From the collection of
Croatian-Australian Immigration Museum
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Croatian-Australian Immigration MuseumPhotograph, April 1962
The struggle for independence of Croatia and Croatian identity in Australia.
This is a photograph taken in April 1962 of a motor vehicle in a parade taking place in Swanston Street, Melbourne, which is decorated in the Croatian and Australian National Flags.
Handwritten inscription on the back of the photograph "April 1962".
photograph, 1960s, parade, demonstration, activism
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Croatian-Australian Immigration MuseumBook, August Senoa, Zlatarovo Zlato, 1933
This book was bought at an Op Shop and given to me and I have donted it to The Croatian Australian Immigration Museum. An example of items that came out with migrants when they moved from Croatia to Australia. August Senoa is a highly acclaimed Croatian author.
Zlatarovo Zlato by August Senoa, hardcover , 263 pages
An inscription is written inside front cover written in pen in Croatian / Za uspomenu Nadici i Franciju/ od tete Olge/ Zagreb, 26 VIII 1953
book, knjiga, leisure, author, croatia
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Croatian-Australian Immigration MuseumFamily photograph, Vincent Gercovich family, c. 1889
Vincent Gercovich married Winifred Rebecca Bennett (English emigrant) on 13 February 1867 in St. Alipius church in Ballarat. They had a total of 12 children. Little is known about his life, but what is known that he was well disposed to several languages and due to his ability to communicate with immigrants worked at the entry gate to the city of Ballarat. He died at the age of 61. Vincent was one of these early Croatian immigrants who came to Victoria around 1850s. His surname Gercovich (probably Gerković or Jerković) came from the island of Hvar on Dalmatian coast. On his Australian citizenship documents, the place of birth was stated as Dalmatia, Austria. From research of collected documents it can be concluded that the first Croats arrived to this country some 150 years ago mainly because of gold discovery. Victoria had a few rich deposits of gold and for obvious reasons many came to join the great ‘Gold Rush’.
A black and white family photograph features Gercovich family with 12 children photographed in a studio around 1889. Children ages on the photograph range from unborn to young adults.
vincent and winifred gercovich, gercovich, early croatian immigrants, immigration, croatia, dalmatia, ballarat, gold rush
