Newspaper clipping about the gold rush in Whroo.

Tan soft covered book with dark brown print of title and author and a coloured photograph of a hut, horse and wagon and man on the wagon and two men standing out the front of the house.

gold rush, whroo, alan mclean

A pictorial history of Shepparton's buildings and businesses.

dark tan coloured soft covered book with black printing of title, author, border and picture. Back is plain.

shepparton buildings, sheppparton businesses, ingrid turner, wyndham street, high street, maude street, fryers street

Framed copy of original Publican's License*. Printed Licence with hand written details. black fram and buff coloured matt. *as spelt on Licence

Original copy of magazine which was done in the internment camps during WW2. In the possession of Captain MacInnes.

Multiple loose pages of typed, drawn and hand written articles, drawings etc with a brown front cover with title and dates in black. Tied together with two holes punched in left side and a piece of cord, threaded through and tied.

Behind the fence, Sept 1940 - September 1941

behind the fence, captain macinnes, internment camp magazine

Original menu for farewell dinner for Captain MacInnes.

tan piece of paper. landscape, folded in half. Front cover has a colour drawing of a ship, flying the medical red cross emblem. Under this is hand writing in black ink and the medical insignia of a snake and wand and wreath. Inside on right page, in black ink, handwritten is the menu. Back page, in black in is the signature of people whom attended the function.

Farewell Dinner to Captain A MacInnes, D Company 17th Garrison Battalion

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Made at the internment camps, during WW2 by the internees. This one was made to celebrate the first anniversary of their internment. Only 20 copies were made and this one is number 17. Contains program for the celebration, a water colour of the huts done, list of the board of lecturers, a black and white postcard of the carving of the Arandora Star memorial, a poem "Rubbish" by Volkmann, a description of what is and what represents the Collegium and a sketch entitled "turning his back" by Kurt Winkler.

Soft cover of brown paper with title of booklet in black ink on front.

Collegium Taturense Anniversary 1941 - 1941 (picture of an own and cockatoo sitting on a twig under which is written "eppyr si mvove"

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Hardcover publication with a dust cover featuring a black and white photograph "threshing at Oakley in 1907. John Donaldson's machine, Andrew James Donaldson operating. Title lettering in Green and white.

non-fiction

william donaldson, rose donaldson, cheryl elliot, temora, tatura, donaldson, harston

non-fiction

A history of "Nimitybelle" the property at Tatura East settled by pioneering selector Robert Craven and is descendants, who through the generations have taken turn as custodians. The book was compiled by Lynne McCartney.

nimitybelle, tatura, tatura east, craven, mccartney

Australia Post Wall mounted postage stamp vending machine used to dispense stamps.

Metal postage stamp vending machine. Wall Mounted. Embossed letters POSTAGE STAMPS on front. Horizontal slots for coins have been covered with plates stating NOT IN USE and OUT OF SERVICE. White metal plate with the wording STAMPS 5 CENTS. Two Key holes. Recepticle for the dispensing of stamps with a lift up lid with Embossed words LIFT.

Postage Stamps; lift;

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Cotton off white pillowcase with green and sepia label attached.

Guaranteed British Manufacture.

German Kormoran survivors going ashore

Tells the life story of Ethel May Punshon, from Ballarat to St Kilda Victoria, spanning over a century and the crucial historical events she witnessed.

Soft cover paperback. Front cover has white writing for title and author. Pink and orange speckled background. Lady in a brown jacket and tie, with cream shirt and holding a double barrel shotgun. Spine is speckled orange with book title in white. Authors name in a white section. Back cover is orange and pink speckled with a white section giving a blurb about the book and author.

ethel may punshon, monte, miss montague, mickey and erica morley, camp 3 internment camp

Dr Frederich Kaempfe, a Chemist, was interned in Camp 3. He was captured in Iran on 15/09/1941 and transferred on the Rangitiki to Loveday South Australia. Transferred to Tatura in Feb 1945 and released to Sydney on 20 July 1946.

Pastel drawing of a large gum tree surrounded by smaller gum tress in an undulating paddock.Blue hills in the background.

F. Kaempte 1945

camp 3, tatura, painting, gum tree, pastel, art work, kaempfe, chemist

Written by Hans Wolter von Gruenewaldt, a German internee, who was interned at Camp 13. A theatre group was established within the Camp to present plays and concert performances and thus Die Nibelungen, a trnditional German Legend by Hempel was to be staged. There are 3 editions of this book. This is a copy of Hans Wolter's original version.

White cardboard front and back with a black strip as edge binder. Title in black with D and N in red. 24 pages in soft cardboard.

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Author Margot Warnett grew up on a Dairy farm just outside Tatura

A4 size paperback book with predominantly blue sky and an illustration of two girls standing on a wire farm gate. One girls has a purple check dress on, black gum boots and holding a white rabbit. The other girls has a blue dress, gum boots and holding a black duck. A white and brown horse, a calf, a sheep and farm dog and a lizard are also in the picture. The two girls are also pictured on the back cover.

Written by Margot Warnett Illustrated by Julie Haysom

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Mauve and Pink cover with a painting of a large brown lace up boot. The book title is depicted on a wrought iron sign.

non-fiction

Berlin, 2010: A deathbed promise launches Kathy Giuliano on a quest for the truth about her family during World War II. Alone, she travels to Berlin in search of an enigmatic octogenarian who holds the keys to the past. The only clues to his identity and whereabouts and are a black-and-white photograph and an outdated address in Reinickendorf. England, 1938: After fleeing Nazi Germany for the safety of England, a teenage boy is captured when Churchill gives the order to 'collar the lot'. One of 2,000 prisoners on the hell-ship Dunera, he is sent to Australia. At the 'family camp', he makes footwear and forms life-long friendships. Eight years later, what does he find when he returns to Berlin? Victoria, 1943: With the Japanese at Australia's doorstep, a mother and daughter are arrested at their cane farm in far north Queensland and sent 'down south'. Their crime? Teaching the Italian language to school-children. The internment camp at Tatura changes everything. The secrets they share must be kept for the rest of their lives.

ww2 italians, internment, tatura, queensland, debbie terranova, berlin