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The Wom­en’s Muse­um of Aus­tralia col­lec­tion holds over 2500 objects includ­ing domes­tic tech­nol­o­gy, pho­tographs, man­u­scripts, cloth­ing, jew­ellery and books.

Digi­tis­ing the col­lec­tion and mak­ing it avail­able online is an evolv­ing resource that will, over time, rep­re­sent many more of the Museum’s col­lec­tion highlights.

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  • Speculum

    Specu­lum Bivalve type vagi­nal specu­lum medi­um size in pol­ished stain­less steel. Two bills joined by a slid­ing screw lock­ing mech­a­nism in the han­dle allow­ing the bils to be locked open. The upper bill… Read more…

    Maker: possibly Boots

  • Medical Spirit Lamp

    Spir­it lamp used in surgery to heat, ster­il­ize small sur­gi­cal instru­ments eg. nee­dle points, blades. Pol­ished stain­less steel flask con­tain­ing a cot­ton wick. A screw cap clos­es the flask neck and… Read more…

    Maker: DOWN

  • Surgical Instrument Tray

    Sur­gi­cal instru­ment tray of pol­ished stain­less steel. Rec­tan­gu­lar. OPD scratched into base. (Out­pa­tients Department)

    Maker: K.G.Luke

  • Eye Washer

    Eye wash­er glass undine, tear drop shaped with exten­sion spout from top end and fill­ing port at top. Used for irri­ga­tion of the eye.

  • Woollen Balaclava, Helmet

    Woollen hand knit­ted blue wool Bal­a­cla­va (Hel­met). Main head part ribbed with garter stitch nek and chest area. Eye face open­ing. Pat­tern used: Week­ly Times Vic­to­ria, 13 Octo­ber 1917.

    Maker: Kate Wightman

  • Hand Knitted Socks

    1 pair brown (kha­ki) hand knit­ted socks. Ribbed band and stock­ing stitch for body of sock. Pat­tern used: Red Cross WW1 Sock Pat­tern. Wool yarn.

    Maker: Vikki Hope

  • Hand Knitted Helmet

    Hand knit­ted in green wool with mul­ti­coloured fleck. Main­ly garter stitch­with neck and face edg­ing ribbed. Pat­tern tak­en from Red Cross Soci­ety Aus­tralian Branch book, page 13, ​‘Woollen Helmet’. Read more…

  • Knee Cap Cover

    Hand knit­ted Knee Cap Cov­er in brown wool. One only. Knit­ted in one piece using garter stitch and seamed togeth­er. Pat­tern: Patons Ser­vice Wol­lies pub­lished Patons and Baldwin.

    Maker: Jane Knapinski

  • Infantry Rifle Mittens, Pair

    One pair of Infantry Rifle Mit­tens knit­ted from 5‑ply Cleck­heaton Crêpe Wool in blue and light blue. Ribbed cuff and ribbed thumb and index fin­ger gus­set. Stock­ing stitch for remain­der. Thumb and… Read more…

    Maker: Mylene Pijpers

  • Hand Knitted Gauntlets, Pair

    One pair of beige (light brown) hand knit­ted gauntlets (gloves), WW1 design. Long ribbed cuff, cuff would have been worn over shirt sleeves. Pure New Wool.

    Maker: Barbara McIIvain

  • Wool Socks, Pair

    Hand knit­ted woollen socks, large, size II, Char­coal yarn from Bendi­go Woollen Mills. Stock­ing stitch with ribbed band. Red Cross Pat­tern clas­sic DK.

    Maker: Keryn Booth

  • Hand Knitted Waistcoat

    Sleeve­less vest, Waist­coat, ribbed in 3 pieces and sewn togeth­er. Front bands knit­ted in garter stitch. Five plas­tic but­tons have been used but each has been rein­forced with cot­ton tape.

    Maker: Marianne Hall

  • Hand Knitted Jumper

    Hand knit­ted jumper, adult size. Green (kha­ki) bas­ket weave pat­tern using pure wool has round neck.

    Maker: Peter Jobson

  • Cholera Belt

    Cream coloured, hand knit­ted Cholera Belt in fine Pure Wool. Ribbed piece but with fin­er rib­bing at top and bot­tom. Worn around waist to keep kid­neys warm.

    Maker: Leonie Tewierik

  • Knitted Socks, Pair

    Pair of grey knit­ted socks using pure new wool and knit­ted from a Red Cross Pat­tern Book, WW1. Sock knit­ted with Dutch Heel. Stock­ing Stitch for body of socks with ribbed cuffs.

    Maker: Kathy Bailey

  • Knitted Socks, Pair

    Pair of grey hand knit­ted socks using pure new wool and knit­ted from Red Cross Pat­tern book, WW1. Socks knit­ted with French Heel. Body of sock is stock­ing stitch with ribbed cuffs.

    Maker: Kathy Bailey

  • Knitted Socks, Pair

    Pair of grey hand knit­ted socks using pure new wool and knit­ted from Red Cross Book WW1. This sock pair has Dutch Heel. Stock­ing stitch for body of sock with cuffs ribbed.

    Maker: Kathy Bailey

  • Helmet, Pure Wool, Knitted

    Light brown in colour, light­ly felt­ed pure wool hel­met. Head area knit­ted in garter stitch, neck and race edg­ing ribbed.

    Maker: Pauline Fitch

  • Socks, Hand Knitted, Pair

    Hand knit­ted hos­pi­tal socks using light green woolen yarn. WW1.

    Maker: Pauline Fitch

  • Helmet with Bib, Handknitted

    Hel­met, hand­knit­ted with bib using grey woollen yarn. Stock­ing stich (ribbed) head­piece with garter stitch bib. Small open­ing for eyes. The bib (garter stitch area) is designed to be tucked under… Read more…

    Maker: Pauline Fitch

  • Helmet, Hand Knitted Woollen

    Hel­met, hand­knit­ted pure woollen yarn, brown in colour, ribbed neck and facial edges with purl knit­ted head piece.

    Maker: Pauline Fitch

  • Cystoscopes, Resectoscopes and Attachments in Fibrelite Case

    A). Brown ​“Fibre­lite” case. 390 mm x 245 mm x 85 mm. Three (3) hinges and a clasp lock in chrome steel. Bear­ing three labels 1). ​“Sup­plied by Wat­son Vic­tor Ltd., Aus­tralia WATVIC (logo) New… Read more…

    Maker: Watson Victor Ltd., 'American Cystoscope Makers Inc. , Pelham Manor, New York' & 'Iglesias Multiple Rectoscope, Patent 3589793' 'OT Resectoscope'

  • Dental Syringe in Original Box

    a) Box card­board labelled with a list of con­tents, and the mak­ers name and address. The box is divid­ed into com­part­ments inside. b) Impe­r­i­al den­tal syringe, chrome steel met­al parts with frosted… Read more…

    Maker: Claudius Ash & Sons & Co. Ltd.

  • Surgeon's Binocular Magnifying Lenses

    a) Box, cylin­dri­cal card­board cov­ered in leather with a flap hinged lid at one end with tuck in of flap clo­sure. Mak­ers name and address on inside of flap lid. b) Mag­ni­fy­ing lens­es con­sist­ing of… Read more…

    Maker: Theodore Hamblin Ltd.

  • Tongue Depressor Component of Boyle-Davis Mouth Operation Gag

    Tongue depres­sor of stain­less steel 3 mm thick bent at a right angle. The ver­ti­cal com­po­nent is 145 mm L x 15 mm W ter­mi­nat­ing in a 150 degree hook. The out­side of the bar is indent­ed with 17… Read more…

    Maker: ANAX

  • Instrument Manual

    Three ring doc­u­ment fold­er A4 size labelled Kaiser, Gen­er­al Instru­ment, Edi­tion 4″ on front and spine and list­ing the dis­tri­b­u­tion co. ( retail­er’s name ) ​“Sur­gi­cal Access Pty. Ltd., ACN, contact… Read more…

    Maker: Kaisers Retailed by Surgical Access Pty. Ltd.

  • Prison Officer's Hat

    Prison Officer”s Hat (Male) felt Akubra size 60 with 6 ven­ti­la­tion holes in crown. A met­al cor­rec­tions badge is attached through the felt at the front. It has a band of criss-crossed cloth and a… Read more…

    Maker: Akubra

  • Reading Glasses and Case

    a) Read­ing Glass­es with brown frames and squar­ish lens­es. Frame around lens­es is brown at the top and clear at the bot­tom. b) Cloth Case is colour­ful flo­ral on the out­side and lined in black on… Read more…

  • Roy Underwood Face and Jaw Splint

    Roy Under­wood Face and Jaw Splint a) var­nished 6 mm ply­wood box 175 mm W X 180 mm D X 255 mm H Open­ing face (175 X 225 hinged at base and closed with 2 clips at the top. The box has a carrying… Read more…

    Maker: Splint Maker unsure. Designer Roy Underwood

  • Bone Screw Tray

    Bone screw tray, bespoke sur­gi­cal item 210 mm x 180 mm stain­less steel plate fold­ed at 50 mm and 160 mm to rec­tan­gu­lar arch 50 mm-110 mm-50 mm. The 180 mm x 110 sur­face has been drilled with 182 4 mm… Read more…

    Maker: Bespoke

  • Tracheostom Tube

    Tra­cheostom Tube grooved and tapered stain­less steel arched (90 degrees) Diam­e­ter 8 mm at prox­i­mal end taper­ing pro­gres­sive­ly to 5.5 mm at the dis­tal end Over­all length 50 mm. Shal­low groove on upper… Read more…

    Maker: Ramsay Surgical Instrument Makers

  • Cervix Dilator

    Cervix dila­tor, stain­less steel tapered cylin­der with 10 degree curve over the dis­tal one third of its length. At the prox­i­mal (han­dle) end a short (20 mm) 24 mm diam­e­ter cylin­der at right angles to… Read more…

    Maker: Down Brothers Surgical Instrument Makers

  • Set of 6 Syringes

    Set of 6 syringes 1 cc, 2, 5, 10, 20, 50 a) 1 cc glass out­er 8.5 cm L with a 10 cm blue plunger. On the end of syringe is a 1.5 cm stain­less steel noz­zle. Inside of noz­zle has a hollow…

  • Spencer Wells Artery Forceps

    Artery For­ceps, curved. Spencer Wells. ​“Scissor“portion has slight­ly indent­ed grooves from tip to hinge sec­tion. Han­dles look like scis­sors han­dles and have four dents on both han­dles to hold open… Read more…

    Maker: Amico

  • Headlight for Theatre

    Head­light for the­atre, stain­less steel semi cir­cle to fit over head at the end of which is a stain­less steel plate. One end is adjustable. Oppo­site end has a cylin­dri­cal torch attached (8 cm long, 2… Read more…

  • Voice Prosthesis in Sterile Container

    Voice Pros­the­sis in unopened ster­ile con­tain­er. Con­tain­er is 7cmx7cm x 3cm box with a flat lid that mea­sures 12.7 cm x 12.7 cm with round­ed corners.Voice Pros­the­sis is a sin­gle piece object made of a… Read more…

    Maker: Richards Medical Company

  • Surgical Hook

    Sur­gi­cal Hook, stain­less steel. Flat han­dle, shaft is cylin­dri­cal with a cir­cu­lar hook on end. Hook tapers to point.

    Maker: Kleinert - Kutz

  • Surgical Safety Pin

    Sur­gi­cal safe­ty Pin, stain­less steel. Closed pin . Each side is 11cm with curled piv­ot at end which is cir­cu­lar 1cmx1cm. Head of pin is flat 3.5cm long, 2.5cm wide with one side curled around to hold… Read more…

  • Ear Trowel

    Ear trow­el, stain­less steel in orig­i­nal hard, clear plas­tic pre­sen­ta­tion case. Long han­dle (10 cm) shaft is cylin­dri­cal but tapers to trow­el head. Head is fine and is a sharp point­ed triangular… Read more…

    Maker: Down

  • Button from Prison Officer's Uniform

    But­ton, large sil­ver from Prison Offi­cer’s Uni­form. Has map of NT with fly­ing eagle on front and shank for attach­ing on back. Has let­ters punched on back but 2 holes punched oppo­site each other.  Read more…

    Maker: A. J. Parkes

  • NT Correctional Services Metal Badge

    Cor­rec­tion­al Ser­vices Badge, met­al with enam­el in shape of a shield. Out­er rim is gold sig­ni­fy­ing high­er rank. Inside shield is red­dish brown with black map of NT and fly­ing eagle inside. NORTHERN… Read more…

  • 2 Epaulettes

    Epaulettes in shape of arrows. Both card­board cov­ered with very dark navy cloth. a) has thin tape stitched on to flat end one cream and the oth­er orange. Two wider tapes at back to attach to uniform… Read more…

  • 3 Epaulettes

    Epaulettes a,b,c iden­ti­cal. Cloth fold­ed into arrow shape. Very dark navy with three white stripes embroi­dered near flat end. stripes are arrows fac­ing flat end.

  • Black Leather Doctors Bag

    Inter­nal remov­able cloth base gus­set. One long side of gus­set has 6 small pouch­es — oth­er side of gus­set has one long pouch. Top has black met­al frame. Leather han­dle with stain­less steel ring… Read more…

    Maker: CHENEY

  • Stainless Steel Foerster (Rampley) Sponge Holding Forceps

    Total length 24.5 cm. Two han­dles. Fif­teen (15) cm from screw to end of fin­ger hle which is 3 x 2.5 cm. From hinge to tip of sponge grip is 9.5 cm. Sponge grip is cir­cu­lar and flat. Three (3) cm in… Read more…

    Maker: Allen and Hunbury Limited

  • Yankauer Suckers - Stainless Steel

    Total length 28.5 cm — hol­lowed ‑Han­dle is 9.5 cm, 1.5 cm from end­to start of han­dle, han­dle is two half oval shaped. Hanlde is 17 cm length with 2 small curnes. Head is thread­ed and unscrews 1.5 cm… Read more…

  • Stainless Steel Cheetles Forceps

    Total length 28 cm — 2 han­dles 18 cm long hinged (with screw) at end of han­dles. Head is approx 45 degree from han­dles with a def­i­nite curve. Out­er blade 9 cm (slight­ly curved) in length with a 45… Read more…

  • Stainless Steel Cheetles Forceps

    Total length 27 cm — 2 han­dles 17 cm long with a hinge at end of han­dles which is 2.5 cm long and head is 45 degree angle from hinge. Slight­ly curved. Out­er blade 8cm (slight­ly curved) in length with… Read more…

  • Disposable Hospital Caps

    Dis­pos­able paper caps, cir­cu­lar with elas­tic fas­ten­ing (like a show­er cap) used in hos­pi­tals (by staff and for all pro­ce­dures). Made of white, tis­sue-like paper. Three iden­ti­cal caps.

  • AIM Nurses's Caps

    AIM nurse’s caps, two iden­ti­cal dis­pos­able white paper caps. They have per­fo­ra­tions for fold­ing and var­i­ous sized clasps for dif­fer­ent siz­ing require­ments around the brim. The nurse’s caps, unfolded… Read more…

    Maker: Baxter

  • Nurse's Veils

    Nurs­es veils white squares 86 cm x 86 cm made of linen. Fin­ished hem round all sides 4 cm deep. a) Linen mark BR 375 Name of M.R. Ander­son across cor­ner b) Linen mark C635 Name of M.R. Anderson… Read more…

  • Theatre Gown

    The­atre gown, long, white and form­less with three quar­ter sleeves. The gown has three ties at the back. One tie has been replaced with a dif­fer­ent fab­ric strip. 

    Maker: Warragul Linen Service

  • Operating Scrubs Trousers

    Oper­at­ing scrubs trousers, pale blue with an elas­tic waist and drawstring. 

  • Nurse's Uniform, Pink, Size 10

    Nurse’s uni­form, pink size 10 from Alice Springs Hos­pi­tal. The uni­form has a zip­per down the front, with two large pock­ets, a pleat and a col­lar. There are two darts at the back of the short-sleeved… Read more…

    Maker: Florgate Uniforms

  • Nurse's Uniform

    Nurs­es’s uni­form, blue with white trim size 18. White trim around the col­lar and short sleeves. The dress but­tons up down the front ( with three but­tons) has two large pock­ets at the front and two… Read more…

    Maker: Florgate Uniforms

  • Nurse's Uniform

    Nurs­es’s uni­form, blue and white striped size 16 from Alice Springs hos­pi­tal. The dress has a zip­per down the front, with 2 large pock­ets. a pleat and a col­lar. There are two darts at the back of the… Read more…

    Maker: Yakka

  • Industries Badge

    Indus­tries cloth badge for sewing on a shirt. A rust colour with black stitch­ing around all sides. White paper on back. Badge is banana shaped. 

  • Correctional Services Stick on Badge

    Badge made of can­vas, made to attach to cloth uni­form. Shield-shaped, map of NT in cen­tre of three blue and white stripes. Fly­ing eagle in cen­tre with south­ern cross. NORTH­ERN TERRITORY &… Read more…

  • Button from Prison Officer Uniform

    But­ton, small, sil­ver from Prison Offi­cers Uni­form. Has crown and N.T. on front and shank for attach­ing on back. Has let­ters punched on back but 2 holes punched oppo­site each oth­er make it difficult… Read more…

  • Nurse's Uniform

    Nurse’s uniform,white size 12, from Alice Springs hos­pi­tal. The dress has a zip­per down the front, with two (2) large pock­ets, a col­lar and a pleat. There are two (2) darts at the back of the… Read more…

    Maker: Florgate Uniforms

  • Theatre Gown

    The­atre gown, green, long, form­less with long sleeves and white cuffs at the wrist. The gown has four darts at the neck­line and no col­lar. The gown has three ties at the back and a criss-cross tie at… Read more…

  • Nurse's Uniform

    Nurse’s uni­form, light green from Alice Springs hos­pi­tal size 20. The dress has a zip­per down the front, with two large pock­ets and a pleat. There are two (2) darts at the back of the short-sleeved… Read more…

    Maker: Yakka

  • Hospital Nightie

    Night­ie, white seer­suck­er, but­ton through print­ed in red with NT HEALTH ?Illeg­i­ble SER­VICES. The night­ie has three but­tons down its front, run­ning from the neck­line to upper abdomen depend­ing on the… Read more…

  • Hand crafted plaque of NT Correctional Services

    Embroi­dered and craft­ed plaque of NT Cor­rec­tion­al ser­vices logo made in 1980s by female inmates of HM Goal and Labour Prison Alice Springs. Latch hook­ing around plaque. Map of NT blue with golden… Read more…

    Maker: handmade

  • Photograph of Classroom in Yuendumu

    Pho­to­graph of class­room in Yuen­du­mu, the inte­ri­or of a class­room with two Euro­pean women teach­ing a class of Abo­rig­i­nal chil­dren. Chil­dren’s art­work is hung all over the classroom. 

  • Photograph of Plaque to Denise Cole

    Pho­to­graph of plaque pre­sent­ed to Denise Cole in recog­ni­tion of 32 years of ser­vice with the NT Dept. of Edu­ca­tion. In 1968 she became a pre-school teacher at Yuendumu. 

  • Socks

    Socks, woollen yarn, blue-grey in colour

    Maker: Beverley Ellis, part of Volunteer Knitters Group

  • Facewashers (2)

    Cot­ton Face­wash­er, cro­cheted, cream coloured. Made of Turk­ish tow­elling or knit­ted cotton.

    Maker: Beverley Ellis, part of Volunteer Knitters Group

  • Nickers

    Wom­en’s knick­ers, elas­tic waist­ed, which extend­ed to just above the knee. The bot­tom of the legs are hemmed and there is an insert across the crotch. The under­pants are beige in colour and made of… Read more…

    Maker: Lucas

  • Bra and Girdle Combination

    Bra and gir­dle com­bi­na­tion with dec­o­ra­tive lace insert across the bust and down the cen­tre. The gir­dle fas­tens at the front with hook and eye fas­ten­ers and a zip­per. The bra part has thick… Read more…

    Maker: Triumph International

  • Bra

    Bra, white,large, nylon which extends to ribs. Lace inserts across the breasts and nar­row­ing towards the base of the bra. The bra has wide adjustable shoul­der straps and nine (9) hook and eye… Read more…

    Maker: Playtex

  • Bra and Suspenders Combination

    Bra and sus­penders com­bi­na­tion, black nylon with lace pan­els and nine (9) hook and eye fas­ten­ers down the back. Detach­able strap sus­penders are attached. There is a dec­o­ra­tive black bow and white… Read more…

    Maker: Triumph International

  • Knitted Wool Singlet

    Knit­ted wool sin­glet, off white in colour. The sin­glet is machine-hemmed and has a dec­o­ra­tive embroi­dery design around the neck, shoul­ders, armpits and back. The sin­glet also has a draw­string which… Read more…

    Maker: Thistle

  • Pair of Suspenders

    Sus­penders, white nylon lace with met­al and plas­tic clasps. Tri­an­gle shape at top. Stitched on inside band is a label with ​“16” typed in red. The sus­penders are marked machine made.

  • Scrapbook Australian Girl Guides

    Hand­made scrap­book with grey cov­er 20 pps of clear sleeves with inserts 1 – 40 cov­er­ing top­ics eg. pho­tos of Karen’s fam­i­ly, prayers, col­lages, games, sto­ries, craft instruc­tions, etc.

  • "The Guider" 1934-1940 (pages missing) and Handwritten Notes

    “The Guider”. This is a bound com­pi­la­tion of a num­ber of issues of ​“The Guider“dating from 1934 – 1940. Pages are miss­ing and are not in order with­in each issue. There is a hand­writ­ten index at the… Read more…

  • Commemorative Port Pot

    Black ceram­ic port pot; sealed with a cork and black wax, gold emboss­ing. Award­ed to cor­rec­tions offi­cers in com­mem­o­ra­tion of clo­sure of the Old Alice Springs Gaol in 1996.

    Maker: Northern Territory Correctional Services in conjunction with Mt Aitken Estates Port

  • Brownie Certificates, Set of 5

    Brown­ie cer­tifi­cates of var­i­ous sizes. a) coloured pic­ture of mush­room with owl and trees. Cer­ti­fies that (x) is now a Brownie.Names and dates etc. are blank. b) coloured pic­tures of peo­ple, objects… Read more…

  • Brownie's Handbook

    Brown­ie Hand­book 38 pp for girls who are brown­ies, out­lin­ing what is involved in being a brown­ie. The book con­tains a table of con­tents, pho­tos and dia­grams. There is also an insert of sheet music of… Read more…

    Maker: not stated presumably Girl Guides Association of AustraliaInc. Photography S.A. Buchanan, Art and Design S. A Buchanan.

  • Badges, Emblems, Pennants Guide Section, 1994

    Badges, Emblems and Pen­nants Guide Sec­tion, 1994. Forty-one pages b‑and w book­let for Girl Guides describ­ing badge place­ment and the var­i­ous badges emblems and pen­nants. Each badge/​emblem/​pennant… Read more…

    Maker: Girl Guide Association of Australia Inc.

  • Commonwealth Painting Book Vol. 111: The Americas, 1957

    Com­mon­wealth paint­ing book b‑and-white book for girl guides iden­ti­fy­ing those coun­tries of the British Com­mon­wealth. Ten coun­tries are list­ed. Gen­er­al infor­ma­tion is pro­vid­ed about each coun­try along… Read more…

    Maker: Compiled by Gladys Commander, MBE and illustrated by Margaret Woods.

  • Australian Brownie Guide Book

    Aus­tralian Brown­ie Guide Book a 128 p book with a brown cov­er resem­bling tree bark and inset sheets at beginning/​end. p3 Con­tents list pps 126 – 128 Table of Con­tents. All dia­grams in colour or b/​w… Read more…

    Maker: Wilke & Co.

  • Brownie Skills Book

    Brown­ie Skills, a 192 page book­let of colour and b/​w. Pages 1 – 4 Intro and con­tents with pages 5 – 7 Indoor/​Outdoor Cat­e­gories; pages 8 – 12 Help­ing at Home; pages 13 – 21 Things you should know; pages… Read more…

    Maker: Books for Pleasure Paul Hamlyn Pty. Ltd.

  • Guide Handbook Part 2 Badges Emblems, Pennants 1971

    Hand­book Part 2 Badges, Emblems, Pen­nants 1971, 56 p hand­book intend­ed for girl guides describ­ing all of the badges, emblems and inter­est pen­nants and the tasks and test required for each. Each… Read more…

    Maker: Girl Guide Association of Australia

  • Commissioners Handbook

    Com­mis­sion­er’s Hand­book 166 pps with pink cov­er and white design fea­tur­ing what was pre­sum­ably then the logo of the Girl Guide Assoc. of Aus­tralia. The book con­tains infor­ma­tion on the prin­ci­ples of… Read more…

    Maker: Barbara Denman

  • Scarf, Hand Knitted

    Hand knit­ted, navy blue, woollen scarf

    Maker: Beverley Ellis, part of Volunteer Knitters Group

  • Australian Guide Handbook Part 1, 1985

    Aus­tralian Guide Hand­book Part 1, 1985. Two hun­dred six­ty-eight pages for girls who have become guides. The book con­tains 12 chap­ters on what guid­ing is about; how it began; what it means to belong… Read more…

    Maker: Lindy Bartlett for the Girl Guides Association of Australia Inc.

  • Policy Organisation and Rules 1976

    Pol­i­cy Organ­i­sa­tion and Rules 1976 104 pp hand­book detail­ing Girl Guid­ing rules and poli­cies relat­ing to organ­i­sa­tion and admin­is­tra­tion; brown­ie, guide and ranger guide sec­tions; camps and holidays;… Read more…

    Maker: Girl Guides Association of Australia

  • Guiding Policy Organization and Rules 1970

    Pol­i­cy Orga­ni­za­tion and Rules 1970 108 pp hand­book detail­ing Girl Guide rules designed to help the work­ers, to ensure fair­ness and to give the short­est road to effi­cient work­ing. The book con­tains a… Read more…

    Maker: Girl Guide Association of Australia

  • Cholera Belt/Binding

    “Cholera Belt/​Binding”, hand knit­ted, cream colour, rib stitch, 4 ply woollen yarn.

    Maker: Fiona Canavan

  • Socks, Hand Knitted

    Socks, hand knit­ted, fawn colour, rib stitch, 4 ply woollen yarn.

    Maker: Fiona Canavan

  • Four photographs of Maude "Lores" Bonney during her solo flight around Australia

    Set of four black and white pho­tographs of Maude ​‘Lores’ Bon­ney enter­ing her plane dur­ing her solo flight around Aus­tralia in 1932. These pho­tographs were tak­en at Flem­ing­ton Race­course in Melbourne,… Read more…

  • Guides Handbook, 1971

    Hand­book. Two hun­dred fifty-four pages designed to help guiders to car­ry out their respon­si­bil­i­ties (p 4). The hand­book has a pur­ple cov­er and con­tains 15 chap­ters, two appen­dices, bib­li­og­ra­phy and… Read more…

    Maker: written by Brimelow & Carnegy

  • Girl Guides Association Policy, Organisation Rules 1966

    Girl Guides Asso­ci­a­tion book­let with pol­i­cy. organ­i­sa­tion and rules 1966. grey coloured book of 204 pages.

    Maker: Girl Guides Association

  • Girl Guides Policy, Organisation Rules 1990

    Girl guides book­let con­tain­ing pol­i­cy. organ­i­sa­tion and rules. Orange coloured with 84 pages. with holes punched through for use in a ring binder.

    Maker: Girl Guide Association of Aust.

  • Australian Ranger Guide Handbook, 1988

    Aus­tralian Ranger Guide Hand­book, 1988. Inside a red ring binder with white diag­o­nal lines and stylised moun­tains. Inside the binder are five (5) parts. a) which con­tains gen­er­al infor­ma­tion about… Read more…

    Maker: a) Pam Goodworth

  • Australian Guide Handbook Part 2 1984

    Aus­tralian Guide Hand­book Part 2 1984 60 pp with light green front cov­er fea­tur­ing a pat­tern of dark green clovers. The book con­sists of text and b&w dia­grams of var­i­ous badges, pen­nants and… Read more…

    Maker: Girl Guides Association of Australia.

  • Australian Guide Handbook Part 2 1982

    Aus­tralian Guide Hand­book Part 2 1982. 51 pp book­let with light blue front cov­er fea­tur­ing a pat­tern of dark­er blue cov­ers. The book con­sists of text only (no pic­tures) and dia­grams describ­ing the… Read more…

    Maker: Girl Guides Association of Australia

  • Brownie Guide Handbook, 1973

    Brown­ie Guide Hand­book 1973. One hun­dred sev­en­ty-three pages, colour with lots of hand-drawn pic­tures about being a Brown­ie. Top­ics cov­ered include: how the Brown­ies were start­ed, the Brown­ie Guide… Read more…

    Maker: Written by Ailsa Brambelby and illustrated by Jennetta Vise.

  • Maude "Lores" Bonney, Black and White Portrait for Wedding Programme, 1917

    Maude ​‘Lores’ Bon­ney, black and white por­trait for her wed­ding pro­gramme (1917); Aus­tralian avi­a­trix and first woman to fly solo around Aus­tralia, from Aus­tralia to Eng­land and Aus­tralia to South… Read more…