From your friends in Canberra – Blotters

We have looked at some commercial advertising blotters. Here are a selection, from the AH Collection, which show a style of communication that we may associate more with the early 21st century.

How to vote blotter, Australian Labor Party, 1946, 11 x 20.5 cm. Collection of Andrew H.
How to vote blotter, Australian Labor Party, 1946, 11 x 20.5 cm.

 Communication from government agencies

'Keep Australia clean...', Plant Quarantine Division, blotter, 9 x 20 cm. Collection of Andrew H.
‘Keep Australia clean…’, Plant Quarantine Division, blotter, mid 1950s, 9 x 20 cm.

What we would now call branding

'Do you know!', Commonwealth Serum Laboratories, blotter, circa 1940s-50s, 9.5 x 17 cm.
‘Do you know!’, Commonwealth Serum Laboratories, blotter, circa 1940s-50s, 9.5 x 17 cm.

This blotter’s aim seems to be educational about the work of the Commonwealth Serum Laboratories; an early piece of government promotion.

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