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East Melbourne, 144 Gipps Street,
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emvf0052 Content or description:
BW photos. 4 views of Fanecourt, 144 Gipps Street. (Later divided into apartments and renamed Torrington.) A large, red brick, late Victorian house. Copies. c.1970.
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East Melbourne, Hilton Hotel
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emvf0053 Content or description:
4 newspaper clippings about proposed new Hilton Hotel. Drawings. Pre-1971 to July 1973.
- 2562 reads
East Melbourne, Lauriston Hall
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emvf0054 Content or description:
Auction brochure for Lauriston Hall, 86 Wellington Parade scheduled for 25 October 1990. Internal and external colour photos.
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East Melbourne Group Newsletter - March, October 1996
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emvf0055 Content or description:
March, October 1996.
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East Melbourne Group Newsletter - July, November 1997
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emvf0056 Content or description:
July, November 1997.
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East Melbourne Group Newsletter - March, August, December 1998
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emvf0057 Content or description:
March, August, December 1998.
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East Melbourne Group Newsletter - April, September 1999
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emvf0058 Content or description:
April, September 1999.
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East Melbourne Group Newsletter - February, August 2000
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emvf0059 Content or description:
February, August 2000.
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East Melbourne Group Newsletter - May 2001
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emvf0060 Content or description:
May 2001
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East Melbourne News 2002
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emvf0061 Content or description:
March, June, September, November 2002.
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East Melbourne News 2003
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emvf0062 Content or description:
March, May (update), June, September, November 2003.
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East Melbourne, Freemasons Hospital
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emvf0063 Content or description:
Victorian Heritage Register entry for Freemasons Hospital.
- 2271 reads
East Melbourne, First Deanery, Hotham Street 188
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emvf0064 Content or description:
BW photo of first Deanery, Hotham Street, East Melbourne. Shows a large single storey Victorian house, and garden. Copy (2).
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East Melbourne, Hotham Street 153
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emvf0065 Content or description:
Auction brochure for 153 Hotham Street, scheduled for 14 November 1998. Photo.
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East Melbourne, Gipps Street 179
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emvf0066 Content or description:
Auction brochure for 179 Gipps Street (previously Ormiston, now Chrysalis), scheduled for 14 November (c.1998). Internal and external photos.
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Benjamin, Sir Benjamin, Imperial Bank
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emvf0067 Content or description:
Photocopy of title page and chapter 28, 'Sir Benjamin Benjamin and the Imperial Bank' from The Land Boomers by Michael Cannon.
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East Melbourne, Queen Bess Row, Hotham Street
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emvf0068 Content or description:
Newspaper clipping - letters to the Editor - about closure of Queen Bess Row and loss of cheap accommodation in East Melbourne due to demolition or conversion. Photocopy (2). The Age 25, November 1986.
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East Melbourne, Queen Bess Row, Hotham Street
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emvf0069 Content or description:
Auction brochure for Queen Bess Row, 76 Hotham Street scheduled for 23 March 2002. Interior and exterior photos. Plans.
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La Trobe, Charles Joseph
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emvf0070 Content or description:
Miscellaneous items pertaining to life of Charles Joseph La Trobe.
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Typhoid Fever connected with milk-supply
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emvf0071 Content or description:
A paper given at the Intercolonial Medical Congress of Australasia. A study of an outbreak of typhoid which spread from a dairy in Jolimont in 1879. Descriptions of Jolimont include rubbish tips, sewage, drainage. Detailed description of the house and dairy, and day to day procedure. The dairy appears to be 157 Wellington Pde. Sth. Maps. Tables.
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East Melbourne, Gipps Street 159, Little Parndon
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emvf0072 Content or description:
Photocopy of page from Richmond and East Melbourne Sketchbook, drawings by Arno Roger-Genersh and text by Brian Carroll. Drawing of house. Brief history of Little Parndon, 159 Gipps Street, and original owner, Eugene von Guerard, and later owner, Lord Casey.
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EMG miscellaneous
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emvf0073 Content or description:
Circulars. (1) seeking support of oppostion to proposed hotel on cnr. of Powlett St. and Wellington Pde. 5 Jul. 1996 (2) similar , with drawing of proposed building (3) coming events, 9 Oct.
- 2201 reads
East Melbourne, Neighbourhood Watch
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emvf0074 Content or description:
Editorials: August 1995, July, October 1996.
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East Melbourne, Holy Trinity activities
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emvf0075 Content or description:
(1) invitation to Progressive Dinner 19 April (2) circular to cooks involved in Progressive Dinner (3) Menu for Novemberfest Dinner 2002. Also orders of service and other miscellaneous ephemera. Includes card with photo showing interior of church.
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Melbourne City Council miscellaneous
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emvf0076 Content or description:
Miscellaneous circulars and correspondence from City of Melbourne about planned work and planning applications.
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East Melbourne, Clarendon Street 058.
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emvf0077 Content or description:
BW photo of 58 Clarendon Street, shows a large late Victorian, free standing, two storey house. C. 1902-1912.
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East Melbourne, Gipps Street 157
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emvf0078 Content or description:
Sale notices, February 2000. Sale notices, brochures and newspaper clipping, from December 2004. Photos. Plan.
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Parks and Recreation: our commitments
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emvf0079 Content or description:
MCC strategy plan for parks and recreation, 1996.
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Odgers W. H.
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emvf0080 Content or description:
Photocopies (2) and transcripts (2) of obituaries, photocopy of death certificate, entries from P.O. directories.
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East Melbourne, Grey Street 128-132.
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emvf0081 Content or description:
BW photos. 3 views of 128-132 Grey Street. Terrace of three two storey houses. C. 1963.
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East Melbourne, Grey Street 114
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emvf0082 Content or description:
Series of four photos of 114 (or 122?) Grey Street. Timber (pre-fab) house. Taken by J.T. Collins dated from 5 December 1962 to 8 December 1963. Demolished. Now the site of the Unitarian Church.
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East Melbourne, Gipps Street 118, Crathre House
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emvf0083 Content or description:
BW photo of Crathre House, 118 Gipps Street. Previously known as Crathie Hospital, Crathie Apartments, The Bungalow. Large Victorian house. 1976. Internet print (SLV, picture collection accession no. H95.200/769).
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East Melbourne, George Street - 1910c.
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emvf0084 Content or description:
BW photo. George Street, bottom block, looking west. Shows elm trees in street. C. 1910.
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East Melbourne, Grey Street - 1910c
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emvf0085 Content or description:
BW photo. Grey Street, looking south. Shows plane trees in street. C. 1910.
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East Melbourne, Clarendon Street, Verona and Fitzroy Terrace
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emvf0086 Content or description:
BW photos of Verona, corner Clarendon and Gipps Streets. Very large Victorian house. Demolished. 1902-1934. (SLV, picture collection accession no. H86.77/13.
And also of Fitzroy Terrace, Clarendon Street.
Clues to the dating of the pictures may be drawn from clothing of the pedestrians in two of the pictures, the growth of street trees and the progression from gas to electric power and lighting.
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East Melbourne, Macarthur Street
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emvf0087 Content or description:
BW photo. Macarthur Street, East Melbourne, looking north east from Carpentaria Place.
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East Melbourne, Gisborne Street - 1913c
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emvf0088 Content or description:
BW photo. Gisborne Street - looking south. 1913-1914. Probably taken from the Melbourne Fire Brigade lookout tower.
St Peter's Church, on the corner of Gisborne and Albert Streets, is in the immediate foreground.
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East Melbourne, Fitzroy Gardens, Poplar Avenue - 1930c.
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emvf0089 Content or description:
BW photo. Fitzroy Gardens, poplar avenue. 1920c. Internet print. (SLV, picture collection accession no. H32492/7449.
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Aerial view of Melbourne looking east towards East Melbourne - 1938
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emvf0090 Content or description:
BW photo. Aerial view of city looking east, East Melbourne in distance. Circa 1938.
Digital image from glass negative approx. 10.0x12.5 cm.
Original is very faded. Contrast has been adjusted digitally.
(State Library of Victoria, picture collection accession no. H91.160/536).
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East Melbourne, Aerial view - 1962
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emvf0091 Content or description:
BW photo. Aerial view shows Fitzroy, East Melbourne, City. 1962. Internet print. (SLV, picture collection accession no. H92.20/7247).
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View from Parliament House towards Fitzroy - 1865c
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emvf0092 Content or description:
BW photo. View from Parliament House over Albert Street towards Fitzroy. Carlton Gardens are in the distance. Shows 6 terrace houses, C & J Smith Collingwood Saw Mills and Timber Yard, C. White & Co. Brassfounders and Gasfitters, R. Hyde & Co. Marine Storemen, Baptist Church without portico. c.1865.
Internet print. (SLV, picture collection accession no. H88.22/4).
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East Melbourne, Darling Square Map
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emvf0093 Content or description:
Photocopies of 2 maps. (1) MMBW of northern part (from George Street to Victoria Parade.) of East Melbourne c. 1890-1907. (2) MCC map of Darling Square c. 1880-1900. The maps show different layouts for Darling Square.
- 4198 reads
East Melbourne, Brief history
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emvf0094 Content or description:
Internet printout from Monash University site. History, notable buildings land grants in East Melbourne.
- 5312 reads
Jolimont,18 Jolimont Terrace
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emvf0095 Content or description:
Newspaper clipping - real estate article about forthcoming auction of The Crib, 18 Jolimont Terrace Interior and exterior photos.
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Water pipes under Yarra Park and other water stories
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emvf0096 Content or description:
Newspaper articles relating to Melbourne's water supply. One explains the laying of new pipes under Yarra Park. Another tells of the background to the building of the Yan Yean reservoir. Another reports on the recycling of water used when Rod Laver Arena was converted to a swimming pool for the World Swimming Championships. The water was afterwards piped to the Botanic Gardens lake. Photos.
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East Melbourne, Art Deco buildings
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emvf0097 Content or description:
Newspaper article about an important group of late 1930s apartment buildings in George Street and Garden Avenue, East Melbourne, designed by Illiffe Anderson.
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East Melbourne, Dogs, Rod Goodwin
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emvf0098 Content or description:
Newspaper article about living with pets in the city.
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For the Upholding of Womanhood.
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emrp0001-199911-p116-127 Content or description:
Discusses the rise of hostels providing accommodation for the growing number of young girls coming to Melbourne in search of work during the inter-war years. One of these was Chalmers Hall in East Melbourne. Victorian Historical Journal November 1999 pp 116-127.
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Victorian Historical Journal November 1999
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emrp0001-199911 Content or description:
Founders Issue. Articles and reviews on a variety of aspects of Victoria's history. November 1999.
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Victorian Historical Journal March 2000
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emrp0001-200003 Content or description:
Confronting Cruelty. Articles and reviews on a variety of aspects of Victoria's history. March 2000.
- 2027 reads