Summary
Corporate Christmas Card from the Office Manager WCG McCracken to Constance Duffell's family dated 1941.
Constance Duffell was born in England in 1910. She migrated to Australia with her parents and brother on the 'Narkunda' in 1927 aged 17. During the voyage Connie was accommodated with another girl (a stranger) on the lower deck while her mother, father and brother were on the upper deck together. Connie suffered seasickness until reaching Gibraltar.
Her father, Thomas Duffell was brought out to work at the Commonwealth Printing Branch as an engraver and transferrer; this was common apparently for workers to be imported as there was not enough local printing expertise at the time. In 1934 she married Archibald Gordon Maclaurin who had migrated from England in 1928 and worked at the Note Printing Branch. They had two children, Roger and Jocelyn and lived all their lives in Essendon.
Physical Description
Cream coloured folded card, blank cover. Inside facing page an image of a horse team and cart crossing a river with 4 images in each corner - waterfall, kangaroo, an indigenous man and St Paul's Cathedral. Below image inscribed 'Team Work' and 'Frank D Manley 1941'.
More Information
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Collecting Areas
Home & Community, Migration & Cultural Diversity, Transport, Working Life & Trades
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Acquisition Information
Donation from Mrs Jocelyn Maclaurin, Mr. Roger Maclaurin, 14 Oct 2004
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Inscriptions
Christmas Greetings to/Mr. J.C. Duffell and family/from W.C.G. McCrackern/Christmas 1941
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Overall Dimensions - Folded
20 cm (Length), 14.8 cm (Width), 0.3 cm (Height)
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Overall Dimensions - Folded
199 mm (Length), 148 mm (Width)
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Maximum dimensions
398 (Length), 148 (Width)
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Maximum dimensions
199 mm (Width), 147 mm (Height)
Measurement From Conservation.
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Keywords
British Immigration, Christmas Cards, Employees, Immigration, Printing Industry
