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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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Surcharged Token - 'J.T.' on 1 Penny, J.Hosie, The Scotch Pie Shop, Melbourne, Victoria, ...
Copper One Penny Token, minted by Thomas Stokes, Melbourne, 1862. Issued by J. Hosie, The Scotch Pie, Melbourne. Surcharged J.T. James Hosie came to Melbourne in 1853 from Leith, Scotla ...
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Token - 1 Penny, J. Hosie, The Scotch Pie Shop, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 1862
Copper One Penny Token, minted by Thomas Stokes, Melbourne, 1862. Issued by J. Hosie, The Scotch Pie, Melbourne. James Hosie came to Melbourne in 1853 from Leith, Scotland. Hosie initia ...
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Token - 1 Penny, J. Hosie, The Scotch Pie Shop, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 1862
Copper One Penny Token, minted by Thomas Stokes, Melbourne, 1862. Issued by J. Hosie, The Scotch Pie, Melbourne. James Hosie came to Melbourne in 1853 from Leith, Scotland. Hosie initia ...
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Token - 1 Penny, T. Warburton, Iron & Zinc Spouting Works, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, ...
Australia Victoria Melbourne T. Warburton Token Penny, 1862 (AD) Mint: Thomas Stokes Standard References: Andrews 594 = Heyde 260/1 = Sharples V.178 Other Details: Die combination C / ...
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Token - 1 Penny, J. Hosie, The Scotch Pie Shop, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 1862
Copper One Penny Token, minted by Thomas Stokes, Melbourne, 1862. Issued by J. Hosie, The Scotch Pie, Melbourne. James Hosie came to Melbourne in 1853 from Leith, Scotland. Hosie initia ...
From: Melbourne, Australia Images: 2 -
Token - 1 Penny, J. Hosie, The Scotch Pie Shop, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 1862
Copper One Penny Token, minted by Thomas Stokes, Melbourne, 1862. Issued by J. Hosie, The Scotch Pie, Melbourne. James Hosie came to Melbourne in 1853 from Leith, Scotland. Hosie initia ...
From: Melbourne, Australia Images: 2 -
Token - 1 Penny, J. Hosie, The Scotch Pie Shop, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 1862
Copper One Penny Token, minted by Thomas Stokes, Melbourne, 1862. Issued by J. Hosie, The Scotch Pie Shop, Melbourne. James Hosie came to Melbourne in 1853 from Leith, Scotland. Hosie i ...
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Medal - Victorian Intercolonial & Philadelphia Centennial Exhibitions, Victoria, Australia ...
Australia Victoria Melbourne Medal - Victorian Intercolonial for Philadelphia Centennial Exhibition Bronze Prize 1875 (AD) Mint: Stokes & Martin Awarded to: The Melbourne Meat Preservin ...
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Token - 1 Penny, J. Hosie, The Scotch Pie Shop, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 1862
Copper One Penny Token, minted by Thomas Stokes, Melbourne, 1862. Issued by J. Hosie, The Scotch Pie, Melbourne. James Hosie came to Melbourne in 1853 from Leith, Scotland. Hosie initia ...
From: Melbourne, Australia Images: 2 -
Token - 1 Penny, J. Hosie, The Scotch Pie Shop, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 1862
Copper One Penny Token, minted by Thomas Stokes, Melbourne, 1862. Issued by J. Hosie, The Scotch Pie, Melbourne. James Hosie came to Melbourne in 1853 from Leith, Scotland. Hosie initia ...
From: Melbourne, Australia Images: 2
