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Domestic & Community Life Collection
Image: Recipe Book - The New Sunshine Cookery Book
Source: Museum Victoria
The Domestic and Communtiy Life collection takes in a large sweep of the material culture of everyday life. It comprises several thousand objects, several thousand images, hundreds of documents, and a small number of sound recordings and intangible representations related to the lives and identities that Victorians have created for themselves at home and in their wider communities since European settlement.
The collection is underpinned by five interrelated themes: the home, domestic life, domestic ideology, community life and identity, with a focus on significant periods of domestic life dating from European settlement in Victoria to the present.
It is most significant in relation to domestic life in early to mid-20th-century Victoria, in particular regarding the technologies and tools used in food preparation, cooking, storage and preservation, cleaning and laundry.
Significant items
- A cot used by Richmond Henty in 1837.
- A Wolter and Echberg washing machine, designed and manufactured in Melbourne around the 1880s.
- An extensive collection of early to mid 20th century domestic appliances, including vacuum cleaners, refrigerators, washing machines and stoves.
- 32 architectural models of domestic buildings in Melbourne, 1839-1989.
- Images documenting domestic and community life, particularly the Biggest Family Album collections.
- The Graeme Fullarton Collection which records the experience of building a new home in East Keilor in the late 1950s and early 1960s.
- The Aldred Photograph Collection.
- The State Electricity Photograph Collection.
- The Laurie Richards Photograph Collection.
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Ration Card - Clothing, Issued to Constance Maclaurin, Commonwealth of Australia, Jun 1944
Clothing ration card used during World War II. It was issued to Constance Maclaurin in June 1944. Constance Duffell was born in England in 1910. She migrated to Australia with her par ...
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Ration Card - Clothing, Issued to Jocelyn Maclaurin, Commonwealth of Australia, Jun 1944
Clothing ration card used during the Second World War. It was issued to Jocelyn Maclaurin in June 1944. Jocelyn is the daughter of English immigrants Archie and Connie. Archie was born ...
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Ration Card - Clothing, Issued to Roger Maclaurin, Commonwealth of Australia, Jun 1944
Clothing ration card used during the Second World War. It was issued to Roger Maclaurin in June 1944. Roger is the son of English immigrants Archie and Connie. Archie was born in 1904 ...
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Receipt - Issued to A Maclaurin, by DM Embelton, M.D, Jun 1939
Receipt, issued to A G Maclaurin, by D.M. Embelton, M.D., for 6 pounds 6 shillings. Dated June 1939 for circumcision attendance of Roger Maclaurin, on 19 May 1939. Archie was born in 1 ...
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Receipt - Issued to A Maclaurin, by A. Cartwright, Watchmaker & Jeweller, 25 Nov 1931
Receipt, issued to A Maclaurin, by A. Cartwright, Watchmaker & Jeweller, for 10 pounds. Dated 25 November 1931 this is undoubtedly for the engagement ring purchased by Archie for Connie ...
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Receipt - Issued to A Maclaurin, by Myer Emporium, 10 Jul 1931
Receipt, issued to A Maclaurin, by the Myer Emporium, for 7 pounds 13 shillings. Dated 10 July 1931 this was probably a gift from Archie to Connie, coming four months before the purchas ...
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Receipt - Issued to A Maclaurin, by TN Bunbury, Home Furnisher, 25 Nov 1933
Receipt, issued to A Maclaurin, by TN Bunbury, Home Furnisher, for 2 pounds and 7 shillings. Dated 25 November 1933 this was probably a 'setting up house' purchase by Archie, coming a f ...
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Receipt - Issued to A Maclaurin, by TN Bunbury, Home Furnisher, 17 Nov 1933
Receipt, issued to A Maclaurin, by TN Bunbury, Home Furnisher, for 26 pounds. Dated 17 November 1933 this was probably a 'setting up house' purchase by Archie, coming a few weeks before ...
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Receipt - Issued to A Maclaurin, by TN Bunbury, Home Furnisher, 31 Jan 1934
Receipt, issued to A Maclaurin, by TN Bunbury, Home Furnisher, for 29 pounds and 15 shillings. Dated 31 January 1934 this was probably a 'setting up house' purchase by Archie, coming a ...
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Receipt - Issued to Miss Duffell, by W&L Gordon, Hardware Merchants & Crockery Importers, ...
Receipt, issued to Miss Duffell, by W&L Gordon, Hardware Merchants & Crockery Importers, for 3 pounds, 18 shillings and 9 pence. Dated 28 December 1933 this was probably a 'setting up h ...
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