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SUBURBAN DOMESTICITY: LIVING THE DREAM?
DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY
DAVE EARL | PHD CANDIDATE
HEWLETT FAMILY
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Hewlett Family, c.1953. Author’s possession.
DOMESTIC APPLIANCES: ONLY A DREAM?
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Models Demonstrating Hoover Vacuums, 1952. State Library of Western Australia, 8292B/26974-1.
A SCANDAL DEMANDING ATTENTION
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“Our Asylums Still in the Dark Ages,” SMH 15th May, 1949, 6.
BEX AND A GOOD LIE DOWN
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Bex Powder. Powerhouse Museum, 2003/194/1.
TERRIFYING NEW WEAPON
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“Atomic Bomb May End War,” SMH 8th August, 1945, 1.
MICHAEL GILDING
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Gilding, Michael. The Making and Breaking of the Australian Family. St. Leonards: Allen & Unwin, 1991.
KEREEN REIGER
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Reiger, Kerreen M. The Disenchantment of the Home: Modernizing the Australian Family, 1880-1940. Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1985.
JOHNSTON STREET, ANNANDALE
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State Library of NSW, a089607
HARGRAVE FAMILY, 1894
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Powerhouse Museum, P2903-9/68
OXFORD STREET, PADDINGTON, 1900
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State Records NSW, 12487/7546 12487_a021_a021000014
DOMESTIC BLISS IN AUSTRALIA
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State Library of Victoria MP00/00/56/98
PIECEWORK
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Justice & Police Museum Photographic Collection, Historic Houses Trust, 31297
COLLIERY CREW, 1894
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State Records NSW, 10036_a027000045
PAPERBOY, 1930
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View of the entrance to Newtown Station, Sydney, taken in the aftermath of the stabbing murder of Domenico Belle at 11 a.m.
Justice & Police Museum Photographic Collection, Historic Houses Trust, 31191
PLAYFAIR STREET, THE ROCKS, 1901
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State Records NSW, 4481_a026_000037
CARING FOR BABY, c.1910
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John Oxley Library, State Library of Queensland, D1-11-86
COOKS HILL PUBLIC SCHOOL, NSW
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Newcastle City Council Cultural Collections, Hunter Picture Bank 006 000098
SCHOOL GROUP, VICTORIA
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State Library of Victoria, H42834/80
DOMESTIC SCIENCE CLASS, TASMANIA
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Teaching Aids Centre - Photographic Prints, Archives Office of Tasmania, AB713-1-8204
YALLOURN TECHNICAL SCHOOL, VIC
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State Library of Victoria, Image H2009.18/862
SALVATION ARMY CAMP, COLLAROY, 1947
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Hood Collection, SLNSW hood_22395.
BODGIE STYLES FOR SPRING
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Pix, 14th July 1951.
DECLINE IN THE BIRTH-RATE
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Crude Birth-Rate in Australia.
Australian Bureau of Statistics, Australian Historical Population Statistics, 2006
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INFANT MORTALITY RATES IN AUSTRALIA
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Number of infant deaths per 1,000 births
Australian Bureau of Statistics, Australian Historical Population Statistics, 2006
NEWTOWN BABY CLINIC, 1914
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Photographs of the Newtown, Alexandria and Bourke Street Baby Clinics, State Records NSW, 4873_a004_a004000006r
VICTORIA’S IDEAL CHILD
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AVERAGE HOUSEHOLD SIZE
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Average number of persons per household
Australian Institute of Family Studies, 2012, http://www.aifs.gov.au/institute/info/charts/households/havsize.html
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WHEN THE SEVENTH MAID WALKED OUT…
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The Home, Sept. 1920, p.85, in Gilding, The Making and Breaking of the Australian Family.
OLD ORDER HOMES?
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Camina. Old or Homes or New Order Houses? Some Reflections of a Middle-Class Woman. Melbourne: Whitcome & Tombs Pty. Ltd., c.1943.
DACEY GARDEN SUBURB PLAN, c.1913
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State Records NSW, 5225_a018_a018000001
NARRABEEN: VALUES MUST INCREASE!
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National Library of Australia, nla.map-lfsp1695
JOHN MURPHY
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Murphy, John. "Shaping the Cold War Family: Politics, Domesticity and Policy Interventions in the 1950s." Australian Historical Studies 26,
no. 105 (1995): 544 - 67.
Murphy, John. Imagining the Fifties: Private Sentiment and Political Culture in Menzies' Australia. Annandale: University of New South Wales
Press & Pluto Press, 2000.
Murphy, John, and Belinda Probert. "'Anything for the House': Recollections of Post-War Suburban Dreaming." Australian Historical Studies
36, no. 124 (2004): 275-93.
ELAINE TYLER MAY
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May, Elaine Tyler. Homeward Bound: American Families in the Cold War Era. 20th Anniversary Edition ed. New York: Basic Books, 2008
[1988].
MIGRANT TRAINING
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Dr Eva Haarmann (standing, right), of Vienna, gives an English Lesson to other Australian migrants, NAA A12111, 1/1955/32/21.
INDUSTRIAL EXPANSION
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Snowy Hydro-Electric Scheme, 1947. NAA B4498, 59D8.
VETERAN REHABILITATION
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Heidelberg Military Hospital, Victoria, 1944, SLV H99.201/1174.
WHEN THE BOYS COME HOME
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Australian Women’s Weekly, 9th March 1946: 11
CRUDE MARRIAGE RATE IN AUSTRALIA
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Number of marriages per year per 1,000 population
Australian Bureau of Statistics, Australian Historical Population Statistics, 2006
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MARRIAGE BOOM
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Mrs H.H. Kinninmont wedding, Hunters Hill, Hood Collection a436005, SLNSW.
BABY BOOM
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Crèche at large maternity hospital, 1954. NAA A1200/1 L15678.
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Baby Trying to Mow Lawn from Pram, Springvale, 1950, Museum Victoria, MM 110922
BIRMINGHAM GARDENS, NSW
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Hood Collection, SLNSW hood_28109.
QUEENSLAND HOLDEN LAUNCH
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1948 The Queensland launch of the Holden 48/215 at Eagers Motors, SLQ neg. #111267.
MY HUSBAND’S A DIFFERENT MAN!
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Australian Women’s Weekly, 12th March, 1949: 20.
MAN ON SUBURBAN MARRIAGE
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Man magazine, March 1952.
ATTRACTING A MAN IS A CINCH
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Courier-Mail, 28th March 1947, 7.
MARRIAGES START IN THE KITCHEN!
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Australian Women’s Weekly, 11th March 1947, 44.
DON’T CRY DEAR LADY
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Australian Screen and Sound Archive: http://aso.gov.au/titles/ads/tandaco-prepared-stuffing/clip1/
MY WIFE WORKS AND I HATE IT!
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Australian Women’s Weekly, 18th March, 1959: 4.
WORKING WIVES ON WARPATH
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Australian Women’s Weekly, 15th April, 1959: 6.
DAVE EARL daveearl.net | dear7745@uni.sydney.edu.au
DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY | SCHOOL OF PHILISOPICAL AND HISTORICAL ENQUIRY