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.
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.
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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.
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...
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 ...
Item Type: Museum ObjectsDate: c 1920s
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 ...
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, ...
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...
Item Type: Museum Objects
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...
Item Type: Museum ObjectsDate: c 1970s
About this object: Fragments of a bottle
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...
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...
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’...
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...
Item Type: Museum ObjectsDate: c 1930s
About this object: Headless metal toy soldier, likely used by the children in Happy Valley camps.
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
Item Type: Museum ObjectsDate: 20th February 1988
About this object: This first day cover was published in Albi, France in 1988, commemorating the voyage of Jean-François de Galaup, comte de Lapérouse.
Like another object in the La Perouse Museum collection ...
Item Type: Museum ObjectsDate: 10th February 1988
About this object: The object consists of two first day covers and three mint stamps, published by Noumea R. P. post office of New Caledonia and Dependencies on 10 February 1988, commemorating the bicentenary of th...
