Domestic object - Trivet, Hot Iron Trivet
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Book - Minute Book, Minutes of the Gre Gre Village Rabbit Club
non-fiction
gre gre, marnoo, 1908, rabbit clubs, st arnaud, donald
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Book - Thesis, First World War Avenues of Honour: Social History Through the Landscape'
non-fiction
thesis, great war, ballarat, avenue of honour, michael taffe, war memorials, memory, landscape
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Book - Thesis, The ANZACS
non-fiction
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Badge - Button Badge, Back to Donald badge
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Work on paper - Photograph, Agnes Taffe
Portrait photograph with artistic brushwork by Ballarat photographer Thornton c.1917. Thornton & Richards were one of Ballarat's major photographic studios and their work and historic records of schools, sporting and civic events remain a major record of social and family life in Ballarat region over a century.
Thornton & Richards were one of Ballarat's major photographic studios and this is an exceptional demonstration of their portraiture.
portrait
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Badge - Button Badge, Our Charities Ballarat 1925
Pressed tin buttons were produced in large numbers between 1900 and the Second World War and being ephemeral have rarely survived. This button was produced for fundraising for local charities at Ballarat on Button Day in October 1925.
Historically and socially significant artefact, revealing much about the attitudes and values of the period in which they were produced. Button days were a popular way of fundraising and commemoration that developed through Wattle Days and the First World War retaining their popularity into the early 1950s.
Small tin badge with stylised rising sun motif in red with forget-me-nots in blue beneath a banner and on beneath the nosegay the words forget not. in blue.
ballarat, charities, fund raising, button day, 1925, badges
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Work on paper - Ceiling paper, Bedroom ceiling paper
ceiling paper, wallpaper, ballarat, hymettus,
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Card - Ticket, Membership Card
melbourne, centenary of melbourne, 1934, eucharistic congress, mermbership card
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Furniture - Chair, Edwardian parlour chair
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Functional object - Ceiling paper, Victorian ceiling paper
ceiling, hymettus ballarat, dining room, wallpapers, ceiling papers, decorative papers, ballarat
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Newspaper - Herald Sun
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Newspaper - MX, There aren't enough hugs to make this pain go away
non-fiction
bushfire, black saturday bushfires, victorian bushfires, kinglake, warnambool, marion taffe, mx, newspaper, davey family
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Textile - Valance, Dining room Valance
Faille silk and braided with barley twist to top and military braid to scalloped lower edge.
window decoration, valance, dining room
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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 over 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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Work 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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Book - Catechism
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Book - Souvenir Book, Ballarat Centenary Home-Coming Celebrations
non-fiction
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Photograph - Dust storm, Dust storm in Malley
malley, dust storm, nature
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Certificate - 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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Medal
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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Work 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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Booklet - Royal Australian Mint Catalogue, Issue, No 56. Eureka Stockade 1854
eureka stockade, royal australian mint
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Work on paper - Book, Sky High to Shanghai
non-fiction
frank clune, china, nathan spielvogel, travel, australian writers
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Work on paper - Newspaper article, Bicentennial gift
non-fiction
mt pleasant school, ballarat, bicentenary, michael taffe, francis ellis, tree planting
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Furniture - Bed, Iron Bedstead
On timber matress base/frame stamped Tunbridge & Sons Ballarat.
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Book - Memorial Book, Parchi E Viali Della Rimembranza
non-fiction
avenues of honour, remembrance, world war i, italy
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Book - 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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Work on paper - Folder, Olympic Guide Melbourne 1956