• Entry type: Event
  • Entry ID: AWE0384

Australian Exhibition of Women’s Work 1907

(1907 – 1907)
  • Occupation Exhibition

Summary

Held at the Exhibition Buildings Melbourne from 23 October 1907 for five weeks.
Visitors of the exhibition were able to view a display of arts and crafts including: paintings, drawings, sculpture, photography, pottery, needlework, leatherwork, woodwork, spinning and weaving. Exhibitors from Australia, Britain, Europe, North and South America, India and Africa contributed to the exhibition, which was the inspiration of Lady Northcote, wife of the governor-general.

Archival resources

  • The University of Melbourne Archives
    • Working Women's Centre Papers
  • Royal Historical Society of Victoria Inc
    • Papers on the First Exhibition of Women's Work, 1907

Related entries


  • Related Women
    • Weeks, Clara (1852 - 1937)
    • Landells, Flora Annie Margaret (1888 - 1981)
    • Rossi, Daisy Mary (1879 - 1974)
  • President
    • Deakin, Elizabeth Martha Anne (Pattie) (1863 - 1934)