Historical information
A handmade wood travel trunk, with internal cupboard fastened by wing clips, side brass handles, brass hinges and a central brass lock with latch for padlock
Early settlers used these handmade trunks to bring their worldly goods to the new Settlements in Australia c1850
Significance
A typical travel trunk used by pioneer settlers as they traveled on sailing ships from Europe to Australia c 1852
Physical description
A Handmade wood Travel Trunk , with internal cupboard, brass handles, lock and hinges c 1860
Inscriptions & markings
NIL
Subjects
- pioneers,
- moorabbin shire,
- dendy's special survey 1842 brighto,
- dendy henry,
- were j.b.,
- moorabbin roads board,
- market gardeners,
- early settlers,
- bent thomas,
- sailing ships,
- emigration to melbourne 1850,
- methodist church,
- henry box,
- holloway josiah,
- box willian,
- poultry farmers,
- flower farms,
- orchards
