Resources

The resource material held by Warrnambool & District Historical Society is a vast collection and includes:

  • The Camera Remembers - with index

  • Books on local history - family, churches, schools, shipwrecks, shipping, etc

  • Books of historical significance

  • Maps and charts

  • Indexes to some Early Warrnambool newspapers

  • Documents, illuminated addresses, certificates and legal papers of local significance, dockets, labels, programs, tourist brochures, cards, invitations, letterheads

  • Ledgers, correspondence, letter books -— from early local organisations

  • Music - sheet, record, wax cylinders

  • Local history, Business and Occupations, Housing Files - WDHS share resources with Warrnambool Family History Group giving access to their records

  • Beattie & Phillips and Guyetts undertakers’ records

  • People files - on early settlers and local residents

  • Photographs, postcards, albums - over 2000 (including Henri Worland collection)

  • Artefacts of local significance

  • Scrapbooks with newspaper cuttings - indexed

  • Badges, medals, coins

  • Records of births, deaths, marriages

  • Church records

  • Cemeteries

  • Shipping

  • Scan pro for microfiche and microfilms