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Ephemera publications -- such as pamphlets, leaflets, invitations, cards and menus -- provide an important record of Australian life. Sir John Ferguson, the doyen of collectors of Australiana, amassed a significant collection of ephemera in addition to great rarities, manuscripts and early imprints. This is unusual for a collector of Ferguson’s stature, and the diverse range of his everyday ephemera, now held in the National Library, is revealed in the story on page 3.

 

July 2006 Volume XVI Number 10

CATCHING MINNOWS

Richard Stone samples the rich resource of printed ephemera in the Ferguson Collection

SPEAK WHAT YOU EAT

arah Olive samples a range of Australian menus and suggests that we are eating our way to a national identity

THE ULTIMATE INSIDER

Stephen Holt reflects on the career of influential political journalist Alan Reid

A FAMILIAR ICON

Donna Vaughan describes how folklore collector Bill Wannan documented a way of life that has now largely disappeared

ROBERT HODDLE: PIONEER SURVEYOR-ARTIST IN AUSTRALIA

Berres Hoddle Colville examines the contribution of one of Australia’s great surveyors

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