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Eltham District Historical Society Inc
Photograph, Homemade Icecream, Eltham Market, Carpark, Commercial Place, Eltham, October 1988, 1988
Held in the carpark between the Safeway Supermarket and Commercial PlaceRoll of 35mm black and white negative film, 5 stripsIlford HP5art and craft market, carparks, commercial place, eltham market, safeway supermarket, shopping centre -
Beechworth Honey Archive
Publication, Bodyworks: restoring wellbeing with homemade organic lotions, potions and balms. (Murdoch Books). Millers Point, 2007, 2007
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Wodonga & District Historical Society Inc
Functional object - Homemade Baby Pusher
The pusher belonged to Edgar Alfred Unger and his wife Thelma Mary nee Richardson and was first used for their eldest daughter Marjorie in 1960. The Unger family lived on a property in Thurgoona which is now the location of the Thurgoona Golf Course. Edgar died on 3rd April 1957 in Thurgoona, New South Wales. Thelma Mary Richardson was a descendant of the Frauenfelder family which was amongst the first German Immigrants to arrive in the Albury district during the 1950s. She died on 14th December 2000 in Wodonga, Victoria.This item is significant because it shows one of the ways people improvised to meet various needs in the past.A home-made child's pusher with wooden frame and rubber-tyred and metal-spoked wheels.baby pusher, unger family, improvised baby items -
Dunkeld Museum Inc.
Bee Smoker
Many farming families in the district kept bees as a source of honey for home consumption. This item was made for use on the family farm. Most of the equipment used in the local industry was homemade.During the early to mid 20th century bee keeping was a significant rural industry in Dunkeld and surrounding districts. It is believed that there were nearly twenty apiarists operating in the area. Honey in large quantities was railed to Melbourne for sale.Homemade bee smoker consisting of a copper cylindrical firebox and rectangular bellows constructed of wood and leather. Components are assembled with rivets, scrap wire, sheet metal, nuts and bolts and nails. -
Hand Tool Preservation Association of Australia Inc
Winder - homemade
This item is part of the Thomas Caine Tool Collection, owned by The National Trust of Australia (Victoria) and curated by the Hand Tools Preservation Association of Australia.winder - homemade + fork -
Flagstaff Hill Maritime Museum and Village
Clothing - Childs Dress
The fabric of this child's dress includes 'Broderie Anglaise, a form of needlework involving patterns of holes that are each stitched to form a finish that will not fray. The dress features a homemade button.. This handcraft dates back to the 1500s. It became popular in the 1800s and early 1900s, particularly for women's nightwear and underclothing.This child's dress has handcraft and needlework skills that were popular in the 19th and early 20th centuries. The dress also features a homemade button.Child's dress, white fabric, with short sleeves, gathered waist and scalloped hemline. The bodice and shirt have Broderie Anglaise embroidery inserts, with the holes formed into a star pattern. The bodice insert is a 'V' shape. The back has a ribbon tie and is finished with a homemade button.flagstaff hill, warrnambool, maritime museum, maritime village, great ocean road, shipwreck coast, child's dress, clothing, embroidery, broderie anglaise, handmade button, handmade dress, child's fashion, dressmaker, handcraft, needlework, lacework -
Clunes Museum
Domestic object - SOAP DRAINER WITH SOAP
.1 WHITE ENAMELLED SOAP DRAINER .2 HOMEMADE SOAPlocal history, domestic item, ablutions -
Tatura Irrigation & Wartime Camps Museum
Domestic object - Bread Tin, 1940's
Used by internees at Camp 3.Oblong metal bread tin. Cooking paper still inside. Homemade.camp 3, ww2, cooking, bread tin -
Numurkah & District Historical Society
Toy Cane Rocking Chair
Doll-size cane rocking chair. Homemade using sticks and twigs.toys, children, presents, rocking chair -
City of Moorabbin Historical Society (Operating the Box Cottage Museum)
Leisure object - Stereograph Cards, Methodist Mission to Papua New Guinea, 1939
Stereographs consist of two nearly identical photographs paired to produce the illusion of a single three-dimensional image, usually when viewed through a stereoscope. These series of cards are made by one of the Pioneers families of the district who travelled went on a cruise aboard the 'Katoomba' to Papua New Guinea in 1939. The cruise was arranged by the Society of Australasia Methodist Missionary Cruise to Papua New Guinea in April 1939. The Cruise left Brisbane with 370 methodists from Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane.Many of the early pioneers in the City of Moorabbin were Methodists.43 Homemade black & white - stereograph cards - two identical pictures on cardboard.Description of photo is written on bottom of card.stereograph card, papua new guinea, methodist, missionary cruise, moorabbin, kwato, samarai, katoomba, rabaul, kabakada, vunairima, port hunter, raluana, bronilow memorial church, dohu island, marriott, stereograph cards -
Linton and District Historical Society Inc
Photograph, Children in Edinburgh Dam, Linton, 1939, 1939
Small black and white photograph of eight children in a body of water. Two of the children are sitting in homemade canoes.Reverse: " EDINBURGH? DAM / LINTON about 1939 / ALAN Mc / RONALD Mc / VIC McGRATH? / JOY Mc EILEEN HADDON / BRIAN Mc / RUTH Mc BOATS MADE FROM / SHEETS OF GALV IRON / BELTED FLAT & / TURNED OVER ".edinburgh dam swimming pool, mccorkell family, vic mcgrath? -
Beechworth Honey Archive
Uncapping Knife, unknown
The knife was heated by a steam hose running through the handle and blade. Once heated, it was used for removing caps from individual cells in one sweep across the frame. This exposed the honey before the fame was placed in the extractor.Metal uncapping knife with wooden handle. Two metal pins protrude from wooden handleMetal knife shows extensive use wear. Wooden handle burnt in places. Evidence of being homemadeuncapping, knife, metal, beekeeping, beechworth honey -
Wangaratta RSL Sub Branch
Memorabilia - Identification Tags
Five dog tags, one brass, one homemade silver metal, one silver metal and two brown leather belonging to Private William West 1268 5th Pioneer Battalion who served during WW1. He enlisted in 1915 was wounded in 1917 and returned to Australlia in 1918One gold and two silver metal and two brown leather identification tags Brass wrist tag: W. West 1268 5th Pioneers Batt. A.I.F. Homemade silver metal wrist tag: W. West 5th Poineer BTN AIF Silver metal tag: Front; Next of Kin Mrs A.M West VIC Nt Creswick Aust. Back; 1268 W. West D 29 AI CE Brown leather tag: West. W 1268 5 PNRS AIF CE Brown leather tag on neck string: West. W 1268 5 PNRS AIF CEdog tags, wwi, world war 1, 5th battalion, aif -
National Vietnam Veterans Museum (NVVM)
Domestic Object, Hammock
Black silk, homemade hammock made from old US parachute material with cream coloured trim & cords.hammock -
Mont De Lancey
Book, The Herald and Weekly Times Ltd. Melb, 1923 Pals Annual for the Boys of Australasia, 1923
A large annual for Australasian Boys of Pals weekly magazines from Sat August 26 1922 to Sat April 14 1923 including a lengthy adventure story at the back - Wilson at the Wheel.A badly damaged red fabric hardcover book Pals Annual for the Boys of Australasia with a black, red and white lined illustration on the front cover in a large square of a cowboy cracking a whip on a farm. The covers are detached from the pages which are tanned, some torn and with foxing on the edges. There are a year's worth of magazines included date from Volume 1 No.1 Sat August 26 1922 to Volume 3 No. 34 Saturday April 14 1923. Price 3d. each. There are black and white illustrations throughout , and a coloured plate,. There is a coloured plate frontispiece as well as a green background lined illustration. At the end of the book is a lengthy story, Wilson's Wheel by Andrew Walpole. p. 817 - 854. There are missing pages 847 - 850. Total p. 854.fictionA large annual for Australasian Boys of Pals weekly magazines from Sat August 26 1922 to Sat April 14 1923 including a lengthy adventure story at the back - Wilson at the Wheel.children's magazines, boys annual, adventure stories, australian fiction -
Bright & District Historical Society operating the Bright Museum
Hat Ladies
HomemadeHat, black lace with 3 panels of stiffened lace and pink flower trim with long velvet strands to tie under chin. Cream flowers at back.lace, pink flower, velvet ties, black, ladies apparel, costume. -
Stanley Athenaeum & Public Room
Container - Box Catalogue, box containing old catalogue cards
Homemade wooden box. Alphabetical cardboard sections in red - do not fit box. Strong paper cards with borrower records. Used in Library. -
Mont De Lancey
Leisure object - Dolls High Chair, Unknown
These wooden toys were handmade for children to play 'House'.A white and lilac painted wooden homemade dolls high chair with a lift up tray, four legs, two arms and a back support.toys, children's toys, dolls accessories, dolls chairs, dolls furniture -
Kiewa Valley Historical Society
Book - Educational for Pre-School Child, Furniture, Equipment and Toys
Homemade toys were common in 1943.Mt Beauty's kindergarten had homemade toys.Faded cardboard cover with blue print on its front. 40 pages held by 2 staples on spine.'Furniture / Equipment / and Toys / For the Pre-School Child / A Manual for the / Homecraft worker / Picture of train / Free Kindergarten Union of Victoria' 1943mt beauty, kindergarten, toys, homemade equipment, pre-school -
Glenelg Shire Council Cultural Collection
Functional object - Fishing Float, 1950s
Homemade 1950s cork fishing float, carved and sealed cork, shank painted in stripes of white, black, red and yellow. Metal eyelet top and bottom.fishing, recreation, sport, 1950s -
Tatura Irrigation & Wartime Camps Museum
Decorative object - Wooden Parrot, Rosella, 1940's
Made in Camp 1 by Hans Beck for his little daughter.Toy wooden Rosella parrot, painted red, green blue, yellow and black. On a long stick and made to sit on the edge of a shelf. Counter balanced. Homemade.beck h, haynes b, toy rosella parrot, toys, wooden parrot, internment camp handcraft -
Numurkah & District Historical Society
Post Box
Red painted, homemade post box. Slanted top. Slot in front for posting letters. Door at the front for retrieving letters. Red paint is faded, chippedpost box, letters, mail -
Orbost & District Historical Society
pantaloons, c. late 19th, early 20th century
Handmade white cotton pantaloons typical of underclothing from the late 19th and early 20th century.White cotton pantaloons or bloomers worn as women's underwear. A button at both sides of the waist/top. The legs are trimmed with broderie anglais lace. This item is handmade (homemade). womens-underwear -
Tarnagulla History Archive
Caldwell's Golden Age Hotel Free Pass, circa 1985
Donald Clark Collection.A homemade novelty 'Free Pass' booklet created by Jim Caldwell of the Golden Age Hotel, Tarnagulla. Inside contains typed 'Ten Commandments' written by Jim Caldwell. -
Glenelg Shire Council Cultural Collection
Functional object - Fishing Float, n.d
Homemade 1950's cork fishing float, carved and sealed cork, shank painted white, black, red and yellow. Metal eyelet top and bottom. Purchased for $36 (for 4) -
Flagstaff Hill Maritime Museum and Village
Caulking Tool
Homemade clearing or reefing iron. Made from an old file. Has wooden handle with iron ferrule at top. Has iron ferrule at base and copper wire around. 198mmLflagstaff hill, warrnambool, shipwrecked-coast, flagstaff-hill, flagstaff-hill-maritime-museum, maritime-museum, shipwreck-coast, flagstaff-hill-maritime-village -
Tatura Irrigation & Wartime Camps Museum
Domestic object - Biscuit Cutters x 7, 1940
Made by an internee in camp 3 at Tatura for making biscuits.Set of 7 homemade biscuit cutters: round with handle, star, heart, crescent, rectangle, clover leaf, 3 part star shaped with 4th part rounded. Soldered together.camp 3 cooking utensils, cooking utensils -
Kew Historical Society Inc
Clothing - Evening Coat, 1930s
The Fashion & Design collection of the Kew Historical Society includes examples of women’s, men’s, children’s and infants’ clothing from the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries. Items in the collection were largely produced for, or purchased by women in Melbourne, and includes examples of outerwear, protective wear, nightwear, underwear and costume accessories.Long black velvet evening coat with an attached wide collar of brown fur. The same fur is used to border the long sleeves. The garment and or the attached fur would appear to be homemade.women's clothing, evening wear, australian fashion, evening coats, teresa mayer -
Mont De Lancey
Leisure object - Dolls Pram
A vintage cream wooden and metal dolls pram with four spoked cream wheels with deteriorating rubber and a tubular metal push handle. It appears to be homemade. There are several soft toys inside it.prams, dolls prams, leisure object, toys -
Glenelg Shire Council Cultural Collection
Souvenir - Souvenir Key Holder - Portland, Victoria, c. 1970
Key holder, homemade, pine lacquered, square, with rounded top, 3 hooks at bottom, hole in top for hanging. Coloured postcard with 9 views of Portland attached to front of key holder.souvenir of portland, portland harbour