The collection consists of personal ephemera brought to Australia by Italian Women chain migrating to Australia between 1920 and the 1970s. Continue reading
Objects Through Time: 1939-1945
The butter churn and pat have historic and technological significance as they demonstrate the labour intensive nature of early dairying and butter making and the impact that technological developments such as the cream separator and butter churn and improvements in rail and road transport had on the industry. Continue reading
Discover the collection of objects from the German and Austrian refugees who transported to Australia on the SS Dunera and were later interred at Hay internment camp during World War II. Continue reading
Discover the diaries of Federico Bonisoli documenting his internment during World War II. The diaries Include Internment diaries (in Italian dated 1940-1944, letters in English received from his niece Maria Bonisoli and nephew Attilio Bonisoli between 1940-1943, a photograph of Federico Bonisoli, c.1939. and a letter in Italian to Felice Bonisoli from Rev. Professor M.F. Toal, an ex-internee of Loveday Camp dated 13 September 1956. Continue reading
This quilt has historical significance as one of the first Italian quilts to be documented in Australia. Continue reading
This collection of knitting machines and tools is of historic significance as a family craft of the Griffith area handed down from mother to daughter, that may be traced back to a sixteenth century tradition in Northern Italy. Continue reading
Discover the Japanese Himitsu-Bako puzzle box which was recovered from one of the Japanese midget submarines that was involved in the attack on Sydney Harbour on the night of 30-31 May 1942. Continue reading
The coins have historic value as evidence of the events that surround the internment of POWs in Australia in World War 2 and the experience of the refugees and POWs life at the Hay POW camp. Continue reading
Discover the coal miner’s collection owned by Charlie Barker, miner, and the son of a Welsh coalminer. Continue reading
The preserving pan is associated with the second phase of German farming and settlement in the Riverina and Australian domestic practice. Continue reading
This set of bocce balls is of historic significance as evidence of the transfer of a men’s social activity from Italy to Griffith, Australia. Continue reading
See the bugle that Japanese prisoner of war TOYOSHIMA HAJIME used to signal the start of the mass escape of Japanese POWs from Cowra POW Camp in 1944. Continue reading
Read Pasquale Dogao’s Prisoner of War Identity Card from the Cowra camp, 1943. Continue reading