East Melbourne Historical Society
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Notes on the life of Betty Hall who died 8 April 2011. The notes cover mainly her life after her retirement which she spent in East Melbourne. She was involved in many local groups and community activities. In her working life she had been a highly respected property lawyer with...
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Newspaper article about sculptor, Ola Cohn's creation of the Fairies Tree in the Fitzroy Gardens. Photos.
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An autobiography based on an original manuscript, Me in the Making (c.1947), by Ola Cohn and edited by Barbara Lemon. Includes a chapter on her home and studio at 43 Gipps Street, East Melbourne. Photos.
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Biography of Emily Childers, wife of Hugh Childers. The Childers rented the cottage generally known as Upper Jolimont from Governor La Trobe after Bishop and Mrs. Perry vacated it in 1853. The Childers called the cottage Normont but this name did not survive their occupancy. The...
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Newspaper clippings about new plans for sporting precinct. Gosch's Paddock to be used by Collingwood and Melbourne Football Clubs for training; new rugby league and soccer stadium (temporarily known as the rectangular stadium) to be built near Olympic Park. Includes an associated...
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A collection of photographs taken during Melbourne's first Covid-19 lockdown in 2020. Gavin John, an established landscape photographer, turned his talents to scenes closer to home. Well-known sites around Melbourne, normally buzzing with people, are shown deserted. The forms and...
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Colour photo shows three blue and white transport vehicles clearly labelled as belonging to ABC Channel 2. They are parked outside the Melbourne Cricket Ground.
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Information about aboriginal tribes from the Melbourne area.
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Newspaper clippings about the East Melbourne Fertility Clinic, and others, and a bill to be brought in that will ban protesters to a 150 metre exclusion zone around the clinics. Age editorial, 3 September 2015 Safeguarding women by Miki Perkins, The Age, 5 September 2015. Rank an...
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Laws past in 2015 that make illegal to harass people within 150 metres of abortion providers came into effect on Monday 2 May 2016. Anti-abortion advocates produced a flyer which was circulated throughout East Melbourne in protest against the new laws. This was picked up by The S...
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List of accommodation options, some in East Melbourne.
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Newspaper article about Adam Lindsay Gordon and his statue in Gordon Reserve.
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Newspaper clipping advertises The Hilton's facilities as a conference and seminar venue. One of its attributes was the ability to wheel an aeroplane into its Grand Ballroom. The Hilton is now The Pullman on the corner of Wellington Parade and Clarendon Street, East Melbourne
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Aerial map of Melbourne and southern inner suburbs created by the Department of Lands and Survey from a mosaic of aerial photos taken in 1945.
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Aerial map of Melbourne inner eastern suburbs created by the Department of Lands and Survey from a mosaic of aerial photos taken in 1945.
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Aerial map of Melbourne inner northern suburbs created by the Department of Lands and Survey from a mosaic of aerial photos taken in 1945.
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Aerial view of Cliveden Mansions on the corner of Wellington Parade and Clarendon Street, Fitzroy Gardens on left, mansion in Jolimont Terrace visible in right foreground.
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Aerial Photo of Yarra Park and MCG looking west from a point above Punt Road Oval. Taken in 1928 by Charles Daniel Pratt.
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Detail of large aerial photo in colour shows inner Melbourne from Edinburgh Gardens in North Fitzroy in the north to Port Phillip Bay in the south, and from Abbotsford in the east to the docks in the west.
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Aerial view of Melbourne looking west-south-west from a point approximately above the intersection of Hoddle and Gipps Streets. Visible are significant parts of East Melbourne, the Yarra River, the Jolimont railway yards, and the city of Melbourne fading into the distance. The or...
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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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Postcard of aerial photograph of St Patrick's Cathedral, East Melbourne circa 1945. Scanned by the State Library of Victoria from a glass negative.
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Photocopied newspaper clipping about squatters occupying Eastbourne House on the corner of Wellington Parade and Simpson Street and the four houses next door in Simpson Street, all under the one ownership. It was the first occupation of private premises by the Squatters' Union si...
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An occasional paper given to the Friends of the Library (Queen's College). Vida Goldstein is one of the women mentioned. She was a pupil at PLC.