Newspaper clipping, "First Test at Brisbane Today" - 4 Dec 1936
Object Type
Documents and books/Document/Newspaper/Extract
Date Used
04 Dec 1936
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Object Detail
Brief Description
Once folded newspaper extract. Twenty-two black and white photographs are printed on discoloured yellow paper. Portrait images of seventeen men are lined along the top of the page. Eight of the men are wearing caps. A signature is underneath each image. In the lower right corner are two black and white photographs of women playing cricket. The photograph on the left has captured a woman running with her bat along the ground next to a woman wearing gloves who is stepping forward to catch a ball that's visible on the left edge. There are two women in the image on the right. The woman in the background who's facing the front watches a woman with a bat held at waist height, who is stepping forward over a line. The black printed text on the extract reads, in part, "Page Twenty-Eight-The Sun News-Pictorial / FIRST TEST AT BRISBANE TODAY AUTOGRAPHED PORTRAITS OF...".
Measurements
0 - Whole: H: 421 W: 596 D: 1mm (H: 16 9/16 W: 23 7/16 D: 1/16")
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Associated Person
Date Used
04 Dec 1936
Location
In storage
Registration No
M14832
Credit Line
Kindly donated to the Melbourne Cricket Club Museum by Stuart Humphreys.
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