Warragul and District Historical Society

Items

• Vintage Business Envelopes from Warragul
  Small paper bag: F D'Alia and Sons, 56 Smith Street, Warragul. Wholesale and Retail fruit supply. Envelope of business - Saunders Radio and TV , 16 Napier Street, Warragul. AWA deep image TV. Envelope of business - C A and W Hastings, Timber and Hardware merchants,Bourke Street, Warragul.
• Warragul & District Historical Society Preservation Assessment 2019
  Booklet: Preservation Needs Assessment of the Warragul and District Historical Society, april 2019 compiled by Artifact Conservation, 74 Piper Street, Kyneton. 3444.
• Preservarion Needs Assessment of the Warragul and District Historical society.
  Booklet: Preservation Needs Assessment of the Warragul and District Historical Society's Collection. Dated at april 2019 Compiled by Artifact Conservation, 74 Piper Street, Kyneton 3444. Assessment was funded by National Library of Australia. Assement submitted May 6th 2019 to the National Library of Australia for grant of $15.000 for works to be done.
• Sale Catholic School Expansion Announcement, May 2019
  newspaper cutting: Gazette dated 28.05.2019 Site ready for new Catholic School. The Saint Angela of the Cross will be at the corner of Copelands and Mills roads. Opening to be Term 1 2021. The Diocese of Sale Catholic Education has 37 Primary and 7 Secondary Schools across Gippsland.
• Inaugural Membership Certificate, Gippsland Combined Historical Database, 2019
  Certificate: Awarded to Warragul and District Historical Society, May 2019 Inaugural member of the Gippsland combined Historical Data Base - awarded through Gippsland Associated and Affiliated Historical socieies. Our contribution was of 4600 data entries for the first drop. Data Base as of May holds 92.600 entries.
• A Taste of Drouin CWA
  Booklet: A Taste of Drouin CWA. Celebrating 80 years service to our community. 1939 - 2019. This includes recipes from various members with their image and their role in the organisation. Lists of names and positions held over the 80 years. Cover photograph is of Life Member Mrs Lorraine Kinrade.
• General and Branch laws for the Government of the Australian natives' Association.
  General and Branch Laws - for the Government of the Australian Natives Association .Dated 1908 This was the property of Mrs C E Brooker, Warragul.
• Gippsland East, its Geology and Mining Development.
  Booklet: Gippsland East, Its Geology and Mining Development including Lakes Entrance Oil Field. Issued by Geo Brown, Secretary for Mines. Dated 1936
• Victoria's Historical Directory: Sands and McDougall's 106th Edition, 1963
  Sands and McDougall's Directory of Victoria 1963 - 106th Year of publication. In the Country Postal Towns Section: Warragul - pages 1336 to 1337. Alphabetical section page 1361 Agricultural and Pastoral Section page 2427
• George from Jindivick
  Book titled " George from Jindivick" From Small Town Farmer to Big Cheese. Story of George Ronalds. Author Vickie Janson. autographed by George Ronalds.
• Arthur Gunter's Warragul Diaries and Railway Hotel History
  Notes from Arthur Gunter's Diaries about Warragul. Railway Hotel references - The Path of Progress by Hugh Copeland.
• South Bourke & Mornington Journal Extract, 1877 Whisky Creek Trip
  Extract from South Bourke and Mornington Journal, dated Wednesday 11th 1877. About a trip to Dicken's Robin Hood Hotel at Whisky Creek for the opening.
• "The Literature of Gippsland" the social and historical context of early writings and bibliography. Author: Patrick Morgan. Centre for Gippsland Studies,Gippsland Institute of Advanced Education. Revised edition: dated 1986.
  Booklet - titled "The Literature of Gippsland" the social and historical context of early writings and bibliography. Author: Patrick Morgan. Centre for Gippsland Studies,Gippsland Institute of Advanced Education. Revised edition: dated 1986.
• Orient Hotel's Evolution through Gazette Listings
  Newspaper cutting - Gazette, dated 14.05.2019 Auction _ advertisement for Thursday 23rd. May 2019 of O & H Hotel at 95 Queen Street, Warragul. Formerly the Orient Hotel licensed 1897, originally the Crown Hotel which opened 1875. Good description of size, development and layout. Newspaper cutting - Gazette, dated 28.05.2019 O & H passed in. Auction attracted about 30 people, only one bid at $600.000, rejected and over ruled by the vendor bid of $1 million.
• Jen's Dinkum Discount: Gazette from 2019 - 32 Years of Trading
  newspaper cutting: Gazette dated 14.05.2019 Jen's Dinkum Discount at 50 Smith Street, Warragul. Business opened 1987, Closed 30.05.2019 32 years of trading.
• Warragul Cycle Works: Pedersen Family Legacy in Cycling History
  Newspaper cutting, Gazette 14.05.2019 Photographs of interior of Pedersen Cycle Works. 50 Smith Street, Warragul. Behind the counter: Allan Pedersen, Ron Pedersen, Clarrie and Alice Pedersen. They purchased "Warragul Cycle Works" from E R Ruffell, March 1924 �222. Pedersens sold the business in 1968 to Robo's Sports Store. 1987 business sold and became Dinkum Discounts - business closed May 30th 2019
• Public Clock Correspondence with Shire of Warragul Council, 1889-1890
  Correspondence to Shire of Warragul Council about the addition and terms of having a public clock erected at the Post Office. 7 letters: From Post Office and Telegraph Department, General Post Office, Melbourne. 23rd August 1889, 3rd September 1889, 1st October 1889, 6th December 1889, 11th December 1889, 3rd February 1890, 25th February 1890.
• Warragul Shire's Correspondence and Reports, 1882-1900
  13 archival boxes of Shire of Warragul Inwards Correspondence dated: 1882, 1883, 1884, 1885, 1886, 1887, 1888, 1889 and 1890, 1891 and 1892, Rate Collection Reports 1889 to 1893. Reports 1893 to 1894, 1895 to 1900.
• Caricatures of Warragul Dairy Farmers from 1949
  Weekly Times, dated 14.09.1949 A Page of well-known Warragul personalities in cariactures. Dairy Farmers: Don Sutherland, Frank Wrathall, S G Gaul, Neil Bagot. Cattle Breeders: Charlie Burrows, Glen McLeish, Bert Tomasetti, A H Bingham and George Bingham Dairiy Farmers: Eric Hore, Len Keating, Sid Allan, Victor Smith.
• Strzelecki's Journey Through Civilization: A Newspaper Cutting from Punch Magazine, 1922
  A page from the magazine " Punch" Strzelecki links up with Civilization. The railway extension from Kooweerup was opened by Lady Mackey on Thursday. There was warmth in the reception by local residents, but the day was bitterly cold. Pictures of the curves of the rail-line, passengers awaitinga Strzelecki, dignitaries. Article dated July 1922.
• Cecil McCarty's 1918 Certificate from Neerim School No. 2666
  Certificate awarded to Cecil McCarty. Neerim School No 2666 Young Workers Patriotic Guild in heavy wooded frame
• Vistorian View Album Page: Warragul's Businesses in 1889
  Page from the Vistorian View Album relating to Warragul c.1889. 2 sides to the page Side 1: picture of Warragul - Queen Street. Businesses: J Lunt Bricklayer and contractor, Faragher's Blacksmith and Wheelwright - Bloomfield. J Jackson, Family Butcher, Excelsior Tailoring Establishment - B M Reardon. G Wittmann - Plumber, tinsmith, Gasfitter. Commercial Hotel, Warragul - Charles Boxall. M L Grassett - theoretical and Practical Watchmaker and optician. A J Reynolds - Bootmaker. Story of Warragul's development. Side 2: Picture of Warragul Shoeing Forge of T A Williams - Blacksmith and Wheelwright. with story of the works at the forge
• West Gippsland Golf Association's 1965 Annual Dinner Program
  program: West Gippsland Golf Association, Annual Dinner, dated 12.11.1965 Guests of Honour - Age Shield Team Winners and Toast List names.
• Dead Cows & Horses: Maxie Green's Business Card
  To Mr Farmer, postage paid at Bunyip Maxie Green, We pay cash for fresh dead cows and horses.
• Convent Fair Business Cards from 1964
  The Convent Fair at R S L Hall Warragul, dated October 1964