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Dentists
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Compassion and Courage: Australian Doctors and Dentists in the Great War
Catalogue of exhibition of the same name held at University of Melbourne in 2015. Many images reproduced and accompanied by extensive text. The East Melbourne connection is slight. There is a short paragraph on Dr Rachel Champion who married Dr Charles Shaw, an East Melbourne res...
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East Melbourne Housing Classifications - review 2000
In 2000 the City of Melbourne initiated a review of property classifications in East Melbourne. The proposal was to remove all the properties from the Heritage Inventory which had a grading of E or F. In the future the Inventory would only include four levels of classification, f...
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TOVELL, Ada
ADA TOVELL – FIRST WOMAN DENTIST Michelle Calder has contacted us seeking information about her grand-mother’s maternal grand-mother, Ada Tovell (nee Fenton), who she said was the first woman in Australia to practise as a dentist. Ada Fenton had been a student at Ormiston College...