vic This website includes images and names of deceased people that may distress Aboriginal and Torres Strait islander peoples. Georgiana McCrae painted this watercolour portrait of Boonwurrung Woman ‘Eliza’ in the mid, 1850s.more
vic Painted in 1848, this watercolour depicts The Pulpit at Cape Schanck. Superintendent and Lieutenant Governor Charles Joseph La Trobe was an avid sketcher and traveller. He documented the Port Phillip landscape in many illustrations, quick sepia wash sketches and detailed watercolours. On long-term loan to the Pictures Collection, State Librarymore
vic This medicine box was owned by Superintendent, and later Lieutenant Governor, Charles Joseph La Trobe. The box was made by Savory & Moore, Chemists to the Queen, and dates from the 1830s. It was part of the luggage of the La Trobe family – Charles, Sophie and their daughter Agnesmore
vic An unusual object, this mouse trap was a necessity on a farm like Gulf Station. The mouse enters the trap through the arched entrance; a moving floor closes a door to this entrance, preventing escape. The last owners of Gulf Station were the Fellowes family, who ran a plant nurserymore
vic The Federal Standard Printing Works is one of the few substantially intact provincial newspaper printers remaining from the gold mining era. When gold was discovered in Chiltern in 1858 thousands of people flocked to the Victorian country town. In 1859 the Federal Standard newspaper was founded there and operated frommore
vic Endeavour Fern Gully is one of the few surviving forested areas on the Mornington Peninsula in Victoria. Prior to European settlement, many similar fern gullies could be found in the landscape. After settlement, it became part of the McCrae family’s run – Arthur’s Seat – in the 1840s. The gullymore
vic As part of the celebration of the National Trust’s 60th Anniversary we have chosen 60 objects from our collection. With over 35,000 objects to choose from, that including costume, furnishings, artworks, tools, plants and even animals, the decision was difficult. These objects represent the way the Trust’s Collection connects peoplemore
vic Endeavour Fern Gully is one of the few surviving forested areas on the Mornington Peninsula. Prior to European settlement the landscape had many similar fern gullies. Originally part of the McCrae family’s run – Arthur’s Seat – in the 1840s. The gully is situated in an area that has identifiedmore
vic The Como collection contains a set of hand-made fans – made from either crepe paper and feathers or hand-painted, such as this example featuring a cockatoo. Constance Fitzpatrick, nee Armytage, was an amateur painter who was taught by Arthur Merric Boyd. He and his son Penleigh were regular visitorsmore
vic This waggonette was drawn by two horses to carry a heavy load. The wagon bears the maker’s plate of Melbourne coach-builders Stevenson and Elliott, who were an established business that had been trading since the 1850s. The company both built and imported the vehicles they sold. Donated by the descendantsmore
vic In the early decades of the 20th century, W.J.Edwards was listed as an undertaker, coach-builder and owner of livery stables on Ford Street in Beechworth. Edwards provided the coffins and the hearse to his clients and was well known and respected in his community. Information found inside the hearse indicatesmore
vic This drill has been identified by members of the Hand Tool Preservation Association of Australia Inc. as being one of the most important tools in the Caine Tool Collection, which was bequested by Thomas Caine. Caine was a skilled carpenter and joiner, whose collection represented ‘3 or 4 generationsmore
vic This hand vice has been identified by members of the Hand Tool Preservation Association of Australia Inc. as being one of the most important tools in the collection bequested by Thomas Caine. Caine was a skilled carpenter and joiner, whose collection represented ‘3 or 4 generations of craftsman’s work.’ * He spentmore
vic An important example of a nineteenth century hand tool, this horological lathe was used to turn metal when crafting the inside workings of a clock. This lathe has been identified by members of the Hand Tool Preservation Association of Australia Inc. as being one of the most important toolsmore
vic The Caroline and Charles Armytage lost one child during their married life together at Como. Ethel Maude Armytage, 1856-1872 died at the age of seven from diphtheria. The image taken of Ethel in this mourning frame shows her as a healthy child posed in a chair at the Johnstone O’Shannessy andmore
vic “We have received Port Phillip papers to the 11th February. The whole province had suffered from fearfully destructive bush fires, which raged worst on Thursday, the 6th, assisted by a furious hot wind… Vast numbers of sheep, cattle, and horses had been destroyed, and the loss in grain ofmore
vic After a life of adventure and adrenaline seeking, Bertram Armytage ended his life in his room at the Melbourne Club wearing the medals he was awarded for bravery and exploration. These included the Queen’s medal with three clasps from the South African campaign of the Boer War, the King’s Medalmore
vic Thomas Tyrwhitt Balcombe was born at St Helena, 1810, where the Balcombe family lived and befriended the island’s most famous resident Napoleon Bonaparte. He was the second son of William Balcombe and Jane Balcombe (née Cranston), and a brother of Alexander Balcombe who settled in Port Phillip at The Briars inmore
vic In June 2015, a beautiful sewing box once owned by Georgiana McCrae of McCrae Homestead, was generously donated to the National Trust by Georgiana’s great, great, great granddaughter. Born in London in 1804, Georgiana was the illegitimate daughter of George Gordon, 5th Duke of Huntley and Jane Graham. From amore
vic Alice Creswick Alice Creswick lived in The Hawthorns, the oldest house in the eponymous Melbourne suburb, and whose garden once swept down to the scrub along the Yarra River. A vibrant, active, and well-travelled woman, Alice was immortalised by writer Martin Boyd in his 1937 book The Picnic. Just like ‘Aunt Albania’more
