L'Australie – Liebig's Extract of Meat Company, trade card set
| Place |
Sydney Blue Mountains Tasmania Hobart Coolgardie |
| Subject | |
| Category | |
| Publisher |
Véritable Extrait de Viande de la Cie Liebig |
| Current holder | |
| Link | |
| Series number |
H2013.12 |
| Item number |
9924826153607636 |
| Access rights |
Request at location |
| Rights |
Out of Copyright. No copyright restrictions apply. |
| Country of origin | |
| Language | |
| Period of reference |
1910 |
| Description from source |
6 cards: chromolithograph; 11.1 x 7.1 cm. Artist unidentified. Undated but circa 1900. Individual titles printed in French on verso. Trading cards like these date mainly from the end of the 19th century through to the 1940s & 50s. They were issued as advertising and given away with purchases. Compagnie Liebig produced a meat extract product. Cards include depictions of Tasmanian Aborigines Truganini and William Lanne, Mount Wellington; Victorian vineyards and grape harvest, Arunta tribesmen; an Aboriginal tree burial, a giant kangaroo; goldminers in Coolgardie, Kimberley country, Queensland Aborigines; the Blue Mountains, Sydney Harbour, an Aboriginal hunter; South Australian pasture, the MacDonnell Ranges, a mother emu and chicks. Each card features further explanatory text on verso. Card 1: La Tasmanie. La baie de la Tempête et le Mont Wellington près Hobart — Types de Tasmaniens — Les deux derniers Tasmaniens. Cataloguer’s translation: Tasmania. Storm Bay and Mount Wellington near Hobart — Types of Tasmanians [Tasmanian Aborigines, Palawa people] — The last two Tasmanians [features side profile of Truganini and William Lanne]. Card 2: La province de Victoria. Vendanges dans la province de Victoria — Végétaux typiques sur les rives du Murray — Indigènes de la tribu des Aruntas. Card 3: L’Australie orientale [Eastern Australia]. Fourré de ronces avec échafaudage funéraire dans l’Australie orientale — Corossolier — Kangourou géant. Card 4: L’Australie occidentale [Western Australia]. Coolgardie, la ville des chercheurs d’or dans l’Australie occidentale — Paysage dans le district de Kimberley — Indigènes de Queensland. Card 5: La Nouvelle Galles du Sud [New South Wales]. Les Montagnes Bleues dans la Nouvelle-Galles du Sud — La baie de Sydney. Chasseur indigène. Card 6: L’Australie méridionale [South Australia]. Pâturage dans L’Australie méridionale — La Rudall-Creek dans la chaîne des Monts Mac Donnell — Emou avec ses petits |
| Physical format |
Pictures Postcards |
| Related resources | |
| Place of Publication |
Antwerpen, Belgium |
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