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Strathalbyn Police Station and Courthouse Museum

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The museum collection has many historic items such as: A fine collection of horse buggies and carts together with associated horse tack which date back to the early days of transportation in the district; a strong representation of old farming implements, notable among them is a fully restored horseworks; an
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Gawler Old Telegraph Station Museum

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The museum portrays the local history of Gawler and district with displays of objects in context. Significant items in the museum’s collection include: a Triola, Aoelian Orchestralle, box piano, Paternosters’ musical instrument, John McKinlay’s travelling chests, and much more.
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Cooktown Museum Collection

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Not only is this former Convent an interesting building, its walls enclose a wondrous collection of images and artefacts that pertain to the Cooktown region.
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St James cemetery (Franklin Village) burial records

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In 1926 the church building was consecrated and renamed St James. As the only burial ground in the area the cemetery contains the graves of the pioneers of the district which stretched from Kings Meadows to Breadalbane and Relbia.
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Scrapbooks of the 1850s from the Clarendon Collection

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The content of the books are a mixture often found from those days, with hand-written messages, poems, both original and copied, illustrations and pictures of local scenes and wildlife drawn by the owner and her acquaintances.
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Reliques of Ancient English Architecture

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The National Trust has acquired a copy of Reliques of Ancient English Architecture which formed part of the library of leading colonial architect Robert George Thomas.
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Orr Collection postcards

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This collection consists of approximately 2000 items, the majority having been digitised as part of the Trust's ongoing efforts to preserve age-sensitive material.
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Mooramong and Claire Adams Mackinnon

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Claire Adams was a star during Hollywood's silent screen era. She left that world behind her when she married Donald 'Scobie' Mackinnon and came to live in rural Victoria.
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Living Image Photographic Library

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Wander through the changing face of Canberra, in our library documenting treasured places in our living and growing city.
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Latrobe Area Photographic Collection

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The Latrobe Branch of the Trust holds a collection of over 1000 photographs relating to the history of the Latrobe area and covering the period from the first half of the 19th century to the present.
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Hetty Jones’ Exercise Book

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Grammar, geography, parsing. All school subjects in the 1890s and all in Hetty Lynch's Exercise Book.
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Cartes de Visite, an international album from the Cox Family, Clarendon

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The Clarendon Collection includes a leather-bound album of Cartes de Visite and loose photographs from the middle of the 19th century.
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