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Name/TitleHandbill advertising Eight-Hours Day Procession, c. 1856

About this objectPhotograph of a reproduction handbill, printed in 1906 the jubilee year, celebrating the Eight Hours Grand Procession and fete of 1856.

"GRAND PROCESSION!! / And Fete In Celebration Of The / EIGHT HOURS' / Movement / for the joint benefit of the / Melbourne Hospital, And The Benevolent Asylum... / CREMORNE / Gardens, the Vauxhall of Victoria. Manager, Mr. P. Scott. / Last Week but one of the Bombardment of Sebastopol... / On WHIT MONDAY, / May 1908... / Dinner will be provided at the Gardens, at 3s. 6d. / The entertainments will... / Extraordinary Gymnastic Performances, / by the Brothers Dherang & Stebbing. / Music and Dancing all the Evening. Bombardment at Nine o'Clock / Pyrotechnist. Professor Prescott. Artist Mr. W. J. Wilson. / [List of 22 ticket sellers] / Charles B. Vine, Secretary, 30, Cambridge Street, Collingwood.

ORIGINAL HANDBILL / Of the FIRST EIGHT HOURS PROCESSION and DEMONSTRATION / held in Victoria, on Whit Monday, 12th May, 1856. / Presented by Mr. David Bennet / To the Melbourne Eight Hours Jubilee Anniversary Committee, / 1906"

One of the many glass slides purchased from retailers or specifically made for illustrated lectures given by Isaac Selby between c. 1930 and c. 1955 to raise money for the Old Pioneers Memorial Fund.

Inscription and MarksMount: EIGHT HOURS DAY / 1858 [sic]

Measurements8.2 x 8.2 cm

Period1850-1860

Object TypeGlass slide

Subject and Association KeywordsSelby, Isaac, 1859-1956

Subject and Association KeywordsCremorne Gardens (Richmond, Vic.)

Subject and Association KeywordsEight Hour Day

Subject and Association KeywordsEntertainment

Subject and Association KeywordsFireworks and pyrotechnics

Subject and Association KeywordsGymnastics

Subject and Association KeywordsMelbourne Hospital

Subject and Association KeywordsBenevolent Asylum (Melbourne, Vic.)

Named CollectionImages collection

Object numberGS-EM-15

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