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"Government
Camp, Creswick's Creek". Drawn by Samuel Thomas Gill
(1818-1880), known as "The Artist of the Goldfields" for his
vivid scenes of life on the diggings. The scene dates from 1855, shortly
before the botanical gardens was proposed. The "Triangle" area
of the current reserve is probably in the middle distance on the right,
while the building on the hill, right, has been replaced by the present
house. The picture originally appeared in Victoria Illustrated, published
in Melbourne by Sands & Kenny in 1857 from a steel engraving by J.
Tingle. La
Trobe Picture Collection, State Library of Victoria, Accession number
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Photograph of a
watercolour dated 1864. Title: Residence of C. C. Dowling Esq. (i.e. the
house within the area demarcated as the botanical gardens) by T. G. Moyle.
Note that both the Gill picture (above) and the current house on the site
have a covered veranda, presumably on the other site from the watercolour
view. E. J. Semmens Collection, University of Melbourne
Archives. Original is in the Creswick Historical Museum and is also part
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Looking west along
the lake around 1894. Although the rock mound of the fountain is visible
in the distance, the island is missing and was added in 1895. Numerous eucalypts
remain on the escarpment.Original is in the Creswick
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Post Card from around 1900,
looking North across the lake. The fountain is seen in the centre, while
the rotunda is also visible above the escarpment.Original
is in the Creswick Historical Museum. |
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As above, but hand-tinted. Ken Duxbury postcard collection. |
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View over Park Lake, probably
from the house, dated August 1905. The shade house roof is visible on the
left, while the boat house can be seen at the far end of the lake.Original
is in the Creswick Historical Museum |
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Boating
on the lake, around 1915 (but see postcard of boat and fernery below). Photograph
by R. Morton. ( La
Trobe Picture Collection, State Library
of Victoria postcard of this picture is estimated at around 1907; Accession
H92.347/44) |
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View from other end of the lake, obviously taken on the same day as above. From the Ken Duxbury postcard collection. |
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The lake, with
island (right) and fountain (left) around 1930. Three white swans can be
seen.Original is in the Creswick Historical Museum |
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Glass lantern
slide taken by Cyril Robert Stainer, apparently between 1890 and 1901. Note
the open, grassy bank to the left of the fernery. The weeping willow on
the island is large (the island was only built in 1895), while the shade
house was only completed in early 1900. The
boathouse is also visible in the distance. A
colour, hand-tinted print from this slide is in the Creswick Historical
Museum. La
Trobe Picture Collection, Cyril Stainer
Collection, State Library of Victoria, Accession Number H2002.130/19. The
Creswick Historical Museum had a hand-tinted version of this. |
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Photograph
looking across the lake, probably from near the waterfall, taken in July
1902 by Mark James Daniel (1867-1949). Glass negative,
La
Trobe Picture Collection, State Library
of Victoria, Accession Number H92.200/541 |
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View, taken around 1950.Original
is in the Creswick Historical Museum |
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is in the Creswick Historical Museum |
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View of the town
from the top of the escarpment, somewhere near the waterfall. Dated 1909.Original
is in the Creswick Historical Museum |
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Looking down the
lake from the eastern end, 1940. Note that the fernery structure is no longer
visible.Original is in the Creswick Historical Museum |
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View towards the
eastern end of the lake. Original is in the Creswick
Historical Museum |
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"Pictorial
Souvenir of Creswick", from a collection of six postcards dated around
1945. Note that the weeping willows are now absent from the island.
La
Trobe Picture Collection, State Library
of Victoria, Viewfolders Victoria collection, Accession Number H99.140/4 |
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Photograph of a crowd on the
escarpment, taken around 1920. Original is in the Creswick
Historical Museum |
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View of escarpment, postcard sent 1904. Ken Duxbury postcard collection. |
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View of the Fernery from across
the lake, showing the multi-tiered rustic shade house. Taken around 1920.Original
is in the Creswick Historical Museum |
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View of the Fernery
from across the lake, showing the multi-tiered rustic shade house. Taken
around 1920. Note that the steps lead straight down to the lake, whereas
the recent renovations have made them lead off to the west (perhaps to reduce
run-off?).Original is in the Creswick Historical Museum |
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Postcard
dated around 1912 (looks to be the same crew in the same clothes as in the
Morton postcard above). Gelatin silver photograph from
the Shirley Jones collection of Victorian postcards,
La
Trobe Picture Collection, State Library
of Victoria, Accession Number H91.154/2 |
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Glass lantern
slide of the fernery taken by Cyril Robert Stainer, estimated between 1890
and 1901. However, the shade house was only completed in early 1900. Note
the grassy bank to the left of the fernery, illustrating the early stage
of development of most trees. Cyril Stainer Collection,
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Trobe Picture Collection, State Library
of Victoria, Accession Number H2002.130/18 |
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Postcard
of the fernery (in the snow?), with the date 25 September 1905. From
the Eric Green postcard collection,
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Trobe Picture Collection, State Library
of Victoria, Accession Number H42532/20, dated as roughly between 1904 and
1916. |
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The "arbor" leading into the flower beds. The photo, estimated to be taken between 1904 and 1916, is looking south-east from roughly where the toilets are now. The rustic shade house over the fernery is visible. From the Ken Duxbury postcard collection. Also in the Eric Green postcard collection, La Trobe Picture Collection, State Library of Victoria, Accession Number H42532/1 |
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As above, but not hand-tinted. |
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The same scene as above, taken
around the 1930's, as the gardens were becoming overgrown. Photograph
courtesy of The Friends of Park Lake. |
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Postcard of the garden beds,
taken from above the Fernery and facing west. Note the Magnolia on the extreme
left, which is still present. Dated around 1920.Original
is in the Creswick Historical Museum |
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The oval on New
Year or Easter Monday sports day, around 1920. E.
J. Semmens Collection, University of Melbourne Archives. |
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Picnic day in the late 1930's.Original
is in the Creswick Historical Museum |
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Relaxing near the boathouse
in the late 1930's.Original is in the Creswick Historical
Museum |
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Snow in the gardens. Part of
a promotional leaflet produced around 1945. The rotunda can be seen in the
distance on the left.Original is in the Creswick Historical
Museum |
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