CONSERVING OUR HISTORY

Musculoskeletal Health Australia: Digitisation Project

Our thanks goes to the State Government of Victoria and the Public Record Office of Victoria through which we’ve received funding through the Local History Grant Program. This funding has allowed us to complete the Digitisation and Cataloguing of Musculoskeletal Australia’s Photographic Collection.

Our archivist, Christiane Hennequin, took on the arduous process of researching and cataloguing just over 1,000 photographs from our analogue photograph collection – an amazing effort!

The photographs in this collection represent our shared history from our humble beginnings in the late 1960s to the early 2000s when we began to adopt digital photography.

We’d like to take this opportunity to thank our community also for your ongoing support of this project, which has been invaluable in the success of our application for further funding.

When viewing our collection please note: You can search keywords in the collection, including names (this is only possible in cases where the individuals depicted have been identified). If you can recognise yourself, someone else, or even an event or venue that has not yet been positively identified, we would love to hear from you so that we can add that information to the collection. Alternatively, if you would like your name removed from the keyword search, please let us know.

Check out the online collection here!

A snapshot of our collection below:

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Cr John H Gervasoni (1929-1992), Mayor of Kew, at the official opening of the Rheumatism and Arthritis Association of Victoria’s new headquarters, Action House, on the 2nd of December 1978. Action House was located on the grounds of the Royal Talbot Hospital in Kew. Seated behind him are our founder, Dr Leslie Koadlow AO (1920-2006) and Mrs Kathleen Gervasoni, Mayoress of Kew, who officially opened the fete and Christmas Family Fun Day.

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Family and friends taking part in the 1992 National Arthritis Week (NAW) Joint Walk, near the Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria – Melbourne.