Part of a collection of photographs previously housed at Victorian Wool Processors (VWP), who were the last early stage wool processing company in Melbourne, and the second last in Victoria. The photographs were collected from other companies as they closed, and were donated to the museum by David Ritchie who was the General Manager at VWP. Victoria Wool Processors (Aust) Pty Ltd was founded by Jim Kim in 1983 as a dedicated international wool trading firm. Seeking greater quality control, the company opened its first physical processing plant in Melbourne in 1990 before scaling up to a state-of-the-art, 24-hour carbonising and scouring facility at Laverton North in 2002. For decades, it stood as one of the largest early-stage wool processing operations in the Southern Hemisphere, known for incorporating modern water-recycling and waste-management infrastructure. However, a severe domestic energy crisis and soaring natural gas prices forced the permanent closure of its manufacturing plant in December 2024, culminating in the company's official corporate liquidation in April 2026. This photo shows the final sale to take place at the Melbourne Wool Selling Centre located off Geelong Road in Brooklyn, Victoria on 30th June 2010.Colour photograph featuring a group portrait of people seated and standing inside a room.front: [printed] SOUTHERN WOOL TRADE / Final sale at 691 Geelong Rd. Brooklyn / 30/06/2010victorian wool processors, melbourne wool selling centre, early wool processing, textile industry, jim kim, wool trading, trade, sale

The Cat No 8290 pre this is the Minute book related to "The Kangaroo Flat Soldiers Memorial fund project". These letters, documents, name lists, sketches, quotes all revolve around the project to build a Memorial. They are dated from 31.10.1917 to 12.4.1921. This also includes documentation to have a "War Trophy(s)" on the site. At this time in history Kangaroo Flat was part of the Marong Shire not Bendigo. .1) 1917. These two letters are addressed to Roderick Coutts who was the Secretary of the Memorial Committee. .2) 1918.These letters & documents are broken up into 14 groups (a - n) all re the Kangaroo Flat Memorial. (a) Shire of Marong x two dated 7.6.1918 & 4.10.1918. (b) J.B. Wilson Monumental Sculptures x three dated 2.5.1918 to 9.10.1918. (c) J. Harris Monumental and General Masons dated 6.5.1918. (d) P Finn & Co General Masons dated 21.5.1918. (e) W & R Quinn General Masons dated 21.5.1918. (f) A. M. Irwin Builder & Contractors x two dated 10.11.1918 & 18.11.1918. (g) Herbert Keck & Sons Nurseryman and Orchardist dated 18.9.1918. (h) Department of Public Works x three dated 13.5.1918 - 24.9.1918 - 27.9.1918. (i) Education Department Melbourne x six re State School No 981 Kangaroo Flat dated 6 .3.1918 to 29.8. 1918. (j) Letters x two re R Coutts dated 6.2.1918 & 4.3.1918. (k) Kangaroo Flat & District Soldiers Memorial Fund x one Coutts to Okey. (l) McColl, Rankin & Stanistreet Legal Managers & Accountants x one dated 5.12.1918. (m) Snowden, Neave & Demaine Solicitors & Co x two dated 24.1.1918 & 7.8.1918. (n) Auditors report x one dated 16.12.1918. .3) 1919. Letters x two from "Myr - Nong" Elsternwick to Mr Okey dated 19.3.1919 & 31.3.1919. .4) 1920. Letters x two from the "Prime Ministers Department & Australian Military Forces 3rd Military District" dated 4.3.1920 & 8.3.1920. .5) Six miscellaneous items, only one has a date. (a) Short note re a donation to the Memorial. (b)Price list for Soldiers Memorial works. (c) Sketch in pencil re "Cyclone Spring coil". (d) Letter in Pencil, has a date "Wed April 10th" regarding the final site of the Memorial either, a block of ground in front of the Methodist Church or a block of ground in front of State School. Both fronted the Main Road. Mrs Allen donated the block in front of the School, this offer was accepted. (e) Sketch plan in pencil and red ink showing a proposal of how the site would look with the Memorial on. (f) Two sections of paper pinned together, one in ink, one in pencil. The ink piece is name listed 1 - 65 and some names have notations written next to and is double sided. The notations are "Returned or Killed". The pencil listing has a list of 18 names with "Killed" next to. The other part has 45 names. On the rear of this one is some pencil notes, a sketch and re a meeting on "June 5th". .6) Newspaper cuttings x 2. one relates the site chosen for the Kangaroo Flat Soldiers Memorial being the block in front of the school and donated by Mrs Allen. The other relates to the Repatriation Commission and the costing of local Memorials. .7) War trophy documents & correspondence. (a & b) Dated 10th & 17th December 1918 re application for War trophies replied by the State Parliament House Melbourne. (c) Dated 24 the October 1919. From the Australian War Museum - Wool Exchange King Street Melbourne. (d & e) Dated 22.10.1919 & 8.10.1920. From the Victorian State Trophy Committee and State Parliament. (f) Dated 17th April 1921. From the Victorian State Trophy Committee re allotment of a War trophy. (g) Double sided correspondence with "V98a" at top details the process of allotting War trophies, the Committee, conditions, town size and what is allotted per size. Stamped in purple is "One Machinegun". .1) 1917.Two letters, white paper, ruled lines with black ink hand writing, dated 31.10.1917 & 5.12.1917, the October letter has pencil notes on the rear. .2) 1918. Twenty six letters, documents, quotes either hand written in black pen, pencil, black & purple typed, Business names re letter heads some with images dating from 24.1.1918 ot 30.12.1918. .3) 1919. Two letters all in black pen, one has two pages, both letters have same heading stamp at the top in purple. Dated 19.3.1919 & 31.3.1919. .4) 1920. Two letters typed in black, both have a letter head, dated 4.3.1920 & 8.3.1920. .5) Items. Six miscellaneous items, letter, lists, prices, sketches of the proposed memorial site. .6) Articles. Two Newspaper clippings, yellowed black print, one has been found being 18.4.1918. .7) War trophies. Seven letters and documents, six have a date relating to "War Trophies", black and purple print, dates are 17.2.1918 to 12.4.1921. Sizes vary from note pad size to Foolscap.brsl, smirsl, kfsmf, letters

Book. ALEC H CHISHOLM COLLECTION. 75 page brown cover hardback describing the wool industry in Australia from growing to the manufacturing process. Prepared by the staff of Goldsborough, Mort & Co. Ltd. A soft cover booklet enclosed in a hardcover. Set up and printed in 1946 by the Victorian Printing Works Pty. Ltd., Melbourne. Inside the front cover, handwritten in green biro ''This is a booklet I edited. The MS was sloppy and the title cumbersome, when it came to me. A. H. Chisholm.'' Pasted on the flyleaf is a typed letter from Goldsborough, Mort and Company to A. H. Chisholm thanking him for revising this publication and attaching a cheque for 50 pounds. Catalogue sticker ''2151 CHI'' on front cover.Goldsborough, Mort and Companybooks, collections, australiana, alec h chisholm collection, goldsborough, mort & company, wool industry

Father of the donor, Mervyn Graham, worked for Denny Lascelles for many years as a wool classer in Geelong and later as a representative in Hamilton. The Denny Lascelles Wool Warehouse was the first building in Victorian planned to facilitate storage, inspection and marketing of wool in one operation, and upon completion was the second largest store in the colony. CJ Denny's was largely responsible for establishment and development of the wool marketing industry in Geelong and is a figure of significance in the history of settlement in Geelong.Black and white photos showcase different rooms of the Denny Lascelles building and the process of classing the wool within the store, from classing the wool to packaging and transportation.8080.7 - On wool press - Made by Johns & Waygood LTD. Melbourne Australia 8080.10 - On truck - Blackiston & Co PTY. LTD. Road transporters. Geelong & Melb.denny lascelles, geelong, wool, wool class, transportation

Nicholas Caire was born on Guernsey in the Channel Islands in 1837. He arrived in Adelaide with his parents in about 1860. In 1867, following photographic journeys in Gippsland, he opened a studio in Adelaide. From 1870 to 1876 he lived and worked in Talbot in Central Victoria. In 1876 he purchased T. F. Chuck's studios in the Royal Arcade Melbourne. In 1885, following the introduction of dry plate photography, he began a series of landscape series, which were commercially successful. As a photographer, he travelled extensively through Victoria, photographing places few of his contemporaries had previously seen. He died in 1918. Reference: Jack Cato, 'Caire, Nicholas John (1837–1918)', Australian Dictionary of Biography.An original, rare photograph from the series 'Views of Victoria: General Series' by the photographer, Nicholas Caire (1837-1918). The series of 60 photographs that comprise the series was issued c. 1876 and reinforced a neo-Romantic view of the Australian landscape to which a growing nationalist movement would respond. Nicholas Caire was active as a photographer in Australia from 1858 until his death in 1918. His vision of the Australian bush and pioneer life had a counterpart in the works of Henry Lawson and other nationalist poets, authors and painters.albumen silver photograph on boardprinted in ink on support l.c.: VIEW ON THE RIVER MURRAY, NEAR ECHUCA, SHOWING THE RAILWAY WHARF WITH STEAMERS UNLOADING. / COPYRIGHT REGISTERED. printed in ink on support reverse c.: VIEWS OF VICTORIA. / (GENERAL SERIES.) / No. 7. / VIEW ON THE RIVER MURRAY, NEAR ECHUCA, SHOWING THE RAILWAY WHARF WITH STEAMERS UNLOADING. / The rapidly increasing traffic on the River Murray, with wool, timber, and other colonial produce, has called / into requisition no less than 400 steamers and over 1000 barges. To meet this growing emergency the Victorian / Government has expended several thousand pounds in the erection of a Railway Wharf which during the wool- / season presents a very busy scene, the crowded steamers laden with precious clip taxing to the utmost the / powers of the Railway Department in the process of unloading. The River here is about a quarter of a mile wide, / and is from 60 to 70 feet deep. printed in ink on support reverse l.c.l.: J.W. FORBES, Agent, printed in ink on support reverse l.c.: ANGLO-AUSTRALASIAN PHOTOGRAPHIC COMPANY, MELBOURNE. printed in ink on support reverse l.c.r.: 10 Temple Court, Collins Street West.nicholas caire (1837-1918), landscape photography, river murray, echuca