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Public Life & Institutions Collection
Image: Model - Captain Cook's Cottage, Cyril Noisette, Icing, 1934
Source: Museum Victoria
The lives of all Victorians are shaped by organisational and institutional structures in the public sphere. Such structures are dynamic, always in the process of creation, redefinition, maintenance, and change.
While some individuals may have the opportunity to participate in the creation of some of these structures, and to influence their direction, others suffer under, negotiate with or react to them. Groups of people may then combine to bring about changes to the ways the structures operate and develop.
This collecting field is concerned with communal and institutional activities in the public sphere in Victoria since 1835. Material evidence generated as a result of particular forms of public, cultural, political and institutional activity in Victoria is collected to document distinctive forms of urban and regional life.
The collection focuses on the operation of particular structures at particular times, and also on the processes of change, continuity, reaction and adaptation. Sub-themes include celebrations and festivals; political history; charity and welfare; ritual and belief; and images and icons of Melbourne.
It also illustrates the events and patterns that help us define and understand Australian identity in all its complexity and diversity. A wide range of material has been gathered from many organisations and institutions, both active and inactive.
Significant collecting areas:
Items per page: 10 50 (showing 7341 - 7350) 8091 items
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Negative - Thoona, Victoria, 1903
The Biggest Family Album of Australia, Museum Victoria
From: Thoona, Australia Images: 1 -
Carmalt's Tongue Holding Forceps - Medicon, Metal, circa 1920
Used for surgery in a mental health hospital in Victoria circa 1920. Positions the tongue of an unconscious patient forward; possibly used during tonsillectomies. May also have been use ...
From: Parkville, Australia Images: 1 -
Shield - Bowling, 1971
Bowling shield, 1971, awarded to patients at a psychiatric hospital, Mayday Hills Hospital, Beechworth, Victoria Australia. One of a series of tenpin bowling trophies awarded to patient ...
From: Beechworth, Australia Images: 1 -
Memoir - World War I, Nurse, A. E. Williams (nee Cocking), 1915-1918
'Remembrances of War Service in the AANS - AIFC 1st World War by One of the Nursing Sisters'. Inscribed on front 'Cr Selleck Lord Mayor of Melbourne'. Francis (Frank) Palmer Selleck was ...
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Postcard - South West Facade, Exhibition Building, Melbourne, circa 1908
This is a black & white postcard of the Exhibition Building showing the south west facade of the building and the gardens in the foreground, circa 1908. It shows an electric light, urn ...
From: Melbourne, Australia Images: 2 -
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Plunger Mechanism - circa 1920
Plunger mechanism circa 1920 that may have been used in a toilet cistern in a mental health hospital in Victoria Australia. Inner parts may have been made by hand.
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Photograph - H.V. McKay Massey Harris, Farm Equipment Manufacture & Field Trials, Melbourn ...
Distinguished bearded elderly gentleman standing with an early model harvester in front of the H.V. McKay pavilion at the Royal Melbourne Show. A clear view of the main driving segment ...
From: Melbourne, Australia Images: 1 -
Negative - Fairfield, Victoria, circa 1910
The Biggest Family Album of Australia, Museum Victoria
From: Fairfield, Australia Images: 1 -
Negative - by Lilian L. Pitts, Merrigum, Victoria, 1920-1930
Group portrait of twelve young men from a music class grouped around Lillian Pitts.
From: Merrigum, Australia Images: 1
