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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.
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bushfire, black saturday bushfires, victorian bushfires, kinglake, warnambool, marion taffe, mx, newspaper, davey family
Faille silk and braided with barley twist to top and military braid to scalloped lower edge.
window decoration, valance, dining room
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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malley, dust storm, nature
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eureka centenary, ballarat, certificate
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eureka stockade, ballarat, eureka centenary, souvenir, eureka improvement and progress association, peter lalor
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
prisoner of war, world war i, lindsay family, drawing, german,
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city of ballaarat, welcome, ballarat, lake wendouree, rowing, canoeing, 1956, southern hemisphere,
eureka stockade, royal australian mint
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frank clune, china, nathan spielvogel, travel, australian writers
mt pleasant school, ballarat, bicentenary, michael taffe, francis ellis, tree planting
On timber matress base/frame stamped Tunbridge & Sons Ballarat.
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avenues of honour, remembrance, world war i, italy
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ruby lindsay, naturalist, barrett, art nouveau, creswick, ballarat
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olympic games, melbourne, australia, invitation to holld olympic games
Small 95 page booklet published in 1857 by Fairfax, Melbourne and inscribed by W. D. Lang.
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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
eureka stockade, ballarat, nathan spielvogel
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eureka stockade, centenary, sydney, fellowship of australian writers, mary gilmore
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memoir, spielvogel, ballarat, dimboola
victorian railways, michael taffe, ballarat, transportation of goods,
burke, mckew, st arnaud, wedding photography
burke, st arnaud, donald, photograph, tintype
irish, celtic, pokerwork, picture frame, arts and crafts,
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
ballarat, jewish, cabinetmakers
melbourne punch, charles hotham, eureka stockade, ballarat, nicholas chevalier
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