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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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Music Box at Franklin House

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This is believed to have been made in Switzerland during the latter part of the 19th century, however the manufacturer is unknown as there are no maker's marks visible.
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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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Heritage Properties Archive

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This archive supported the National Trustís ground breaking work on the classification and recording of significant heritage buildings and sites throughout the state.
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Georgiana McCrae – Artist

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Watercolours & sletches of Melbourne 1841-1845, Portraits, watercolours and sketches of Scotland.
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Fashion & Dress Collection

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The National Trust of Australia (Victoria) holds one of the most significant fashion and dress collections in Australia. This remarkable collection brings together locally made, worn and collected garments that tell the social and cultural history of Melbourne and Victoria through clothing.
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Dollhouse at Clarendon

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In the Clarendon Collection is a delightful table-sized dollhouse in the style of a two-chimney bungalow, It has a verandah, living room, hallway, bathroom, kitchen and bedroom.
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Charles Joseph La Trobe’s water colours and sketches

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A man of a thousand occupations! Botanist, geologist, hunter of beetles and butterflies, musical composer, sketcher of no mean pretensions; in short a complete virtuoso.
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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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Author Joan Lindsay and Picnic at Hanging Rock

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Joan Lindsay. The National Trust's custodianship of her home Mullbery Hill, contains many objects related to the writing, publishing and filming of the famous novel ìPicnic at Hanging Rockî.
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Nine reasons to keep the Sydney Harbour Control Tower

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The National Trust’s position on the Sydney Harbour Control Tower The Trust opposes the demolition of the Harbour Control Tower and has responded to the Barangaroo Delivery Authority’s demolition notice emphasising the total inadequacy of the Authority’s response and handling of this issue which strikes at the heart of heritage
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Trust reignites campaign to save iconic W Class Trams

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Together with Adam Dunning and community groups on Facebook, the Trust is alarmed that fully functional W Class trams are being sold off or given away following the recent decommissioning of Ws on several commuter routes. Read the full report at TrustAdvocate Report in The Age: Melbourne musician drums up
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Trust launches campaign to save historic Fishermans Bend factory

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The former Rootes car factory is set to be demolished and the site redeveloped for townhouses. There is currently no heritage overlay on the building, which is historically significant for its associations with its respective occupation by the Department of Munitions, the Department of Aircraft Productions and then the car
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$1,000 donation launches Clarendon Raise the roof crowdfunding campaign

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After many months of filling buckets and mopping floors, re-roofing has been commissioned at the historic Clarendon House at Evandale in Northern Tasmania after $261,000 was secured in Australian Government funding under the Tasmanian Jobs and Growth Package.
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Rippon Lea Estate receives $985k boost from Australian Government

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Rippon Lea Estate, one of Australia’s most significant heritage sites, is set to receive a $985,446 grant from the Federal Department of Environment’s Protecting National Historic Sites Programme in an announcement by the Hon. Greg Hunt MP Minister for Environment at Rippon Lea on Monday 13 July 2015. Download the
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Old Observatory Smoking Ceremony

Reconciling Smoke

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The National Trust of Western Australia has marked its commitment to reconciliation with a smoking ceremony at the Old Observatory in Perth on 27 May.†
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The Golden Pipeline Heritage Trail

Golden Pipeline Receives Protecting Our national Historic Sites Funding

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The National Trust of Western Australia has been successful in its application for ‘Protecting our National Historic Sites’ funding of $734, 290 over three years for conservation and interpretation of the nationally listed Goldfields Water Supply Scheme (GWSS). The project aims to continue conservation and interpretation of the GWSS along
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