Historical information
An image from the Herbert Richmond collection, gifted in 1982 to the Ballarat Library. The collection contains approximately 200 photographs of Ballarat and district in the 1940s, 50s and 60s, as well as photo albums, glass negatives and other memorabilia.
Herb Richmond was a keen photographer, a foundation member and a life member of the Ballarat Camera Club, and a photographer with the Ballarat Courier during the 1940s. The Ballarat Camera Club named an annual award after him. Mr Richmond died in 1981 aged 79.
These images were digitally re-photographed by members of the Ballarat Camera Club in September 2006.
Australia’s first monument to a poet is a statue of the Scot, Robert Burns with his dog, carved from marble in Italy by sculptor John Udny, unveiled in 1887.
