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A footed copper fireguard round topped to compliment the Victorian fire surround.
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Hymettus Cottage & Garden
Fireguard, Copper fireguard
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Hymettus Cottage & GardenNewspaper - Herald Sun
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Hymettus Cottage & GardenNewspaper - MX, There aren't enough hugs to make this pain go away
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bushfire, black saturday bushfires, victorian bushfires, kinglake, warnambool, marion taffe, mx, newspaper, davey family
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Hymettus Cottage & Garden
Decorative object - Valance, Dining room Valance
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Hymettus Cottage & Garden
Textile - curtain, Parlour window Valance
This example of a late 1920s valance retained in the front parlour at Hymettus is a part of the period decoration and still fills its purpose of a century ago in concealing the curtain rails. of the room. Although the house was built 1900 -1901 the room was redecorated in the late 1920s.
A rare surviving example of a silk patterned and machine embroidered valance in situ since the 1920s.
valance, window, parlour, hymettus, ballarat
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Hymettus Cottage & GardenWork on paper - sketch, Off the New Guinea Coast
One of a series of sketches in 1943 by war artist Geoffrey Mainwaring while covering the war in the Pacific. Mainwaring went on to take charge of the Art department at the School of Mines Ballarat, SMB now Federation University.
war, landing craft, mainwaring, ballarat smb, sketch, war in the pacific, new guinea, war artist
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Hymettus Cottage & GardenBook - Catechism
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Hymettus Cottage & GardenBook - Souvenir Book, Ballarat Centenary Home-Coming Celebrations
non-fiction
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Hymettus Cottage & GardenPhotograph - Dust storm, Dust storm in Malley
malley, dust storm, nature
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Hymettus Cottage & GardenCertificate - Ticket, Centenary of Eureka License
non-fiction
eureka centenary, ballarat, certificate
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Booklet - Souvenir Booklet, Eureka Official Souvenir
non-fiction
eureka stockade, ballarat, eureka centenary, souvenir, eureka improvement and progress association, peter lalor
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Hymettus Cottage & GardenMedal
Brass band instrumental music competitions were enthusiastically followed in Australia in the early twentieth century. Ballarat was a leading centre for these musical competitions and Michael Taffe played cornet and flugelhorn with several local brass bands. He was Australian Junior Cornet solo Champion in 1920 and won the open section of the instrumentals at the VRI competitions held in the ballroom at Flinders Street Station in 1924.
michael taffe, victorian railways institute, cornet solo, flinders street station ballroom
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Work on paper - Drawing, German Prisoner of War
prisoner of war, world war i, lindsay family, drawing, german,
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Hymettus Cottage & GardenWork on paper - Brochure, Welcome to The City of Ballaarat
non-fiction
city of ballaarat, welcome, ballarat, lake wendouree, rowing, canoeing, 1956, southern hemisphere,
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Hymettus Cottage & GardenBooklet - Royal Australian Mint Catalogue, Issue, No 56. Eureka Stockade 1854
eureka stockade, royal australian mint
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Hymettus Cottage & GardenWork on paper - Book, Sky High to Shanghai
non-fiction
frank clune, china, nathan spielvogel, travel, australian writers
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Hymettus Cottage & GardenWork on paper - Newspaper article, Bicentennial gift
mt pleasant school, ballarat, bicentenary, michael taffe, francis ellis, tree planting
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Hymettus Cottage & GardenFurniture - Bed, Iron Bedstead
On timber matress base/frame stamped Tunbridge & Sons Ballarat.
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Hymettus Cottage & GardenBook - Memorial Book, Parchi E Viali Della Rimembranza
non-fiction
avenues of honour, remembrance, world war i, italy
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Hymettus Cottage & GardenBook - Naturalist book, From Range to Seas a bird lover's ways
non-fiction
ruby lindsay, naturalist, barrett, art nouveau, creswick, ballarat
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Hymettus Cottage & GardenWork on paper - Folder, Olympic Guide Melbourne 1956
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Hymettus Cottage & GardenBook - Invitation Book
non-fiction
olympic games, melbourne, australia, invitation to holld olympic games
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Hymettus Cottage & GardenWork on paper - Book, Abstract and Analysis of the Evidence taken by A Select Committee of the Assembly of Victoria in the Case of George Dunmore Lang Late Manager and Frederic Lee Drake Late Assistant of the Bank of New South Wales at Ballaarat
Rev John Dunmore Lang's defence of his son who was imprisoned for his part in the fraud at the Bank of New South Wales Ballarat and Clunes in 1854.Small 95 page booklet published in 1857 by Fairfax, Melbourne and inscribed by W. D. Lang.
non-fiction
Rev John Dunmore Lang's defence of his son who was imprisoned for his part in the fraud at the Bank of New South Wales Ballarat and Clunes in 1854.
drake, lang, rev john dunmore lang, ballarat, clunes, select committee of enquiry
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Hymettus Cottage & GardenWork on paper - Book, The Affair at Eureka
eureka stockade, ballarat, nathan spielvogel
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Hymettus Cottage & GardenWork on paper - Booklet, Souvenir of the Centenary of the Eureka Stockade 1854 - 1954
non-fiction
eureka stockade, centenary, sydney, fellowship of australian writers, mary gilmore
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Hymettus Cottage & GardenWork on paper - Memoir
non-fiction
memoir, spielvogel, ballarat, dimboola
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Hymettus Cottage & GardenBook - Instruction Book, Transportation of Goods 1929
victorian railways, michael taffe, ballarat, transportation of goods,
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Hymettus Cottage & GardenPhotograph - Wedding Photograph, Archibald Burke and Eleanor McKew wedding day
burke, mckew, st arnaud, wedding photography
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Hymettus Cottage & GardenPhotograph - Tintype, Archibald Burke
burke, st arnaud, donald, photograph, tintype
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Hymettus Cottage & GardenDecorative object - Picture Frame, Celtic Frame
irish, celtic, pokerwork, picture frame, arts and crafts,
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Hymettus Cottage & GardenFurniture - Overmantle, Edwardian Overmantle
An example of the furniture manufactured on the goldfields at Ballarat c.1900. Originally the business was established by Emanuel Steinfeld furniture manufacturer and retailer, who settled at Ballarat and in 1856 opened his furniture warehouse. Steinfeld left the Ballarat in 1881 and lived at St Kilda. He left his Ballarat business in the hands of two nephews, Sussman & Kornblum who continued the business in their own name.
An example of colonial cabinet making in one of Ballarat's pioneering furniture manufacturing businesses that was founded in the 1850s.
Backstamp of Sussman & Kornblum Ballarat
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