The pincers are historically significant as they were made by Carl Konemann. The Konemanns’ are regarded as one of the early pioneering families in Fairfield, providing the essential services of horse shoeing, tool making and repairs and coach building. Continue reading
Objects Through Time: blacksmiths
This collection of implements have historical and technological significance as they demonstrate the skills of ‘making do’ – improvising and modifying tools to make the heavy work of cultivating bananas easier. Continue reading
This cane stripper has historical and technological significance in that it demonstrates the the hard manual labour involved in planting, cutting and loading sugar cane before mechanisation of the sugar industry, first of planting and loading sugar cane and later of harvesting the crop.
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The bell is historically significant as evidence of the changing agricultural practices in the Liverpool area after 1850. Continue reading
The harrow is part of a series of regional collection of objects integral to the story of the Chinese on the goldfields, agriculture and the establishment of regional Chinese communities. Continue reading
The carrot washer has high social significance to the Italian community of the Griffith area as a significant piece of industrial heritage of the Murrumbidgee Irrigation Area Continue reading
Discover the collection of tools, shingles and convict made bricks and nails from the early township of Liverpool NSW. Continue reading
Discover the bullock bell known as the Wagga Pot. The bell is one of many made in the 1870s by German migrant August Menneke at his Wagga blacksmith shop for bullock drivers in the Riverina area. Continue reading
Discover the gate that was erected by Adolph Pfrunder on his property Baden at Grong Grong near Germantown, NSW in c.1904. Continue reading