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Kew Historical Society Inc
Badge - Fundraising Button, Hospital Day 1918, 1918
... Hospital Day 1918...hospital day... “Hospital Day 1918’ on a white heart overlaid on a red ground..."Hospital Day / 1918"... Fundraising Button Badge Hospital Day 1918 Small circular pressed ...Frances Rigg was a local business identity in Kew, at one stage managing the local branch of the English, Scottish and Australian (ES&A) Bank at 175 High Street from c. 1920 until the 1940s. After Francis Rigg’s death, the collection of buttons and medallions was inherited by his son, Ken Rigg (1922-2014). The collection was subsequently donated to the Kew Historical Society in 2015 by Francis' grandson, Adrian Rigg, at the time of the Gallipoli & Beyond Commemoration in 2015. The collection covers a period of almost 40 years. The majority of the buttons are patriotic buttons, issued and sold during and immediately after the First World World War (1914-1918) to raise funds for national and overseas causes. The collection also includes a number of locally significant sporting event buttons and sporting club medallions, issued in the 1920s and 1930s.Patriotic and other pressed tin buttons and badges were produced in large numbers in the first decades of the twentieth century. By nature, insubstantial and ephemeral, they have not always survived. The collections of badges, buttons and medallions in the Kew Historical Society collection is homogenous and yet diverse, ranging from buttons sold to raise funds for the war efforts in 1914-18 and 1939-45, to those used at festivals and sporting events. Because of the manufacturing process, many surviving buttons and badges have been affected by inadequate storage, suffering from oxidisation and physical damage. These survivors are now historically and socially significant artefacts, revealing much about the attitudes and values of the period in which they were produced. Their widespread distribution means that they are frequently significant at a local, state, national and international level.Small circular pressed tinplate badge featuring the words “Hospital Day 1918’ on a white heart overlaid on a red ground. The badge is bordered in gold. Hospital Day badges were sold for fundraising purposes during and after the First World War (1914-1918)."Hospital Day / 1918"patriotic buttons, hospital day, badges -
Kew Historical Society Inc
Badge - Fundraising Button, Hospital Day 1919, 1919
... Hospital Day 1919...hospital day...Australian fundraising button for ‘Hospital Day’ in 1919..."Hospital Day / 1919"... Fundraising Button Badge Hospital Day 1919 Australian fundraising ...Frances Rigg was a local business identity in Kew, at one stage managing the local branch of the English, Scottish and Australian (ES&A) Bank at 175 High Street from c. 1920 until the 1940s. After Francis Rigg’s death, the collection of buttons and medallions was inherited by his son, Ken Rigg (1922-2014). The collection was subsequently donated to the Kew Historical Society in 2015 by Francis' grandson, Adrian Rigg, at the time of the Gallipoli & Beyond Commemoration in 2015. The collection covers a period of almost 40 years. The majority of the buttons are patriotic buttons, issued and sold during and immediately after the First World World War (1914-1918) to raise funds for national and overseas causes. The collection also includes a number of locally significant sporting event buttons and sporting club medallions, issued in the 1920s and 1930s.Patriotic and other pressed tin buttons and badges were produced in large numbers in the first decades of the twentieth century. By nature, insubstantial and ephemeral, they have not always survived. The collections of badges, buttons and medallions in the Kew Historical Society collection is homogenous and yet diverse, ranging from buttons sold to raise funds for the war efforts in 1914-18 and 1939-45, to those used at festivals and sporting events. Because of the manufacturing process, many surviving buttons and badges have been affected by inadequate storage, suffering from oxidisation and physical damage. These survivors are now historically and socially significant artefacts, revealing much about the attitudes and values of the period in which they were produced. Their widespread distribution means that they are frequently significant at a local, state, national and international level.Australian fundraising button for ‘Hospital Day’ in 1919. ‘Hospital Day’ buttons may have been used to raise funds for veterans in military hospitals. The slogan is written in black on a seven pointed star bordered in red. The star sits on a dark blue ground with sprays of wattle."Hospital Day / 1919"hospital day, fundraising buttons, badges -
Warrnambool and District Historical Society Inc.
Badges, Hospital Day, Early 20th century
... Hospital Day...hospital day... with Hospital day at Warrnambool. .1 Three are of a stick pin type....1 Warrnambool Hospital Day .2 Hospital Day for Charity .3... Hospital Day This is a collection of eight badges all associated ...Only one of these badges has a date, that of 1918, but the others appear to come from the same era or from the 1920s or 1930s. These badges were issued and sold as fundraisers for the local hospital or for charities associated with the hospital. The wearing of the badge indicated support for the hospital or charity and this was also a way of publicizing the institution. These badges are of interest as examples of the badges issued to raise funds for, and awareness of, local hospitals. Two are of particular interest as they were issued in Warrnambool.This is a collection of eight badges all associated with Hospital day at Warrnambool. .1 Three are of a stick pin type, which are gold metal with dark blue section around the rim with text and a raised red cross in the centre. They have a long metal pin and the back is hollow. .2 This is the largest of the badges with an image of a patient being attended to by a nurse . A red rim with text is around the edge. .3 This is a smaller version of .2 .4 Small badge in navy blue cream and red with a cream heart in the centre with dark blue text .5Two of the badges have an image of the sun with rays radiating above a blue sea. Text is around the edge..1 Warrnambool Hospital Day .2 Hospital Day for Charity .3 Hospital Day for Charity .4 Hospital Day 1918 .5 Hospital Dayhospital day, warrnambool hospital day, hospital day warrnambool -
Kew Historical Society Inc
Badge - Fundraising Button, Hospital Day: Patroness Her Excellency The Countess of Stradbroke, 1921-1926
... Hospital Day: Patroness Her Excellency The Countess of...hospital day...This is the only example of a Hospital Day badge to include..."Hospital Day / Patroness Her Excellency The Countess... Fundraising Button Badge Hospital Day: Patroness Her Excellency ...Frances Rigg was a local business identity in Kew, at one stage managing the local branch of the English, Scottish and Australian (ES&A) Bank at 175 High Street from c. 1920 until the 1940s. After Francis Rigg’s death, the collection of buttons and medallions was inherited by his son, Ken Rigg (1922-2014). The collection was subsequently donated to the Kew Historical Society in 2015 by Francis' grandson, Adrian Rigg, at the time of the Gallipoli & Beyond Commemoration in 2015. The collection covers a period of almost 40 years. The majority of the buttons are patriotic buttons, issued and sold during and immediately after the First World World War (1914-1918) to raise funds for national and overseas causes. The collection also includes a number of locally significant sporting event buttons and sporting club medallions, issued in the 1920s and 1930s.Patriotic and other pressed tin buttons and badges were produced in large numbers in the first decades of the twentieth century. By nature, insubstantial and ephemeral, they have not always survived. The collections of badges, buttons and medallions in the Kew Historical Society collection is homogenous and yet diverse, ranging from buttons sold to raise funds for the war efforts in 1914-18 and 1939-45, to those used at festivals and sporting events. Because of the manufacturing process, many surviving buttons and badges have been affected by inadequate storage, suffering from oxidisation and physical damage. These survivors are now historically and socially significant artefacts, revealing much about the attitudes and values of the period in which they were produced. Their widespread distribution means that they are frequently significant at a local, state, national and international level.This is the only example of a Hospital Day badge to include a patroness (or a patron). Lady Victoria Stradbroke was the wife of the third Earl of Stradbroke who served as Governor of Victoria from 1921 to 1926. Lady Stradbroke advocated for Hospital Days during her husband’s tenure as governor in the early 1920s."Hospital Day / Patroness Her Excellency The Countess of Stradbroke"hospital day, countess of stradbroke, fundraising buttons, badges -
Kew Historical Society Inc
Badge - Fundraising Button, Hospital Day for Charity, 1916
... Hospital Day for Charity...hospital day for charity..."Hospital Day/ for Charity"... Fundraising Button Badge Hospital Day for Charity This patriotic ...Frances Rigg was a local business identity in Kew, at one stage managing the local branch of the English, Scottish and Australian (ES&A) Bank at 175 High Street from c. 1920 until the 1940s. After Francis Rigg’s death, the collection of buttons and medallions was inherited by his son, Ken Rigg (1922-2014). The collection was subsequently donated to the Kew Historical Society in 2015 by Francis' grandson, Adrian Rigg, at the time of the Gallipoli & Beyond Commemoration in 2015. The collection covers a period of almost 40 years. The majority of the buttons are patriotic buttons, issued and sold during and immediately after the First World World War (1914-1918) to raise funds for national and overseas causes. The collection also includes a number of locally significant sporting event buttons and sporting club medallions, issued in the 1920s and 1930s.Patriotic and other pressed tin buttons and badges were produced in large numbers in the first decades of the twentieth century. By nature, insubstantial and ephemeral, they have not always survived. The collections of badges, buttons and medallions in the Kew Historical Society collection is homogenous and yet diverse, ranging from buttons sold to raise funds for the war efforts in 1914-18 and 1939-45, to those used at festivals and sporting events. Because of the manufacturing process, many surviving buttons and badges have been affected by inadequate storage, suffering from oxidisation and physical damage. These survivors are now historically and socially significant artefacts, revealing much about the attitudes and values of the period in which they were produced. Their widespread distribution means that they are frequently significant at a local, state, national and international level.This patriotic fundraising button was produced in 1916 and released on 20 October on behalf of hospitals. The organisers intended to release a quarter of a million buttons at a cost of 1/ each. The badge has a red outer rim with the name of the appeal in white. The image at the centre of the button includes a nurse bending over a patient in a sick bed."Hospital Day/ for Charity"hospital day for charity, fundraising buttons, badges -
Kew Historical Society Inc
Badge - Fundraising Button, Hospital Day, 1914-1918
... Hospital Day...hospital day... Fundraising Button Badge Hospital Day Round metal button in red, white ...Most of the civic and sporting ephemera assembled by Francis Rigg were patriotic buttons. The use of these buttons as a means of raising revenue through patriotic sentiment occurred soon after Australia pledged allegiance to Empire. Buttons reflected ‘public sentiment, courage, patriotism, generosity and several [un- named] virtues’ such as the martyred mother of a ‘fallen’ hero. Attention was paid to attractiveness of design, encoded symbolism and high quality of production. Expressing ‘loyalty’, they were tokens to be kept for perpetuity. Female labour was used to operate the die that compressed the tin backing, photographic print and celluloid cover together. The pin was applied by hand. Women, of all ages, entered into the spirit of voluntary sales. Often they were sold at the entry and exit points of major pedestrian thoroughfares. The women of Kew set up a kiosk in front of the Post Office and the Railway Station to solicit their round, oval and square shaped wares. Pride in salesmanship was affected by publishing the name of the woman and her fiscal achievement in the major newspapers of the day. The button forms part of a collection of ephemera originally purchased by Francis Horace Rigg (19/10/1882-05/03/1946) of 50 Belford Road, Kew (Vic.). Frances Rigg was a local business identity in Kew, ultimately managing the local branch of the English, Scottish and Australian (ES&A) Bank at 175 High Street, Kew from c. 1920 until the 1940s. After Francis Rigg’s death, the collection of buttons and badges was inherited by his son, Ken Rigg (14/11/1922-19/01/2014). The collection was subsequently donated to the Kew Historical Society in 2015 by his grandson Adrian Rigg during the Gallipoli and Beyond Commemoration. The collection covers a period of almost 40 years. The majority of the badges are patriotic buttons, issued and sold during and immediately after World War 1 to raise funds for national and overseas causes. The collection also includes a number of locally significant sporting event buttons and sporting club medallions, issued in the 1920s and 1930s.Round metal button in red, white, blue and gold showing a sun setting over the sea with words printed in red around border and on lower outer rim.hospital day, patriotic buttons, first world war (1914-18) -
Department of Health and Human Services
Photograph, Bundoora Repatriation Hospital - Day Centre - Decorated Xmas tree with presents underneath - Bundoora Repatriation Hospital - Day Centre - Photographs taken by Patients ( Series 59 ) - Parties & Outings - 1986 To 1992
... Bundoora Repatriation Hospital - Day Centre - Decorated... Melbourne melbourne Photograph Bundoora Repatriation Hospital - Day ... -
Stawell Historical Society Inc
Photograph, Stawell Hospital Pioneers Day Crowd 1933 -- 2 Photos
... Stawell Hospital Pioneers Day Crowd 1933 -- 2 Photos...Stawell Hospital Pioneers Day Crowd 1933... grampians Photograph Stawell Hospital Pioneers Day Crowd 1933 -- 2 ...Stawell Hospital Pioneers Day Crowd 1933stawell hospital -
Stawell Historical Society Inc
Photograph, Stawell Hospital Opening Day with Lady Irvine Officially opening the door of the new hospital 1934
... Stawell Hospital Opening Day with Lady Irvine Officially...Stawell Hospital Opening Day 1934. Lady Irvine Officially... grampians Photograph Stawell Hospital Opening Day with Lady Irvine ...Stawell Hospital Opening Day 1934. Lady Irvine Officially opening the door of the new hospital.stawell hospital -
Department of Health and Human Services
Photograph, Recreation room - Model train set on table at Bundoora Repatriation Hospital Day Centre - Colour Photo
... Repatriation Hospital Day Centre - Colour Photo... on table at Bundoora Repatriation Hospital Day Centre - Colour ... -
Department of Health and Human Services
Photograph, Main dining room set for a celebration with balloons & streamers & tables set at Bundoora Repatriation Hospital Day Centre
... & streamers & tables set at Bundoora Repatriation Hospital Day Centre... Repatriation Hospital Day Centre ... -
Department of Health and Human Services
Photograph, Butterfly - Bundoora Repatriation Hospital - Day Centre
... Butterfly - Bundoora Repatriation Hospital - Day Centre... Hospital - Day Centre ... -
Department of Health and Human Services
Photograph, Bundoora Repatriation Hospital - Day Centre - Peacock walking close by at Picnic Fishing Trip
... Bundoora Repatriation Hospital - Day Centre - Peacock... Melbourne melbourne Photograph Bundoora Repatriation Hospital - Day ... -
Department of Health and Human Services
Photograph, Windows decorated for Xmas party - Christmas 1992 - Bundoora Repatriation Hospital - Day Centre - Photographs taken by Patients - Parties & Outings (Series 59) - Circa 1986 to 1992
... - Bundoora Repatriation Hospital - Day Centre - Photographs taken by... - Christmas 1992 - Bundoora Repatriation Hospital - Day Centre ... -
Department of Health and Human Services
Photograph, A picture of Ward 6 Circa Christmas 1986 - Bundoora Repatriation Hospital - Day Centre - Photographs taken by Patients ( Series 59 ) - Parties & Outings - 1986 To 1992
... Repatriation Hospital - Day Centre - Photographs taken by Patients... 1986 - Bundoora Repatriation Hospital - Day Centre ... -
Department of Health and Human Services
Photograph, Landscape View of a Ward 6 Outing for a BBQ - Bundoora Repatriation Hospital - Day Centre - Photographs taken by Patients ( Series 59 ) - Parties & Outings - 1986 To 1992
... Repatriation Hospital - Day Centre - Photographs taken by Patients... for a BBQ - Bundoora Repatriation Hospital - Day Centre ... -
Department of Health and Human Services
Photograph, Picture of Terminus Guest House on an Outing to Point Lonsdale in 1988 - Bundoora Repatriation Hospital - Day Centre - Photographs taken by Patients ( Series 59 ) - Parties & Outings - 1986 To 1992
... Lonsdale in 1988 - Bundoora Repatriation Hospital - Day Centre... on an Outing to Point Lonsdale in 1988 - Bundoora Repatriation Hospital ... -
Department of Health and Human Services
Photograph, Terminus Guest House Dining Room - Point Lonsdale Trip on 1988 - Bundoora Repatriation Hospital - Day Centre - Photographs taken by Patients ( Series 59 ) - Parties & Outings - 1986 To 1992
... 1988 - Bundoora Repatriation Hospital - Day Centre... - Point Lonsdale Trip on 1988 - Bundoora Repatriation Hospital ... -
Department of Health and Human Services
Photograph, Bundoora Repatriation Hospital - Day Centre - Mine Head (tower that operates lifts down through the mine shaft) at Sovereign Hill Ballarat - Photographs taken by Patients ( Series 59 ) - Parties & Outings - 1986 To 1992
... Bundoora Repatriation Hospital - Day Centre - Mine Head... Melbourne melbourne Photograph Bundoora Repatriation Hospital - Day ... -
Department of Health and Human Services
Photograph, Seaside village & harbour view on UK Tour in 1987 - Bundoora Repatriation Hospital - Day Centre - Photographs taken by Patients ( Series 59 ) - Parties & Outings - 1986 To 1992
... - Bundoora Repatriation Hospital - Day Centre - Photographs taken by... Tour in 1987 - Bundoora Repatriation Hospital - Day Centre ... -
Department of Health and Human Services
Photograph, Bundoora Repatriation Hospital - Day Centre - Singapore Trip 1988 - 1989
... Bundoora Repatriation Hospital - Day Centre - Singapore... Melbourne melbourne Photograph Bundoora Repatriation Hospital - Day ... -
Greensborough Historical Society
Photograph Album, Diamond Valley Community Hospital. Surgical/Day surgery/ Theatre/CSSD, 1990o
... Diamond Valley Community Hospital. Surgical/Day surgery... Community Hospital. Surgical/Day surgery/ Theatre/CSSD. Photo album ...The Diamond Valley Community Hospital was established in 1942 in Grimshaw Street Greensborough. Due to financial circumstances, the hospital closed in 2000. This collection of photo albums is from the 1990s and was collected by staff. Photographs include staff, patients, buildings and functions held for the hospital. Photographs are not named. Albums may be accessed at the GHS Resource Centre. This volume is numbered 2.As the Diamond Valley Community Hospital is now closed, this collection of albums records some of the people involved. Photo album with grey cover. 15 pages, 36 colour photographs of varying sizes. Title typed and pasted on front cover. diamond valley community hospital, greensborough, dvch -
Kew Historical Society Inc
Badge - Fundraising Button, Women’s Day: Women’s Hospital 27th June 1919 [&] Queen Victoria Hospital, 1919
... Women’s Day: Women’s Hospital 27th June 1919 [&] Queen... day to support different hospitals in various urban and rural..."Women’s Day / Women’s Hospital 27th June 1919 [&] Queen... Fundraising Button Badge Women’s Day: Women’s Hospital 27th June 1919 ...Frances Rigg was a local business identity in Kew, at one stage managing the local branch of the English, Scottish and Australian (ES&A) Bank at 175 High Street from c. 1920 until the 1940s. After Francis Rigg’s death, the collection of buttons and medallions was inherited by his son, Ken Rigg (1922-2014). The collection was subsequently donated to the Kew Historical Society in 2015 by Francis' grandson, Adrian Rigg, at the time of the Gallipoli & Beyond Commemoration in 2015. The collection covers a period of almost 40 years. The majority of the buttons are patriotic buttons, issued and sold during and immediately after the First World World War (1914-1918) to raise funds for national and overseas causes. The collection also includes a number of locally significant sporting event buttons and sporting club medallions, issued in the 1920s and 1930s.Patriotic and other pressed tin buttons and badges were produced in large numbers in the first decades of the twentieth century. By nature, insubstantial and ephemeral, they have not always survived. The collections of badges, buttons and medallions in the Kew Historical Society collection is homogenous and yet diverse, ranging from buttons sold to raise funds for the war efforts in 1914-18 and 1939-45, to those used at festivals and sporting events. Because of the manufacturing process, many surviving buttons and badges have been affected by inadequate storage, suffering from oxidisation and physical damage. These survivors are now historically and socially significant artefacts, revealing much about the attitudes and values of the period in which they were produced. Their widespread distribution means that they are frequently significant at a local, state, national and international level.A pressed metal fundraising button released in 1919 to support the Royal Women’s and Queen Victoria Hospitals. In June 1919, The Argus reported that a ‘A well attended public meeting was held at the Town Hall yesterday afternoon to complete arrangements for the Button Day on June 27 in aid of the Women’s and the Queen Victoria Hospital. The Button Fund committee desires it to be known that several busy city sections are still vacant and that further offers of help in the sale of buttons will be welcomed’. It would appear that different buttons were released on the same day to support different hospitals in various urban and rural locations in Victoria."Women’s Day / Women’s Hospital 27th June 1919 [&] Queen Victoria Hospital"patriotic buttons, first world war (1914-18), royal womens hospital, queen victoria hospital, button fund -
Whitehorse Historical Society Inc.
Article, Service with distinction, 1993
... Mitcham Private Hospital open day to celebrate 30th... Private Hospital open day to celebrate 30th anniversary. Hospitals ...Mitcham Private Hospital open day to celebrate 30th anniversary.Mitcham Private Hospital open day to celebrate 30th anniversary.Mitcham Private Hospital open day to celebrate 30th anniversary.hospitals, mitcham private hospital -
The Beechworth Burke Museum
Audio - Oral History, Jennifer Williams, Mr and Mrs Don Hayes, 20th May 2000
... May Day Hills Beechworth Mental Asylum Mental Hospital Asylum ...In this interview we hear from Don and Bobbie Hayes who met and were married in Beechworth. Mrs Hayes was born in Beechworth to a blacksmith and a teacher who had moved to the area not long before she was born in 1925. She discusses her family and the struggle her mother had being a city woman relocated to the bush and into a family who didn't accept her for her Methodist religious beliefs as they were a staunch Catholic family. After working in the Tannery when they first moved to Beechworth from Melbourne, Don got a job in the 1950's at the Beechworth Mental hospital known as Mayday Hills (est. 1862) and continued working there for the next thirty six years. Starting as a nurse Don would be one of three or four staff known then as attendants, who would oversee up to forty patients in a ward taking them out to work the land and gardens or chop wood on the grounds. Mrs Hayes also worked in the Hospital and discusses the need at the time to be earning to pay for large medical bills that came from two of their children, one having a congenital heart problem which was not covered by hospital benefits and the other displaced hips that required surgery. By the end of his time working at the hospital, Don was in charge of the patient training centre where those destined for discharge would be trained on how to cope in the world outside of the hospital grounds they were so used to. Both talk openly and with heartfelt candour, recalling their years spent among the patients of the hospital community, their sense of humour and compassion are evident and although the times and the jobs were definitely hard and the wages low, this couple cared deeply about the people they worked with and sit among those people from the local area who established Beechworth as a significant social welfare region. This oral history recording was part of a project conducted by Jennifer Williams in the year 2000 to capture the everyday life and struggles in Beechworth during the twentieth century. This project involved recording seventy oral histories on cassette tapes of local Beechworth residents which were then published in a book titled: Listen to what they say: voices of twentieth century Beechworth. These cassette tapes were digitised in July 2021 with funds made available by the Friends of the Burke.The significance of this oral history lies in the firsthand accounts from two people who were directly involved in the significant nursing work undertaken at Mayday Hills Mental hospital from the 1950's. Hearing the stories from those who were there and had lived experience, adds depth and we gain valuable insight into how and what the asylum was like for those who worked there and colourful details about the kinds of patients they encountered too, it adds human and personal context to what could otherwise become statistic and abstract information about a historic site. This oral history account is socially and historically significant as it is a part of a broader collection of interviews conducted by Jennifer Williams which were published in the book 'Listen to what they say: voices of twentieth-century Beechworth.' While the township of Beechworth is known for its history as a gold rush town, these accounts provide a unique insight into the day-to-day life of the town's residents during the 20th century, many of which will have now been lost if they had not been preserved.This is a digital copy of a recording that was originally captured on a cassette tape. The cassette tape is black with a horizontal white strip and is currently stored in a clear flat plastic rectangular container. It holds up 40 minutes of recordings on each side.listen to what they say, beechworth, oral history, burke museum, mayday hills hospital, may day hills, beechworth mental asylum, mental hospital, asylum, nursing, hospital, patient training centre, patients, social welfare -
Yarrawonga and Mulwala Pioneer Museum
Red Cross and Patriotic Badges from WW1, 1915-1920's
... Loan 1913. Subscriber,Hospital Day....,Hospital Day. See photo Small badges sold for fundraising during ...Small badges sold for fundraising during WW1Twenty seven small metal badges which were sold for fundraising during WW!. Ten of them relate to Australian, French, Italian, British Red Cross. Others Anzac/Remembrance Day, Peace Loan 1913. Subscriber,Hospital Day.See photo -
Kew Historical Society Inc
Badge, Come Back to God, 1915-1920
... . Like the ‘Hospital Day 1919’ badge, the ‘Come Back to God... buttons. Like the ‘Hospital Day 1919’ badge, the ‘Come Back to God ...Most of the civic and sporting ephemera assembled by Francis Rigg were patriotic buttons. The use of these buttons as a means of raising revenue through patriotic sentiment occurred soon after Australia pledged allegiance to Empire. Buttons reflected ‘public sentiment, courage, patriotism, generosity and several [un- named] virtues’ such as the martyred mother of a ‘fallen’ hero. Attention was paid to attractiveness of design, encoded symbolism and high quality of production. Expressing ‘loyalty’, they were tokens to be kept for perpetuity. Female labour was used to operate the die that compressed the tin backing, photographic print and celluloid cover together. The pin was applied by hand. Women, of all ages, entered into the spirit of voluntary sales. Often they were sold at the entry and exit points of major pedestrian thoroughfares. The women of Kew set up a kiosk in front of the Post Office and the Railway Station to solicit their round, oval and square shaped wares. Pride in salesmanship was affected by publishing the name of the woman and her fiscal achievement in the major newspapers of the day. The badges form part of a collection of ephemera originally purchased by Francis Horace Rigg (19/10/1882-05/03/1946) of 50 Belford Road, Kew (Vic.). Frances Rigg was a local business identity in Kew, ultimately managing the local branch of the English, Scottish and Australian (ES&A) Bank at 175 High Street, Kew from c. 1920 until the 1940s. After Francis Rigg’s death, the collection of buttons and badges was inherited by his son, Ken Rigg (14/11/1922-19/01/2014). The collection was subsequently donated to the Kew Historical Society in 2015 by his grandson Adrian Rigg during the Gallipoli and Beyond Commemoration.The collection covers a period of almost 40 years. The majority of the badges are patriotic buttons, issued and sold during and immediately after World War 1 to raise funds for national and overseas causes. The collection also includes a number of locally significant sporting event buttons and sporting club medallions, issued in the 1920s and 1930s.The use of common symbols for a range of purposes is sometimes a feature of wartime and post-war fundraising buttons. Like the ‘Hospital Day 1919’ badge, the ‘Come Back to God’ badge is within a seven pointed star on a dark blue ground with sprays of wattle; attempting to harness nationalism with religion.Come back to Godbutton -
Tatura Irrigation & Wartime Camps Museum
Collection of Badges (7), 1929-1950's
... . Goulburn Valley F.B. Assn. Tatura demo 30-1-50 4. Hospital day 5.... Tatura demo 30-1-50 4. Hospital day 5. For Our Fighting Men 6 ...Local history of Tatura. Local WW2 history.1. Police exhibition badge 2. Tatura Gardens 1929 3. Goulburn Valley F.B. Assn. Tatura demo 30-1-50 4. Hospital day 5. For Our Fighting Men 6. For Our Own - brown with yellow wattle 7. Eventide Homes 2" -
Ringwood and District Historical Society
Badge - Badges, 31 Badges relating to ANZAC Day, WW1, Red Cross etc. c 1914-1918, c. 1914 - 1918
... . ANZAC DAY (2); Hospital Day; British/Red Cross; King George's..., with a sharp metal pin fastener. ANZAC DAY (2); Hospital Day; British ...Most badges would have been collected during WWIBadges, varying in size from diam 2.2cm to diam 3.2cm. Total 31 badges. Each has a picture on the front and a plain metal back slightly rusting, with a sharp metal pin fastener. ANZAC DAY (2); Hospital Day; British/Red Cross; King George's Day (Copyright); Allies for Freedom and Life; Australian Red/Cross Appeal/1918; I will help until the war is won (2); Hospital/Day/1918; Our fighting men/Australian Comforts Fund; Same 3.2cm diam; Wattle Day (3); Hospital Day/for charity; Discharged Soldiers' Fund/For our Returned Soldiers; French Red Cross; For/Our Own (2); Red Triangle/King/God/Country; Our/Day/Nation/& Honour; Servia/Syria/Armenia; Our Sailors' Day (2); Italian/Red Cross; For Our Fighting Men; ANZAC/Remembrance Day; Our/Day/Nation/& Honor; Three enamel badges:; 1. Red Cross/'Australian Red Cross Society'. Red Cross on white surrounded by annular blue enamel. Crown on top. Diam 1.7cm.; 2. 'Fathers'. Centre of badge brass on red enamel background. Reg No 20169 over 494. Diam 2.6cm.; 3. ARP 'Victoria/ARP/AG121/WARDEN. Crown on top. On rear: 'Issued by State Emergency Council'. H 3.0cm x W 2.6cm.Refer photograph. -
The Beechworth Burke Museum
Photograph
... may day hills hospital... Day Hills Hospital."... nurses quarters, Beechworth Mental Hospital, now May Day Hills ...This photograph was captured in approximately 1900 and depicts the on site nurses homes. During the 1880s, these detached cottages were constructed and provided accommodation for the staff (in this case, the nurses) who lived within the hospital walls. Within the image are weatherboard buildings, a number of nurses and water tanks. Beechworth's Mayday Hills was chosen as the site of Victoria's newest asylum, at the time, due to the landscape and altitude. The hilltop atmosphere and the native fauna, it was argued, would assist in the cure of the patients kept at the hospital (Wood 1985, 122). The positioning of the hospital had a beneficial effect on the rural town. A pamphlet published by James Ingram and Son (1849) reveal that famous landmarks in Beechworth which included the Post Office, Gaol, Courthouse and Asylum "demonstrate the appreciation of Beechworth by the Government not only as as important district center, but also as a site unrivaled as a sanitarium". There were other locations in contention at the time, but ultimately Beechworth was chosen (Craig 2000, 33). Prior to the creation of the Asylum in Beechworth, those charged with having mental illnesses or, as it was termed, "insanity" were unable to be properly cared for in the Gaol (which is where they were often sent). John Buckley Castieau wrote, in 1861 for the Ovens and Murray Advertiser, that the Gaol was unable to properly care for those classified then as "insane" but that they would endeavor to treat them above the other inmates (which he notes is not always the case in other establishments). Castieau wrote this in favour of supporting the building of the Mayday Hills Hospital in Beechworth. It was stated that at the time the Mayday Hills Hospital was built, there were 83 prisoners kept in the Gaol who were to be rehoused to the Hospital on the grounds of "insanity". The classification as someone as "insane", in this period of time is a reflection on the inability to cure and understand illnesses of the mind during the mid to late 1800s. Opening on the 24th of October 1867, the Mayday Hills Hospital was originally named the "Ovens Lunatic Asylum", a title which is very much a product of its time. Whilst controversial, changes to the name is part of the history of the Hospital and can provide much insight into the understanding of mental illness throughout history and the use/disuse of this term provides information into the reception/changing opinions of mental illness in society. The Hospital would later become known as the "Mayday Hills Asylum" and/or "Mayday Hills Hospital" with the latter being the most commonly used title. An article in the Ovens and Murray Advertiser notes that on the 7th of March 1865, the foundation stone of the Hospital was laid (it would officially open in 1867) and that it was such a moment of accomplishment and joy for Beechworth that a letter to the editor even suggested that there should be a holiday dedicated to the day the foundation stone as laid. This reveals an extent to which the townspeople of early Beechworth valued the construction of the Hospital in their town. It provided the town with a sense of prestige and honour.At first glance, the remains of the Mayday Hills Hospital in Beechworth, Victoria, inspire tragedy, trauma and beauty. The buildings themselves, with their Italianate style Renaissance architecture designed by J.J. Clark (Craig 2000, 49 & Smith 2016, 203) reflect a bygone period of European and Australian history. The gardens provide a sense of tranquility and beauty. The experience of those within these walls remains a valuable area of study to provide a more complete understanding. This particular hospital is considered the fourth of its like and one of three identified as the largest of their kind. The Mayday Hills Hospital is a sister to the Kew and Ararat Asylums in Melbourne which are both located in relative proximity. Understanding the role of the Mayday Hills Hospital in Beechworth history is integral to understanding the development of the goldfields town, but also for providing important information as to the history of caring for, and the reception of, mental illnesses in Australian and wider European history. Mayday Hills provides a case study which can be researched through oral history, an analysis of the grounds/buildings and through images like these. Images like these depict the strong façade of the Hospital and provide a glimpse into the tranquility of the gardens. This has been done deliberately to provide a sense of comfort and healing about the building to those looking from the outside. Further research into the importance of the Hospital in Beechworth and it's connection to the town will be supported through images like these kept in the Mayday Hills photo album in the collection of the Burke Museum.Black and white rectangular photograph printed on photographic paper mounted on card"Early nurses quarters, Beechworth Mental Hospital, now May Day Hills Hospital."may day hills hospital, nurses quarters, beechworth, mayday hills, asylum