NOT ONLY DOES THIS LIBRARY HAVE INTERESTING EXHIBITIONS FOR THE EPHEMERA COLLECTOR, but also these bookmarks showing selections from the SLQ's collections, collected in January 2024, standard bookmark … [Read more...]
Past issues of the Ephemera Journal available (but not many)
WE HAVE A SMALL SUPPLY OF BACK ISSUES OF THE EPHEMERA JOURNAL OF AUSTRALIA. If you are interested please use the kookaburra form - and tick the box for the one you want. No. 5 Ida … [Read more...]
Recently collected
ATTRACTING OUR ATTENTION, AND THUS OUR DOLLARS, is a big part of the work of NGOs' marketing teams. This seems to be a good idea from the Salvos, buy a meal get a paper plate as a record, December … [Read more...]
Cooking with gas? No
Cooking with gas? No. Long before our current urge to go all electric for climate change reasons, the State Electricity Commission had a challenge to interest us in electric rather than the modern gas … [Read more...]
Dating during WW1
THE KOOKABURRA SEEMS TO HAVE BECOME MORE POPULAR IN THE EARLY 20TH CENTURY. Were there federation kookaburras? Or did their "laugh at anything attitude" fit better with courage in the face of … [Read more...]