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Dollar Bird Apples
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Australian Ephemera Collection
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The charming designs and bright colours of the apple box labels that form part of the National Library’s Ephemera Collection reflect a period in Australia’s history of agriculture and industry, and give an insight into the way in which Australia has been marketed at home and overseas. Material in the Australian Ephemera Collection includes pamphlets, leaflets, handbills, invitations, cards, menus and programs. Larger publications, such as theatre programs and trade catalogues, are also included. Sometimes puzzling, often intriguing and always entertaining, the Library’s Ephemera Collection is designed to provide a record of Australian life and social customs, popular culture, national events, and issues of national concern.

January 2007 Volume XVII Number 4

Nora Heysen stands tall as artist and benefactor

In the first of two articles celebrating Nora Heysen AM (1911 –2003), Christobel Mattingley shares some personal memories

Two small boats, one big ocean and 3000 miles to sail

Judy Cannon pays tribute to the courage of the captain and crew of the Corypheus

Picture incomplete

Norman Abjorensen reflects on the shortcomings of political autobiography in light of the memoirs of George Reid and Ned Hogan

Awkwardness itself

Lisa Gorton considers the work of unique Australian poet, R.A. Simpson

Documenting the everyday

Gwenda Beed Davey celebrates the colourful art of Tasmanian apple box labels and the future of ephemera

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