Resources
The resource material held by Warrnambool & District Historical Society is a vast collection and includes:
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The Camera Remembers - with index
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Books on local history - family, churches, schools, shipwrecks, shipping, etc
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Books of historical significance
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Maps and charts
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Indexes to some Early Warrnambool newspapers
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Documents, illuminated addresses, certificates and legal papers of local significance, dockets, labels, programs, tourist brochures, cards, invitations, letterheads
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Ledgers, correspondence, letter books -— from early local organisations
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Music - sheet, record, wax cylinders
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Local history, Business and Occupations, Housing Files - WDHS share resources with Warrnambool Family History Group giving access to their records
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Beattie & Phillips and Guyetts undertakers’ records
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People files - on early settlers and local residents
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Photographs, postcards, albums - over 2000 (including Henri Worland collection)
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Artefacts of local significance
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Scrapbooks with newspaper cuttings - indexed
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Badges, medals, coins
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Records of births, deaths, marriages
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Church records
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Cemeteries
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Shipping
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Scan pro for microfiche and microfilms