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Green glass bottle from Ah Toy's garden, Palmer River
Marking refers to John Lumb and Co Ltd, a glass bottle manufacturer based in Castleford, West Yorkshire, England. The co...
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Sweetheart ring which belonged to Muriel McPhee
Muriel McPhee kept two photographs and two rings on her dressing table. One photograph was of her brother Bill and the o...
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Camel Corps Christmas card to the McPhee family from Will Bo...
This card was sent to the McPhee family from Will Boothby, a neighbouring farmer. Boothby served during the First World ...
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Wooden stick used for washing clothes
Wooden stick used for washing clothes in a backyard copper in Launceston.
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Glass photographic magic lantern slide of a thylacine at the...
This is a magic lantern slide of a thylacine at London Zoo. Between the 1850s and the 1920s thylacines were exported to ...
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Photograph of a steam engine threshing wheat
This photograph was sent to the McPhees by a family friend.
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Wicker and leather child's pony saddle
This child's saddle belonged to a member of the Rutledge family from Gidleigh station near Bungendore in New South Wales...
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Boomerang, attributed as being made by Fred Mulga aka 'Pelac...
Fred Mulga (c.1874-1948), aka Pelaco Jack, Aboriginal buckjumper, was probably born near Port Hedland, in Western Austr...
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Group of women on the deck of the T.S.S. Ballarat [1912]
Handwritten message on reverse reads 'Taken on T.S.S. Ballarat / Sept 22nd 1912 / Nearly a week before reaching / Cape T...
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Blue nylon airmail bag, printed with '50th anniversary air m...
The first official airmail between Australia and New Zealand was carried on 17 February 1934 in the Avro X (10) aircraft...
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Cattle branding iron with the initials WR
This cattle branding iron was used on Gidleigh station, near Bungendore in New South Wales. Tools like this were used o...
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Silk embroidered postcard and and inner card to Muriel McPhe...
This silk embroidered postcard was sent to Muriel McPhee from her cousin Ronnie, while serving in France during the Firs...