BRETT SUTTON'S ANTECEDENTS? PANDEMICS BEFORE 1919? YES, THERE WERE EARLIER HEALTH CONCERNS WORLDWIDE AND HERE IN AUSTRALIA. This small, 13 page, 16.4x10.4cm stapled booklet was printed in Melbourne … [Read more...]
Unprecedented #19 Quarantine stations
CONSEQUENCES OF QUARANTINE, this early record of European quarantine at Port Jackson, including the burial ground. According to the Australian National Maritime Museum: Steel engraving titled … [Read more...]
Pandemics #10 NOW 2020
ARE YOU COLLECTING THE EPHEMERA OF TODAY'S PANDEMIC? Our institutional collectors will be interested, the National Library, state libraries, state museums and of course local history collections as … [Read more...]
Unprecedented #6 Influenza
COLONIAL MUTUAL PUBLISHED A SERIES OF BOOKLETS ABOUT HEALTH ISSUES INCLUDING HOW THE INFLUENZA EPIDEMIC WAS MANAGED IN BRUNSWICK, VIC. STRANGE TIMES 2020 – have we been here before? This is one … [Read more...]
Unprecedented #7
STRANGE TIMES 2020 – have we been here before? This is one of a series of posts inspired by the 2020 Covid 19 pandemic. You can also see an article about the ephemera of the Spanish Flu in … [Read more...]
Unprecedented #3 reporting infectious diseases
STRANGE TIMES 2020 - have we been here before? This is one of a series of posts inspired by the 2020 Covid 19 pandemic. You can also see an article about the ephemera of the Spanish Flu in … [Read more...]
Unprecedented #2 1890s
STRANGE TIMES 2020 - have we been here before? This is one of a series of posts inspired by the 2020 Covid 19 pandemic. You can also see an article about the ephemera of the Spanish Flu in … [Read more...]
Unprecedented #4
STRANGE TIMES 2020 - have we been here before? This is one of a series of posts inspired by the 2020 Covid 19 pandemic. You can also see an article about the ephemera of the Spanish Flu in … [Read more...]
Unprecedented #0
THE POST FROM ANDREW H'S COLLECTION HAS INSPIRED ED J TO DIG INTO A BOX MARKED QUARANTINE. And he found: An oath of sorts that declares you have not been in contact with any one with the Spanish … [Read more...]