Historical information

Maude Jeffries was an acclaimed actress who performed in USA, Britain, New Zealand and Australia from the 1890s until the early twentieth century when she married and settled lived in New South Wales with her husband on his property, Bowylie, Gundaroo, New South Wales.

Significance

A rare bookmark produced to act also as a postcard relating to an American actress who as a British citizen settled in Australian. This bookmark sent in 1906 from Melbourne to Ballarat in Victoria demonstrates her popularity in Australia where it was estimated that over Christmas New Year 1906 over 200,000 postcards were sold in Sydney alone.