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Catalogue

This is the East Melbourne Historical Society catalogue showing a brief summary of each item.
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Braemar auction

Catalogue number: 
emvf0343
Content or description: 
Auction brochure and newspaper clippings about auction of Braemar, 178 George Street, East Melbourne, scheduled for 26 February 2005. Photos. Plans.
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  • 1698 reads

A loss to the community

Catalogue number: 
emvf0341
Content or description: 
Newspaper clipping recording the death of Jonathan Gianfreda, butcher and smallgoods specialist who lived in East Melbourne.
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  • 1896 reads

Mercy fire

Catalogue number: 
emvf0342
Content or description: 
A collection of newspaper clippings about the fire at the Mercy Hospital for Women which caused the evacuation of mothers and babies. Photos. December 2004-January 2005.
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  • 1861 reads

156 Powlett Street

Catalogue number: 
emvf0344
Content or description: 
Newspaper clippings about forthcoming sale of 156 Powlett Street, East Melbourne, expressions of interest closing 1 April 2005. Photos. Plans.
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  • 1672 reads

Amourique

Catalogue number: 
emvf0345
Content or description: 
Brochure advertising auction of Unit 5, Amourique,115 Hotham Street, East Melbourne, scheduled for 19 February 2005.
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  • 1627 reads

130 Powlett Street

Catalogue number: 
emvf0346
Content or description: 
Brochure advertising auction of 130 Powlett Street, East Melbourne, scheduled for 19 March 2005. Photos. Plans. Also later brochures and real estate clippings.
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  • 1933 reads

Commonwealth Games change East Melbourne

Catalogue number: 
emvf0347
Content or description: 
Newspaper clippings outline the changes to Melbourne in preparation for the Commonwealth Games. Sites in East Melbourne include MCG, Hilton Hotel, MCG Hotel, Jolimont Station, new footbridge.
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  • 1925 reads

Australian Open

Catalogue number: 
emvf0348
Content or description: 
Newspaper articles give background to decision to build new tennis centre. Includes plan of Melbourne Park.
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  • 1710 reads

Shelter protected

Catalogue number: 
emvf0349
Content or description: 
Newspaper clipping reporting that Mary MacKillop House in Albert Street, East Melbourne, has been added to the register of Heritage Victoria.
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  • 1484 reads

Mercy hospital enters new era

Catalogue number: 
emvf0350
Content or description: 
Newspaper clipping about upgrade of Mercy Private Hospital.
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  • 1751 reads

Leaseback a sweet deal

Catalogue number: 
emvf0351
Content or description: 
Newspaper clipping reporting that the restaurant and reception area in the Saville Hotel, 133 Jolimont Road, Jolimont, is for sale. Photo.
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  • 1649 reads

Joan Mercer

Catalogue number: 
emvf0352
Content or description: 
Three portrait photographs of Joan Mercer in colour, taken shortly before her death.
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  • 2102 reads

Morgan for mayor

Catalogue number: 
emvf0353
Content or description: 
Newspaper articles about Gary Morgan's mayoral campaign as part of Melbourne city Council elections in 2004. Includes some biographical information. Photos.
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  • 1756 reads

Do it Now: The Life of Charles Richard Herschell

Catalogue number: 
embk0018
Content or description: 
Biography of Charles Richard Herschell by his grand-daughter. Herschell founded a film Production studio of the same name. Its headquarters were at 31 Agnes Street, Jolimont from 1925.
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  • 2013 reads

Six-Bob-a-Day Tourist

Catalogue number: 
embk0019
Content or description: 
The letters of Private Thomas Gardner written to his mother and sister, Mabel from the battlefields of World War I.
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  • 2042 reads

Journeys in time: The VPK - My Key to Adventure

Catalogue number: 
emvf0354
Content or description: 
The author tells of his time as a youth working at Herscehll's Films in Jolimont. He lived at 166 Wellington Parade, East Melbourne, which his mother ran as a boarding house. Photos.
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  • 2281 reads

Journeys in time: Rack and Tank

Catalogue number: 
emvf0355
Content or description: 
Author, Kev Franzi, explains film Production techniques as used at Herschell's Films in Jolimont. He worked there as a youth. He lived at 166 Wellington Parade, East Melbourne. Photos and diagrams.
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  • 1752 reads

Journeys in time: 'A Brief Encounter'

Catalogue number: 
emvf0356
Content or description: 
Author, Kev Franzi, as an aspiring young photograher tells of a brief encounter with Dr. Julian Smith, a leading portrait photographer as well as an eminent surgeon.
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  • 1759 reads

Thomas Rand at The Ritz

Catalogue number: 
emvf0357
Content or description: 
Photocopies and transcriptions of letters to and from Thomas Rand who lived at The Ritz, 36 Clarendon Street, East Melbourne, for the year 1925-26. It seems Mrs.
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  • 1895 reads

To Let ads

Catalogue number: 
emvf0358
Content or description: 
Photocopy of To Let column of The Argus 15 January 1923. 11 addresses in East Melbourne and Jolimont. Very little information, no prices, some properties are named.
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  • 1815 reads

East Melbourne Historical Society Newsletter: February, June, September 2005

Catalogue number: 
emvf0359
Content or description: 
Vol. VI, 2005. Three issues a year.
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  • 3046 reads

Jolimont 1879

Catalogue number: 
emvf0360-p1
Content or description: 
An edited extract from an article entitled 'Typhoid fever connected with milk supply' [see VF71]. Gives a colourful description of Jolimont and dairy practices of the time.
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  • 1885 reads

Herschell's Films of Jolimont: A Memoir

Catalogue number: 
emvf0360-p2
Content or description: 
An edited extract from an article entitled 'Journeys in time: The VPK - My Key to Adventure' by Kev Franzi. [see VF 354]. In East Melbourne Historical Society Newsletter, June 2005.
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  • 1796 reads

Outrage at Lauriston Hall

Catalogue number: 
emvf0360-p3
Content or description: 
An article telling the story of the unsolved murder of Eric Tulloch which took place at Lauriston Hall, 86 Wellington Parade in 1921.
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  • 1941 reads

Victorian Artists Society

Catalogue number: 
emvf0361
Content or description: 
An artist's impression of Eastern Hill and Fitzroy in the late 1880s,viewed from St.
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  • 1683 reads

A Picture of Diversity

Catalogue number: 
emvf0362
Content or description: 
Catalogue of exhibition of photographs entitled 'A Picture of Diversity' put on by the East Melbourne Historical Society to celebrate the East Melbourne Group's jubilee year in October 2004.
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  • 1885 reads

Scotch photos

Catalogue number: 
emvf0363
Content or description: 
Photocopies of photographs and plan of Scotch College handed out to accompany talk given by James Mitchell to the East Melbourne Historical Society on the history of Scotch College in October 2004.
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  • 1687 reads

Clare Hicks

Catalogue number: 
emvf0364
Content or description: 
Two photographs. One shows Clare Hicks with her niece and nephew outside apartment buildings at 25 and 27 Powlett Street.
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  • 1942 reads

Haunted house

Catalogue number: 
emvf0365
Content or description: 
Two photographs. One shows house at 35 Powlett Street. The house is almost entirely covered in creeper. The second coloured photo shows the sculpture outside the I.C.I. Building in Albert Street.
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  • 1787 reads

Two cottages, one home

Catalogue number: 
emvf0366
Content or description: 
Photocopy of article about the work done by architect Geoffrey Borrack to the two cottages at 93 and 95a Simpson Street to convert them to one house. Some historical notes.
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  • 1740 reads

Tudor Village

Catalogue number: 
emvf0367
Content or description: 
Fitzroy and Treasury Gardens Public Consultation Report by City of Melbourne in response to public reaction to their draft masterplan [see VF 288].
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  • 1940 reads

Pyman's Pharmacy is moving

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Catalogue number: 
emvf0368
Content or description: 
Postcard with old photo of Williams Pharmacy on the corner of Powlett Street and Wellington Parade from The Argus, 13 Oct 1956. Produced in 2004 to advertise change of address.
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  • 2402 reads

PLC clippings

Catalogue number: 
emvf0369
Content or description: 
Clippings from 1931 and 1932 Patchwork. Include House Notes and articles on The Late Dame Nellie Melba and Henry Handel Richardson.
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  • 2005 reads

Cliveden Hill

Catalogue number: 
emvf0370
Content or description: 
Information for patients.
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  • 1740 reads

Tasma Terrace

Catalogue number: 
emvf0371
Content or description: 
Leaflet produced by the National Trust outlining the history of Tasma Terrace.
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  • 3930 reads

St. Anne's 154 Gipps Street East Melbourne - 1970

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Catalogue number: 
emvf0372
Content or description: 
Photograph of St. Anne's, 154 Gipps Street, just prior to its demolition in 1970. It is now part of the Mercy Hospital site. The house was previously known as Stokesay.
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  • 1960 reads

The Mercy Maternity Hospital

Catalogue number: 
emvf0373
Content or description: 
Publicity brochure gives overview of the new hospital. Photos. Plans. Costs. (3 copies).
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  • 1844 reads

Official Opening of the Mercy Maternity Hospital

Catalogue number: 
emvf0374
Content or description: 
Program of the opening of the Mercy Hospital by the Hon. Sir Henry Bolte. Photos.
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  • 1791 reads

First Mass and Blessing of the Hospital

Catalogue number: 
emvf0375
Content or description: 
Order of Service for first mass and blessing of Mercy Hospital.
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  • 1592 reads

Mercy people

Catalogue number: 
emvf0376
Content or description: 
17 small proof photos which were used in the program of the official opening of the Mercy Hospital. 13 are of people; 4 are of interiors. All labelled in handwriting.
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  • 1777 reads

Sr. Joan Keenan's presentation dinner

Catalogue number: 
emvf0377
Content or description: 
Series of seven black and white photos taken on the occasion of Sr. Joan Keenan's presentation dinner, 20 January 1984. Labelled on back. Names given are Sr. Joan Keenan, Dr. James E. Breheny and Mr.
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  • 2056 reads

Philip Brady draws raffle

Catalogue number: 
emvf0378
Content or description: 
Photo of Philip Brady drawing a Mercy Maternity Hospital raffle in the cafeteria in the 1970s.
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  • 1834 reads

Pope's visit

Catalogue number: 
emvf0379
Content or description: 
Series of seven small colour proof photos of the visit by Pope John Paul II to the Mercy Hospital in 1986.
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  • 1974 reads

Mercy Maternity Hospital 1971

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Catalogue number: 
emvf0380
Content or description: 
Proof photo of Mercy Maternity Hospital used in program of the official opening of the Mercy Hospital.
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  • 7590 reads

Mercy Maternity Hospital 1971

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Catalogue number: 
emvf0381
Content or description: 
Photo of Mercy Maternity Hospital taken at time of its opening in 1971.
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  • 3263 reads

View from Mercy Maternity Hospital

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Catalogue number: 
emvf0382
Content or description: 
Photo taken from Mercy Maternity Hospital gives view over Fitzroy Gardens with St. Andrew's Hospital, St. Patrick's Cathedral and Eastern Hill in the background.
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  • 4619 reads

The Cymyn, 166 Wellington Parade, East Melbourne - 1946

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Catalogue number: 
emvf0383
Content or description: 
Photo of house at 166 Wellington Parade taken in 1946.
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  • 2963 reads

Herschells

Catalogue number: 
emvf0384
Content or description: 
Photo of 31 Agnes Street, which was the headquarters of Herschell's Films. File also includes small photo of Herschell's previous address in Flinders Street c. 1946-7.
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  • 1861 reads

Herschell miscellany

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Catalogue number: 
emvf0385
Content or description: 
Copy of a letter to Kev Franzi from Lindsay Parker in response to request for informaton about Herschell's. It includes a photo of some of Herschell's staff.
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  • 2086 reads

Herschell's old rack and tank processing gear

Catalogue number: 
emvf0386
Content or description: 
Photo shows three men in front of old film processing equipment after its replacement.
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  • 1773 reads
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