This is a bronze prize medal of the 1907 First Australian Exhibition of Women's Work which was held at the Exhibition Building. It was won by students of Hawksburn State School for an exhibit of wands. This was an important national exhibition that was seen as uniting the new nation through the work of women.

Exhibition of Women's Work exhibition medal, obverse.

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Exhibition of Women's Work exhibition medal, reverse.

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Obverse – Coat of arms of Baron Northcote (the third Governor-General of Australia) with the legend 1907 MELBOURNE.		Reverse – Around a wreath is the legend FIRST AUSTRALIAN EXHIBITION OF WOMEN'S WORK. Within the wreath is AWARDED TO and the engraving WANDS / HAWKSBURN.

Purchased, 1989