Lyall's shipboard newspaper
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Passengers on the long voyage to Australia amused themselves by producing their own handmade 'newspapers'. This illustration shows a passenger who has strayed into a group of sailors busily washing the decks.
Hand-written shipboard newspaper, by Charles Lyall, 1854.
Accession number: MS 12221
From the State Library of Victoria's Manuscript Collection.