Lyall's shipboard newspaper

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.


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