Small folded cardboard Syllabus - Ringwood Garden Club . 1995

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"Written on back of photograph" Samuel & Elizabeth Cutts

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"Written on front of photograph" Mechanics Hall - now Town Hall. November 6th, 1926. Attached to photograph - Two newspaper clippings of proposed Town Hall - Dated 1st September -1936. (mhc 146a)

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"Written on back of photograph" Douglas Manson McAlpin

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"Written on front of photograph" Lady Stall Holders- Mechanics Institute Bazaar Refer also to identical image located in NWD 02-09-05 ,Reg No ce0003(a) . This image lists some names on back.

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"Attached to photograph" North Ringwood Cricket Club. 1936-37 Names of team members included. Refer 10285(a)

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"Attached to photograph" North Ringwood Cricket Club. 1937-38. Premiers 'A' Grade R.D.C.A Names of team members included. Refer 10284(a)

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"Attached to photograph" North Ringwood Cricket Club. 1935-36. Runners up, 'B' Grade, R.D.C.A. Names of team members included. Refer 10283(a)

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"On front of photograph" Certificate presented to Mr John Hill ,Superintendant of Ringwood East Methodist Church and Sunday School. Image shows 3 members of McAlpin family.

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"Written on back of photograph" Mr & Mrs T.Grant's house in Adelaide Street

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"Written on back of photograph" Adelaide Street, near Mullum Creek.

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"Written on back of photograph" Ringwood Post Office - opposite Railway Station. c1914-1915

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"Written on back of photograph" Apple packing class - Mr Krone instructor. Marybell McAlpin on left. "Attached to back of photograph" Packing class at Ringwood Coolstores -children from Ringwood State School No2997 (Probably children of orchardists) Teacher provided by Agriculture Department.

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"Written on back of photograph" Mr Clarence Hams in buggy at top of Kennedy's Hill - Warrandyte Road.

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"Written on back of photograph" Mr J.B.McAlpin and his Daughter Marjorie. Marjorie sitting in car and J.B.McAlpin standing on running board. Outside his garage.

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"Written on back of photograph" Mr J.B.McAlpin in his car, the first in Ringwood, Mr Clive Jones in doorway of Office.

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"Written on back of photograph" Mr J.B.McAlpin & Mr Clive Jones in doorway of Office.

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"Written on back of photograph" Miss G.McAlpin in doorway of MrJ.B.McAlpin's Office

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"Written on back of photograph" Mr B.B.McAlpin driving, Mrs McAlpin beside him, Mr J.McAlpin standing on step, Mrs J.McAlpin behind Mr B.B.McAlpin

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"Written on back of photograph" Mr & Mrs J.McAlpin in horse drawn carriage.

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"Written on back of photograph" Mrs J.McAlpin in horse drawn carriage. Taken in Wonga Road - 1918

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"Written on back of photograph" Ringwood State School Circa 1905 -1906 Mr Hocking - Headmaster Frank Parker - 2nd from right in middle row Hartley Burchett standing on left in front row

Typed and hand written document.

Image of a Tom Roberts painting on front of soft covered book titled The Artists' Camp at Box Hill - Eleanor Finlay, Marjorie Morgan

FOREWORD by William Dargie Kt., C.B.E., FRSA (London) FRAS (NSW) As one born between two worlds I find it difficult to identify wholly with either Australian art of the late 19th and early 20th centuries or the infinitely varied styles of today. At the beginning of the 1930s, when I first began to take any sort of interest in art, I had the natural feeling of youth that anything that had happened thirty to forty years ago was already far down the dark and backward abysm of time. As for today, all that one of my generation can do is to enjoy what is enjoyable and avert one's eyes and close one's ears against the rest. This is the time of life one realizes that distaste, as well as taste can be cultivated. Well, youth repeats itself in each generation and among the young there will always be .some determined and dedicated to the making of new images of the physical world. All artists throughout history have shared this common experience. All have remembered the suddenly-formed friendships, the sketching expeditions and camps, the first exhibitions, the formation of groups, the 'manifestos' - these last to return in later life all too often as embarrassments - but above all, the enthusiasm. 'Bliss was it in that dawn to be alive but to be young was very heaven'. Thus we can be time-travellers back one hundred and six years to that first plein-air camp set up by Roberts, McCubbin and Abrahams on part of David Houston's property at Box Hill. This was indeed the prelude to all that followed: Mentone and the meeting with the young Streeton painting on the rocks, and Heidelberg later.

Image of a Charles Conder painting on front of soft covered book titled The Artists' Camps: Plein Air Painting In Melbourne 1885-1898.

FOREWORD by Margaret Plant - Department of Visual Arts, Monash University. The paintings of the 'Heidelberg school" are the best loved group of works in Australian art. The affection is linked in the national mind with a recognition that the authentic Australian landscape had been discovered and colonial bonds broken. The painting activity of the 1880s and 1890s was by no means confined to Heidelberg. Helen Topliss painstakingly presents the variety of sites around Melbourne, in the bush and on the coast, reconstructing their original character and the history of their accessibility. The major figures are well known — Roberts, McCubbin, Streeton and Conder — but there were a number of 'minor' artists associated with the various painting spots that have been too long neglected. A research programme is here initiated in the hope that some of these figures might be more fully returned to us. The restoration of the sites provokes a more extensive roll-call of artists involved in the plein air phenomenon. Various expressions of nationalism in the late nineteenth century have been accorded attention: the painters contributed in varying degrees. But it is, finally, the quality of the painting, the freshness, the particularity of nuance, the calculated aesthetic angles that have governed response and inspired affection. The elegant relaxation themes of many of the paintings have in fact been overlooked in the intellectualization of the quest for 'national identity'. The orchards and the beaches, the ladies promenading a la mode on the beach at Mentone or in the grasses of Box Hill are as important to our artistic tradition and social history as the shearers of rams.

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Inscribed on back with letter to Miss Lena Williams of Ringwood- Image 10267(b)

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Inscribed on back with letter to Miss Ethel Green- Image 10266(b)

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"Written on back of photograph" Demolishing Ringwood Town Hall Whelan the Wrecker

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"Written on back of photograph" Demolishing Ringwood Town Hall Whelan the Wrecker

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"Written on back of photograph" Demolishing Ringwood Town Hall Whelan the Wrecker