Dr J.M. Andrew and Andrew Family Collection

collection consists of the medical collection, military collection, library collection, recreation collection, Mrs Dorothy Andrew’s collection and furniture and personal collection

Dr Andrew’s Camera

Dr Andrew’s Wildflower Sketch Book

Dr Andrew’s Hiking Diary

Dr Andrew’s Medical Bag

Dr Andrew’s Scenery Sketch

Dr Andrew’s Camping & Sports

Dr Andrew’s Wildflower Sketch Book

Dr Andrew’s Wildflower Sketch Book

Dr J.M. Andrew and Andrew Family Collection

The Dr J.M. Andrew and Andrew family collection represents a variety of aspects of the Andrew family’s life in Yallourn and is especially rich in its documentation of Dr. J.M. Andrew’s professional and recreational interests, whilst he served the local Yallourn community from 1926 and until his death in 1972. The collection consists of the medical collection, military collection, library collection, recreation collection, Mrs Dorothy Andrew’s collection and furniture and personal collection. These include photographs, photographic equipment, furniture, books, medical equipment, diaries, recreational items, clothing, and coleoptera (beetles) and many articles from the Andrew’s everyday life.
Within the collection a number of individual items are of state significance, including medical items such as Dr Andrew’s desk (with the original contents remaining as donated and fully catalogued), chair, medical case and recreation items, such as the Paddy Pallin Haversack, the 1921 and 1925 hiking diaries and a sketchbook dated 1922-1924. The early diary describes a walking trip undertaken with (Sir) Frank Macfarlane Burnet (a fellow student at Ormond College where James Andrew was dux of his year). It also includes an early, circa 1928, complex Thornton Pickard “Junior Special” half plate bellows camera, used by Dr Andrew, sitting in a carrier made by Dr Andrew, constructed to copy photographs that were attached to the sliding easel.
The Yallourn House (c.1930) removed from Yallourn was donated by the State Electricity Commission of Victoria in order to house this largely intact collection at Old Gippstown.

Dr J.M. Andrew and Andrew Family Collection

Dr Andrew’s Camera

Dr Andrew’s Wildflower Sketch Book

Dr Andrew’s Hiking Diary

Dr Andrew’s Medical Bag

Dr Andrew’s Scenery Sketch

Dr Andrew’s Camping & Sports

Dr Andrew’s Wildflower Sketch Book

Dr Andrew’s Wildflower Sketch Book

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