The collection consists of personal ephemera brought to Australia by Italian Women chain migrating to Australia between 1920 and the 1970s.

The Greg Ritchie Negative Collection is a collection of over 3000 negatives featuring buildings and other sites in the City of Canterbury. Between 1990 and 1998 Canterbury City Council staff documented their day-to-day duties through photographs.

The piano is historically significant as evidence of piano manufacturing in Australia prior to the World War I through to 1936, as it is possibly one of the last upright pianos, made by Carl von Heiden in his Sydney factory between 1904 and 1914.

The Bier stein and eisstock game piece are social and culturally significant. The German-Austrian Society of Australia Club was formed to assist Post World War II migrants to resettle into suburban Fairfield community life between 1945 and 1960, and fulfil an important social and cultural role in an alienating culture.

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.

The cake maker has historical value as evidence of the economic transformation that swept over the suburbs of Sydney in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century.

The cape has historical significance as evidence of the experience of women in middle class families in the nineteenth century and of colonial millinery and clothing retail practices.

The Cash register has historic significance as it represents the continuing role of Chinese families in retailing in country New South Wales, well into the second half of the twentieth century.

The milk jug is historically significant becasue of its association with the Greek owned Civic Café in Murwillumbah

Syrup dispenser and Cash register from the Tweed Fruit Exchange, Murwillumbah.

Discover a collection of late nineteenth century personal effects and shop stock owned by the Wong’s – an Anglo-Chinese family from Bolong, Australia.

The flute has historic value as evidence of one of the earliest musical instrument dealers known to have operated in Sydney from his arrival in the colony in 1832 until his death in 1854.

The tokens are a significant marker of a comparatively short historical phase of liquor licensing laws and of the colourful role of Italian social clubs important to Griffith Italian life.

Discover the Wing Hing Long & Co store collection. The collection is significant because of its association with a NSW rural general store, Chinese migration and the Immigration Restriction Act of 1901.

Discover soft drink bottles from Bill Haberecht’s AVOR Quality Products Collection at the Museum of the Riverina.