| Description |
xii, 356 pages : illustrations ; 27 cm |
| Contents |
Machine generated contents note: About the project -- Acknowledgements -- What IS a Mechanics' Institute? -- Foreword -- The Hon. Bob Cameron MP, -- Minister for Local Government, Department of Infrastructure, Victoria -- Introduction -- John Murphy, Historian -- Essays -- Ex unitate vires: Mechanics' Institutes and the federal ideal -- Prof. Philip C. Candy, University of Ballarat -- The Mechanics' Institute movement in Victoria -- Pam Baragwanath, Historian -- Mechanics' Institutes on Crown land reserves -- Janette Hodgson, Historic Places Section, -- Department of Natural Resources and Environment, Victoria -- Schools of Design at the Mechanics' Institutes -- Richard Myers, Historian -- Temples of learning -- Peter Lovell, Conservation Architect, Allom, Lovell and Associates -- Managed for their future -- Ivar Nelsen, Manager, Historic Places Section, -- Department of Natural Resources and Environment, Victoria -- Entries: Alphabetical record of Mechanics' Institutes in Victoria -- First Mechanics' Institutes -- Lists -- Libraries established in Mechanics' Institutes -- Adult education classes in Mechanics' Institutes -- Mechanics' Institutes used as picture theatres -- Mechanics' Institute heritage significance: Registrations and listings -- Criteria for the Register fo the National Estate -- Criteria for inclusion on the Victorian Heritage Register -- Mechanics' Institutes architects -- Mechanics' Institutes established in conjunction with town halls -- Mechanics' Institutes used as polling places in Gippsland Division -- Well-known people associated with Mechanics' Institutes -- Mechanics' Institutes of Victoria in existence -- Mechanics' Institutes of Victoria no longer in existence -- Mechanics' Institutes of Victoria - undetermined status of existence -- Mechanics' Institutes Reserves of Victoria no longer in existence -- Pictorial alphabetical record only of other Mechanics' Institutes of Victoria.ld I Carry Things |
| Notes |
Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Bibliography: pages 346-349 |
| Subject |
Mechanics' institutes -- Australia -- Victoria -- History.
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| LC no. |
2002416659 |
| ISBN |
1876677325 |
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