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The Councillor W. Harbison's timber yard at the back of Pekin House. Pekin House stills stands, is owned by the Baptist Church and no longer called Pekin House. See our section on house histories for more information.

Grey blue window pane check frock Scottish made for Mrs. Elizabeth McLaughlin, wife of the Presbyterian minister, who came to St. Cuthbert's Church in Wilson Street, in 1856. Many more costumes are able to be viewed in our rooms.

This rare photograph of the corner of Bay and Cochrane Streets, taken c. 1861 - 1862 by Charles Nettleton. See the Pictures collection for more information.

We have a large collection of maps. Researchers are welcome to examine maps in the collection under our supervision.


Costumes	Photos


Houses	Maps

Collections Cataloguing

The Society is at present implementing its new computerised collection cataloguing system. The system was originally developed by Museums Australia.

Most work at present has been done on the cataloguing of the very large costume collection, whilst some work has been done on the large map collection. The picture collection and the photographic collection will be started shortly, and cross-referencing to the main subject filing system will also be carried out. There is so much material in the Society collection that indexing will take many years.

Can you help?

We do need volunteers to help with the cataloguing of the collections, as well its inputting the work sheets into the computer system.

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