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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.
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Taxation Assessment Notice - Issued to AG Maclaurin, by State of Victoria, 15 Jun 1934
State Income Tax and Unemployment Relief Tax for AG Maclaurin for the year 1933-1934. Based on Income for the year ending 30 June 1933. Archibald Gordon Maclaurin was born in 1904 in ...
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Taxation Return Form - AG Maclaurin, 30 Jun 1930
Form B. Personal Return for Federal and State Income Tax for Victoria, completed by AG Maclaurin. It was for return of income of the 12 months ending 30 June 1930. Archibald Gordon Mac ...
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Taxation Return Form - AG Maclaurin, 30 Jun 1931
Form B. Personal Return for Federal and State Income Tax for Victoria, completed by AG Maclaurin. It was for return of income of the 12 months ending 30 June 1931. Archibald Gordon Mac ...
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Taxation Return Form - AG Maclaurin, 30 Jun 1934
Form B. Personal Return for Federal and State Income Tax for Victoria, completed by AG Maclaurin. It was for return of income of the 12 months ending 30 June 1934. Archibald Gordon Mac ...
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Report - Day Student's Quarterly Report, London School of Printing & Kindred Trades, 28 Ma ...
Day Student's Quarterly Report from the London School of Printing & Kindred Trades, dated 28 March 1923. It reports that AG Maclaurin, employed by Messrs T De La Rue Ltd received good g ...
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Report - Examination Results, London School of Printing & Kindred Trades, 25 Jul 1925
Examination Results Report from the London School of Printing & Kindred Trades, dated 25 July 1925. It reports that AG Maclaurin, obtained a first class certificate in Cylinder and the ...
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Book - 'Rules of the Printing Machine Managers' Trade Society', London, 1925
Book 'Rules of the Printing Machine Managers' Trade Society' printed by the Co-operative Printing Society Ltd in 1925. It was used by Archibald Gordon Maclaurin upon first entering the ...
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Souvenir Programme - Thomas De La Rue & Co, Annual Dinner, 22 Jan 1927
Souvenir Programme from the dinner commemorating the termination of apprenticeship of A G Maclaurin held by Thomas De La Rue at Manchester Hotel, Aldersgate, on 22 January 1927 Archie ...
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Sports Certificate - Animal Race, Awarded to Miss Duffell, SS Narkunda, 1927
Sports Certificate awarded for First prize in the 'Animal Race' to Miss Duffell on the SS Narkunda during her migration journey to Australia in 1927. Constance Duffell was born in Engl ...
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Sports Certificate - Cigarette Race, Awarded to Miss Duffell, SS Narkunda, 1927
Sports Certificate awarded for First prize in the 'Cigarette Race' to Miss Duffell on the SS Narkunda during her migration journey to Australia in 1927. Constance Duffell was born in E ...
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