1 June 2022 by mbede 2 Comments

Winter

Trade card, 8 x 12.5 cm, blank verso

WINTER OPTIONS: stay warm at home with hand forked briquettes. Or

Stay warm at home with a rug?

Onkaparinga, blue rug, swapcard, 8.8 x 5.5 cm, Collection of AB.

Onkaparinga, red rug, swapcard, 8.8 x 5.5 cm, Collection of AB.

Embrace the winter by taking up skiing?

COOMA and the SNOWY MOUNTAINS. Folding brochure, coloured cover only, 22 x 9.5 cm. Circa eatly 1950s. Collection of Ed J.

The Mt Buffalo National Park. Pamphlet, stapled. 23 x 20.5 cm. April, 1927. Collection of Ed J.

Or travel to the warmer states? (Illustrated in a very restrained range of colours – I wonder why?)

Your holiday in Queensland, produced by the Queensland Government Tourist Bureau. Colour 56 x 43 cm, folded to 14 x 22 cm, 1949. Collection of Michael Aitken.

Unfolded Hotel Caloundra.

Coolangatta, South Queensland, for your holidays, (unpaged) : ill., map ; 28 x 21 cm. (fold to measure 21 x 14 cm, circa 1937. Collection of Michael Aitken.

Comments

Beverley says
1 June 2022 at 9:25 pm
Thanks Mandy, you are indeed a mine of ideas, information and energy.
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- mbede says
  2 June 2022 at 4:17 pm
  I am a mine of scans of great images!
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