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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 5451 - 5460) 5567 items
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Negative - by Lilian L. Pitts, Victoria, circa 1910s
Three children two girls and a boy sitting on a blanket feeding two domestic cats. The boy is wearing a blazer and cap.
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Negative - by Lilian L. Pitts, Merrigum, Victoria, circa 1910s
Group portrait of two adults, seated, and three small children. A boy stands next to the man who has a young girl on his knee, a second girl stands with the woman.
From: Merrigum, Australia Images: 1 -
Negative - by Lilian L. Pitts, Merrigum, Victoria, 1910-1920
Portrait of Lillian Pitts and a young boy. They are on a garden path looking at a black swan.
From: Merrigum, Australia Images: 1 -
Glass Negative - by A.J. Campbell, Dandenong Ranges, Victoria, circa 1900
'Fern Dale' a small wooden house on a slope in a bush clearing. The house has a corrugated iron roof and the roof of the veranda is striped. There is a group of people on the veranda,.
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Glass Negative - Interior of Room, by A.J. Campbell, Queensland, circa 1900
View of extremely elaborate Victorian house.
Images: 1 -
Photograph - by Jack Walton, Gundagai, New South Wales, circa 1920s-1930s
Buildings and trees.
From: Gundagai, Australia Images: 1 -
Negative - by Lilian L. Pitts, Merrigum, Victoria, circa 1910s
Portrait of a young girl dressed in costume. She is holding newly hatched chicken on the palm of her hand.
From: Merrigum, Australia Images: 1 -
Glass Negative - by A.J. Campbell, Australia, circa 1900
Children dragging firewood across street in small town.
Images: 1
