Work on paper - Bookmark, Calendar Bookmark

Historical information

A 1954 Australian Calendar Bookmark advertising a range of local businesses headed with the Victoria Lending Library and Gears Pharmacy.

Significance

The preponderance of circulating lending libraries on bookmarks with general advertising of this era is significant in that this was probably the high point of a form of lending library that was popuar from the Victorian era until government supported municipal libraries took over the role by the 1960s.

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