Showing 8 items matching woolbuyer

Tatura Irrigation & Wartime Camps Museum
Decorative object - Tortoise shell ornament

Lotte Mueller was 16 years old when her parents were interned. Her father was a German Woolbuyer living in Sydney. She was left alone for several months before she was able to join her family in Camp 3Oval shaped ornament/brooch with scalloped edge. An opal has been inserted in the centre with etched lines symbolising the rising sun. A silver native figure holding a boomerang is to the right. A small silver look chain is attached to the top.mueller, hoopman, camp 3, woolbuyer, tatura
Tatura Irrigation & Wartime Camps Museum
Book - Science, The Oric Science Book, 1943

Eberhard Schuster was a German woolbuyer interned in Camp 1, TaturaVery faded pale blue "The Oric" exercise science book. E Schuster. 16a Anal geometric. Nov. 43. Graph pages and lined pages. 2 loose piece of paper insidescience, geometric, schuster e, camp 1, tatura, ww2 camp 1, books, education
Tatura Irrigation & Wartime Camps Museum
Artwork, other - Folder, Woodcuts

Copy of originals made in 1996. Bequeathed to Ken Harvey's son by Friedrich Kirschner. Woodcuts from a German woolbuyer internee in Camp 1 Tatura. Each page has 1 woodcut on it.Plastic folder, white back and spine, soft yellow clear front. Contains 3 plastic sleeves with copies of woodcuts.woodcuts, ken harvey, friedrich kirschner, german woolbuyer, camp 1 tatura
Bendigo Historical Society Inc.
Photograph - MASSEY HARRIS CYCLES: BENDIGO, approx. 1920's

sepia photograph of shop fronts, weatherboard buildings. Window sign, Hennesey births and deaths registrar, skinbuyer. Overhead sign .Massey Harris Cycles and motor agency. Seven adult men in foreground with five bicycles and one motorised rickshaw combination. Geo Tzauer on small overhead sign.organization, business, commercial, ian wild july 2000 : 'hennesy, woolbuyer/wool and rabbit skin merchant. note rickshaw bike on left'
Tatura Irrigation & Wartime Camps Museum
Painting - Painting - Water Colour, Camp 3 with girls

The two girls in the painting are Hedwig Vollmer and Aline Zollinger of Camp 3. The painting is believed to be by J Wolfgarten a German Wooolbuyer. Colour photograph of this painting is filed in the V internee file.Water colour painting of camp huts. Hut painted blue surrounded by gardens. The garden are outlined with bricks. The two window are open. One window has white curtains. Two girls are standing at the door. Both in pale dresses. One girl with blond hair standing on the threshold facing the other girl with dark hair girl who is standing just outside the doorway. 1942 Tatura (a mark before the date perhaps a stylised R)camp 3, german internees, german woolbuyer, camp huts, internment camp gardens, camp water colours
Tatura Irrigation & Wartime Camps Museum
Souvenir - Coins, Australian Pennies, 1938 and 1940

These coins belonged to Wilhelm Eckels who was a wool buyer in Sydney when war broke out. He was interned in Camp 1, aged 22 years.2 Australian pennies, 1938 and 1940. Kings head on one side has been erased and "Tatura Meister 1942" (Tatura Master 1942) has been stamped or etched on it. Australian Penny on other side.as abovewilhelm eckels, woolbuyers, australian penny 1940, australian penny 1938, tatura meister
Tatura Irrigation & Wartime Camps Museum
Document - Folder, Recollections of Eberhard Schuster, Post WW2

Written post war by a German National who was working as a wool-buyer in Sydney when WW2 was declared. Describes initial internment in temporary camps then mainly in Camp 1, Tatura, where he relates the conditions therein, and the activities which the prisoners undertook in order to relieve the monotony of imprisonment.older donated by E. Schuster.Written by a former German held as an enemy alien in Camp 1, Tatura, The work is of historic, social and educational significance. it provides a complete description, of how German males working in Australia at the outbreak of war were captured and held in internment. It describes the conditions and many of the features existing in Camp 1. Grey side bound plastic cover containing printed matter in plastic sleeves. CD included.Eberhard Schustereberhard schuster, german woolbuyers
Tatura Irrigation & Wartime Camps Museum
Photograph, Interned Woolbuyers

Wool Buyers Interned 1939 from Sydney. Standing: P. Buettner; H. Becker; E. Noltenius; H. Schuster; F. Karpe; J. Wolfgarten; G. Fabarius; P. Hauff; P. Reuter; F. Hoffmann. Centre: Senior Buyers: J. Eckardt; G. Weisspflog; F. Kirschner; C. Heckmanns; Hans Beck. Front: W. Eckels; K. Waldthausen; A. Scheidt; H. Keil; R. Schoeller.Black and white photograph of 3 rows of men (1 row standing, 1 row sitting and 1 row squatting) in front of some trees and bushes. Some of the men are in suits others no suit jackets.143 in centre frontbuettner, becker, notenius, schuster, karpe, wolfgarten, fabarius, hauff, reuter, hoffmann, eckhardt, weisspflog, kirschner, heckmanns, beck, eckels, waldthausen, scheidt, keil, schoeller, woolbuyers, haynes, camp 1