Warragul and District Historical Society

Items

• Timber Industry: A Large Hollow-Trunked Tree Postcard
  Post Card: A large tree wiwth a hollow trunk
• Last Camp Postcard from 1905
  Post Card: Dated 1905, The last camp while the billy boils.
• Bushfire Trip Postcard: Moe to Walhalla
  Post Card: bushfire - describing trip from Moe to Walhalla
• Autograph Book from the Early 20th Century
  Small autograph book, has some illustrations included. Dates between 1910 to 1914.
• Personal Memories Through Early Photographs
  album contains small photographs, and early photographs are named T model Ford, Stan Nicholls, Howard, Arthur and Edgar, Marjory, Max, E J Stranger, Grandma Nicholls. Remainder of photographs not named.
• 1838 Melbourne Advertiser Newspaper Cutting
  The Melbourne Advertiser - Port Phillip Australia. Written for and published by Mr P Fawkner. Dated 8.01.1838. Vol 1 No 2. Handwritten.
• Timber Industry: Axemen Cutting Tree Trunk, 9116
  Photograph mounted on board - the size of the tree felled as felled to the ground. See #9116 axemen cutting into the trunk.
• Timber Industry: Early Settler's Home in Thick Forest
  Photograph mounted on board - thick forest scene. Early settlers home.
• Thorpdale Pioneers Forest Scene Photographs
  Photograph mounted on board - forest scene with early settlers home and out buildings. A family in the foreground. also a copy of the same photograph.
• Timber Industry: Men Cutting Tree Trunk in Action
  Photograph mounted on board - good example of men cutting large tree through the trunk. also a copy of the same photograph
• Thorpdale Family Photographs: Annie, Emmi, Susan, and Nellie
  Photograph mounted on board - Annie, Emmi, Susan and Nellie also a copy of the same photograph.
• Portrait of Ernest Edwin Nicholls by Petts & Rawlings
  Portrait of Ernest Edwin Nicholls. Photographer: Petts and Rawlings - Adelaide.
• Annie and Elijah Stranger's Legacy: A Collection of Historical Documents
  1. Death certificate - Annie Stranger, Dated 1884 2. Family trees - incomplete 3. Shipping list - Lydia 4. Article copied - The Spectator. - The late Elijah Stranger. Dated June 16 1916. 5. List of references re. Elijah Stranger, Palamountain, Nicholls families. 6. letters to Marjorie from Glad Winter re family information.
• Brandy Creek Maps: Eastern Section, 1877
  Map - Selections at and near Brandy Creek - Eastern Section. Dated 1877. Narracan and Moe 1st. selectors.
• Trafalgar Bulletin: 1989 Gazette Issue No. 12 Vol. 3
  Trafalgar and District Historical Gazette Issue No 12 Vol 3. dated 1989 Includes map of Moe and Narracan 1st settlements with names. Narracan School No 2012
• Thorpdale Narracan Centenary Extracts (1876-1976)
  Extract from "Thorpdale Narracan Childers Centenary" dated 1876 -1976 pages 50, 51, 52, 53, 54, 55, Names include Bert Savige, Alffleck, Keddie, Goyon, Harrison, Mason, Hodge, Sheehan, May, Webb, Donnelly, Dell. Teachers in the early years. Thorpdale Swimming Pool - old identities. Early selections - Mr Joseph Gange in 1873. A marriiot, I and R Watson, Hirt. ephraim Mann, Frank Dickenson, Childers Bill Moncur, E J Stranger. Tradesmen, History of Methodism in Childers.
• Community Radio History: From Idea to Daily Broadcasts
  Newspaper cutting. Gazette dated 15.05.2018 Volunteers 3BBR-FM Community Radio 6.09.1993 Public meeting to float the idea of a community radio station 13.05.1995 Commenced broadcasting. 1998 Broadcasting 7 days a week 2000 Broadcasting 24 hours daily.
• Walhalla Gold Mine Discoveries: Hargraves' Golden Find
  2 Illustrations: Walhalla Gold Mine Hargraves discovering gold.
• 1900 Gold Mining and Railway Reports
  Booklets: 1. Dated 1900 Report - Proposed Railway from Moe to Walhalla with minutes of evidence. 2. Dated 1900 Report - Railway Communications with Walhalla.
• 1884 Gold Mining Service Certificate
  Certificate - Certificate of service as Engine Driver for any engine used for mining purposes. Dated 1884
• Long Tunnel Mining Co. Share Certificate
  Certificate: Long tunnel Extended Gold Mining Company. �3 per share. To A J Eve, Melbourne.
• Gold Mining Report from 1896: Wood's Point to Walhalla
  Dated 1896: Department of Mines. Report on Gold Mining Development between Wood's Point and Walhalla
• Memoirs of Geological Survey of Victoria No 15 - Aberfeldy District, Gippsland, 1925
  Copy of booklet: Memoirs of Geological Survey of Victoria No 15. Dated 1925. The Aberfeldy District, Gippsland
• Thomson River Copper Mine Plans and Underground Works, 1906
  1. Plans showing Thomson River Copper Minem dated 1906 with projected railway line, roads etc. 2. Underground workings - Thomson river Copper Mine. 3. Extracts - Department of Mines Bulletins - Geological survey of Victoria No 20. The Walhalla or Thomson River Copper Mine.
• 1940 Mining & Geological Journal: Long Tunnel, Cohen's Reef
  Magazine - Mining and Geological Journal - dated 1940. Long tunnel, Cohen's Reef, Reilly and Peters, Shamrock Mines at Walhalla.