Travel Ephemera Collection 1961 - 1979.
Stock ID #152390 When referring to this item please quote stockid 152390.
A group of 25 items for a ephemera from the collection of an Australian lady traveller. The lady decided to start travelling alone in 1961. It was during that year that many of the items in this collection were collected during a trip to India. These include:
1961 India trip: 2 coloured travel fold out brochures - Calcutta; Darjeeling; both stamped Central Travel Bureau, 230 Collins St, Melbourne on upper cover. Folded leaf brochure for The Ivory Palace in Delhi; An official numbered invitation for the Republic Day Parade on January 26, 1961 with accompanying leaf showing a map of the route the parade would take and on its reverse a seating plan and car park sign for the dashboard. An embroidered textile from The Poona & Indian Village Mission Orphan Boys Handicrafts.
The trip to India was followed by two others - one to various Southeast Asian countries in the late 1960s or early 1970s and a trip to China in 1979.
circa 1970? Trip to Indonesia, Brunei and Angkor. 2 folding travel brochures. Indonesia; Angkor. 3 pieces of hotel stationery from Kuching (2) and Kota Kinabula (1). Booklet titled: Life and Death in Toraja.
Trip to China 1979. 8 examples of hotel stationery; CAAC Time-table and Travel Information.
All items are in very good condition.
Price: $125.00 AU