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Love and Devotions: from Persia and beyond, Melbourne
This photograph shows banners advertising the ‘Love and Devotions: from Persia and beyond’ exhibition at the State Library of Victoria. The banners form an image taken from a Persian manuscript. The exhibition features Persian manuscripts…
Manchester Unity Order of Oddfellows Delegates, Ravenswood, 1907
This is an image of a group of delegates at a 1907 conference for the Manchester Unity of Oddfellows. The Oddfellows are afriendly societythat first emerged in the UK and may date to the fifteenth century when members of trades not represented by…
Meatworkers in the Labor Day March in Toowoomba
Procession halted in front of the Toowoomba Hall. Labor Day parade celebrates the eight hour working day. Processions with banners were a feature of the later medieval period. The metalworkers' banner has a medieval predecessor in the banners used by…
Medieval Knight leading National Savings Week
National Savings Week was a movement instituted in Great Britain in 1916 to raise funds to counteract government deficits. The emblem of the Movement was, at first, the Swastika but that was replaced with a figure that appears to be St. George…
Members of the Saint David's Society of Brisbane
An image depicting men and women of the Welsh Saint David's Society of Brisbane, gathered around the Society's banner, which depicts a dragon.
BRIEF HISTORY OF THE SOCIETY:
The Saint David’s Welsh Society was founded on 16th April 1918 with…
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Parade of the Ancient Order of Foresters through the Streets
Photograph of members of the Ancient Order of Foresters in NSW parading with a ceremonial banner.
About the Ancient Order of Foresters:
The Ancient Order of Foresters originated in England in the mid-eighteenth century, with the first recorded…
Parading with Banners at Carnevale, Fremantle, Western Australia
Costumed revellers parading down Fremantle’s cappuccino strip in Western Australia during the 2011 Fremantle Carnevale parade.
Carnevale is a traditional community festival that temporarily promotes disorder and frivolity using masquerade,…
Carnevale is a traditional community festival that temporarily promotes disorder and frivolity using masquerade,…
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Plantagenet Wines
Plantagenet Wines have a winery near small rural Western Australian town of Mount Barker in the Shire of Plantagenet. They also have an office in the Perth suburb of Fremantle, where this photograph was taken. The banner depicts the company’s…