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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.
Items per page: 10 50 (showing 5431 - 5440) 5567 items
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Negative - by Lilian L. Pitts, Merrigum, Victoria, 1910-1920
Exterior of a butcher's shop with the proprietor leaning against the wall. The small shop is constructed of wood and fibro cement, and features a sloping verandah supported by two posts ...
From: Merrigum, Australia Images: 1 -
Negative - by Lilian L. Pitts, Victoria, circa 1910
Group of students and adults, one with a baby on her lap, sitting and standing around a picnic lunch. There is a small hut in the background.
Images: 1 -
Photograph - H.V. McKay Massey Harris, Farm Equipment Manufacture & Field Trials, Sunshine ...
'Sunshine Harvester Works: June 1943' this aerial photo is of the Sunshine works and shows the Melbourne-Sydney railway line, the quarry (in the centre of the photo), the back shed, a ...
From: Sunshine, Australia Images: 2 -
Negative - by Lilian L. Pitts, Merrigum, Victoria, circa 1910s
'Butterfly' costume'. Portrait of a young girl wearing cloth wrapped around to form wings.
From: Merrigum, Australia Images: 1 -
Negative - by Lilian L. Pitts, Merrigum, Victoria, circa 1910s
Four portraits of a man: walking arm in arm with a woman; sitting in a deck chair; prodding a cockatoo in a cage with a stick; standing near a fence.
From: Merrigum, Australia Images: 1 -
Negative - by Lilian L. Pitts, Merrigum, Victoria, circa 1910s
Close up of a flower and leaves from an unknown plant.
From: Merrigum, Australia Images: 1 -
Negative - by Lilian L. Pitts, Merrigum, Victoria, circa 1910s
Full length portrait of woman in long dress. She is also wear a very large hat.
From: Merrigum, Australia Images: 1 -
Negative - Ormond, Victoria, circa 1930
The Biggest Family Album of Australia, Museum Victoria
From: Ormond, Australia Images: 1 -
Photograph - by Jack Walton, Eden, New South Wales, 1931
Hotel Australasia.
From: Eden, Australia Images: 1 -
Glass Negative - by A.J. Campbell, Upper Yarra, Victoria, circa 1900
House and formal garden.
Images: 1
