Summary
General Information for Passengers for the 'Sitmar Line' U.K. - Australia Passenger Service, 20 April 1970. It contains information and rules about everything to do with the journey, from travel documents and baggage to insurance and mail, to medical and hairdressing services. On the back are listed the agents and offices of the Sitmar Line. Lindsay and Sylvia met in South Africa, married in London and then relocated to Australia to start their lives together.
Sylvia Boyes (a South African-born orphan) and Lindsay Motherwell (a Melbourne-born drummer) met in Cape Town, South Africa in 1967 through their theatre connections. They fell in love but due to apartheid laws were forced to leave South Africa to marry in London. They subsequently relocated permanently to Melbourne in 1970.
Significance
Statement of Historical Significance:
This collection provides a significant opportunity to represent political and personal freedom as a motivation for migrating to Australia within the international context of both apartheid in South Africa and the end of the White Australia policy in Australia. The personal narrative is well documented and the objects provide a material way to follow the lives of both Lindsay and Sylvia, both separately and where they coincide in South Africa and onwards together to Melbourne. While this is ultimately a love story, it plays out through the collection against the backdrop of apartheid South Africa, sixties London and an increasingly multicultural Australia.
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General Information for Passengers for the "Sitmar Line" U.K. - Australia Passenger Service. It contains information and rules in 32 parts: 1. Information for Passengers 2. Change of Address 3. Passports, Visas, etc 4. Vaccination 5. Boat Trains 6. Embarkation Inspection 7. Baggage 8. Excess baggage 9. Labelling 10. Stowage of baggage on board 11. Forwarding of baggage 12. Animals 13. Dangerous Goods 14. Prohibition of the use of straw for packing 15. Vehicles 16. Folding push chairs/perambulators 17. Customs export examination 18. Control of exports 19. Valuables
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Overall Dimensions - Closed
128 mm (Width), 191 mm (Height)
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Overall Dimensions - Open
255 (Width), 191 (Height)
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Keywords
South African Immigration, Travel, Musicians, Jazz Bands, Passenger Information, Apartheid, Racism, Immigration Policies, Shipboard Travel