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"The girls set their caps at boys when you were young, Auntie." "Yes, but not their kneecaps."
Postcard from a bound album of an unidentified person
"The Little Mother's Club meets every Friday at 4:30. Any young lady wishing to become a little mother should follow me to my study after the meeting."
Postcard from a bound album of an unidentified person
"The love-death" : Suzannah Barta.
Catalogue of an exhibition held at 200 Gertrude Street, Fitzroy, Victoria, 6 November - 12 December 1992.
"The Rocks," Hayfield
Message on card reads "I pass these rocks every day. R."
"There is something I need to tell you"
Published to accompany the exhibition held at Gasworks Arts Park, 7-26 July 2009.
With essay by Eva Gaitatzis.
With essay by Eva Gaitatzis.
"There, my son - if it hadn't been for that old style, you wouldn't have been here!"
Postcard from a bound album of an unidentified person
"There's one of the gentlemen in, Ma'am -- I can see his bald head!" "Good heavens, woman! You haven't a bald-headed man staying here!"
Postcard from a bound album of an unidentified person
"Third single pleash." "What station?" "Well, what stationsh 'ave you got?"
Postcard from a bound album of an unidentified person
"Tolarno" Glen Huntly Road
Handwritten note on back reads "Pop … lived here with mother & father after they came out from Eng … Now Safeway Supermarket"
"Tomar Gunaher Maf Cao"
Title translation by Dr. Dennis Walker, Monash Asia Institute, Faculty of Arts, Monash University.
"Water Bird Album" : Japanese lacquer-bound photographic album
A selection of commercial photographs, showing Japanese scenic views, gardens, costumes, traditions and everyday life. Includes ceremonies, priests, samurais, actors, people of various professions, unnamed persons, dancers, rituals like hara-kiri,…
"Well, Bill, if that's the ideal woman they made a 'orrible mess o' my old bundle o' trouble!"
Postcard from a bound album of an unidentified person
"Well, it's your own fault - you shouldn't let him bite your shoulder!"
Postcard from a bound album of an unidentified person
"What are you going to do with that?" "Put it on the rhubarb!" "Oh! We have custard with ours!"
Postcard from a bound album of an unidentified person
"What are you thinking about, Jack?" "Same as you, dear!" "If you do, I'll slap your face!"
Postcard from a bound album of an unidentified person
"What are your intentions towards my daughter, young man?" "Well, Sir, I hardly like telling you."
Postcard from a bound album of an unidentified person
"What do you think of 'er, Bill?" "Not much! Too top-heavy for my liking!"
Postcard from a bound album of an unidentified person
"What have you stopped for?" "Why, I heard the lady say stop!" "Well, you stick to your job, she wasn't talking to you!"
Postcard from a bound album of an unidentified person
"What on earth do I pay you £10 a week for?" "I can't conceive!"
Postcard from a bound album of an unidentified person
"What's my stance like, caddie?" "Better ask the gents, lady, they've a better view than I have!"
Postcard from a bound album of an unidentified person
"What's the matter with this poor fellow?" "He went balmy because the girl he loved married another." "And what's the matter with the next man?" "He's raving mad. He's the one the girl married!"
Postcard from a bound album of an unidentified person
"When my husband signed the pledge, I was so pleased that I threw my arms round his neck and kissed him!" "An' serve him right, Mum!"
Postcard from a bound album of an unidentified person
"Where are your bowels, Johnny Smith?" "Don't know Sir, mother moves em every Wednesday!"
Postcard from a bound album of an unidentified person
"Where did you pick ''em up, old man?" "Cowes." "I know-but where did you pick 'em up?"
Postcard from a bound album of an unidentified person
"Why do you want sixpence for your manure this time? You only charged me threepence for the last!" "I know, Sir, but I've lost me shovel, and this is all hand-picked!"
Postcard from a bound album of an unidentified person
"Will you be very long Sir, 'cos missus is waitin' for your sheet to lay the brekfuss!"
Postcard from a bound album of an unidentified person
"Yes, I want a typist. Are you expert?" "Yes, Sir - and I'm very fast." "Nothing doing, my dear - I'm married!"
Postcard from a bound album of an unidentified person
"Yes, I'll take the flat it you'll put me in a bath!"
Postcard from a bound album of an unidentified person
"You advised me to give my husband plenty of rope; well, I did, and he skipped!"
Postcard from a bound album of an unidentified person
"You haven't walked through the streets with that in your hand?" "No, you fool, I came on the tram!"
Postcard from a bound album of an unidentified person
"You know all about stuffing birds, Mister?" "I certainly do, Son!" "Well then, you know where you can stuff this one!!"
Postcard from a bound album of an unidentified person
"You know, Miss Haybag, like all explorers it is my ambition to penetrate parts where no man has been before!"
Postcard from a bound album of an unidentified person
"You smell very nice, Vicar… do you have violet in your bath?" "I do not, Mrs. Nosegay… I don't know anyone by that name!"
Postcard from a bound album of an unidentified person
"You were going at 50 miles an hour." "How wonderful, officer! And I only learned to drive yesterday!"
Postcard from a bound album of an unidentified person
"You're getting fatter, George or it's my imagination!" "Well, it's your imagination, lass!"
Postcard from a bound album of an unidentified person
"You're looking better, old boy - how's the old complaint?" "She died a month ago, old man!"
Postcard from a bound album of an unidentified person
"Yus, the doctor says as'ow I wanted a 'opium' medicine as I'm a bit consecrated.'"
Postcard from a bound album of an unidentified person
“Amra Car Ketab Mani”
Original item printed and bound in reverse order
(Painting) (painting)
Catalogue of an exhibition held at Plimsoll Gallery on 28 April - 21 May 2000.
[Balinese Rāmāyaṇa], circa 1900.
This item features in the Monash University Library exhibition Tall Tales and True: Journeys Real and Imagined. View the virtual exhibition
[Convict record of Robert Dane]
An original convict manuscript record written for Robert Dane (b. 1820). He was court martialled and convicted of mutinous conduct whilst serving as a soldier on 11 March 1840. Transported for life, he left Dublin on 16 December, 1840 on the convict…
[Letter] 1713 April 30, London [to] William Diaper, Hampshire
Notes: Holograph, signed.
Integral address leaf.
Published in: "The correspondence", ed. Sir Harold Williams, Vol. 1, p. 345.
Integral address leaf.
Published in: "The correspondence", ed. Sir Harold Williams, Vol. 1, p. 345.
[Letter] 1713 June 7, Chester [to] Charles Ford, Whitehall, London
Notes: Holograph, unsigned.
Integral address leaf, postmarks, seal, seal tear.
Previously in the collection of bookseller Lionel Robinson (d. 1983)
Not in "The Correspondence", ed. Sir Harold Williams.
Integral address leaf, postmarks, seal, seal tear.
Previously in the collection of bookseller Lionel Robinson (d. 1983)
Not in "The Correspondence", ed. Sir Harold Williams.
[Papers of a trip on the ship R.M.S. Aquitania]
Journal of a young girl's voyage on a Mediterranean cruise of the S.S. Aquitania (Cunard White Star Line), most likely written as a school project in the United States. The journal describes leaving New York, some of the journey,
[Simone Slee] : [exhibition]
Catalogue of an exhibition held at 200 Gertrude Street, Fitzroy, Vic., 7 - 29 Nov. 1997.
[Treasury Building, Melbourne]
From an album of photographs of Australian buildings and places by Charles Bristow Walker and unknown artists.
[W.J. Daly's private letter books]
Carbon paper copy letter books of personal and business correspondence dated from May 1880-Sept. 1881 and May 1183 to June 1886. Loose correspondence [4 pages] from the Melbourne International Exhibition 1880 dated from May to September 1881,…