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Cookery Books Collection

The Cookery Collection consists of various materials in historical and sociological aspects of foods, nutrition, cookery and household economy. The variety of material includes books, magazines, manuscripts, newspaper clippings, and etc.

Menu Collection

The collection is made up of over 700 menus from all over the world, and most are Australian. The variety of menus includes cruise ships, clubs, restaurants, bars and hotels from the early 1900s to the present. The majority of our menus are pre 1990. The collection provides a wonderful resource that shows fashions in food and menu design in the last 100 years. The cruise ship menus in our collection are particularly evocative of a mode of travel, and the pace of life of an earlier era.

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Zimmerman Book

Early 1996, the Zimmerman Collection was donated to William Angliss by alumnus Barry Zimmerman. The collection was begun by his great-grandfather, and consists of a book of more than 300 menus and epicurean articles from all over England and Europe. Dating back to 1862, the menus feature table d'hote as well as banquet menus. Most are presented in French, some with a translation in their language of origin.

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Fuller Collection

In celebration of its 50th anniversary in 1990, the Fuller Collection, one of England's finest collection of rare wine books, was purchased from Professor John Fuller. The Fuller Collection forms the basis of the William Angliss Special Collections. The focus of the collection is wine, wine regions and viticulture. Some books date back to the 18th century.

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William Angliss Archive Collection

The WAI Archive collection is dedicated to acquiring and preserving materials about William Angliss Institute. It currently includes approximately 3600 items including books, pamphlets and brochures, newspaper clippings, manuscripts, videocassettes, audiocassettes, photographs, plans, portraits and pictures, DVDs and CD-ROMs.

News & Events


	Qantas Airways, Singapore Airlines, P&O Cruises, British Airways are kindly granted permissions to the LRC for displaying Qantas menus online. The menu are available online now!!! The rarest of the rare: The Zimmerman Recipe Book Digitisation project is about to start!

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	Special Collections Resources can be requested by filling the request form at LRC loans desk. Researchers are welcome to browse our resources in the archive room by appointment.

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