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Government Offices Melbourne - 1890c
Government Offices. View from south west.
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Government Printing Office with Jolimont and South Yarra - 1880
Photograph of the old Government Printing Office with Jolimont and South Yarra in the background
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Grey Street apartment
Newspaper clipping about auction of apartment 15, 18 Grey Street, scheduled for 17 May 2003. Photo. Age, 10 May 2003, Domain, p. 32.
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Grounds for good design
Newspaper clipping with article about the work of architect, Reno Rizzo of Inarc. One of the projects mentioned is his modern addition to the rear of the house at 14 Powlett Street, East Melbourne. Photo. The Weekend Australian, 12-13 Jan 2002, p.30
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Gwyllehurst, Lot 4 Wellington Parade, East Melbourne - 1860
Photograph of Gwyllehurst, residence of John Gill, apparently taken 1860. [There is an address written at the bottom of the original image held by the State Library of Victoria. It is incorrect. (It was in fact the address of the photographer Charles Norton).] The actual location...
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HABEL, Louis
Carl Louis Habel was born in Murtoa in 1883, the son of Johann Carl and Emilie Clara Habel. In 1909, he married Florence Annie Shearwood, born 1889 in Collingwood, and in 1914, they were living at 1089 Hoddle Street, East Melbourne, with their two children, Melville Carl, born 19...
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HALL, May Isabel
May Isabel Hall was born on 6 August 1879 in Sandhurst (Bendigo), Victoria. She was the fourth of the five children and first daughter of John Pitchers Hall (c1836–92) and his wife Isabella Jane (c1845–1918), successful drapers of that city. (Her registered name was Mary but she...
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HARBECK, Arthur Percival
Arthur Percival Harbeck was one of three brothers from Lakes Entrance who enlisted to fight in the Great War. Arthur was 22 years old and working as a salesman. He enlisted at Eastern Hill and gave his home address as 26 Berry St., East Melbourne. Like his brothers, he nominated...
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HARRIS, Percy James
Percy James Harris was born 1st January 1875 at Thornton, Studley-park, Kew. He was the son of Alfred Harris. Two months later Alfred sold the contents of his house as he was leaving for England imminently. Whether he did or not remains uncertain as no shipping records have been...
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HART, Annie Kidd
Annie (Anne) Kidd Hart was the first of eight children born to John Adolphus Hart (c1849–1930) and his first wife Ann née Kidd (1854–1908). Annie’s father and mother were both born in Melbourne in the early years of the settlement. On the Hart side, George Hart, a carpenter by t...
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HAWKINS, Clarence Edmund
Clarence Hawkins was the son of Alfred George Hawkins, a tailor, and his wife Mary Adele, nee Merson. Born in 1883, he was the second eldest of a large family of five boys and one girl: Theodore (1881); Bertram (1884); Mabel (1886); Raymond (1887): Edgar (1889); Philip (1890) and...
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HOBLER, Minnie
Minnie Hobler was born in 1875 in Rockhampton, Queensland. She was the ninth of the eleven children of Francis Helvetius Hobler (1825-1889) and his wife Jessie Ann (nee Learmonth) (1838-1910). Minnie's forebears on both sides were pioneer settlers in the colonies - Van Dieman's L...
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HONMAN, Andrew Victor
Andrew Victor Honman was born in Williamstown on 26 February 1891 to Dr. Andrew Holman and Wilhemina Clara Mahlenbach. His father Andrew was born in St Andrew's, Scotland where he studied medicine, then worked in Egypt in 1880 assisting with the management of an epidemic of chole...
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HONYBUN, Anthony Garvis
Anthony Honybun was the fourth child of the twelve children of William and Kate Honybun, and was their third son. He was born in Shepherd's Bush, London on 4 March 1894. The family emigrated to Melbourne in 1910, settling in Balwyn. Anthony enlisted on 17 August 1914, only a few...
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HORNSEY, Ruby Millie
Ruby Millie Hornsey Ruby Millie Hornsey (1885–1969) is commemorated on the honour board of Great War nurses who were parishioners at St Peter’s Church Eastern Hill East Melbourne. A Tasmanian, she trained at Launceston General Hospital and enlisted in the Australian Army Nursing...
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HUGHES, Wilfrid Selwyn Kent
Wilfrid Kent Hughes, known as Billy, was born in East Melbourne on 12 June 1895. Members of his extended family had achieved, or would later achieve, some prominence in various aspects of public life. He attended Trinity Grammar School in Kew till he was aged 13, at which point h...
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HUMPHREYS, Alfred Ernest
Alf Humphreys was born in Greenoch, Scotland and emigrated with his parents to Australia. The Humphreys had seven children, of whom two boys stayed behind. In 1914 when he enlisted, he was living with his mother and sister, Annie in Simpson Street, East Melbourne and working as a...
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Hallmarks of a reverential renovation - 159 Gipps Street
Newspaper clipping tells of the renovation of Little Parndon, 159 Gipps Street, East Melbourne by owner architect, Emma Thompson. The house was originally built for artist, Eugene von Guerard, and in later years was the home of Lord and Lady Casey. As a consequence there were str...
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Halloween, 99 Hotham Street, East Melbourne
Painting by Lynne Deans of the house at 99 Hotham Street, East Melbourne known as Halloween
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Hansom Cabs
Business card - S. Taylor, Hansoms & Waggonettes. Operated at 43 Gipps Street, now the Ola Cohn Centre. The single letter 'J' was added to East Melbourne telephone numbers in 1923; Ola Cohn bought the stables for her residence and studio in 1938; giving a date for the card c.1923...
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Harold Campbell-Pretty
Obituary for Harold Campbell-Pretty who died on 25 May 2014 at his East Melbourne home. Written by Tony Ellwood, director of the National Gallery of Victoria, and published in its magazine, Gallery Magazine.
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Helen Macpherson Smith
Newspaper clipping about Helen Macpherson Smith. She left £275,000, the majority of her wealth, to establish a perpetual philanthropic trust to benefit Victorian charitable institutions. In 2015, 64 years after her death, the value of HMS Trust’s investments totalled $104 million...
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Helicopter view of Hotham, Simpson Street intersection - 2007
Photograph taken from a helicopter over East Melbourne in 2007.
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Hello to El Cubano
Review of Hard Pressed, a cafe specialising in Cuban sandwiches and boutique coffee.