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The Great Depression of the 1930s
Bysiteadmin@michel.com.au October 16, 2019March 7, 2024

On Tuesday 29 October 1929 the Wall Street stock market in New York collapsed. Twenty-six billion dollars was wiped from the market, which continued to decline for the following three years. Economic markets around the world were ruined. Income from Australian exports fell, local industries came to a standstill and unemployment rapidly increased. Australia had…

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From Our Collections
BySally Jerapetritis October 19, 2021February 18, 2022

Flavelle Bros. & Company Trading Token Henry Flavelle joined George Brush in an optician and jeweller’s business, Flavelle and Brush, at 87 King Street, Sydney in 1840. Towards the end of the decade, the partners moved more towards the jewellery, rather than the optometry end of their business. Brush left the business in 1850 and…

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Joseph James Gates (1861-1929)
BySally Jerapetritis September 20, 2023September 22, 2023

The discovery of gold in Australia in the 1850s led to the opening up of the country as settlement expanded beyond the original 19 counties proclaimed in 1829. A succession of gold rushes in New South Wales and Victoria transformed the political and economic landscape from its convict origins to a largely unregulated market. Freed…

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The Red King
Bysiteadmin@michel.com.au October 16, 2018

How Australia’s Rarest Stamp Escaped an Inferno. On 29 September 1936, William Vanneck, the right honourable Lord Huntingfield and governor of Victoria, paid a ceremonial visit to the Commonwealth Stamp Printers in Melbourne to mark the first printing of a new twopenny stamp featuring an etched portrait of King Edward VIII in his naval uniform, …

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From Our Collection
BySally Jerapetritis August 26, 2021August 26, 2021

Sunbeam Mixmaster In the years between the First and Second World Wars, Ivar Jepson designed and built dozens of kitchen appliances, including the indomitable Sunbeam “Mixmaster”. Born in Sweden in 1903, Jepson loved to design things as a boy, studied engineering as a youth, and went to Germany to pursue graduate studies in mechanical engineering. …

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A Tale of Two Pandemics: CBA during the Spanish Flu
BySally Jerapetritis March 1, 2022March 20, 2022

One hundred years ago, another pandemic was causing devastation around the world. At a time where digital banking and contactless payments couldn’t easily substitute the use of cash, Danny John and Juli Liddicoat investigate what the world looked like for Commonwealth Bank employees and customers, as seen through the eyes of the Founding Governor Denison…

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You Know You’re Old When . . .

The Great Depression of the 1930s

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Joseph James Gates (1861-1929)

The Red King

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A Tale of Two Pandemics: CBA during the Spanish Flu

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