The rush for daily bread
'Some of the things we have in the collection help to flesh out the bare bones of names, dates and events'
- Sandra Burt
About this video
Hear tips from State Library Victoria experts on how to find information about occupations and jobs in the Library's collection, to aid investigations into family history.
Shona Dewar discusses the Library's manuscripts collection of non-Governmental, unpublished Victorian papers including personal papers and administrative company records. Shona shares tips for finding information about people and their occupations in the Library's collection of manuscripts, maps, books, newspapers and pictures.
Sandra Burt reiterates the scope of the Library's collection and highlights the collection of the Pharmaceutical Society of Victoria.
Lois McEvey talks about the Coles Myer archive which was acquired by the Library in 2000. Since then, select records relating to Coles have been digitised and published online.
Speakers
Shona Dewar, Sandra Burt and Lois McEvey work in the State Library Victoria manuscript collection.
