Photograph - Colour - Sydney Harbour Bridge from Lavender Bay, 2019

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From the Collection of Ballarat Heritage Services PO Box 2209 Bakery Hill Post Office Victoria

Description: Colour photograph of the Sydney Harbour Bridge taken in close proximity to Wendy's Garden.
Object Registration: 04136
Keywords: sydney harbour bridge, sydney, lavender bay
When Made: 12/07/2019
Made By: Clare Gervasoni (Maker)
Last updated: 7 Aug 2019 at 10:50PM

Image - Edward Wilson, found of The Argus Newspaper

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Black and white portrait of Edward Wilson

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Image - Graham Berry, K.C.M.G.

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Black and white portrait of Graham Berry.

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Sir Graham Berry, KCMG (28 August 1822 – 25 January 1904),[1] Australian colonial politician, was the 11th Premier of Victoria. He was one of the most radical and colourful figures in the politics of colonial Victoria, and made the most determined efforts to break the power of the Victorian Legislative Council, the stronghold of the landowning class. (Wikipedia)

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Image - Alfred Deakin M.H.R.

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Black and white image of Alfred Deakin.

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Alfred Deakin (3 August 1856 – 7 October 1919) was an Australian politician who served as the second Prime Minister of Australia, in office for three separate terms – 1903 to 1904, 1905 to 1908, and 1909 to 1910. Before entering office, he was a leader of the movement for Australian federation. (Wikipedia)

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Image - Typical Mountain Ash Forest

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Black and white image of a woodcutter in a Mountain Ash Forest, Victoria. The trees attained a height exceeding 91 metres (300 feet).

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Image - Sturt Street, Ballarat, c1934

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Black and white image of Sturt Street, Ballarat, looking towards the Titanic Bandstand.

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Image - Melbourne in 1839

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A drawing of Melbourne in 1839.

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Image - Shrine of Remembrance, Melbourne, c1934

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Photograpic image of Melbourne's Shrine of Remembrance.

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The design for the Shrine of Remembrance was selected by competition among Australian artists and architects. Eighty-three designs were submitted and the winning design was by two Melbourne returned-soldier architects, Philip Hudson and James Wardrop. The inspiration for the external outline came from one of the seven wonders of the ancient world—the mausoleum at Halicarnassus to Mausolus, King of Caria in South West Asia Minor. Although the country was faced with frightful unemployment and financial difficulty in the late 1920s and the 1930s, so great was the gratitude of the people that the huge amount required to build the Shrine was raised or promised within six months from the opening of the appeal in 1928. (https://www.shrine.org.au/About-Us/History) Lodge Bros were commissioned to build the Shrine of Remembrance in St Kilda Rd in the late 1920s. In 1947, Lodge Bros were manufacturing a further stage at the Shrine of Rememberance, that being the carving and fixing of the bluestone servicemen on the top of the 1939-1945 War Memorial at the Eternal Flame. When funding became available for the new undercroft development at the front of the Shrine in 2001, the Shrine Trustees were eager to explore the possibility of the original stonemasons who built the Shrine, to complete the new development. This came to fruition in 2002-2003 when Lodge Bros constructed all the exterior walls of the undercroft development. Phil Luchetta (Managing Director) was able to source and secure the use of the same granite from Tynong Victoria that was used in the original works of the 1930s.

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Image - Melbourne in 1866

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A drawing of Melbourne in 1837.

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Image - Melbourne in 1837

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A drawing of Melbourne in 1837.

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Image - Collins Street, Melbourne in 1840

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A drawing of Collins Street, a main street in Melbourne Victoria. Aborigines stand in the foreground overlooking the scene.

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Image - Surgeon George Bass

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Black and white portrait of explorer and surgeon George Bass.

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Image - Edward Henty, c1887

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Portrait of Edward Henty

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Image - David Syme

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Reproducation of a image of David Syme.

Historical information

David Syme (1827-1908) was a newspaper proprietor who was born on 2 October 1827 at North Berwick, Scotland. Early in 1851, he went via Cape Horn to California seeking gold. By mid-1852 he was in Melbourne, and in the next three years prospected with some success on Ballarat, Bendigo, Castlemaine and Beechworth diggings. In 1855 he lost a possible fortune at Egerton near Ballarat when a promising claim was jumped. Ebenezer Syme bought the insolvent Melbourne Age for £2000, and invited David Syme to take up a share. In September 1856 Syme put up some cash and his contracting business to obtain a half-share. He helped to manage the paper but returned to contracting late in 1857. When Ebenezer retired in 1859 Syme reluctantly returned to the business, and on Ebenezer's death next year he began his fifty-year career as publisher and editor of the Age. (C. E. Sayers, 'Syme, David (1827–1908)', Australian Dictionary of Biography, National Centre of Biography, Australian National University, http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/syme-david-4679/text7741, published first in hardcopy 1976, accessed online 25 August 2019._

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