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Catalogue

This is the East Melbourne Historical Society catalogue showing a brief summary of each item.
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The Paddock that Grew: The Story of the Melbourne Cricket Club

Covers all aspects of the history of the Melbourne Cricket Club. Photos. Index.
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  • 2583 reads

More Than Just Gumtrees: A Personal, Social and Artistic History of the Melbourne Society of Women Painters and Sculptors

A history of the society includes biographies of members. Photos. Index.
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  • 2379 reads

62 Wellington Parade

Existing premises 1952. Drawn by Robert H. McIntyre & Associates, architects.
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  • 2115 reads

East Melbourne, Simpson Street 12, 14, 16 - Floor Plan 1952

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Floor Plan of 12-16 Simpson Street - existing premises 1952. [This presumably means the existing floor plan prior to a renovation.] Drawn by Robert H. McIntyre & Associates, architects.
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  • 2386 reads

Parish Map of Melbourne South c1900

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Parish map of Melbourne South c.1900. Gives the names of first purchasers of all blocks of land. Shows the Yarra River after it was straightened in the late 1890s and it shows the 1894 foot-bridge over the Yarra at Punt Road and the road for vehicle traffic on Punt Road to cross at the Anderson Street Morrell Bridge.
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  • 3460 reads

East Melbourne, Wellington Parade 62

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Perspective drawing showing a modernised scheme for the building. Not signed but possibly by Robert H. McIntyre & Associates, architects.
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  • 2443 reads

East Melbourne cuttings

A collection of newspaper cuttings and documentation, mainly pertaining to 62 Wellington Parade. No dates but 1950s.
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  • 2368 reads

Trust News

Short biographical article about Bruce McBrien, who lived in Spring Street, Melbourne when gowing up and socialised in East Melbourne, particularly through Holy Trinity Church. Has been a speaker at society meetings. Has also contributed to oral history program.
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  • 2211 reads

Margaret McLean and Female Suffrage

Material exhibited to accompany talk given by Dr. Liz Rushen to the East Melbourne Historical Society on Margaret McLean, her life and her contribution to female suffrage. Meeting held 18 June 2008. Material includes several photos of Margaret McLean; photos of her husband, William McLean; her mother, Agnes Arnot; her sisters, Agnes Lucas and Mary Davies; her daughters, including Ethel McLean.
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  • 2260 reads

Margaret McLean and Female Suffrage

Material exhibited to accompany talk given by Dr. Liz Rushen to the East Melbourne Historical Society on Margaret McLean, her life and her contribution to female suffrage. Meeting held 18 June 2008.
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  • 2157 reads

East Melbourne News 2008

Newsletters for 2008. Also Updates for 2008. Items on matters of local concern. Community news. Newsletters on-line at http://www.emg.org.au/
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  • 2466 reads

That was Melbourne

Photocopies of photographs of early East Melbourne buildings taken from That was Melbourne, View Productions, 1984.
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  • 2189 reads

Frank Forster

Obituary and other items.
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  • 2199 reads

Drill Hall

Documentation about redevelopment.
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  • 2148 reads

Fitzroy & Treasury Gardens Masterplan

Includes history, photos, plans, plantings, features as well as conservation and maintenance program. A City of Melbourne Production.
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  • 2507 reads

50 Hotham Street

Newspaper clippings about the sale of the property from 2008.
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  • 2538 reads

Bicycle lanes for Albert Street

2008 Newspaper clippings about proposed new bicycle lanes in Albert Street.
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  • 2118 reads

25 Hayes Lane

Brochures and newspaper clippings from 2008.
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  • 2042 reads

Charles Perry Bishop of Melbourne

Biography of Melbourne's first bishop. Illustrations. Index.
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  • 2330 reads

Early Melbourne Architecture

A collection of photographs of early Melbourne buildings, many of them now demolished. Several East Melbourne buildings represented. Short introduction and informative captions with each photograph.
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  • 2332 reads

History of Football

Articles on history of football. Including Melbourne Football Club.
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  • 2335 reads

Joan Dunning

Order of service for Joan Dunning's funeral, includes several photos.
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  • 2273 reads

10 Powlett Street

Miscellaneous documents including correspondence from solicitors, Mills & Oakley.
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  • 2119 reads

Richmond & East Melbourne Ladies' Benevolent Society

Newspaper clipping. A report of the 31st Annual Report, 1891.
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  • 1964 reads

Wellington Parade Pharmacy

Handwritten notes pertaining to Walter Williams, pharmacist, who had his shop in Wellington Parade. Also application by his daughter, Gwenneth, for registration as a pharmacist.
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  • 1951 reads

9 Eades Street

File covers items relating to new apartment block at this address. The land was originally part of the Christian Brothers College.
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  • 2194 reads

190 Albert Street

Items relating to the apartment block built on the site of the brewery.
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  • 2140 reads

168 Powlett Street

Brochures and real estate clippings for 168 Powlett Street
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  • 2074 reads

92 Gipps Street

Items relating to the house.
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  • 2082 reads

107 Simpson Street

Items relating to the house.
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  • 2187 reads

131 Simpson Street

Items relating to the house.
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  • 2187 reads

8 Wellington Crescent

Items relating to the apartments.
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  • 2079 reads

76-78 Jolimont Street

Items relating to the houses now used as offices.
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  • 2253 reads

55 Berry Street

Items relating to the house.
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  • 1975 reads

43 Albert Street

Items relating to the house.
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  • 2123 reads

48 Berry Street,

Items relating to the house.
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  • 2139 reads

45 Berry Street

Items relating to the house. See also VF 602.
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  • 2016 reads

43-49 Berry Street

Sale of land.
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  • 2009 reads

490-492 Victoria Parade

Items relating to the houses.
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  • 2031 reads

500 Victoria Parade

Items relating to the houses.
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  • 1948 reads

506 Victoria Parade

Items relating to the houses.
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  • 2072 reads

(Inside). Issue 30, 2004

Article 'George St House'. Photos.
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  • 1989 reads

Voices Around My Piano

A history of the Kean-Horsley family, musicians and bohemians, who lived at 33 Albert Street from 1920s to 1950s. Photos. No index.
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  • 2156 reads

I am Melba

Biography of the opera singer.
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  • 2066 reads

East Melbourne News 2009

Newsletters for 2009. Also Updates for 2009. Items on matters of local concern. Community news. Newsletters on-line at http://www.emg.org.au/
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  • 2509 reads

A Path is Set

A history of Catholicism in Victoria from the arrival of the first priest, Father P.B. Geoghegan, in 1839 until 1862 under Bishop James Alipius Goold. Includes index and some photos.
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  • 2333 reads

Catholic Ladies' College: The first hundred years 1902-2002

A history of the school. Photos. List of students. No index.
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  • 3485 reads

Parliament House Victoria

A descriptive brochure of Parliament House. Includes brief history. Many photos. Plan.
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  • 2332 reads

Three Neglected Writers of the 1930s: Jean Campbell, 'Capel Boake' and 'Georgia Rivers'

A writer of romance novels, Jean Campbell lived in East Melbourne from the 1920s to the 1950s, primarily in an apartment at 17 Powlett Street. Includes portrait photo. Article in The La Trobe Journal No. 83, May 2009.
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  • 2168 reads

The influence of environmental thought in Melbourne's nineteenth-century public gardens

An article on Clement Hodgkinson's place in the history of Victoria's public parks and gardens. Photos. In Australian Garden History, Vol. 20 No. 1, July, August, September 2008.
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  • 2116 reads
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