non-fiction

Magazine with articles of historical interest

port phillip association, state library of victoria, exhibition, 1982, john helder wedge, michael connolly, john batman, charles swanston, joseph tice gellibrand, george mercer, william buckley

Early → late 60's School desk, Primary school?

Used for majority of 20th century

Two seat wooden school desk with metal frame, Top of each side of desk lifts to reveal storage space, two ceramic ink wells

education, school, furniture

Standard manual eggbeater with unusual stand to allow easier addition of ingredients while mixing.

Vintage metal eggbeater with cream enamel clamp made for purpose. Propert clamp Persinware beater

Clamp - Propert Pat. NO 28044/49 Beater - Persinware

domestic object, egg beater, propert, stand, persinware

Utensil used in kitchens when preparing coffee.

Black enamel Cast iron coffee grinder attach to table or bench. Long handle clamp

Rapide No.1 Beatrice Coffee grinder

domestic object, kitchen utensil, coffee, grinder, bench top, manual

19/20th Century

Social Significance - Used at School

School Bell, Brass with Wooden Handle repaired cracks with segment welded into place

education, school

Early 20th Century, Late 60's Early 70's school Desk, Primary or Secondary School

Used for majority of 20th Century

Two Seat School Desk, Wooden with Metal Frame, Top of each side of desk lifts to reveal storage space. No Ink wells brass hinges on desktops

Non- Sensical Graffiti written on surface of desk flaps, and inside storage spaces, some engraving - again non- sense

education, school, furniture

This meat mincer was born in a period where hand operated mincing and blending machines were only available for household mincing meats and blending ingredients up to the 1960s. Electrical kitchen based whitegoods were rare in areas where the connection to electricity was intermittent or not at all.

This kitchen aid is a very significant item in the Kiewa Valley before suitable electrically operated mincers became available and constant reliable electrical connections were installed. The Kiewa Hydro Electricity Scheme provide the stable supply of electricity which made most of the hand operated mincing machines obsolete. However, large mincers for bulk supplies were still required, eg kitchens for SEC workers during the 50s and 60s.

Funnel type feed to a horizontal screw feed mechanism operated by a hand crank.

These wooden butter pats were used to shape butter into bricks; making butter ready for sale and use. The excess moisture would be squeezed out of the butter; which was then transferred to a wooden board. The butter maker would hold one of these pats in each hand and work the butter into shape. These wooden pats are thin; light and easy to hold. The inside face is serrated to grip the butter and squeeze out any further water. It was also used to make patterns on the finished butter.

Wooden butter pats with handle. One side is rubbed, the other smooth

butter pats, butter making

Halda typewriter made in Sweden, 1914. Introduced in Sweden by Halda Fickurfabriks in 1896. Originally owed and used by the Ferry Aviation company until the late 1960s. A plaque 'Sydney Pincombe Pty Ltd Sole Australian Agents'. They were Sydney based agents for typewriters. Founded by Sydney Pincombe c.1909. The company continued until 1981.

Forms part of the "Office Equipment Collection" which shows the progress of equipment used to assist in office work.

Manual Halda typewriter

Halda - Made in Sweden Sydney Pincombe Pty Ltd - Sale Australian Agents

manual typewriter, office equipment

Fairbanks weighing scales (to weigh 2 lb) - Fairbanks' most famous invention then became the platform scale for weighing heavy objects.

This item is significant as it demonstrates a by-gone method of weighing mail. It is also significant as it uses pre-metric measurements, placing its age before 1966.

Post office scales with two dishes and five weights ranging from 1 oz to 2 lb.

To weigh 2 lb - Fairbanks, Birmingham

scales, postage, mail

Electric portable heater with a bow pattern 1940's

Example of domestic electric heater

Portable heater with power cord, and a bow pattern on the front (1940's).

1940s, heater, electric, portable, radiator

Alexanderwerk Germany hand meat mincer/grinder

Used in most homes as a method of reducing waste, and for preparing meals using minced ingredients.

Funnel type feed to a horizontal screw feed mechanism operated by a hand crank.

Alexanderwerk Germany (8)

kitchen, mincer, home use

Burroughs Adding Machines Ltd of Detroit Michigan was the first company to occupy a factory at Strathleven. During the European reconstruction in the late 1940's Burroughs built a major new factory at Strathleven in Scotland, initially to assemble machines from US-made parts and later to manufacture the full product range for the British and Commonwealth markets. Most of the post-war calculators and portables found in Australia are from the Strathleven factory.

This manually operated calculator predates the rise of the modern computer.

A manually operated Burrough's adding machine. It is a greyish green plastic and has a silver handle. It has 8 columns to add manually and has decimal currency. There is a roll of white (slightly yellowed) paper inserted in the top section.

Burroughs Machine Limited, Strathleven, Scotland Made in Great Britain

burroughs adding machine, office, calculator, detroit, michigan

John Thomas Raw, Broadmeadows School, Education

Presented to the outgoing headmaster of the Broadmeadows School.

Two piece bureau style desk (third piece missing). Top is a bureau style with velvet (reconditioned) writing pad and pigeon holes of various sizes Bottom piece is a two door cabinet with a top drawer. All lock with a key.

White metal plaque enscribed: Presented to / J. T. Raw esq: / By his friends in the Broadmeadows district / As a mark of respect / Feb 24th 1888. Locks engraved: Mobbs & Co London / Lever / Machine made.

education, presentation

Frederick A. Lewis; Rene A Lewis; Len Ricketts

Communication between donor's acent and BHS

2x letters covering donation and item list. A4 size sheets

lewis & whitty, frederick a. lewis, tea set, silver, presentation

F. A Lewis, Irene A. Lewis

Provides provenance and history of the coffee/tea set item BHS- 00001-2024

A 2 Page Handwritten letter

f.a. lewis, irene a. lewis, lewis & whitty, richmond, tea set, silver

Used on wash days to scrub clothes by hand.

A significant item for cleaning clothes still in use today in many countries giving a snapshot into the domestic life of a housewife.

Washboard wooden rectangular with wood grid and two legs

None

home use, laundry

This cast iron kitchen appliance was made in England in the early 1900's and shipped to the "colony" Australia. This was before World War II and the "growing up" of a colony to an independent member of "the British Commonwealth". It was a period when most appliances (be they household) where manufactured in England and shipped to Australian ports. It was not until the late 1960's that the Asian manufacturing giant woke up and started to dominate the marketplace.

This domestic kitchen appliance is very significant to the Kiewa Valley because it highlights the "made at home" period when food processing was made "in house" due to inability to source food from specialised shops. It was a period before mass food processing factories were established and roads constructed up to the standard for distribution to semi remote regions such as Kiewa Valley was in the beginning of the 1900's.

This cast iron (malleable iron) mincer for meat products has a large "funnel" to direct "chunks" of meat to the grinding "wheels". These "star" shaped wheels with "teeth" of three different cutting surfaces (fine, medium and coarse) provide for texture types of the final meat product. The meat is placed into the "loading" funnel and push downwards(gravity feed) through the mincing chamber and out through the front side. There is a long "screw worm" which is rotated by turning the handle. The appliance is table mounted by a vice "G" screw on clamp (hand operated).

Beatrice - Made in England (No. 3)

kitchen, mincer, home use