Illuminated address from the Intercolonial Medical Congress of Australasia

Maker
Intercolonial Medical Congress of Australasia
Date
1889
Description
Illuminated Address to the Honourable Duncan Gillies, Premier of the Colony of Victoria from the Intercolonial Medical Congress of Australasia. The Illuminated Address has a black leather and gilt inscribed cover, with a black, red, blue and gold calligraphic address, and blue silk-satin lining.
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Object detail

Maker

Intercolonial Medical Congress of Australasia

Date

1889

Medium

cardboard, inks, leather, gilt, shot silk

Measurements

61 x 41.3 cm (closed)

Accession Number

MHM03924

Credit line

Gift of AMA Victoria, 2011

Inscriptions

name/inscriptions ▫ on front cover, in gilt: 'TO/THE HONORABLE DUNCAN GILLIES,/PREMIER/OF THE/COLONY OF VICTORIA' and 'INTERCOLONIA:L MEDICAL CONGRESS/OF AUSTRALASIA'; on back cover, in gilt: 'MELBOURNE/1889.'
signatures ▫ handwritten at bottom of address: 'T N FitzGerald' (president), 'Geofraham' (honorary treasurer), 'H.B. Allen' (general secretary), 'James W. Barrett' and 'GASyme' (associate secretaries); other committee members: 'M (?) Headler', 'AlBrownlefs.', 'F. T. (Wus) Ford', 'James Jamieson', 'W. Mccrea', '(?) M. James', 'James Edward Neild', 'James Robertson', 'James I. Rusall', 'Charles S Ryan', 'J. Williams', 'Rich. (?)', 'J. Molony(?)'
inscriptions ▫ as a typed display card: 'Illuminated Adress presented to the Honorable/Duncan Gillies, Premier of Victoria, from/ the Intercolonial Medical Congress of Australasia, 1889,/for the "material assistance" and advice which/contributed to the success of their Congress./Originally belonged to the A.M.A. Collection.'

Object Type

documents
artwork

Named Collection

AMA Victoria

Medical History Museum Category

Documents and Lectures
Artworks and Commemorative Items

Museum

Medical History Museum