A historical archive in Melbourne's east holds a history of the area dating back 120 years — and it was almost destroyed when a humidifier malfunctioned.
As an area rich in history ranging from the traditional owners, the Wurundjeri people of the Kulin nation, early European settlement in the 1830s, to the migration boom of Chinese-Australians in the last few decades, the treasures within the archive are numerous.Whitehorse City Council last year approving a redevelopment planThe rapid development has prompted organisations like the volunteer-based Box Hill Historical Society to redouble their efforts to preserve the history of the area.
"It's not just a matter of scanning them, it's working with them and removing the blemishes, tears, the spots, the drops, whatever.""Old photographs can deteriorate fairly rapidly if they're not kept in archival condition. And most of the stuff we get is not kept in archival conditions," she said. "In the 1980s, when a lot of Box Hill houses were being demolished, a council employee went around with a Polaroid camera documenting houses being destroyed," Harris explained.Other materials found in the collection include a carte de visite, a tiny business-card-sized, hand-coloured photograph stuck onto cardboard and generally shared among friends and family.
An advertisement from January 1958, promoting what is believed to be the first Chinese cafe in Box Hill.John Gothorp is a photographic archivist whose work to conserve and digitise the society's archive has been enabled by a $14,500 grant from the Suburban Rail Loop Community Projects Fund.
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