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Presbyterian Ladies' College

Dame Nellie Melba and Presbyterian Ladies College, East Melbourne

6 x A4 pages photocopied from Patchwork, the school magazine of Presbyterian Ladies College. File includes two short articles about old girl, Dame Nellie Melba, "Melba, the Singer" by Mary Campbell and "Melba and the Old School" by Frances Fraser. The pages also include snaps taken around the school. No date but c.1950s.

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Presbyterian Ladies' College - 1953c.

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Scanned photographs of Presbyterian Ladies' College taken circa 1953 by Myra Sutton, a student there at that time.

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Presbyterian Ladies' College, East Melbourne

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Copies of three photos taken from early prospectus for Presbyterian Ladies College, and a humorous poem about PLC in the 1950s.
Part of a collection of miscellaneous correspondence and documents circulated among committee members of the East Melbourne Group in the years 1997-98.

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Time Recalled

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The second of two volume memoir by Fairlie Taylor. Taylor started work as a teacher in regional Victoria. In 1933 she became Victoria's first full-time teacher-librarian at Presbyterian Ladies' College, East Melbourne and later at Methodist Ladies' College. This volume covers the period 1920-1978. It has an account of her time at PLC (1933-1943) including the names of many teachers.

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