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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 61 - 70) 5567 items
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Banner - Children Out for Christmas, Refugee Action Collective, Oct 2004
Banner 'Children Out for Christmas' made by the Refugee Action Collective around October 2004 and used at various protest rallies. The Refugee Action Collective has grown out of a natio ...
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Sock - Mrs. Ruby Tyler, Green Wool, 2009
Single woollen bed sock knitted by Mrs. Ruby Tyler in Queensland. Mrs. Tyler, a former resident of Mt. Waverley in Victoria, usually knits bedsocks for patients in her local hospital in ...
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Seed Sample - Trigonella foenum-graecum (Leguminosae), 1887
Sample of Fenugreek seeds from India contained in a glass jar with stopper. This was collected and prepared by T.N.Mukharji as part of his work for the Indian Botanical Gardens. It was ...
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Recipe Booklet - Digger Cookery Book, 1939-1945
Alternative Name(s): Cookery Book, Cook Book Printed booklet containing recipes for dishes such as soups, puddings and biscuits. Publications such as this were sold by soldiers who wer ...
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Hurricane Lamp - Newmarket Saleyards, Newmarket, after 1933
Railway lamp used at the Newmarket Railway siding. Alternative Names: Railway Lamp, Lantern, Kerosene/Oil Lamp; Hurricane Lamp; Cold Blast Lamp. Oil fed lamps entered into the rail ind ...
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Catalogue - Update '79, The Home Renovations & Improvements Show, 3-11 Feb 1979
Official catalogue issued to visitors to the "Update '79" Home Renovations & Improvements Show held in the Great Hall and Western Annexe of the Exhibition Building, Melbourne, from Satu ...
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Certificate - Letterpress Machine Examination, First Class Pass, Issued to AG Maclaurin, ...
Certificate issued to AG Maclaurin by the Stationers' Company and Printing Industry Technical Board in 1925. Certifying that he was awarded a First Class pass for his 'Letterpress Mach ...
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Sampler - Lydia Hooper, circa 1911-1912
Two cardboard sheets with samples of different kinds of needlework, made by Lydia Hooper, circa 1911-1912. The sampler includes samples of gathering, pleating, hems, patches, seams, but ...
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Badge - R.M.S. Narkunda, circa 1927
Badge from the R.M.S. Narkunda, circa 1927, which was acquired by Constance Duffell during her migrant journey to Australia. Constance Duffell was born in England in 1910. She migrated ...
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