Stick to Akubra hats [picture] / Walter Jardine
- Bib ID:
- 4609362
- Format:
- Picture
- Author:
- Jardine, Walter, 1884-1970
- Related Online Resources:
- POSTER 2022-6000 copy
- Description:
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- [Sydney : Akubra Hats Pty Ltd, [194-?]
- 1 poster : col. ill. ; 70 x 96 cm.
- Summary:
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Advertisement for Akubra hats. Colour lithograph by Ray Sim. Artwork depicting a stockman riding a wildly bucking horse in timber stock yards watched by several other men all wearing Akubra hats. Title written in bold black and red lettering at foot of poster.
- Biography/History:
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In 1874 Benjamin Dunkerley arrived in Tasmania from England and decided to start a hat making business in Hobart. In 1902 Stephen Keir I, who had also migrated from England, joined Dunkerley. Keir had hat making experience from England, and was seen as a valuable acquisition for the business. In 1905 he married Ada Dunkerley, Benjamin's daughter and soon after was made General Manager. Since that time the hat making firm has been in the hands of succeeding generations of the Keir family. The trade name Akubra came into use in 1912 and the company moved to Sydney and then to Kempsey in the the 1970s. Akubra 'slouch' hats have been worn by Australian soldiers in both World Wars and have been supplied to Olympic athletes in more recent times.
- Notes:
- POSTER 2022-6000 copy Digital master available National Library of Australia
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- Exhibited:
- Exhibited: NLA Treasures Gallery, Treasures, The Sell, 23 November 2016 – 25 April 2017
- Copyright:
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In Copyright
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- Material type:
- Artistic
- Published status:
- Published
- Publication date:
- 1949
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