IS THERE A PUBLISHING OPPORTUNITY ON WHAT TO DO IN COVID CRISES? JUST AS THERE WAS IN 1919: This well-used book is Maritime Quarantine Administration : [Pt.] 1, Quarantine law and principles / by … [Read more...]
Unprecedented #5 Local trouble
STRANGE TIMES 2020 – have we been here before? This is one of a series of posts inspired by the 202021 Covid 19 pandemic. You can also see an article about the ephemera of the Spanish Flu in … [Read more...]
Dating the government printer
ALWAYS LOOKING FOR WAYS TO DATE THE UNDATED. This brochure about influenza is undated. A close read only tells us that it is post the 'Russian influenza' pandemic of 1889-90 which arrived … [Read more...]
Season’s greetings
SEASONAL HUNTING AND GATHERING IN YOUR OWN HOME during the flu season, that is. ESA member David H reports on a 'find' from the back of his first aid cabinet. Season's greetings, flu season that … [Read more...]
Pioneer buses – where did the name come from?
SHOPKEEPERS LEFT THEIR COUNTERS AND CUSTOMERS THEIR PURCHASES to flock to the doorways to see the first motor 'bus they had ever cast eyes upon. The crowd in Hopkins-street gazed open-mouthed, as with … [Read more...]
Beautiful one day; perfect the next – Queensland in winter
SCIENTISTS HAVE RECENTLY ADVISED US OF SOMETHING WE ALL KNEW - WE NEED A DOSE OF SUNSHINE EVEN IN WINTER. Why go? The Great Barrier Reef The beach Getting there Where to stay … [Read more...]
Canadian threatens Vicks Vaporub
VICKS V BUCKLEY'S According to Wikipedia, W.K.Buckley Limited was a Canadian medicines manufacturer founded in 1919. It appears that in 1941, Buckley's started selling its Wintrol Rub in Australia - … [Read more...]
It’s cold outside – let’s go to the snow
WISH YOU WERE HERE - THERE ARE MANY COLD PLACES IN AUSTRALIA IN WINTER, and Victoria's Ballarat is one of them. So it may not be so surprising that this postcard of the local constabulary arresting a … [Read more...]
The best collections jump boundaries
INFLUENZA EPIDEMICS WERE NOT CONFINED TO HUMANS, and of course, horse influenza created its own ephemera. There had been outbreaks reported in newspapers in different parts of the country at different … [Read more...]