WHEN YOU WANT AN AUSTRALIAN CHRISTMAS CARD, WE LOOK TO ANIMALS AND SUN TO DEMONSTRATE PLACE OF ORIGIN. Here are some more cards from the last two decades that take up these themes. The … [Read more...]
This man kept a record of daily life in small pocket books
WE HAVE TEMPORARY OWNERSHIP OF 3 BOXES OF SMALL DIARIES KEPT BY A MELBOURNE BUSINESS MAN. We have been searching them unsystematically. We would like to do them more justice one day looking at them … [Read more...]
More Christmas mail
WHILE STILL THINKING LONGINGLY OF LAST YEAR'S POST ABOUT SOME GORGEOUS COLONIAL CARDS, here are some more Australia designed cards from the last 3 decades. These cards are about Father Christmas … [Read more...]
Here comes the sun
SUN-BAKING, GETTING A TAN, GETTING SUNBURNED - THEY WERE THE WAYS TO MARK SUMMER IN AUSTRALIA - last century. This great card sums up the beach in the 1970s. There was some awareness of too … [Read more...]
Are we there yet? Driving holidays.
PASSPORTS FOR CAR TRAVELLERS, what's this? A Trove search dates the passport in the early 1960s as there are advertisements referring to it published in from 1960 to 1962. One of the … [Read more...]