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Music posters: Alice - Avalon Ballroom 1968 | Big O 1967-70 | Bob Dylan - Don't Look Back 1969 | Bob Masse | Free | Joe Gomez Avalon Ballroom 1967 | Lee Conklin | Martin Sharp Donovan 1967 | Martin Sharp Jimi Hendrix | Martin Sharp Roundhouse UFO 1967 | MO Collection | Nigel Mentzel Psychedelic Posters | Oo Oo Ah Ah Oo Ah Ah Dance 1979  | Pink Floyd 1968 | Psychedelic and counterculture posters in situ 1967-71 | Splash Posters, London, 1960s - 1970s | Toby Zoates | Vamps | Victor Moscoso | Yardbirds |   Contents Introduction The Artist? References ------------------- Introduction Researching posters is often a complex, though exciting, task, with numerous questions posed and discoveries often made. For example, are they originals or copies; who were the artists and printers involved; what technique was used; how rare are they? The present writer has written numerous...

Shoalhaven: | Aunty Julie Freeman art | Berry's Frankenstein & Arawarra | Blanket lists |  Byamunga's (Devil's) Hands | Cullunghutti - Sacred Mountain | Death ... Arawarra, Berry & Shelley | Gooloo Creek, Conjola | Indigenous words | Mickey of Ulladulla | Mount Gigenbullen  | Neddy Noora breastplate | Ulladulla Mission | Contents Neddy Noora Other breastplates References Acknowledgement ----------------------- 1. The Neddy Noora breastplate Around 1834 the artist Charles Rodius (1802-1860) sketched an Aboriginal man of the Shoalhaven tribe by the name of Neddy Noora , wearing a breastplate. A lithograph of the original sketch was subsequently published, along with a number of other portraits of male and female members of the the Shoalhaven tribe. These beautiful artworks are rare in Australian colonial history, and also significant for their provision of information concerning individual members of the local Indigen...

  Music posters: Alice - Avalon Ballroom 1968 | Big O 1967-70 | Bob Dylan - Don't Look Back 1969 | Bob Masse | Free | Joe Gomez Avalon Ballroom 1967 | Lee Conklin | Martin Sharp Donovan 1967 | Martin Sharp Jimi Hendrix | Martin Sharp Roundhouse UFO 1967 | MO Collection | Nigel Mentzel Psychedelic Posters | Oo Oo Ah Ah Oo Ah Ah Dance 1979 | Psychedelic and counterculture posters in situ 1967-71 | Splash Posters, London, 1960s - 1970s | Toby Zoates | Vamps | Victor Moscoso | Yardbirds |  Original v. after-the-event During September 2025 the writer was shown a poster relating to a Pink Floyd concert held in London during 1966 (illustrated below). It was in the Art Nouveau style. As a collector of original 1960s rock art posters and ephemera, the writer wondered whether the item in question was original or a later work of art? Due to the small size of the digital image, the inscription at the bottom ri...

Shoalhaven: | Aunty Julie Freeman art | Australian First Nations research | Berry's Frankenstein & Arawarra | Blanket lists |  Cullunghutti - Sacred Mountain | Death ... Arawarra, Berry & Shelley | Gooloo Creek, Conjola | Indigenous words | Mickey of Ulladulla | Mount Gigenbullen | Byamunga's (Devil's) Hands | Ulladulla Mission | New South Wales Aborigines , Official blanket distribution, circa 1890-98. Contents Background Lists & events Examples  Broughton / Toodwick References  ------------------  1. Historical background During the nineteenth century blankets were issued to Aboriginal people in settled areas of New South Wales, Australia. The process began as an initiative of Governor Lachlan Macquarie in 1816 and was followed through sporadically by subsequent colonial governments. Local police magistracies and court houses were responsible for allocation and distribution. It was most active in areas ...