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Tooth & Company Archives Added to UNESCO World Register
An important archive of Australian brewing and hotel industry history has been added to the UNESCO Australian Memory of the World Register, thanks to a successful joint bid by Powerhouse and The Australian National University’s Noel Butlin Archives.
The Tooth and Company Collections form the most significant and complete publicly accessible documentation of Australia’s brewing and hotel industries in the 19th and 20th centuries. The archive’s inclusion in the Australian Register highlights its significance to Australian social history through its documentation of businesses, regional communities, architecture and society. The archival collections present the growth of local manufacturing that resulted in colonial NSW’s reduced reliance on British imports and the evolution of the local brewing industry prior to its decline in the late 20th century.