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A booklet entitled ‘Christmas annual: souvenir for new Australians’
1957-01-01/1957-12-31
Migration Museum
Adelaide, Australia
A booklet entitled ‘Christmas annual: souvenir for new Australians’ and consisting of 47 pages of black and white and some coloured photographs and one map with some text. Text is in English, Italian and German. Sent to those migrating from Europe and the United Kingdom in 1957, this Christmas Annual is packed with iconic images of Australia and Australianness: from the Sydney Harbour Bridge to Bondi lifesavers, cattle droving to cricket, and sheep shearing to kangaroos, kookaburras and koalas. How exciting this souvenir of a place as-yet-unvisited must have seemed to the people who received it!
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- Title: A booklet entitled ‘Christmas annual: souvenir for new Australians’
- Date Created: 1957-01-01/1957-12-31
- Provenance: Part of the collection donated by Doris Horvath, who with her parents migrated to Australia in 1955. The objects belonged to Doris’s grandparents and her mother. Various members of the family moved back and forth between Austria and Australia, with Doris eventually settling in Adelaide. This booklet was given to the family on their arrival to help them integrate into Australian society.
- Subject Keywords: migration, Christmas, Australian
- Rights: History Trust of South Australia, CC-0, photographer: Amy Dale, History Trust of South Australia
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