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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 5441 - 5450) 5567 items
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Negative - Cora Lynn District, Victoria, 1925
The Biggest Family Album of Australia, Museum Victoria
From: Cora Lynn, Australia Images: 1 -
Negative - by Lilian L. Pitts, Merrigum, Victoria, circa 1910s
Portrait of a young girl sitting on a wooden crate.
From: Merrigum, Australia Images: 1 -
Photograph - Great Southern Hotel, Jack Walton, Eden, New South Wales, 1931
The Great Southern Hotel at Eden, New South Wales. The hotel still exists as a pub and backpacker's accommodation.
From: Eden, Australia Images: 1 -
Negative - Brighton, Victoria, circa 1911
The Biggest Family Album of Australia, Museum Victoria
From: Brighton, Australia Images: 1 -
Negative - by Lilian L. Pitts, Merrigum, Victoria, circa 1910s
Exterior view of the Bray's house featuring a large bay window and a small tower, reached by an exterior ladder, on the roof.
From: Merrigum, Australia Images: 1 -
Photograph - by Jack Walton, Bega, New South Wales, 1931
Bega from Belmore Street.
From: Bega, Australia Images: 1 -
Photograph - by Jack Walton, Bega, New South Wales, 1931
Brogo bridge, end of Brogo Pass.
From: Bega, Australia Images: 1 -
Photograph - by Jack Walton, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, 1931
Governor General 's residence.
From: Canberra, Australia Images: 1 -
Photograph - by Jack Walton, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, 1931
Prime Minister 's residence.
From: Canberra, Australia Images: 1
