Sunday Morning Op Shop Find: Fifty Years Of The Port Adelaide Institute (1902)
From Fifty Years of the Port Adelaide Institute, 1902 |
Or perhaps not. I mean, who knows now? All the same, it's a great ad, from a book that is now 115 years old and still fully intact.
I found this copy of the book at an op shop, of course, and was delighted to discover that it was the original owner was one Arthur Lipson, the grandson of Captain Thomas Lipson, R.N., who was the first Collector of Customs at Port Adelaide. How good is that? He got this book in 1902 and it remained in the family, I presume, until the point where it got dumped out, for whatever reason. The photos and sketches of Port Adelaide from the mid 1800s through to 1901 in this book, alone, are worth the price of admission.
And then there's Eugen Sandow. Pride of place at the front. That's history for you. Bring it on.
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