In 1980, Arthur James McKay wrote the story of life, from early days at home in Sale to journeying between the workshop at RVIB and a working musician.1 word file of Arthur McKay's autobiographyarthur mckay, rvib school, bert kelton, miss bryan, alan campbell, ken campbell, frank plumstead, george findlay, david palmer, rvib orchestra, dancing, s.w. hedger, charlotte briggs, harry van assche, geoff palmer, 3db radio station, merle grenfell, brother p.g. o'neill, alex sauter, radio club, phyllis gration, trojan club, recreation, rita nightingale, bert harris, fred sutcliffe, dick sutcliffe, jack murphy, david bell, malvern tramways band, wirths brothers circus, melbourne museum, jack cox, botanical gardens, education, evelyn holden, waldemar seidel, jack sweeney, auxiliaries, william mallenson, hugh jeffrey, ormond hall, kitty rayner, neil westh, raleigh street hostel, murray parker, villa maria society, james sutton crowe, john cowan, myrtle middleton, jim watson, walter clemson, bill jones, cricket, edward (ted) hanlon, norm rees, harry finlayson, donald forbes, g dent, geoffrey green, olinda, norma allen, kiat so, melrose house for the blind, harold gration, joe morton, employment, charlie bradley, jim smith, blind workers union, lorna cole, australian federation of blind citizens, guild of professional blind, fred jones, ken swadesir, st paul's school for the blind, alfred dovey, rvib rifle club, david blyth, gordon duxbury, betty bridge, elsie mead, keith holdsworth, barbara gillott, thomas walter mitchell, dr charles bennett, lady nell seeing eye dog school

The Ballarat Technical Art School was a division of the Ballarat School of MinesA hard covered ledger with marbled cover and brown tape spine. It includes students names. A selection of names can be found in the keywords.ballarat technical art school, frank young, r. hager, g.w. kelly\drawing, carpentry, smelting, treatment, assay, w. wilson yong, treatment of pyrites, g.m. vare, alfred seely, t. trengrove, w. pearce, c.v. day, john heinz, m. ditchburn, d. ditchburn, w. baragwanath, g. cornell, chemistry, w. wardle, j.j. carroll, julia carroll, h. murphy, d.m. lenehan, joh caley, h. fleahy, alfred gordon, effie dulfer, b. lloyd, p. papenhager, h.j. waller, k. malcolm, esther daniel, john watson, harry leggo, r. john allan, basil reid, e. wasley, w. richard, edgar lamb, rita webb, sophia mccartney, arnold cowdell, thomas glover, m. hamburger, r. allan, r.w. holmes, a. dobbie, a. slade, w. pepper, r. gilpin, w.a. gossman, james a. bass, w.t. bass, thomas lynch, stanley batten, murial hart, essie herbert, david o. nightingale, george p. hayes, j.a. powell, w. amor, c.f. wilson, bertram g. wheal, thomas wade, h. woodward, v. symons, robert j. allan, thomas woolcock, john w. williams, r. shand, william caldwell, charles lyons, ruby webb, a. trehowan, nicholas white, thomas commons, otto rieglhuth, james kidd, james bass, justus angwin, john munro, james ronaldson, a.b. osborne, g.j. boudry, john sprague, leslie c. langsford, john don, waller e. hearman, j.c. pickford, edwinn penn, w.g. price, thomas mann, william brokenshire, john blayney, arthur mccooey, samuel walmsley, matilda lees, e.w. campbell, ernest wiliams, william john pearce, w.l. bailleu, thomas proctor, daisy ditchburn, maurice hamburger, james dando, nelson humphrey, james pyke, james c. pickford, john coad, george richard pratt, ferguson boyce, ernest whettle, william lamb, john cawley, christina watson, ivor davies, percy la gerche, norman gaunt, william bolte, leonard p. seal, alex young, george penny, w. caircross, harold frew, robert allan, james h. holst, george green, herbert semmens, john ronaldson, william robinson, james paterson, walter douglas, louisa roberts, james swenson, austin woods, herbert hillman, william cairncross, harry blyth, john craford, william h. callister, clare gartery, daisy batten, j. attenborough, herbert o'neilk, j.f. lynch, fred holst, a. doepel, horace giles, john perry, samuel morrow, thomas hawthorn, george britnall, alan j. acton, jessie cantwell, franci a. horsfall, william stubbs, john sutherland, percy russell, richard walsh, oliver jager, garfield bolton, thomas vincent, james holst, j.a. hill, william charles hughes, a. vale, james lonie, karl moore