UAT migration preview · Preserved EMHS content · Not the live society website
East Melbourne Historical Society
Society menu

East Melbourne Historical Society

Explore our history

People, places and stories, connected.

Clear

Date filters use recorded dates; undated material remains available when you clear the date filters.

4,447 results

89 Simpson Street

Collection item

89 Simpson Street

Newspaper clipping, Herald 29 Mar. 1980; auction brochure for 29 May 2004 about 89 Simpson Street, East Melbourne. Photos. Plans.

Collection item

9 Eades Street

File covers items relating to new apartment block at this address. The land was originally part of the Christian Brothers College.

A Christmas Story

Collection item

A Christmas Story

Journalist, Stewart Cockburn, writes of doing up his house in East Melbourne in 1950. The address of the house is not given but has been identified as 121 Gipps Street. Cockburn shortly afterwards became Robert Menzies' press-secretary. A photo of the front of the house shows tha...

Collection item

A City Child Lost in the Bush

In 1858 Lewis Vieusseux, 8 year old son of Louis and Julie Vieusseux, was lost in the Dandenongs during an outing of family and friends. The Vieusseux were proprietors of a Ladies School in Clarendon Street, East Melbourne. This is the story of the search from the letters of Alfr...

A Cook, a book and a new look

Collection item

A Cook, a book and a new look

Newspaper clipping about the launch of a new book, Blak Cook Book, by Dr Clare Land, Dr Paola Balla and Kate Golding on behalf of the City of Melbourne. The book features a range of stories and artworks which seek to balance the story of Captain Cook's 'discovery' of Australia wi...

Document reader

of —

The document will appear here. You can also open or download the PDF.

Use Open in a new tab if this device doesn't support the embedded reader.