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Shellwork trinket box with blue velvet, heart shaped, handmade by Aunty Esme Timbery

Shellwork trinket box with blue velvet, heart shaped, handmade by Aunty Esme Timbery

Item Type: Museum ObjectsDate: 2007 About this object: This heart shaped shellwork trinket box was made by the late Aunty Esme Timbery, Bidjigal Elder and renowned artist, whose shellworks have been collected by museums and galleries across Australia... Provenance : c. 2007 - Made by Aunty Esme Timbery;
c. 2007-2015 - Purchased by Randwick City Library;
2 November 2023 - Donated to La Perouse Museum by Randwick City Council Library.
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Shellwork Harbour Bridge with washed cobalt blue velvet, handmade by Aunty Esme Timbery

Shellwork Harbour Bridge with washed cobalt blue velvet, handmade by Aunty Esme Timbery

Item Type: Museum ObjectsDate: 2007 About this object: This shellwork Sydney Harbour Bridge was made by the late Aunty Esme Timbery, Bidjigal Elder and renowned artist, whose shellworks have been collected by museums and galleries across Australia.
... Provenance : c. 2007 - Made by Aunty Esme Timbery;
c. 2007-2015 - Purchased by Randwick City Library;
2 November 2023 - Donated to La Perouse Museum by Randwick City Council Library.
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Telegraph cable segment, 220mm

Telegraph cable segment, 220mm

Item Type: Museum ObjectsDate: c 1900s About this object: Made around 1900, this segment of cable is similar to the type of cable used by the Eastern Extension Australasia & China Telegraph Company (EEA&CT) for the La Perouse – Wakapuaka submarine cab...
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Cathedral galvanometer, Elliott Bros

Cathedral galvanometer, Elliott Bros

Item Type: Museum ObjectsAbout this object: This cathedral-style galvanometer was used to detect and measure small electric currents, which helped detect weak or interrupted signals, test line integrity and diagnose faults in the circuit ...
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Photograph, panorama of La Perouse

Photograph, panorama of La Perouse

Item Type: Museum ObjectsDate: c 1920s
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Wheatstone Bridge, Australectric Co.

Wheatstone Bridge, Australectric Co.

Item Type: Museum ObjectsAbout this object: A Wheatstone Bridge is used to accurately measure electrical resistance. It consists of two known resisters, one variable resistor and one unknown resistor, connected in the bridge. By adjusting ...
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Wooden sign, Salvation Army Home for Women & Children

Wooden sign, Salvation Army Home for Women & Children

Item Type: Museum ObjectsDate: c 1944 About this object: This wooden sign used to stand outside the Cable Station building between 1944 and 1987, when the building was administered by the Salvation Army as a refuge for women and children.

In 1944, ...
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Elliott portable standard Mil-Ammeter, No. 122434

Elliott portable standard Mil-Ammeter, No. 122434

Item Type: Museum ObjectsDate: 2nd May 1916 About this object: This analogue device is one of two mil-ammeters in the La Perouse Museum collection. It measures small electrical currents in milliamperes – one-thousandth of an ampere. Ammeters and mil-ammete...
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Canvas tram destination roll

Canvas tram destination roll

Item Type: Museum ObjectsDate: 1902-1961 About this object: A destination roll from an R-class or R1-class Sydney tram, showing routes from the Eastern Suburbs to La Perouse before the closure of the tram network in 1961.
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Sign, Caution Boomerang Throwing in Progress

Sign, Caution Boomerang Throwing in Progress

Item Type: Museum Objects
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Vigoro Bat

Vigoro Bat

Item Type: Museum ObjectsDate: c 1930s About this object: A Slazenger Vigoro bat, used for playing Vigoro, a bat-and-ball sport similar to cricket, popular in Australia, particularly among women in the 20th century. Vigoro was often played in schools an...
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Bottle fragments

Bottle fragments

Item Type: Museum ObjectsDate: c 1970s About this object: Fragments of a bottle
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Ferry Sign, Laperouse to Kurnell

Ferry Sign, Laperouse to Kurnell

Item Type: Museum ObjectsDate: 1890-1974 About this object: A painted timber sign advertising the La Perouse to Kurnell Ferry service. Passenger ferries operated across Botany Bay between La Perouse and Kurnell from 1890 until 1974, when severe storm dama...
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Pair of green velvet shellwork baby shoes

Pair of green velvet shellwork baby shoes

Item Type: Museum ObjectsDate: c 1880s-1950s About this object: Two pairs of decorative children’s shoes handmade from cardboard, green and blue felt-like fabric, glitter, and shells. These miniature shoes are part of the distinctive La Perouse shellwork tr...
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Warning Sign: Coogee Trams have been replaced by Buses

Warning Sign: Coogee Trams have been replaced by Buses

Item Type: Museum ObjectsDate: 1960 About this object: A circular painted metal sign announcing that Coogee trams had been replaced by buses. Such signs were displayed when tram services to Coogee ceased in 1960, marking the transition from Sydney’...
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Single-dial Ayrton shunt, H. W. Sullivan Ltd.

Single-dial Ayrton shunt, H. W. Sullivan Ltd.

Item Type: Museum ObjectsDate: 1882 - 1917 About this object: Commonly known as a universal or parallel shunt, this device was used as an active component of a galvanometer to extend their measurement range without affecting other variables. While galvanome...
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Headless metal toy soldier

Headless metal toy soldier

Item Type: Museum ObjectsDate: c 1930s About this object: Headless metal toy soldier, likely used by the children in Happy Valley camps.
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Urn-shaped Medical Instrument

Urn-shaped Medical Instrument

Item Type: Museum ObjectsDate: c 1900s-1950s About this object: This glass, urn-shaped instrument, tapering to a metal tip with a spring mechanism inside, was probably recovered from the former Nurses’ Home at La Perouse. The object reflects the long histor...
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Brass sextant with accessories in oak box

Brass sextant with accessories in oak box

Item Type: Museum ObjectsDate: c 1825-1850 About this object: Housed in a fitted oak case, this brass sextant was made by the Parisian instrument maker Edmond Lorieux and sold through Raillard, an optical instrument retailer in Brest. The custom-made housin...
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Clay Doll's Head

Clay Doll's Head

Item Type: Museum ObjectsDate: c 1930s About this object: A small, roughly made white clay doll’s head, broken at the neck, preserved as a relic from “Happy Valley,” a Depression-era settlement at La Perouse where families lived in makeshift huts ...
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Pair of blue velvet shellwork baby shoes

Pair of blue velvet shellwork baby shoes

Item Type: Museum ObjectsDate: c 1880s-1950s About this object: A pair of decorative children’s shoes handmade from cardboard, blue felt-like fabric, glitter, and shells. These miniature shoes are part of the distinctive La Perouse shellwork tradition, prac...
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Condenser, Elliott Bros. No.630

Condenser, Elliott Bros. No.630

Item Type: Museum ObjectsAbout this object: Also known as a capacitor, this device stores and releases electrical energy. In telegraphy, condensers were used to reduce electrical noise, smooth out voltage fluctuations in the circuit and im...
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Painting depicting Mullet Run at La Perouse, 1990

Painting depicting Mullet Run at La Perouse, 1990

Item Type: Museum ObjectsDate: 1990 About this object: Jeannette Timbery (1941-2022) was an artist from the Wallangang clan and daughter of boomerang maker and thrower Joe Timbery (Snr). Having lived her entire life at La Perouse, Jeannette’s works... Provenance : Unknown year - Purchased by Denise Russell at Jervis Bay Maritime Museum & Gallery;
16 August 2024 - Donated to La Perouse Museum by Denise Russell.
See D05574210 for correspondence with Denis...
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Shephard's Nursery & Loch Maree Estates

Shephard's Nursery & Loch Maree Estates

Item Type: Maps & PlansDate: [nd]
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