FIGURES

5.1 Well preserved and heavily stained clay pipe from Level 3 with wad of tobacco stuck in bowl.

5.2 Hardened string matches from Level 3.

5.3 Heavily used pipe bowl made by P. Mclean of Dundee. The cross-hatched heart served as a match strike.

5.4 Matchbox from tobacconist Thomas Saywell of Park Street in Sydney.

5.5 Matchbox from Swedish manufacturer Björneborgs Tändsticksfabricks.

5.6 Matchbox made in Lidkoping in Sweden between 1880 and 1890. The original design dates from 1851–1860 and was made in Finland by Lemminkainen.

5.7 Heavily stained stem fragment ground down to form new mouthpiece, with tooth marks.

5.8 Shortened and reworked stem with tooth marks around new mouthpiece.

5.9 Fluted bowl with bandaged stem of dark woven fabric.

5.10 Short pipe stem with bandage of coarse thread over hardened gum or resin.

5.11 Pipe stem with bandage of coarse thread over cardboard.

5.12 Stained pipe with bandaged stem.

5.13 Clay pipe stem modified into possible chalk stick.

5.14 Curved pipe stem made by B. Jacobs of London, with mouthpiece edged with metal band.

5.15 Small copper alloy thimble inscribed ‘FROM A FRIEND’.

5.16 Needle packet from H. Milward & Sons.

5.17 Handmade pin cushion.

5.18 Three wooden cotton reels from the northern dormitory on Level 3.

5.19 Wooden cotton reel with remnant brown thread.

5.20 Lid from bone cotton barrel.

5.21 Bone handle of needlework tool.

5.22 Brown velvet embroidered with flower and leaf design.

5.23 Plain cotton fragment decorated in broderie anglaise from the Hicks apartments on Level 2. This technique was widely used for baby clothes, dolls’ clothes and underwear in the 19th century.

5.24 Band of plaited palm fibre.

5.25 Leather shoe heel with square nail holes.

5.26 Roll of leather for shoe repair.

5.27 Shoe repaired with cotton insert).

5.28 Plain cotton structural offcut hem.

5.29 Makeshift tatting shuttle, possibly crafted from a discarded matchbox.

5.30 Makeshift thread reel made from piece of folded cardboard.

5.31 Makeshift thread reel made from folded newspaper.

5.32 Paper offcut used as pin packet.

5.33 Hand sewn leather knife sheath from the stair landing on Level 3.

5.34 Roughly made wooden clothes peg.

5.35 Scrap of fine cotton with manufacturer’s stamp in black ink.

5.36 Purple cotton prints from Levels 2 and 3.

5.37 Blue woollen sock.

5.38 Remains of cotton cuff and sleeve with blue geometric prints.

5.39 Cotton bodice in purple print and modified with plain calico sleeves.

5.40 Cotton apron with hand-made lace trim; button and tie remnant preserved at waist.

5.41 Hand sewn bonnet with ruffle around face.

5.42 Dining room at Newington Women’s Asylum, around 1890.

5.43 Inmates in yard at Newington Women’s Asylum, around 1890.

5.44 Copper alloy belt buckle with central lozenge and four leaf motif.

5.45 Plain cotton glove with elastic wrist band.

5.46 Open weave brown ribbon with blue loops on selvage and hand sewn floral motif.

5.47 Card backing for a packet of hooks-and-eyes.

5.48 Heading carefully torn from religious tract.

5.49 The Economy of Human Life, originally written by the 4th Earl of Chesterfield.

5.50 Rat-chewed Catholic prayer book.

5.51 Fragment from the Scots–Gaelic Book of Common Prayer.

5.52 Title page of moralizing tract, ‘Self Help’.

5.53 Devotional medal, obverse and reverse.

5.54 Large print religious tract from the Level 3 stair landing.

5.55 Fragment of large print religious text for the poorly sighted.

5.56 Uncut broadsheet of the front page of the Sydney Morning Herald issued on Saturday 4 February 1871.

5.57 Sawtooth cuts on edge of newsprint.