NICE FIND, SAMPLE PAPER BAGS AND WRAPPING PAPER OFFERED TO MEMBERS OF THE PHARMACY GUILD OF AUSTRALIA IN 1975. Or is it? Frustratingly the bags reproduced above measure 26.6x9cm and 20.8x6.8cm, … [Read more...]
Will Donald
MICK STONE MENTIONED A COMIC BOOK HE WOULD LIKE TO FIND - MYSTERY ISLAND BY WILL DONALD. Curiosity led to a bit more searching about Mystery Island and Will Donald: MYSTERY ISLAND There is so … [Read more...]
Recently collected (and donated)
THE DAY AFTER A MARCH ABOUT WOMEN'S RIGHTS I FOUND MANY PLACARDS AND POSTERS DISPLAYED AROUND THE BASE OF A TREE IN THE TREASURY GARDENS, MELBOURNE. This was a march following on from … [Read more...]
Out of the box: collectables & ephemera – shown & told
ON SUNDAY 14 NOVEMBER 2021, SOME ESA MEMBERS JOINED WITH THE NAGAMBIE HISTORICAL SOCIETY TO TALK ABOUT EPHEMERA AND OTHER COLLECTABLES. What do historical society members collect? Well, they were … [Read more...]
Collectors and ephemera
Fresh examples of who collects and why? Our founder, an English museum curator in Australia for the Bicentennial museum activity, collected paper bags - free or cheap, easy to store, and a record … [Read more...]
ESA president’s annual report 2020/2021
I would like to present the president’s annual report for the year July 2020 to June 2021. Activities To state the obvious there have been few activities possible in the last year because of … [Read more...]
Poorman’s orange
Another citrus recipe booklet from a few decades later This booklet has quite a different feel - a colour cover, two colour page decorations, and only 16 pages of suggested uses. Each left hand … [Read more...]
Oranges & lemons & railways
Why in 1928 would Victorian Railways Commissioners publish a large recipe booklet, 72 pages, about how to use oranges? The answer lies with the appointment in 1920 of Harold Clapp as the railways … [Read more...]
Redskins No More
Cathy Pryor, curator and postgraduate student in Museum and Heritage Studies at Deakin University, looks at a name change reflecting a new awareness about the old names for … [Read more...]