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HIST245 - Women in Australian History

AHM Object List

The following list of objects, ephemera and materials have been identified as useful primary sources relating to topics covered in HIST 245 Women in Australian History. This list is neither complete nor exhaustive but will provide some direction in locating relevant primary source materials. Students are encouraged to use the Australian History Museum Collection (MCM) database for additional sources.

**All objects, ephemera and materials must be used and examined within** the Australian History Museum.

41000172	Object name: Pamphlet photocopy Description: Progress - The Country Women's Association of N.S.W. - Excerpts 1922-37. [Letter from Author's relative also]
41000186	Object name: Poster Description: W.W.I - To the Women of Australia
41000194	Object name: Posters Description: W.W.I - 1. To the Women of Australia; 2. Instructions to recruits joining the A.I.F.
41000393	Object name: Magazine Description: Women's Weekly 29/09/1945
41000394	Object name: Magazine Description: Australia from the Air, 1958. Published by Australian Women's Weekly.
41000648	Object name: Magazine Description: Australian Women's Weekly 29 January, 1938, Sesquicentenary Edition
41000765	Object name: Drawing Description: B & W WOMEN AND CHILD FACTORY WORKER; COPIES C19
41000766	Object name: Drawing Description: B & W WOMEN AND MEN FACTORY WORKERS - COPIES C19 MANCHESTER
41000842	Object name: Book Vols. I, II Description: 'WOMEN IN AUSTRALIAN PARLIAMENTS AND LOCAL GOVERNMENTS.PAST AND PRESENT' A VIOLA SMITH (SYDNEY,1975)
41000861	Object name: Magazine Description: Australian Women's Weekly 19/01/1935
41000862	Object name: Magazine Description: Australian Women's Weekly A.03/08/35 B.11/01/36 C.30/05/36 D.17/10/36 E.14/05/38 F.25/06/38 G.02/07/38H.01/10/38 I.22/1 ...
41000863	Object name: Magazine Description: Australian Women's Weekly 16/12/39
41000864	Object name: Magazine Description: Australian Women's Weekly A.23/12/39 B.17/02/40 C.07/03/42
41000865	Object name: Magazine Description: AUSTRALIAN WOMEN'S WEEKLY 01/07/1950
41000866	Object name: Magazine Description: Australian Women's Weekly A.08/09/54 B.15/09/54 C.22/09/54 D.08/12/54 E.11/07/56 F.03/07/57 G.14/08/57
41000877	Object name: Novel supplements Description: 40 NOVEL SUPPLEMENTS TO AUSTRALIAN WOMEN'S WEEKLY C 1935-1939
41000880	Object name: Magazine Description: WOMEN'S SUPPLEMENT SYDNEY MORNING HERALD 08/06/1937
41000881	Object name: Magazine Description: WOMEN'S SUPPLEMENT SYDNEY MORNING HERALD 05/10/1937
41000882	Object name: Magazine Description: WOMEN'S SUPPLEMENT SYDNEY MORNING HERALD 02/11/1937
41000884	Object name: Magazine Description: AUSTRALIAN WOMEN'S WEEKLY 29/06/1935 INCOMPLETE
41000885	Object name: Magazine Description: AUSTRALIAN WOMEN'S WEEKLY 28/10/1939 FRAGMENTS
41000886	Object name: Magazine Description: AUSTRALIAN WOMEN'S WEEKLY 11/11/1939 FRAGMENTS
41000962	Object name: Magazine Description: WOMEN'S WEEKLY 31/10/1973
41001048	Object name: Magazine Description: Australian Women's Weekly 15/05/37 Coronation edition
41001079	Object name: Book Vols. I, II Description: 'Australian Women's Complete Household Guide' [The Sunday Sun, Sydney] c1950s
41001084	Object name: Recipe book Description: 'THE AUSTRALIAN WOMEN'S WEEKLY COOKERY BOOK' 19 X 27 1/2 CM C1948 64 PP
41001207	Object name: Book Vols. I, II Description: 'Ladies' handbook of home treatment-containing the best modern methods for treatment of women's and children's diseases, ...
41001235	Object name: Recipe book Description: 14 x 28 cm Country Women's Association Calendar of Cake and Afternoon Tea Delicacies c1934.
41001236	Object name: Recipe book Description: Country Women's Association Calendar of Cake and Afternoon Delicacies c1934.
41001350	Object name: Recipe book Description: 'COOKERY BOOK OF GOOD AND TRIED RECEIPTS' COMPILED FOR THE WOMEN'S MISSIONARY ASSOCIATION SALE AND EXHIBITION, SYDNEY, S ...
41001453	Object name: Photograph Description: B/W First 'Sydney Women Against Rape Committee' March on ANZAC Day 1983. Carrying Banner 'In Memory of All Women of All ...
41001454	Object name: Poster Description: Laminated Poster - 'Women are Marching in Memory of Women of all Countries Raped in War - Join us at Macquarie Place Mo ...
41001568	Object name: Badge Description: 3.5 HIGH X 2.5 BADGE WITH CROWN ATOP INSCRIBED 'A.I.F. ISSUED BY DEPT OF DEFENCE TO WOMEN OF AUSTRALIA FOR DUTY DONE' BA ...
41001601	Object name: Book Vols. I, II Description: 'Cookery Book of good and Tried Receipts:Compiled for the Women's Missionary Association of the PresbyterianChurch of Ne ...
41001820	Object name: Book Vols. I, II Description: Helen Townsend, 'Serving the Country - the History of the Country Women's Association of New South Wales ', Doubleday, S ...
41001859	Object name: 2 x audio tapes Description: 'The Other Side of the Mountain - Recollections of Sergeant Beatrice Warren, Australian Women's Army Service, 1942-1945, ...
41001860	Object name: Stereoview card Description: 16.5 x 10 cm with sepia stereoview photograph of 'Great Suffragette Demonstration in London. Mrs Fisher. Mrs McGowen and ...
41001932	Object name: Postcard Description: 14 X 9 cm b/w English p/c showing four women smoking and chatting and being 'unladylike' with caption 'Suffragettes in C ...
41001943	Object name: Stamps Description: 2 x 45c stamps to commemorate (a) 9th Inter-Parliamentary Conference and (b) 50th Anniversary of Women in Federal Parlia ...
41001944	Object name: First day cover Description: Envelope with 45c stamp on first day cover with montage of Mary Lee portrait and 1970s Women's Liberation photograph, an ...
42000021	Object name: Photograph Title: Contestant in Manly Beach Girl Competition Description: Manly Beach Girl Competition, 1934. While the lifesavers were competing and entertaining beach crowds with their athlet ...
42000027	Object name: Photograph Title: Bottle's Bus Description: The Bottle's Bus, c1920. Public motor transport enabled women to come together in groups for outings and shopping excur ...
42000049	Object name: Photograph Title: Young men and women at a Ball Description: The John Gilbert Fan Club. A Ball at the Capitol Theatre, 1926. John Gilbert was a famous Hollywood star of silent mov ...
42000062	Object name: Photograph Title: Woman in kitchen Description: Despite the modern kitchen there was still hard work for women. Preparing Christmas puddings needed planning and labour ...
42000075	Object name: Photograph Title: March for International Women's Day Description: International Women's Day during International Year for Women. 1975, Sydney.
42000076	Object name: Photograph Title: Representatives of the United Council for Women's Suffrage Description: Representatives of the United Council for Women's Suffrage proceed to an appointment with Victorian Upper House members ...
42000077	Object name: Photograph Title: Women marching in support of General Strike Description: Women in Brisbane march in support of the nation's first General Strike, 12 February 1912. Emma Miller was a leader of ...
42000078	Object name: Photograph Title: Members of the NSW Women's Political-Educational League Description: Members of the New South Wales Women's Political-Educational League which was founded by Rose Scott (centre front) after ...
42000079	Object name: Photograph Title: Jessie Ackermann Description: Jessie Ackermann, Sydney 1913. American Jessie Ackermann came to Australia in 1889 as a missionary for the Woman's Chri ...
42000080	Object name: Photograph Title: Henrietta Dugdale Description: Henrietta Dugdale (1826-1918). In 1869 Henrietta Dugdale became the first woman in Australia to comment publicly on fem ...
42000081	Object name: Photograph Title: Muriel Heagney Description: Muriel Heagney (1885-1974). Muriel Heagney was a delegate to the first Victorian Labor Women's Conference. A committed ...
42000082	Object name: Photograph Title: Bessie Rischbieth Description: Bessie Rischbieth (1874-1967). Bessie Rischbieth was a theosophist and feminist. Like Jessie Street, Rischbieth was we ...
42000083	Object name: Photograph Title: Aboriginal women and children Description: Maggie Davis Buscombe and Caroline Malcolm Morgan at Coranderrk, c1876. With the introduction of the Aborigines Act in ...
42000085	Object name: Photograph of poster Title: Vida Goldstein Description: Copy of signed poster of Vida Goldstein entitled 'Senate Election. Vote for the Woman Candidate'. Vida Goldstein (1869- ...
42000086	Object name: Photograph Title: Group of (mainly) women standing on steps Description: Australian author Miles Franklin (centre front) spent several years in the United States of America working for the wome ...
42000087	Object name: Photograph Title: Doreen Kartinyeri Description: Doreen Kartinyeri at the press conference at the Fifth Women and Labour Conference which called on the South Australian ...
42000088	Object name: Photograph Title: Group of Aboriginal Women Description: This photograph shows women from several different language groups at Coranderrk Aboriginal Reserve, 1877. It became ...
42000089	Object name: Photograph Title: Emma Miller Description: Emma Miller (1839-1917). Emma Miller was a dedicated unionist, peace activist and champion of women's rights. She emigr ...
42000090	Object name: Photograph Title: Women bathers Description: Bondi 1919. This group of women experience an exhilarating moment of freedom after the suffering and endurance of the G ...
42000091	Object name: Photograph of illustration Title: Women sewing at home Description: With unionization female factory workers won some improvement in conditions but 'outworkers' (women who took in sewing a ...
42000092	Object name: Photograph Title: Female domestic servants Description: In the late nineteenth century domestic service was one of the few options for unskilled and uneducated women but the is ...
42000093	Object name: Photograph Title: Wedding party Description: A wedding party at Tenterfield, New South Wales, 1907. With few opportunites to function with autonomy, many women fulf ...
42000094	Object name: Photograph Title: Elderly Aboriginal Woman Description: The photographer's note reads - 'Old Granny, Aboriginal woman, Goulburn Tribe'. Coranderrk, 1897. Due to constant offi ...
42000096	Object name: Photograph Title: Rose Scott Description: Rose Scott (1847-1925). A brilliant Australian feminist who advocated women's suffrage, prison reform for female inmate ...
42000110	Object name: Photograph Title: Women in factory Description: Women on the Edgell's factory process line, Bathurst, 1948. Although women played a major role in post-war reconstructi ...
42000112	Object name: Photograph Title: Women in the clothing trade Description: The workroom of the Anthony Hordern's Department Store, 1912. Female factory workers were concentrated in the clothing ...
42000113	Object name: Photograph Title: Young woman in 1960s dress Description: This clothing design student at East Sydney Technical College seems to be making more than a fashion statement. She ref ...
42000114	Object name: Photograph Title: Two women on a float Description: The State's view of women is presented in the 1969 Waratah Festival, an annual event sponsored by the New South Wales go ...
42000116	Object name: Photograph Title: Zelda D'Aprano Description: Zelda D'Aprano was a founding member of the Women's Action Committee in the early 1970s. Its aims were 'economic equali ...
42000117	Object name: Photograph Title: Jean Thompson speaking at demonstration Description: Jean Thompson of the Militant Women's Group speaking out on International Women's Day, Belmore Park, Sydney, 1929.
42000119	Object name: Photograph Title: Group of women Description: Woman's Christian Temperance Union Convention delegates, Brisbane, 1903.
42000122	Object name: Photograph Title: Jessie Street Description: Jessie Street (1889-1970) worked tirelessly for women from all walks of life. In 1943 she stood for federal parliament ...
42000125	Object name: Photograph Title: Graffiti Description: This graffiti reflects the anarchic elements of the Sydney Women's Liberation Movement, which although without formal st ...
42000126	Object name: Photograph Title: Graffiti Description: This graffiti reflects the anarchic elements of the Sydney Women's Liberation Movement, which although without formal st ...
42000127	Object name: Photograph Title: Women protesting Description: International Women's Day, 1974. Women's liberationists storm the roof at the Bidura Shelter for Girls in Glebe. They ...
42000130	Object name: Photograph Title: Women in conference Description: Filipino women relate their experiences to the Fifth Women and Labour Conference, Macquarie University, 1995.
42000214	Object name: Photograph Title: Portraits of women and a child Description: Portraits of loved ones found on the battlefields of Anzac by Private R. Benson, 4th Battalion. Benson was severely wou ...
42000277	Object name: Photograph Title: Men and women socializing Description: Propaganda picture of American and Australian servicemen and Australian civilian women fraternizing, 1942.
42000285	Object name: Photograph Title: Women drivers and mechanics Description: Members of the Women's Auxiliary Australian Airforce working as drivers and mechanics on an Air Force base.
42000286	Object name: Photograph Title: Women mechanics and drivers Description: Women of the National Emergency Services working as drivers and mechanics.
42000289	Object name: Photograph Title: Group of women volunteers on parade Description: Female volunteers called "militors" parade in Melbourne. This was a voluntary group of uniformed women trained in air-r ...
42000290	Object name: Photograph Title: Two women doing farm work Description: "Farm girls" of the Australian Women's Land Army replaced rural male labour for the 'duration'.
42000291	Object name: Photograph Title: Woman on horse rounding up a bull Description: "Farm girls" of the Australian Women's Land Army replaced rural male labour for the 'duration'.
42000295	Object name: Photograph Title: AWAS stewardess Description: Australian Women's Army Service stewardess relieving men for service at the front.
42000301	Object name: Photograph Title: Young women celebrating VP Day Description: Celebrating VP (Victory in the Pacific) Day in Sydney, 15 August 1945.
42000330	Object name: Photograph Title: Women's Liberation demonstration Description: Women demonstrate for liberation at the Sydney International Women's Day march, 1975. Some of the aims of the women's m ...
42000348	Object name: Photograph Title: Vida Goldstein Description: Vida Goldstein (1869-1949), a leader of the early women's movement in Victoria. In 1903 she became the first woman in t ...
42000364	Object name: Cartoon Title: A woman's reluctance to sew on husband's buttons Description: Claude Marquet was a staff cartoonist with the "Australian Worker' when he drew this comment on the 1907 Women's Work Ex ...
42000365	Object name: Photograph Title: Women protesters pushing prams Description: Strikers' wives marching from the Domain to Parliament House, August 1917.
42000422	Object name: Photograph Title: Women surf lifesavers Description: A women's surf lifesaving team in 1919.
42000424	Object name: Photograph Title: Women relaxing on a train Description: The first Transcontinental Express left Port Augusta (South Australia) for Kalgoorlie (Western Australia) in 1917. Elec ...
42000426	Object name: Photograph Title: Young women on toboggans Description: Ladies' Toboggan Race, Kiandra, 1900.
42000447	Object name: Photograph Title: Women cyclists Description: Cycling allowed women a new sense of freedom and independence, especially after the arrival of pneumatic tyres on 'safet ...
42000451	Object name: Photograph Title: Women fishing Description: The Davis family women fishing on the Paroo at Caiwarro, NSW, 1908.
42000453	Object name: Photograph Title: Two women in a car Description: Two women test drive a Model T, the car that popularised motor transport. Alectown, NSW, 1916.
42000460	Object name: Photograph Title: People on ship's deck Description: Bound for South Africa, 1900. The women are holding a sign "Advance Australia: Union is Strength".
42000555	Object name: Photograph Title: Group of women Description: With their organisational skills enhanced during the First World War Australian women found a strong international voice ...
42000557	Object name: Photograph Title: Two women surrounded by Prohibition Laws and ballot papers Description: The so-called Jazz Age in western social democracies had another side. In January 1920 the United States of America pro ...
42000570	Object name: Photograph Title: Women working in fruit factory Description: After the war considerable attempts were made to revive and intensify British Empire trade. The slogan 'Men, Money and ...
42000600	Object name: Photograph Title: Members of the Women's Royal Air Force Description: 'Rhine Maidens', members of the Women's Royal Air Force at Cologne on 19 May 1919. After the Armistice British troops g ...