Wedding Invitation - Eric [Iraklis] Mangos & Faye [Fani] Nitsou, Melbourne, 1968

Item

Title
Wedding Invitation - Eric [Iraklis] Mangos & Faye [Fani] Nitsou, Melbourne, 1968
Subject
Australia--Emigration and immigration—History
Foreign workers, Greek
Australia--Social life and customs
Marriage records
Voyages and travels
Category
5. Cold War (including Decolonisation)
Keywords
Greeks in Australia
Person
Nitsos, Fani
Mangos, Iraklis
Current holder
Museums Victoria Collections
Period of reference 
1968 – 1968
Link
https://collections.museumsvictoria.com.au/items/1763734
Item number
HT 28892
Access rights
Request from onsite storage
Country of origin
Australia
Place
Melbourne
Language 
Greek (Modern)
English
Description from source
Overall Dimensions - Closed 105 mm (Width), 145 mm (Height)

Invitation, in Greek and English, to the wedding of Eric and Faye Mangos in Melbourne on 2 June 1968. Wedding invitation, stiff cream paper folded twice. Paper has a textured finish. Front embossed in gold lettering 'Marriage' and image of a wedding couple and a bird holding an invitation. Inside has text on English and Greek Significance The Mangos family collection explores the migration experiences of two Greek people who arrived during the high point of Greek migration to Australia after World War II. The Australian Greek population doubled to 140,000 between 1961 and 1966. Their meeting on the ship and subsequent marriage is a classic migration narrative, as is the theme of chain migration which runs across three generations. It also enables the telling of the pre-migration experiences which partly resulted in the family relocation.
Physical format
Correspondence
Date accessed
June 7, 2023