Advertising flyer for the auction of a brick balcony house with large yard at side and a weather board cottage at 374-8 Cardigan Street Carlton
 Catalogue Number: 921 Advertising flyer for the auction of a brick balcony house with large yard at side and a weather board cottage at 374-8 Cardigan Street Carlton Category: Papers Sub-Category: Brochure/pamphlet/leaflet (optometry) Practice/Business: GA Thomson Auctioneers and Valuers Time Period: 1940 to 1999 Place Of Publication/Manufacture: Carlton Victoria Publisher/Manufacturer: G A Thomson. Printed by Ambrose Printer Carlton Description Of Item: 133 mm x 208 mm white single sheet advertising the forthcoming auction on June 16 1956 of a brick balcony house with large yard at side and a WB cottage at 374-8 Cardigan Street Carlton, with ink handwriten note '44 x 66' and on the reverse a sketch of the site with dimension and numeric notes and the name 'Oswald Burt' Historical Significance: This property was bought by the College at the auction. The site comprising 374 to 378 Cardigan Street was purchased in 1956 when Bertram Nathan was Treasurer of the College for 6200 pounds ($12,400). He had in the preceding few years rescued the College from insolvency by obtaining a recurrent government grant. This gave the College sufficient funds to contemplate purchase of the site and ownership of a bullding. The Treasurer later persuaded the Government of Victorai to make a grant of 32,000 pounds ($64,000) to construct a new building on the site occupied by the cottage. This was completed early in 1960. See Cat No 146 for a picture of the site Condition: Fair. Tear on left hand side Location: Archive office. Pamphlet and ephemera filing cabinet. Drawer 2 |