Empire Games : Sydney calls you... : Australia's 150th anniversary celebrations : January 26 to April 25 1938 / Charles Meere
- Bib ID:
- 6484066
- Format:
- Picture
- Author:
- Meere, Charles, 1890-1961, artist
- Online Version:
- National Library of Australia digitised item. POSTER 2023-3869 copy
- Description:
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- [Sydney?] : [publisher not identified], 1938
- ©1938
- 1 poster : colour ; 102 x 64 cm
- Summary:
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A colour lithographed poster promoting Australia's 150th Anniversary celebrations featuring an illustration of an male athlete hurdling the Sydney Harbour Bridge. He is wearing a white uniform bearing the Union Jack Flag. "Feb. 5... 1938 Feb. 12..." appears above the "Empire Games" in the title.
- Biography/History:
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The Commonwealth Games were initially known as the British Empire Games when they began in 1930. They were renamed the British Empire and Commonwealth Games in 1954, and the British Commonwealth Games in 1970, before finally being renamed the Commonwealth Games in 1978.
- Notes:
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- Caption title.
- National Library of Australia's copies have somewhat tatty edges.
- POSTER 2023-3869 copy Also available online https://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-133840776
- Subject:
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- British Empire Games (3rd : 1938 : Sydney, N.S.W.) -- Posters
- Travel posters -- Australia
- Advertising -- Tourism -- Australia
- Athletes -- Australia -- Posters
- Sports posters -- Australia
- Posters, Australian
- Australia -- Posters
- Sydney Harbour Bridge (Sydney, N.S.W.) -- Posters
- Australia -- Anniversaries, etc -- Posters
- Sydney (N.S.W.) -- Description and travel -- Posters
- Australian
- Other authors/contributors:
- Australia's 150th Anniversary Celebrations Council
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- Copyright restrictions may apply.
- Copyright:
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- Reason for copyright status:
- Until 2031 [Creator Date of Death + 70 Years]
Copyright status was determined using the following information:
- Material type:
- Artistic
- Presumed date of death of creator (latest date):
- 1961
- Published status:
- Published
- Publication date:
- 1938
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