GS-OS-320; View from balloon flown by Scott Expedition in Antarctica in 1902; Ernest Shackleton; View from a captive balloon used by the British Antarctic Expedition on 1902.
The British National Antarctic Expedition (1901-1904) included in its equipment a captive hydrogen balloon belonging to the British Army. The balloon was named "Eva". On 4 February 1902 the balloon made its first ascent from a small bay in the Ross Ice Barrier. The aeronaut was the expedition leader Robert Falcon Scott. This was the first such ascent in Antarctica.
A second ascent on the same day carried Ernest Shackleton, who took this photograph. Subsequently, "Eva" developed a leak and was never flown again.
One of the many slides purchased from retailers or specifically made for illustrated lectures given by Isaac Selby between c. 1930 and c. 1955 to raise money for the Old Pioneers Memorial Fund.
This image is provided for research purposes and must not be reproduced without prior permission.For a high resolution copy of this image, contact Royal Historical Society of Victoria; 1902 (original image); Glass slide; Images collection
GS-OS-411; Map showing the main routes of Imperial Airways; This map, in the form of two overlapping circular views of the earth, shows the main routes of Imperial Airways. The routes originate in England and stretch across Europe, then south to South Africa, or south-east across the Middle East, India and on to Australia and to Hong Kong. A smaller superimposed circular map illustrates trans-Atlantic routes to America.
In the lower right corner of the main image is an inset small image of the prototype Supermarine Spitfire fighter on the ground.
Imperial Airways was formed in 1924 by the amalgamation of four smaller British airlines to provide air services linking the British Commonwealth. It failed to keep up with aviation technological developments and in 1939 it was incorporated into the British Overseas Airways Corporation (BOAC).
One of the many slides purchased from retailers or specifically made for illustrated lectures given by Isaac Selby between c. 1930 and c. 1955 to raise money for the Old Pioneers Memorial Fund.
This image is provided for research purposes and must not be reproduced without prior permission.For a high resolution copy of this image, contact Royal Historical Society of Victoria; Glass slide; Images collection
GS-TM-10; Old Melbourne Cemetery: view along path, c. 1920; Miller, Everard Studley, 1886-1956.; Colourised photograph of view along a straight sandy or stone path, with overgrown grass and weeds in the foreground and along both sides of the path. Also in the foreground is a grey coloured tombstone side-on, and another white tombstone just further along the right-hand side of the image. More tombstones, iron railings and large trees growing haphazardly can be seen on both sides of the path.
This image is attributed to Everard Studley Miller who photographed many graves and tombstones in the Old Melbourne Cemetery (established in 1837) in the 1920s as part of a project led by Isaac Selby to record and commemorate all aspects of Melbourne's second cemetery (the first being at Flagstaff Hill). The RHSV holds original glass negatives and albums of the photographs from this project.
One of the many glass slides purchased from retailers or specifically made for illustrated lectures given by Isaac Selby between c. 1930 and c. 1955 to raise money for the Old Pioneers Memorial Fund. The date, 1930, is written on the slide.
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GS-USM-01; British rigid airship, the R.31; The rigid airship R.31 was built by the firm of Short Brothers for the British Admiralty and made its first flight in August 1918. After nine hours of test flying it was commissioned on 6 November of the same year. On its delivery flight on the same day the glued joints in the airship’s wooden framework started to come apart. Forced to land, the R.31 was caught in heavy rain which completed its destruction.
The wreckage was sold to a coal merchant who broke up the wooden structure to sell as firewood. However, his customers soon started to complain. Because of the fire risk with airships filled with hydrogen, the wood had been treated with fireproof chemicals and so simply would not burn.
One of the many slides purchased from retailers or specifically made for illustrated lectures given by Isaac Selby between c. 1930 and c. 1955 to raise money for the Old Pioneers Memorial Fund.
This image is provided for research purposes and must not be reproduced without prior permission.For a high resolution copy of this image, contact Royal Historical Society of Victoria; 1918 (original image); Glass slide; Images collection
TP-11; Uriah Hoddinott : Bairnsdale Cemetery, Gippsland, Victoria; Photograph of a granite, round topped tombstone marking the burial of Uriah Hoddinott and his wife, Martha. The tombstone is raised on a granite step, and a stone curb mounted by a solid and elaborate iron rail, edges the burial plot. Ivy leaves have been carved around the border of the stone. The grave looks very well kept within overgrown grounds. A row of tall trees are in the background.
The inscription reads:
IN
Memory Of
URIAH HODDINOTT
Who Died At Paynesville
4th Oct. 1885
Also
His Wife
MARTHA
Who Died At Traralgon
29th July 1894
Gippsland Pioneers
of 1845
Erected By Their Son
JOSEPH
According to the Bairnsdale Advertiser of October 1885, Hoddinott had been "a resident of Gippsland for about forty years, having many years ago occupied the Sunville run in South Gippsland, and afterwards Clifton, near Bairnsdale."
Son, Joseph Hoddinott, was elected to the Legislative Council of Gippsland from 1898 to 1904.
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MS 000075 (Box 31-6); Accounts by E. S. Miller of the life of William Buckley. ; Miller, Everard Studley, 1886-1956.; [MS 000075-6] William Buckley draft notes by E.S. Miller. including newspaper clippings and bibliography. Includes his convict days, his escape, detailed reference to Aboriginal Australians, their customs and language, Buckley's relationship with John Batman, life in Tasmania, 1838-1852
Includes chapters : 'Notes on Aboriginal customs' and 'Identification of localities mentioned in the narrative concerning William Buckley"
Everard Studley Miller (1886-1956), philanthropist, was born on 24 October 1886 at Studley Park, Kew, Melbourne, younger of two sons of (Sir) Edward Miller, banker, and his wife Mary Elizabeth, née Darlot, and grandson of Henry ('Money') Miller. He was educated at Melbourne Church of England Grammar School and at Sherborne School, Dorsetshire, England. Though he would have liked to have gone to the University of Cambridge and become a don, he followed the wishes of his father and returned to take up his position in the family business of the Bank of Victoria, probably until 1927 when the bank amalgamated. He had continued studies under (Sir) Archibald Strong, classical scholar and writer. In 1914 he joined the (Royal) Historical Society of Victoria and attended meetings of the Classical Association.
Miller collected small objets d'art and prints, particularly Arundel chromolithographs reproducing Italian Primitives. His chief interests were engineering and photography. He practised the latter from 1903, increasingly for the purpose of historical study, as an aid to preserving 'the monumental memories of early Australia'; he assembled his work in a series of albums, the first of which was called Historical Monuments in Victoria I. In the pursuit of family history and the history of pioneers he travelled extensively, first in Tasmania and later in Great Britain and Europe. Between 1914 and 1919 he joined Isaac Selby in protesting against the resumption of the old Melbourne cemetery which contained monuments to distinguished pioneers of the Port Phillip settlement.
Daryl Lindsay, from 1941 director of the National Gallery of Victoria, on whom Miller called frequently, remembered that he showed considerable interest in the administration of the Felton Bequest.
In increasingly poor health after World War II, Miller lived quietly at the family house Glyn, designed by the architect Rodney Howard Alsop, in Kooyong Road, Toorak, until his death on 5 July 1956. He was cremated with Anglican rites. A bachelor, tall and distinguished-looking, he was shy and retiring in manner, inclined to contemplation rather than business or society. His most cherished ambition took form in a will which, from an estate sworn for probate at £262,950, bequeathed property and money to the value of £170,000 to the National Gallery of Victoria, as a purchasing fund to be used for the acquisition of 'portraits of individuals of merit in history, painted, engraved or sculptured before 1800'. Purchases were made from about 1960 until 1977 when the fund was exhausted. His collection of photographic material was left to the Royal Historical Society of Victoria; the classics department of the University of Melbourne obtained a selection of his library.
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