b'179quickly saw an opening to supply much needed goods to the thousands of miners flocking to Victorian shores. Within the two years from 1851 to 1853, Geelongs population had swelled from 8,000 to about 22,000, greatly increasing demand for clothing and household chattels.By 1897 Jacobs Draper Shop occupied three adjoining shopfronts devoted respectively to drapery, clothing and oilskins, and boots and shoes. The stores slogan Champion of Cheapness became famous throughout Geelong. Jacobs served as president of the Geelong Hebrew Congregation from the mid-1880s until his death in 1927 at the age of 102. He also supported a number of institutions run by local churches including the Catholic and Protestant orphanages.$200300 11301900s-1950s Donaldson/Warren family archive housed in old-time projector box with two large bundles of Warren family WWII correspondence plus a 1943 letter to Acting Sergeant Sidney Warren from then RAAF Flight Sergeant John (Bay) Adams whilst training in Canada, WWII military documents for Lance Sergeant Sidney Warren incl. Record of Service Book, Army Driving Licence, Demobilization Procedure Book & Certificate of Discharge, postcards incl. real-photo types & photographs including of the AH Warren Bakery in Temora, 1951 Garfield Stars FC members ticket, also school certificates/reports, cigarette case, badges, buttons & keys, etc. Lots to view.[John Bay Adams DFC, CBE was a WWII fighter ace who continued his distinguished military career after the war, serving in every rank from Aircraftman to Air Vice-Marshall before his retirement in 1979.]$180220 1131WILLIAM H. OGILVIE (18691963): manuscript copy (in ink) of a tribute to Adam Lindsay Gordon, titled From Hearts of Gold by Will H. Ogilvie with five stanzas followed at base by the signature Will H. Ogilvie. Mounted & framed together with a photograph of Ogilvie in later life. Overall 57.5 x 29cm.Ogilvie was a Scottish-Australian narrative poet and horseman, jackaroo, and drover. He was part of the early 20th century trio of Australian bush poets, with Banjo Paterson (18641941) and Henry Lawson (18671922). His Fair girls and gray horses (1896) was considered second only to Banjo Patersons Man from Snowy River (1895). A reader ballot in 1914 saw him placed seventh among Australias twelve most favourite poets. Under the byline of Universally acclaimed in Australia as a bush balladist of the Outback, Ogilvie wrote over 860 poems, including A Scotch night, The Australian and Summer Country. Hand-written examples of his work are rarely seen.$9001,200 11311132 1133PLAYING CARDS - PICTURESQUE AUSTRALIA: early 1900sVIEWS OF VICTORIA IN 1857 - CIGARETTE CARDS: 1906-full deck cards showing monochrome photographic images of11 Sniders & Abrahams large-part set [29/32], plus various Australian scenes in the centre of each card with representationsduplicates, condition fair to fine. (64)from every Australian State, complete with original box. (54 cards) $200300 $80120 '