The Cyclopedias that were published for most states of Australia around the beginning of the 20th Century are a vast resource of historical and biographical information on the state concerned - the people, towns, industries, professional, commercial and social institutions and much more.
They include thousands of illustrations, the larger number of these being portraits of those whose biographies are included. These are not just the rich and famous, but include a high percentage of the ordinary citizens in each community.
This CD includes facsimile images of the entire 1800 pages of the three volumes of the original 1907-1909 edition of the Cyclopedia of Victoria.
VOLUME 1
Administration of justice
Aborigines
architects and civil Engineers
Accountants
Auctioneers
Banking
climate
Defence force
Dentistry
Education
geology
governors
Botanical gardens
Government departments
history of Victoria
hospitals
parliament
Melbourne post office
Victorian Press
Pharmacy board of Victoria
Stock and share brokers
law officers
marine Board
The Royal mint
medical
manufactures
old colonialists
vegetation
Zoology of Victoria
Biographical index
VOLUME 2
Aerated waters and cordial manufactures
Art, science, literature
Chamber of commerce
Charitable Institutions
Ecclesiastical
Educational
Fraternal Societies
Sporting
Suburbs of Melbourne
Jewellers and watchmakers
Many Victorian towns and their vicinities
Biographical index
VOLUME 3
Health resorts
Medical
Merchants and importers
Manufacturers
Stage: Historical sketch of the Melbourne Stage
Many Victorian towns and their vicinities
Biographical index
Greatly enhanced access to Cyclopedia content
As with many other products being published under the Archive CD Books project, access to the vast amount of information is now greatly enhanced. The indexing of the original volumes and their general arrangement still give only limited references to the many people, places and subjects that are largely hidden in the extensive text.
NOW that is all changing. The entire text is now easily searched. And the machine read OCR text has been corrected to ensure 100% of the text can now be searched.
Originally produced by Archive CD Books Australia in 2005, this title has now been remastered and re-released, and includes better searching capability. This CD contains high quality scanned images of the whole of the original book, and has been bookmarked for easy navigation. Pages can be searched, browsed, enlarged and printed out if required.
Click here to download a file of sample pages from this book
Right click on the link and select "save as" - to a location on your hard drive. The sampler can be opened, navigated and searched as with the full CD file/s.
Sample files usually contain the title page, contents, some introductory pages and sample pages from the body of the book. Often the complete index from the original book is included.
