2 matches for advertisements, themes: 'built environment','immigrants and emigrants','local stories'
Diverse state (3) Built environment (1) Creative life (1) Gold rush (1) Immigrants and emigrants (1) Local stories (1)-
History Teachers' Association of Victoria / Royal Historical Society of Victoria
MacRobertson's Confectionery Factory
... Document: Fairy floss advertisement... the habit of smoking’ and ‘corrects odours of the breath.’ An early advertisement shows a school student doing a class presentation on ‘the best chewing gum made on earth’ with a picture of the MacRobertson Steamworks Factory on the blackboard. ...MacRobertson Steam Confectionery Works was a confectionery company founded in 1880 by Macpherson Robertson and operated by his family in Fitzroy, Melbourne until 1967 when it was sold to Cadbury.
This story accompanies the 'Nail Can to Knighthood: the life of Sir Macpherson Robertson KBE' exhibition which took place at the Royal Historical Society of Victoria in 2015.
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Language, A Key to Survival: Cantonese-English Phrasebooks in Australia
... and Chinese, whereas in the second edition phrasebook a typeface is used for both Chinese and English. There also appear to be more advertisements in this earlier phrasebook. The headings used in both phrasebooks are the same. This edition contains a Chinese ...Most international travellers today are familiar with phrasebooks. These books provide a guide to pronunciation, useful vocabulary, but most importantly lists of useful phrases to help travellers negotiate their way around a country where they don't speak the language.
Anyone who has tried to communicate across the language divide without such a tool knows how valuable they are.
This web story explores how Chinese from the gold rush period onwards have used phrasebooks to help them find their way in Australia. You can compare examples of Cantonese-English phrasebooks from different eras; watch Museum volunteers Nick and David speak English using a gold-rush era phrasebook; learn a little about the lives of some of the people who owned these phrasebooks; and hear Mr Ng and Mr Leong discuss their experiences learning English in Australia and China in the early to mid-twentieth century.
This project is supported through funding from the Australian Government's Your Community Heritage Program.