AWA COLLECTIONS PORTABLE

AWA COLLECTIONS PORTABLE

A mid-century cream, blue and gold chrome portable transistor radio manufactured by AWAlogo on face of radio: 'AWA'. It contributes to our understanding of domestic and family life in early twentieth century Wodonga, as well as providing interpretative capacity for themes including local history and social history. It forms part of a significant and representative historical collection which reflects the local history of Wodonga. This item has well documented provenance and a known owner. This transistor radio was manufactured by Amalgamated Wireless Australasia Limited (AWA), Australia's largest and most prominent twentieth century producer of radios, televisions, audio and telecommunications equipment. The Haeusler family were one of several German families to migrate from South Australia to Wodonga in the 1860s. The Haeusler family migrated from Prussia (Germany) to South Australia in the 1840s and 1850s, before purchasing 100 acres of Crown Land made available under the Victorian Lands Act 1862 (also known as вЂDuffyвЂ™s Land ActвЂ™) in 1866 in what is now Wodonga West. The collection comprises manuscripts, personal artefacts used by the Haeusler family on their farm in Wodonga, and a set of glass negatives which offer a unique visual snapshot of the domestic and social lives of the Haeusler family and local Wodonga community. The Wodonga Historical Society Haeusler Collection provides invaluable insight into life in late nineteenth and early twentieth century north east Victoria.

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