Centre for Gippsland Studies Pictures and Maps

W.J. Tuck Collection

Date: 1910-1919

Twelve men, women and children are seated and standing on top of a large stump. The stump was located at Touzel’s Corner, junction of Coast Road and Allambee Road, west of Mirboo North. Mrs F. Touzel selected the land and her son, George E. Touzel, cleared and farmed the property.

Walker Collection

Date: 1933

Sir Charles Kingsford Smith came to Morwell in 1933 to give joy rides.

Date: 1911

Map showing topography, roads, tracks and tourist attractions in Buffalo National Park, with descriptive notes and tourist information.

Date: 1920-1929

Three men, with guns and a dog, are displaying their large bag of ducks, probably at Toora in the 1920s.

Walker Collection

Date: 1910-1919

Plan of the area south of Longford showing landholdings, with notations recording changes in ownership.

Pigs are being walked to market along a bush track, one man at the head of them and one following behind. They are from Hawkhurst, the Spaull family property at Crooked River.

Dyeline map showing boundaries of pastoral runs in Victoria from 1835 to 1851.

Walker Collection

Date: 1921

Joseph Walker with the herd testing machine he imported from the United States at the turn of the century.

Walker Collection

Date: 1908

One of fourteen river crossings made by the Coleman family as they return after a picnic at Lavinia Park, the racecourse at Yinnar.

Date: 1914

Date: 1929

Standing from the left are Crs. C.W. Rowe, P.J. Healy, W.H. Boyes, A.E. Palmer and R.E. Ross (Engineer). Seated from the left are Cr. J. Alcorn, W. Young (Secretary), Crs. J.J. Gleeson (President), T. Bennett, Miss D. Paynter (Clerk) and Cr. E.A. Ronalds.

A man is posing in front of a large log with a wooden wheelbarrow, a circular saw blade and other timber workers’ equipment. Behind him is a bush hut built of palings.

Date: 1916

Wedding group at the marriage of Thomas and Florence Chong in 1916. At the back, from the left, are George Tock Liang, Elsie Sam, Albert Sam, the groom and bride, unknown and James Sam. Seated, from the left, are Ettie Tock Liang, Mr Sam senior and Cissie Sam. The little girl is Rita Tock Liang, the boy unknown.

Date: 1933

Date: 1868

W.J. Tuck Collection

Date: 1907

The Mirboo North Rifle Club, about 1907. The members are seated holding their rifles, while a row of women stand behind. The members in the photograph are Geo. Sutton, P. Burchell, Jas Abbott, G. McKenzie, Frank Dawson, Tony Watkins, Geo. St Ellen, C. McCormack, Jas Marshall, Tom Clark, T. Ashworth Senior, W. Pickering, W.J. McCormack, Norman Gill, R. Alford, Fred Bliss, Chas Bliss, W. Tuck, Mat Gargan, Tom Gould, Jack Clark, Jim Giles, W. Stanton, Tom Ashworth Junior and C. Downing.

A large group of workers are standing on the railway line, many holding tools. The line from Bairnsdale to Orbost was constructed from 1912 to 1916.

Date: 1938

Plan of the Gunyah district in the Strzelecki Ranges, showing freehold and other landholdings.

Date: 1913

Two men on springboards are cutting down a blue gum tree near Scanlon’s property at Budgeree in 1913.

Date: 1913

Date: 1910

View of Trafalgar, about 1910, showing The Times printing office, Bank of Victoria, William Levey’s Commercial Stores and the Criterion Hotel.

Walker Collection

This photograph has been annotated by Martin Walker, who was a shire councillor.

Walker Collection

Date: 1910

Lacey Album

Date: 1922

W.J. Tuck Collection

This huge tree stump was at Mount Square Top, north of Foster. It was 80 feet 6 inches in circumference. In the early days, it was used as a church, school and public hall.

Lacey Album

Date: 1920-1929

Portrait of a nurse in uniform, She was from Gippsland Hospital at Sale in the 1920s.