather. It is open on three sides. bird cages -
Bendigo Historical Society Inc.
Newspaper - JACK PERRY COLLECTION: NEWSPAPER DEPRESSION HOUSEHOLD HAWKING
Newspaper articles re depression era, including articles on household hawking, includes information re selling Harcourt apples, Goanna oil, Rawleighs; drought and depression; quartz crushing; schooling in the depression; 8.10.99 - 25.11.99. Bendigo Weekly.person, individual, jack perry, depression, hawking, goanna oil, rawleighs -
Whitehorse Historical Society Inc.
Article, Sharing the golden days, 14/12/1994 12:00:00 AM
Article from Nunawading PostArticle from Nunawading Post re Marjorie Morgan and the release of her new book which details Box Hill through the 1930's depression, war time, and subsequent prosperity in the 1960's.Article from Nunawading Post morgan, marjorie, local history -
Parks Victoria - Point Hicks Lightstation
Lid, Ship tank
The circular cast iron object is a lid that was originally fastened into a ship tank. This particular lid is cast with the name ‘Lancaster & Co Bow London E’ in capitals in a continuous circle on the outer edge of the lid face, and has the words ‘Bow Tank Works’ on the inner circle. It is the same type of round heavy lid that was made by tank manufacturer John Bellamy although it may be a younger example. According to Pearson, the Lancaster & Co firm produced tanks between 1910 and 1930 from their works in Bow, East London. It was possibly preceded by the company, Lancaster & Bawn, which ran between the 1870s and 1890s.Pearson has collected a list of Lancaster & Co tank lids that he and others have sighted at various locations in Australia including Coolgardie, WA; Gulgong Museum, NSW; the Quarantine Station, Sydney NSW; Blundell’s Cottage, NSW; and Woolmers homestead complex, TAS. In addition, Lewis has identified lids at Ayrdale, NSW, and the shearing shed at Murndal homestead, Western Victoria. It is most likely that more than three lids survive in Victoria and more will be identified, however, as noted by Pearson, ‘surviving lids are far less numerous than the tanks themselves, presumably because the uses to which the tanks were put did not require the lid to be retained’.Parks Victoria has identified five tank lids in the lightstation collections. There is another Lancaster & Co lid at Cape Otway and possibly a second example there as well. In addition there are Bellamy lids at Point Hicks and Cape Otway and an unidentified lid at Wilsons Promontory, and a tank without a lid at Wilsons Promontory. The Lancaster & Co ship tank lid has first level contributory significance for its historic values.Circular cast-iron disc, with raised outer ridge with inscription and inner depression with inscription. One metal section forms a handle over an inner depression.Around perimeter of outer edge "BOW LONDON.E LANCASTER & CO " Around inner area "BOW ANK WORK" -
Wodonga & District Historical Society Inc
Photograph - Terminus Hotel footpath inlay, 1996
During the depression of the early 1930s, men on the dole carried out work for the Wodonga Shire Council. One of the projects during the term of councillor Mick Martin, as shire president, was to seal the footpaths in central Wodonga. Local business people supplied the cement. The police department refused to fund the cement for its section of High Street, north of the railway line, which included the police station and the courthouse. The then licensee of the Terminus Hotel offered to provide the cement for sealing the footpath in front of the police station and courthouse. This offer was made on the condition that tiles bearing the words Terminus Hotel be inserted into the footpath pointing toward the hotel.The police objected but the hotel licensee, Tex Bailey, won the day. As a result, his hotel’s tiled name was inserted into the footpath in front of the police station. Cr Mick Martin’s son, Des, wrote to the council in 1967 asking that the sign be preserved and it was moved to the Terminus Hotel and placed in the footpath there.The Terminus Hotel was one of the earliest hotels in Wodonga with clear links to the establishment of the railway line. It was an important business and meeting place for social gatherings.The name, Terminus Hotel worked into the brickwork of the footpath when they were surfaced by sustenance workers during the 1930s Depression. "TERMINUS HOTEL"hotels wodonga, businesses wodonga, terminus hotel wodonga -
Bendigo Historical Society Inc.
Book - HOW EAGLEHAWK MOTHERS COPED DURING THE GREAT DEPRESSION, 1983
How Eaglehawk Mothers Coped during the Great Depression.Annette McHugh.eaglehawk, history, women during the depression. -
Ballarat Heritage Services
Photograph - Colour, Brick House Cellar in Ballarat
Colour photograph of a depression in a cellar in a Ballarat brick house. ballarat, cellar, architecture -
Ballarat Heritage Services
Photograph - Colour photograph, Volcanic Vent Near Mount Franklin, 2007, 18/07/2016
When the ground depresses down at the point of a volcanic vent after a volcano’s magma chamber has been emptied it is known as a caldera, and not a volcano crater. (https://www.universetoday.com/31143/volcano-crater/, accessed 04 March 2019) A caldera is a volcanic feature formed by the collapse of a volcano into itself, making it a large, special form of volcanic crater. A caldera collapse is usually triggered by the emptying of the magma chamber beneath the volcano, as the result of a large volcanic eruption.(https://www.sciencedaily.com/terms/caldera.htm)A volcanic vent, or depression on one side of Mount Franklin. mount franklin, volcano, volcanic vent, lalgambook -
Parks Victoria - Point Hicks Lightstation
Lid, ship tank
The heavy cast iron, round lid was originally fastened into a large, riveted metal box, known as a ship tank. It has the name ‘John Bellamy London’ cast in capitals in a continuous circle on the outer edge of the lid face, and the words ‘Byng St Millwall’ on the inner circle. , of Millwall, London, manufactured boilers and ship tanks from the 1860s to the 1930s and came from a family of tank makers who began manufacturing tanks some time before 1856. Ship tanks were invented in 1808 by notable engineer, Richard Trevithick and his associate John Dickinson. Their patent obtained the same year described the tank’s superior cubic shape that allowed it to fit squarely as a container in vessels and thus use space efficiently, while its metal fabric preserved and secured its liquid or solid contents from damage. The containers revolutionised the movement of goods by ship and made wooden casks redundant. Research by Michael Pearson has determined that they were carried on passages to Australia from at least the 1830s conveying ships’ victuals and water storage, as well as general goods heading for the colonies. Pearson found photographic evidence of their use in the 1860s, and by the 1870s they appeared to be in common use. lids surviving from containers indicate that nearly all the tanks transported to Australia came from London manufacturers. It was usual for the brand name to also feature as a stencil on the tank but in most cases this eventually wore off. A tank without its original stencil survives at Wilsons Promontory. Tanks transporting ‘drinking water or perishable dry goods were hermetically sealed by the use of the tightly fitting lid with a rubber sealing ring ‘which was screwed tight with the aid of lugs cast into the lid and wedges cast into the rim of the loading hole’. The raised iron rod welded across the outer face of many lids such as the Bellamy example, allowed for screwing the lid tight. Once in the colonies, the ship tanks were often recycled and adapted for many resourceful uses such as packing cases, dog kennels, water tanks, oil containers and food stores and this invariably led to the separation of the lid and tank. The Bellamy lid could have been salvaged from a shipwreck but is more likely to have to have originated from a recycled tank that was brought to the lightstation for water storage purposes. Pearson writes that: Ship tanks show up at a wide range of sites, many of them isolated like lighthouses. They were, I think, usually taken there for the purposes they filled, usually water storage, as they were readily available, relatively light to transport, and probably very cheap to buy as second-hand goods containers. In rural areas they may have been scavenged for their new uses from local stores, to whom goods were delivered in them. Parks Victoria has identified five tank lids in the lightstation collections covered by this project. In addition to the Bellamy lid at Point Hicks, they include a Bow brand lid at Point Hicks and another at Cape Otway, unidentified lids at Cape Otway and Wilsons Promontory. Pearson and Miles Lewis have each recorded two versions of the Bellamy trade name on the lids; one being ‘John Bellamy Byng St. London’; the other, ‘John Bellamy Byng St. Millwall London’. The Point Hicks lid has the second version of the name, as do other examples in Victoria that Lewis has identified at Illawarra, Toorak; Warrock homestead, Casterton; Eeyeuk homestead, Terang; Ward’s Mill, Kyneton; and Boisdale homestead near Maffra, and in NSW at Ayrdale Park, Wolumla; and Bishop’s Lodge, Hay. Pearson’s list includes the same lids in NSW at Tumbarumba; the Quarantine Station, Sydney; Willandra Station; Bedervale, Braidwood; Gunnedah Museum; Walla Walla and Macquarie Island. The Point Hicks lid is currently stored in the lighthouse although it is unlikely that its use had any association with this building. The lid is in good condition and retains the central bung. Pearson notes that ‘surviving lids are far less numerous than the tanks themselves, presumably because the uses to which the tanks were put did not require the lid to be retained’.347 The Bellamy ship tank lid has first level contributory significance for its historic values. Circular cast-iron disc with raised outer ridge with inscription. It also has an inner depression with inscription. Two metal sections form handles over inner depression. Hole in middle of disc.Around perimeter of outer edge "JOHN BELLAMY LONDON" Around inner area "BYNG ST MILLWALL" -
Bendigo Historical Society Inc.
Book - AN ORAL HISTORY OF HOUSEWIVES IN THE ROCHESTER DISTRICT DURING THE DEPRESSION 1929 - 1939, 1984
An Oral History of Housewives in the Rochester District During the Depression 1929 - 1939.Peter Gladman.victoria, history, rochester women durinf depression -
Bendigo Historical Society Inc.
Book - HOW MOTHERS COPED IN THE DEPRESSION, 1982
How Mothers Coped in their Depression. An oral History of Wyong Mothers 1929 - 1939.Judy Bone.history, australian, pioneers of depression yrs. wyong -
Port Melbourne Historical & Preservation Society
Audio - Oral History, Working on the wharves, Vin McNamara, Pat Hawkins, 22 Oct 1989
Interview used in contributions to the book "They Can Carry Me Out"Vin McNamara recalling his early days working on the wharf, the depression, etcDuration 00:50:57workers, piers and wharves - webb dock, depression, mcnamara -
Glenelg Shire Council Cultural Collection
Souvenir - Paperweight, n.d
Rectangular souvenir view ware paperweight with scene of Portland Harbour. Oval depression in glass.Back: 'THE HARBOUR PORTLAND' - stamp -
Glenelg Shire Council Cultural Collection
Tool - Saddlers Tool, n.d
Saddler's tool, bone, rectangular with rounded ends, one side has two depressions. -
Bendigo Historical Society Inc.
Book - AN ORAL HISTORY OF RURAL MOTHERSIN THE SWAN HILLS DISTRICT, 1983
The Oral History of Rural Mothers in the Swan Hill District during the depression 1929 - 1939.Susan Weir.history, australian, rural mother swna hill. -
Cobram Historical Society Inc
Egg beater
Green depression Uranium egg mixer beater Crown Crystal Glass. Circa 1930Crown crystal glass Sydney Made in England REG -
Whitehorse Historical Society Inc.
Functional object - Ink Stand, c1950
Bette McPhee CollectionRectangular mulga base with depression for a chrome ink well and two metal stands for pens.Fist Quality Genuine Australian Mulga - Southern Series.domestic items, writing equipment -
Ringwood and District Historical Society
Envelope, Packet: Depression in the 1930s - Ringwood area clippings, Letters; Hugh Anderson Publication (Hill of Content series)
Depression of the 1930s - 10 pages newspaper cuttings; Letters from Dept Public Works, State Relief Committee, Ringwood Football Association, Boys Employment Movement, Youth Employment Survey; Australia in the Depression - Hill of Content Archive Series -
Bendigo Historical Society Inc.
Newspaper - JACK PERRY COLLECTION: DEPRESSION YEARS PART 7
Newspaper article by Jack Perry published 12/11/1999. Depression years part 7.bendigo, history, depression -
Bendigo Historical Society Inc.
Newspaper - JACK PERRY COLLECTION: SCHOOLING IN THE DEPRESSION PART 6
Newspaper article by Jack Perry published 05/11/1999. Schooling in the depression part 6.bendigo, history, schooling -
Bendigo Historical Society Inc.
Newspaper - JACK PERRY COLLECTION: DROUGHT AND DEPRESSION PART 3
Newspaper article by Jack Perry published 15/10/1999. Drought and depression part 3.bendigo, history, drought and depression -
Bendigo Historical Society Inc.
Newspaper - JACK PERRY COLLECTION: DROUGHT AND DEPRESSION PART 2
Newspaper article by Jack Perry published 08/10/1999. Drought and depression part 2.bendigo, history, drought and depression -
National Vietnam Veterans Museum (NVVM)
Functional Object, Cup Canteen
Aluminium cup canteen with fold out handle and depression on the side to hold a plastic water bottlecup canteen