Hopwood & Co., 123 Brisbane Street, Launceston : join our Circulating Library ... : [fan].

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Title:

Hopwood & Co., 123 Brisbane Street, Launceston : join our Circulating Library ... : [fan].

Publication:

Launceston, [Tasmania] : Hopwood & Co., [1919]

Manufacture:

Melbourne : Steele

Physical description:

1 paddle fan : multicolour print on cream card, with wooden handle ; paddle 23 x 20 cm, handle 25 cm (11 cm protruding at base)

Format:

object

Notes:

Title from caption on verso of fan.

"Made in Australia".

Issued during the Influenza Pandemic of 1918-1919, also known as the Spanish Flu Epidemic, hence the advice on verso of fan: "All Books are thoroughly disinfected in a Formalin Cabinet after being used."

History note:

Hopwood & Co. Pty. Ltd. in Launceston, booksellers and stationers, also operated as a Circulating Library well into the twentieth century. Here they advertise an "Annual Subscription from 15/- or Exchange System".

Summary:

Hand-held paddle fan, with wooden handle stapled to flat card. Front features a colourful image of a smiling woman in a red-and-white striped headscarf, on cream background; verso features printed text.

Alternate Title:

Hopwood & Co. ... : [fan]

Subjects:

Subscription libraries -- Tasmania -- Launceston -- History.

Fans -- Tasmania -- Specimens.

Books -- Disinfection -- Tasmania -- History -- 1918-1922.

Influenza Epidemic, 1918-1919 -- Tasmania -- Launceston.

Epidemics -- Tasmania -- History -- 1918-1922.

Advertising fans.

Collectibles.

Hopwood & Co. (Tas.) -- Marketing.

Hopwoods' Circulating Library (Launceston, Tas.) -- Marketing.