Michelle Watson

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Archivist. Community historian. Genealogist. Stockton, NSW during WW1. MIM - family history researchers as an uni archives user group. Digital Humanities. LOD. (she/her) - https://www.michellewatson.org - Worimi Country

View of harbour and land of Newcastle from a tall building.
Piece of white aida cloth with a few embroidery stitches on it, resting on the back of a white, fluffy sleeping cat.
Line drawing of a woman in traditional japanese attire holding a cat.
An round anodised pink baking dish containing a cut up crumpet covered in custard and golden syrup with a grilled top.
A photo of a white cat, taken from above, with the cat looking directly up at the camera.
A letter with an elaborate pictorial letterhead of the Stockton Missions to Seamen building on Stockton, NSW.
Photo of a landscape painting of Newcastle, NSW in 1804. Shows Nobby’s Island and a ship in the harbour. Photograph of original Ferdinand Bauer painting, 1804. Annotation (in ink): “Newcastle in N.S. Wales from am Sketch by Lewin in the early days of the Colony”. Annotation (in pencil): “Lewin”. “The original is in the Colonial Institute London.”
Dr Peter Hobbins presenting to a room of people at the Stockton Historical Society. He’s standing in front of a screen with his presentation and on each side a standing banner for the Historical Society, one outlining the industrial history of the area.
Stamped seal in purple ink of the Consul Agent for France in Newcastle NSW
Letter to John Reid about his responsibilities as a French consul.
Four WW2 photos of German soldiers.
A small fenced enclosure with white ducks and a small white goat with caramel coloured esrs and spots.
A large Green Tree frog sitting on a tan lino bathroom floor.
Image of a white fluffy cat looking directly at the camera while sitting on a pink patchwork quilt.
Image of a plate of salt and pepper squid with salad and chips. Sides of dianne sauce and aioli.
Five plastic tubs each containing multiple volumes of ledgers of burial records.
List if songs for Pump Up the Volume soundtrack. RECORDS 1-72 1 EVERYBODY KNOWS PERFORMED BY CONCRETE BLONDE 2 WHY CAN'T I FALL IN LOVE PERFORMED BY IVAN NEVILLE 3 STAND PERFORMED BY LIQUID JESUS 4 WAVE OF MUTILATTON (UK. SURF) PERFORMED BY THE PIXIES 5 I'VE GOT A SECRET MINIATURE CAMERA PERFORMED BY PETER MURPHY G KEK DUIPTHE JAMS PERFORMED BY BAD BRAINS WITH HENRY ROLLINS 7. FREEDOM OF SPEECH PERFORMED BY ABOVE THE LAW PERFORMED BY SOUNDGARDEN TITANIUM EXPOSE PERFORMED BY SONIC YOUTH 10 ME AND THE DEVIL BLUES PERFORMED BY COWBOY JUNKIES I1 TALE O' THE TWISTER PERFORMED BY CHAGALL GUEVARA
Cover for the “Pump Up The Volume” movie soundtrack CD.
A plate of salt and pepper squid, baskets of chips and salad.
A patch of grass with a semi-exposed brick and sandstone foundation made up of two walls including a corner.
A hexagon patchwork block made up of the green diamond pieces.
A hexagon quilt block made up of three different green diamond pieces.
A hexagon shaped patchwork block with a chartreuse green triangle in the middle.
A sewing box filled with beightly coloured English paper piecing pieces ready to be sewn together.
A packet of Vogart brand iron on transfer embroidery patterns featuring the Sally Perkins designs for a gay kitchen ensemble: iron, sew, sweep etc, days of the week and various appliance covers.
The title page of a play - THE COLENERS. A COMEDY, IN THREE ACTS. WRITTEN BY SAMUEL FOOTE, ESQ. AS PERFORMED AT THE THEATRE ROYAL HAY-MARKET. London : PRINTED BY J. JARVIS, POR I. PARSONS, NO 21, PATERNOSTER-ROW. 1794*
BON TON; OR, High Life above Stairs, FARCE, BY DAVID GARRICK, ESQ. ADAPTED FOR Cheatrical Representatton: AS PERFORMED AT THE THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY LANE. REGULATED FROM THE PROMPT-BOOK, By Permission of the Managers. LONDON: PRINTED FOR JOUN CAWTHORN, 5, CATHERINE STREET, STRAND, Bookseller to Her Royal Highness the Princess of Wales. 1805
Front pages of a book with Wm A Creery printed on the left page and a hand written table of contents on the right page.
Here is some of your good old days, all died of measles in just over 1 mth: Israel FRANCIS - 7 Mar 1830 - 4 mths old Sarah ADAMS - 12 Mar 1830 - 7 mths old Henry SAGGS - 14 Mar 1830 - 2 yrs 3 mths old Henry MULLINER - 20 Mar 1830 - 8 mths old Eliza BARKER - 1 Apr 1830 - 4 yrs 3 mths old Richard STEVENS - 11 Apr 1830 - 2 yrs old This was a small village in a rural area, what would have large cities been like?
A table covered in piles of books being sorted.
KFC Zinger bánh mì sitting on top of paper KFC bag.
White fluffy cat whose fur is grey from coal dust.
A pile of brightly coloured fabric diamond shape English paper piecing pieces.
The spine and front cover of a lever-arch binder. Decorated with an image from the movie Platoon showing Wilhem Dafoe on his knees and arms raised to the sky in supplication.
Front page of the NovaCon ‘91 Convention Guide featuring a drawing of Nobbys Lighthouse.
A sheet of fabric with an assortment of 1980’s and 1990’s badges, including Duran Duran, anti-nuclear protest buttons, Girl Guide and school badges.
Ghe back of a completed embroider slip showing the glued background.
A variety of linen fabric scraps with creature and flowers drawn on ready for embroidering.
Elizabethan tent stitch slip of blue cornflowers and green leaves outlined in goldwork thread.
Elizabethan tent stitch slip of red roses and green leaves outlined in goldwork thread.
Elizabethan tent stitch slip of yellow flowers and green leaves outlined in goldwork thread.
Close up of purple flower slip showing the shine of flat silk and goldwork thread.
A black velvet ground with pink, yellow, purple, and blue flowers with a leaf wreath in the middle with a heraldic shield in the centre of the wreath.
A polychrome embroidered wreath with blue, pink, yellow and purple bows at the cardinal points. Inside the wreath is a heraldic shield of a red ground with three gold crescent moons.
Two sashiko pin cushions, one made with blue fabrics and one with brown fabrics. All stitching using white sashiko thread. Pincushions are sitting in a bamboo steamer converted into a sewing basket.
A black lever arch binder with an image of Wilem Defoe from the movie “Platoon”, kneeling on the ground in a jungle, in the rain, his arms raised above his head and his head thrown back. The spine of the folder contains a number of quotes by John Milton, Curtis Armstrong LeMay, Bruce Springsteen and David Bowie.
A 5 1/4 inch Gestetner floppy disk. Labelled: “THESIS D, M. WATSON, Dept of History, 1994
A dark grey coloured Federation style house with white window trim and picket fence. A large frangipani tree with white flowers in front of the verandah.
A large blue tongue lizard in a clear plastic container with a hand in the background for scale.
A handwritten page of Stockton Council Minutes.
A carbon copy page of typed Stockton Council minutes. Text: "Directions to shipwrecked sailors - Dealing with the letter (6537) from the Navigation Department, declining to erect finger posts along the Stockton beach to direct shipwrecked persons to settlers' residences it was resolved, on the motion of Alderman Hudson, seconded by Alderman Thomas, to write to the Royal Humane Society, sending a copy of the Navigation Department's corrospondence, and asking them to use their influence in the matter, or to take the question up." Stockton Council Minutes, 8 Sep 1908
A white linen shirt embroidered in black thread. There are five columns of designs, the first, third and fifth include four flowers each. They area sprig of leaves, a gillyflower, a peascod and a pomegranate. The second and fourth columns of designs are a vine of acanthus leaves interspersed with pomegranates and generic four petalled flower.
A Blue Tongue lizard sitting in a patch of dead grass surrounded by a ring of green grass.
A screenshot of a folders contents displayed as thumbnails where the file names have been updated.
A screen shot of an options window. It has been annotated in pink with the numbers 1, 2 and 3 to identify in text what needs to go into each box.
A screenshot of a folder showing many thumbnails of image files. They have meaningless sequential file names.
Newspaper article: "Dead Marching Non-unionists: As non-unionist miners went to work at Stockton colliery on Friday the Stockton brass band, composed of unionist miners, played the 'Dead March in Saul.'"
An historical interpretative sign set in a garden bed titled: "Where Maitland and Mitchell Street meet". The sign was designed and placed by the Stockton Historical Society Inc. It has information on Cambrian House and Stockton's Original School.
A white cat looking directly into the camera which is overhead.