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• TLF-IDM002785

This is a two-page letter, handwritten on lined paper. The paper has browned and there are minor losses from insect activity. Water damage is also significant. It measures 24.7 cm long x 19.6 cm wide.

• TLF-IDL4308

Explore the weekend activities enjoyed by a family member. This includes activities such as watching TV, listening to music and playing computer games. This learning object is one in a series of three objects.

• TLF-IDR10105

'On nights like this' by Josephine Rowe is a poem in which the narrator summons memories of her absent mother captured in unhappy domestic situations. Thoughts of her mother feeding the rabbits on a cold winter's night is the one memory the narrator finds the 'nicest'. The poem is presented in a white box on a black background ...

• TLF-IDR7488

This clip shows three Jewish comedians, Sandy Gutman, Deb Filler and Moshe Waldoks, talking about their lives and work via on-camera interviews and through examples of their comedy. They refer to their childhood experiences, and elements of their Jewish heritage and recent history, particularly the Holocaust, are described. ...

• TLF-IDM000256

This is a personal scrapbook compiled by Mary Truby King, mostly in the 1930s. It is a thick bound foolscap book with heavy marbled cardboard covers and a maroon leather spine. Its blank pages are numbered and the first pages have alphabetical tabs. The scrapbook contains pasted clippings of Truby King's own articles from ...

• TLF-IDM002368

This is a black-and-white photograph showing the Ellerbock family on a boat at Mordialloc. John Ellerbock is smoking a cigarette while surrounded by his children Ingrid, Herb, Anna and John Jr. The photograph was taken in 1960. The image is a digital scan of the original photograph.

• TLF-IDM002467

This is a black-and-white photograph of Dorothy Hick and her sister Shirley playing under the sprinkler in the backyard of their family home in Northcote, Melbourne, in 1949. The two girls, wearing woollen bathers, are standing getting wet from the sprinkler, which is also watering the lawn. Behind them is a lush garden ...

• TLF-IDM002470

This is a colour photograph of two boys, Nigel and Andrew Bondfield, sitting in a solid plastic wading pool in the backyard of their family home in Blackburn, Melbourne, in 1981. The boys are both wearing tops. Their family garden, featuring tomato plants in pots, a compost bin and a vegetable patch, is visible in the background. ...

• TLF-IDM002473

This is a black-and-white photograph of the Ellerbock family children and a family friend posing in a circular wading pool in the Ellerbock family backyard at Ringwood East, Melbourne, in 1965. Some of the children are wearing shorts and short-sleeved tops and two are wearing bathers. Behind them stands a ramshackle shed ...

• TLF-IDM002475

This is a black-and-white photograph of two girls, Bernadette and Jennie Liddell, playing in their canvas wading pool with neighbour Janice Nichols, in the backyard of their home in Bentleigh East, Melbourne, in 1969. Bernadette and Janice are on mock starting blocks, pretending they are ready to dive into the pool, while ...