Dear List, Thank you to all who contacted the Immigration Museum about this. Regards, Brigid Brigid Cooper Discovery Centre Co-ordinator Immigration Museum GPO Box 666E, Melbourne, 3001 http://www.mov.vic.gov.au/immigration/home.htm Ph: 9927 2751 Fax: 9927 2728 > ---------- > From: Cooper, Brigid[SMTP:bcooper@mov.vic.gov.au] > Sent: Thursday, 16 December 1999 2:49 PM > To: AUS-VIC-GIPPSLAND-L@rootsweb.com > Subject: [AVG] Info sought: domestic servants who immigrated to > Victoria > > [please excuse cross-postings] > > Do you know someone who immigrated to Victoria to work as a domestic > servant > after 1900? > > The Immigration Museum is undertaking research on this topic. (see below > for > more details....) > > If you have any photos or information, please contact > Sue Doyle > Image Researcher > sdoyle@mov.vic.gov.au > (03) 9927 2734. > > Details > Monash University and the Immigration Museum are currently developing a > publication to commemorate the economic contribution of immigrants to > Victoria in the twentieth century. > It will contain text by academics from Monash University supported by lots > of photos. > Whilst the project team are keen to include the many aspects of immigrant > women's work, this can be difficult, so far as photos and personal stories > are concerned due to the lack of records. > Some of the most elusive materials are those that relate to the lives of > domestic servants earlier this century. > Advertisements and promotional material are available, but this is little > to > indicate how reality matched expectation. > > > Brigid Cooper > Discovery Centre Co-ordinator > Immigration Museum > GPO Box 666E, Melbourne, 3001 > http://www.mov.vic.gov.au/immigration/home.htm > Ph: 9927 2751 Fax: 9927 2728 > > > ==== AUS-VIC-GIPPSLAND Mailing List ==== > Please try and edit as much as you can out of return messages to the List. > It helps make life easier for Rootsweb, as well as all of us on the List. >