Summary

Digital black and white image of Adeline Del Vecchio and Gilbert Denny on their wedding day standing in the living room of the Denny family home, Darebin Road Thornbury, 27 August, 1960. Adeline is wearing the wedding dress made for her by her mother in Alexandria and brought with her when she migrated to Melbourne in 1959.

This is one of seven photographs and a hand-made wedding dress relating to the migration and settlement story of Adeline Del Vecchio and Gilbert Denny.

Physical Description

Digitised copy of black and white photographic print.

Significance

This collection provides an opportunity to represent experiences of non-Egyptian born families in Egypt during the rise of nationalism and anti-colonialism in the 1930s-1950s (climaxing in the Suez Crisis in 1956); and the resulting migration to Australia. It demonstrates the stories of settlement and re-settlement of people who subsequently arrive in Australia, disrupting assumptions of a simple linear migrant journey.

The collection holds two other migrant stories of 'outsider' experiences in Egypt (Greek-born John Neamonitis and the Mansourian Armenian family) which provide a similar perspective.

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