East Melbourne Historical Society
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Subjects WW1 Family name O'KEEFE Given names Thomas David Gender Male East Melbourne addresses Year 1914 366 Albert Street , East Melbourne, Victoria, Australia Military service WW1 Regimental number 1408 Rank Pte Military units 9th Battalion, 2nd Reinforcement
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Killed in action 17 July 1918
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Frank Anthony O'Loghlen was the son of Patrick Joseph and Mary Josephine, nee Blake-Forster, O'Loghlen. He was born in August, 1895, the second of three youngest of three children. He enlisted on 29 April, 1915, aged nineteen years. He was sent to Broadmeadows after call-up and a...
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Charles Townsend O’Neill was born in Queanbeyan, NSW, in 1876. He was the eighth of the ten children, eight boys and two girls, born to James O’Neill and his wife, Mary Ann, nee Affleck. He joined the New South Wales police force after leaving school and by 1899 was stationed in...
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Subjects WW1 Family name O'SHEA Given names Joseph Desmond Gender Male East Melbourne addresses Year 1914 East Melbourne, Victoria, Australia Military service WW1 Regimental number 3008 Rank 2Lt Military units Australian Flying Corps, November 1917 Reinforcement
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born in East Melbourne, discharged in Australia
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Letter to The Age 18 September 2012: "Ode to Matthew Guy" HE LOVES a sunburnt country, a land of sweeping cranes, of haggard mountain ranges, of overcrowded trains. His love of far horizons, filled with concrete towers, he dreams of more of this, to exercise his powers. To achiev...
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Photocopies (2) and transcripts (2) of obituaries, photocopy of death certificate, entries from P.O. directories.
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Newspaper clipping reporting that the National Trust has reconfigured its headquarters at Tasma Terrace, Parliament Place, to create commercial office space on the ground and first floors. [Item as illustrated has been extracted from a larger article and re-formatted]
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Program of the opening of the Mercy Hospital by the Hon. Sir Henry Bolte. Photos.
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Two photocopied magazine articles about Ola Cohn, her home, and her sculpture. Includes 'Transforming a Livery Stable: Miss Ola Cohn in Her Studio Home' by Walter Jago in The Australian Home Beautiful, 1 August, 1939; 'Ola Cohn at Work: Her contribution to Australian Architecture...
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A collection of photocopied newspaper clippings about Ola Cohn and the creation of the Fairies Tree. some undated but all appear to be 1932. Photos.
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Postcard showing photograph of Ola Cohn at work carving The Fairies' Tree in the Fitzroy Gardens. The photo appeared in the Argus newspaper on 3 November 1932. The postcard is signed by Ola Cohn and dated with the year. On the reverse is written "To Mr & Mrs Holloway Wishing you...
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A collection of photocopied photos and newspaper articles spanning the life of Ola Cohn, sculptor whose studio was at 41 Gipps Street, East Melbourne. Includes photos of Ola Cohn, her work and her studio; biographical articles, articles about her work and about the renovation of...
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Ola Cohn was the sculptor best known as the creator of the Fairies’ Tree in the Fitzroy Gardens but was more important as a pioneer of modernist sculpture in Australia. Her studio was in East Melbourne. Dr Barbara Lemon’s book, A Way with the Fairies: the lost story of sculptor O...
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Newspaper clipping about cost of repairs to Melbourne bridges, includes footbridge to east of MCG in Yarra Park. (the date given for original construction is wrong).
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We usually think of public buildings as large and imposing structures such as town halls or railway stations but in Powlett Reserve, East Melbourne there is situated possibly one of the smallest public buildings in Melbourne.
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Old Pavilion Cafe, Fitzroy Gardens - now demolished and replaced
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Newspaper clipping about sale of old school. Photo. The Age, 24 May 2003, Business, p. 24.
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Newspaper clipping announcing that the Old Treasury Building restoration won the 2003 Excellence in Construction of Commercial Buildings under $1,000,000. Photo. Age, 19 May 2003, Advertising Feature p. 3.
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Old Treasury Building, Spring Street, Melbourne. View of front facade. This imposing building was designed by J J Clarke,one of the first colonial architects in Victoria
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A history of the Old Treasury Building designed by John James Clark. Photos.
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Scanned glass transparency of the old Treasury Building taken by John Henry Harvey. The date is unknown but the format of this picture and the nature of Spring Street suggest that it was taken in the earlier phase of John Henry Harvey's creative work, possibly during the 1890s. T...