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Eight Hours Demonstration

Wood Engraving by Frederick Grosse (1866) depicting the 1866 procession which started at the Trades Hall, Carlton and finished at the North Botanical Gardens, celebrating the 10th anniversary of the eight hours movement.

Tags: banner, banners, demonstration, eight hour working day, eight hours, eight hours demonstration, eight hours movement, float, floats, labour, Labour Day, Melbourne, nineteenth century, nineteenth-century, procession, processions, Trades Hall, working class

Decorated Float in the St. Patrick's Day Procession, Warwick, ca. 1910

Image of a St. Patrick's Day float bearing a banner advocating Irish nationalist sentiments.

St. Patrick's Day Procession, Queen Street, Brisbane, 1903

An image of crowds of people gathered on Queen Street in Brisbane, QLD to watch the floats in a St. Patrick's Day parade. Processions with banners were a feature of the later medieval period. The banner for the St Patrick's day procession also…

Tags: Brisbane, Catholic, Catholicism, celebration, Celtic, ceremony, cross, harp, Ireland, Irish, parade, parades, procession, processions, Qld, Queensland, religion, religious, ring-headed cross, saint, Saint Patrick, saints, St Patrick, St. Patrick, St. Patrick's Day

Establishing the Commonwealth Culture: A Distinctly Australian Event

This article written by the Australian Broadcasting Commission in 2010 displays a collection of primary source materials pertaining to the Australian Federation Parade in Sydney in 1901. Of particular interest are the groups of people present…

St. Anthony's Parish of Wanneroo, Fremantle Saints Parade

Still image depicting members of St. Anthony's Parish participating in a Saints Parade. The medieval Franciscan priest Saint Anthony of Padua (1195-1231) was born in Portugal and died in Padua, Italy.

Tags: banner, banners, Christian, Christianity, parade, parades, procession, processions, religion, religious, saint, Saint Anthony, saints, St Anthony, St. Anthony

The Blessing of Fleet the Procession, Fremantle

A photograph of members of the WA Portuguese Community congregated outside St Patrick's Basilica in Fremantle during the 'Blessing of the Fleet' celebrations in 1979. The Blessing of the Fleet takes place in Fremantle, Western Australia, on the…

Banner for United Operative Masons of Melbourne

An image of a medieval-style embellished banner for the United Operative Masons of Melbourne, Victoria. The banner commemorates the 8 hour day Labor Movement, with the 3 men around the triangle symbolising 8 hours of work, 8 hours of recreation and…

Tags: activism, banner, banners, labour, mason, parade, politics, procession, processions, stone, stone mason, stone masonry, stone masons, stonemason, trade, trade procession, Trade Union, trade unionism, unionism, unions, work, working class

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