Victoria

# 22017

BESWICKE, Mabella (née Mayall) (attributed)

Writing case belonging to Mabella Beswicke (Mayall), wife of Port Phillip pioneer Charles Beswicke of Moodie Yallo Station.

[Between 1835 and 1840]. Portable case for writing accessories and paper, of thick card covered with hand-sewn floral-patterned purple velvet trimmed with corduroy, the underside covered in black silk, 220 x 285 x 30 mm (slightly irregular), with four flaps opening to 460 x 460 mm; the exposed card of the interior floor and flaps …

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# 44961

BROWNE, Martha Sweet (Cummins) (1816-1893)

[MELBOURNE; LA TROBE FAMILY] Martha Browne, wife of colonial merchant Octavius Browne : entire letter to Henrietta Macartney, daughter of the Dean of Melbourne. Isle of Wight, September 1855.

Manuscript in ink, [6] pp. duodecimo (130 x 90 mm); headed ‘Orchard Leigh, Bonchurch, Sept. 29’, the letter is addressed ‘My dear Henrietta’, and is signed at the foot ‘your very affectionate friend, Mrs Browne’; original folds, clean and crisp; accompanied by its original mailing envelope, addressed to ‘Miss Macartney, care of Revd. John Brougham, …

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# 46479

AMAZON THEATRE (Melbourne)

[MELBOURNE] Amazon Theatre. To celebrate International Lesbian Day with Spot the Dyke. Friday 5th + Saturday 6th October [1990], Footscray Community Arts Centre ….

… Please note: This is definitely last performance of Spot the Dyke. [Melbourne] : Amazon Theatre, [1990]. Handbill, A4 size, printed recto only; faint original folds, good condition. Provenance: From the estate of Virginia Fraser (1947-2021), feminist, artist, writer, editor and curator.

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# 46307

REEL WOMEN (Melbourne)

[FEMINISM] Reel Women

[Carlton, Vic. : Reel Women, 1980]. Broadsheet, 205 x 410 mm, folding to 205 x 95 mm, [8] pp., illustrated; catalogue of 20 independent women’s films, all by Melbourne and Sydney filmmakers including Sue Ford, Kerry Dwyer, Jacqui Fine, Carla Pontiac, Monique Schwarz, Carole Sklan, Natalie Green, Maureen McCarthy and Claire Jager; very good condition. …

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# 46308

REEL WOMEN (Melbourne)

[FEMINISM] Reel Women

[Carlton, Vic. : Reel Women, 1979?]. Broadsheet, 205 x 410 mm, folding to 205 x 95 mm, [8] pp., illustrated; catalogue of 17 independent women’s films, all by Melbourne and Sydney filmmakers including Sue Ford, Carla Pontiac, Monique Schwarz, Carole Sklan, Madelon Wilkens, Natalie Green, Maureen McCarthy and Claire Jager; Virginia Fraser’s copy, with a …

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# 46478

[Anon.]

[MELBOURNE] Lesbian Festival 1991.

… Dates to remember. October 17th Music at the Tote. November 14th Music at the Tote. November 29th Trivia at the Albion Charles. December 2nd Car Rally. December 12th Music at the Tote. [Melbourne : s.n.], 1991. Handbill, A4 size, printed on both sides; faint original folds, good condition. Provenance: From the estate of Virginia …

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# 15995

MOORE, Caroline Ellen (Carrie) (1882–1956)

[THEATRE] Miss Carrie Moore in “Cinderella” : signed postcard, dated 1908.

London : Rotary Photo, Foulsham & Banfield, [1908]. Photographic postcard, 137 x 87 mm, the front signed in pen ‘Yours always, Carrie Moore’; verso addressed by Miss Moore to ‘Miss Milner’ of Fulham Park Gardens, London; postmark dated Dec. 8 1908; in fine condition. The biography of Geelong-born actress Carrie Moore (1882-1956), who achieved fame …

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# 41374

BOYES, Ann

[MELBOURNE] Note addressed to a young Dorothy Boyes (who would later marry the writer Edward Dyson) from her grandmother, displaying signs of semantic dementia. St. Kilda, circa 1900.

1 page, quarto (225 x 170 mm), manuscript in ink; headed ’94 Tennson Yon [i.e. Tennyson] St. St. Kilda Melbourne 90 19 I forget yere’, addressed to ‘My dear little Dot’ and signed ‘Ann’; the verso has a later inscription in biro by a family member that explains the note was written by ‘Grandma Boyes …

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# 46483

CIRCUS OZ WOMEN & ASSOCIATES

[MELBOURNE] How’s Tricks? A variety night to celebrate International Women’s Day. Sunday March 6 [1984]. Circus Oz Big Top, Princes Park.

Featuring: Janet Andrewartha, Back to Bourke Street Women, Chrissie Best and Jenny Catrin, Sue Bradley, Circus Oz Women’s Revolutionary Percussion Ensemble, Sally Forth, Gloria Glitter and Glad Tobehere, Sue Ingleton, Teresa O’Reilly, Liz Patterson, Lois Purcell, Jami Trebilcock, Jeannie Wright and Georgine Sparks, Welly Dancing, with Robin Laurie compering. Plus appearances by the Daylesford Banner …

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# 42998

[LEBER, Sylvie]

Public petition for Melbourne community radio station 3RRR to reinstate the women’s programme “Give Men-a-Pause”, 1981.

[Melbourne : s.n., 1981]. Foolscap folio sheet, Xerox-printed recto only; old horizontal fold; fine condition. The 3RRR women’s programme “Give Men-a-Pause” ran from 1979-1981. It was founded and hosted by Sylvie Leber, a Melbourne women’s rights activist who, among many other activities, was involved in the creation of Victoria’s first rape crisis centre and the …

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# 46480

LESBIAN DOMESTIC VIOLENCE ACTION GROUP (Melbourne)

[MELBOURNE] Lesbian violence phone-in, early December 1990.

Lesbian violence is not on!! … The violence has to stop. [Melbourne] : Lesbian Domestic Violence Action Group, [1990]. Handbill, A4 size, printed recto only; faint original folds, some light marks. Provenance: From the estate of Virginia Fraser (1947-2021), feminist, artist, writer, editor and curator.

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# 45829

[LEFEBVRE, Jules Joseph, 1836-1911); F. MULNIER (photographer)

[MELBOURNE] Portrait of Jules Joseph Lefebvre, the French artist who painted “Chloé”. Paris, circa 1879.

Albumen print photograph, carte de visite format, 104 x 62 mm; verso with the imprint of the photographic studio of Ferdinand Mulnier, 25 Boulevard des Italiens, which also mentions the gold medal awarded to him at the Exposition Universelle of 1878, and with contemporary captions in ink and pencil identifying the sitter as Lefebvre; in …

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# 46015

BILLIS, R. V. and KENYON, A.S.

Pastures New : An account of the pastoral occupation of Port Phillip (signed copy)

Melbourne : Macmillan, 1930. First edition. Octavo, gilt-lettered blue cloth, in scarce dustjacket (chipped and word with splits along folds), pp. xi; (iii); 272, chip to fore edge of pp. xi-xii, internally clean. Scarce pastoral history of Victoria. Signed ‘With the author’s compliments’ by Billis on the endpaper.

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# 45920

FRY, George

Studio portrait of James Moorhouse, Anglican Bishop of Melbourne 1876-1886. London, circa 1876.

Albumen print photograph, carte de visite format, 104 x 64 mm (mount); verso with imprint of ‘George Fry, Artist & Photographer. Opalotype Studio, 12 Lower Seymour St., Portman Square, W.’; the print has a couple of tiny ink marks near the top edge, but is otherwise in very good condition, as is the mount. James …

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# 45881

BROWN, Wellesley

A vaudeville actress in theatrical costume. Geelong, Victoria, circa 1905.

Gelatin silver print photograph in cabinet card format, 165 x 107 mm; recto of mount imprinted ‘Wellesley Brown, Geelong’; verso blank; both the print and the mount are in very good condition. An unidentified young woman dressed in seventeenth-century men’s costume. In the very early 1900s the photographer, Wellesley Brown, operated the Lucton Studio in Camperdown …

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# 46176

DAWSON, Patrick

Studio portrait of lady resting her hand on a chair. Hamilton, Western District of Victoria, circa 1866.

Albumen print photograph, carte de visite format, 102 x 62 mm (mount); embossed imprint of P. Dawson Photographer Hamilton at lower left; verso blank; the print has some tiny spots of foxing and light surface rubbing but is otherwise in good condition, as is the mount. Hamilton photographer Patrick Dawson is best known for his portraits of the …

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Writing case belonging to Mabella Beswicke (Mayall), wife of Port Phillip pioneer Charles Beswicke of Moodie Yallo Station.

[MELBOURNE; LA TROBE FAMILY] Martha Browne, wife of colonial merchant Octavius Browne : entire letter to Henrietta Macartney, daughter of the Dean of Melbourne. Isle of Wight, September 1855.

[MELBOURNE] Amazon Theatre. To celebrate International Lesbian Day with Spot the Dyke. Friday 5th + Saturday 6th October [1990], Footscray Community Arts Centre ….

[FEMINISM] Reel Women

[FEMINISM] Reel Women

[MELBOURNE] Lesbian Festival 1991.

[THEATRE] Miss Carrie Moore in “Cinderella” : signed postcard, dated 1908.

[MELBOURNE] Note addressed to a young Dorothy Boyes (who would later marry the writer Edward Dyson) from her grandmother, displaying signs of semantic dementia. St. Kilda, circa 1900.

[MELBOURNE] How’s Tricks? A variety night to celebrate International Women’s Day. Sunday March 6 [1984]. Circus Oz Big Top, Princes Park.

Public petition for Melbourne community radio station 3RRR to reinstate the women’s programme “Give Men-a-Pause”, 1981.

[MELBOURNE] Lesbian violence phone-in, early December 1990.

[MELBOURNE] Portrait of Jules Joseph Lefebvre, the French artist who painted “Chloé”. Paris, circa 1879.

Pastures New : An account of the pastoral occupation of Port Phillip (signed copy)

Studio portrait of James Moorhouse, Anglican Bishop of Melbourne 1876-1886. London, circa 1876.

A vaudeville actress in theatrical costume. Geelong, Victoria, circa 1905.

Studio portrait of lady resting her hand on a chair. Hamilton, Western District of Victoria, circa 1866.

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