Search the collections
Refine your search
Filter results by item type
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.
Items per page: 10 50 (showing 5391 - 5400) 5567 items
-
Negative - by Lilian L. Pitts, Merrigum, Victoria, circa 1910s
Group portrait of six family members posed along a post and rail fence.
From: Merrigum, Australia Images: 1 -
Negative - State Electricity Commission, Victoria, Australia, circa 1920s-1960s
Part of a large photographic collection of glass plate and film negatives, photographic prints and photo albums, relating to the development of the electric power supply industry in Vic ...
Images: 1 -
Negative - Boy Painting Zebra Stripes on a Horse, Merrigum, Victoria, circa 1910
Part of the Lillian Louisa Pitts collection. Lillian Pitts photographed, processed and printed her photographs from about 1910. The collection is based on her life in the fruit growing ...
From: Merrigum, Australia Images: 1 -
Negative - Two Boys arranging a Sail on a Water Barrel in a Waterhole, Merrigum, Victoria, ...
Part of the Lillian Louisa Pitts collection. Lillian Pitts photographed, processed and printed her photographs from about 1910. The collection is based on her life in the fruit growi ...
From: Merrigum, Australia Images: 1 -
Negative - by Lilian L. Pitts, Merrigum, Victoria, circa 1910s
Portrait of a young girl sitting by a tub of flowers.
From: Merrigum, Australia Images: 1 -
Negative - by Lilian L. Pitts, Merrigum, Victoria, circa 1910s
A woman picks flowers from a large flowering plant growing on a verandah post of the Robinson House.
From: Merrigum, Australia Images: 1 -
Glass Negative - Landscape, by A.J. Campbell, Queensland, circa 1900
Garden of a Victorian house.
Images: 1
