Labour Day in Australia falls on different dates in different regions. In 2017 the 2nd of October is Labour Day for the Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales and South Australia.
These images show celebrations of the day in the state of Queensland.
The Fish Board: Eat More Fish – 1940.
State Butcheries: the People’s Business – 1920.
Preparing a float in Brisbane in 1940.
Fred and Adele Astaire, circa 1906.
Adele Astaire, stage star and sister of her movie star brother, Fred, was born in Omaha, Nebraska on the 10th of September, 1896. Her birth name was Adele Marie Austerlitz, but the surname was changed to make her sound more “American”. As a child, she and her brother moved to New York to attend the Alviene Master School of the Theatre and Academy of Cultural Arts.
Three years Fred’s senior, Adele was actually the more successful stage performer of the two siblings. However her brother went on to find Hollywood fame, and while Adele considered moving into film, she abandoned the plan, admitting to being intimidated by her brother.
Astaire married twice (her first husband died in this thirties), and had three children. She was considered the more personable of the two siblings.
She died in January of 1981, at the age of eighty-four.
The Prince of Wales (the future King Edward VIII) presents military awards during his visit to Adelaide, South Australia on the 12th of July, 1920.
The man receiving the Victoria Cross, the highest military honour in both Britain and Australia, has been identified as Corporal Arthur Sullivan. Brigadier General John Macquarie Antill, Commandant of SA stands behind the Prince.
Prince Edward became King in 1936, and abdicated the same year.
U.S. President Calvin Coolidge signed a bill granting Indians full citizenship on the 2nd of June, 1924. He is photographed here with four Osage Indians.
Young Morris dancers gather in Lymm, Cheshire, England on Whit Monday, which fell on the 21st of May, 1923.
Winnie in 1914 X
Winnipeg (or Winnie), a female black bear from Canada and the inspiration for Winnie-the-Pooh, died in London Zoo on the 12th of May, 1934. She was twenty at the time.
Winnie and Harry Colebourn X
Winnie was purchased as an orphaned cub at a train stop in Ontario in 1914. She was bought for $20 by Harry Colebourn, a twenty-seven year old veterinarian who had volunteered for World War One and was on his way to report for duty. He named her after his hometown of Winnipeg, Manitoba.
Winnie plays with Canadian soldiers during WW1.
Winnie, who became a military mascot, was kept in London for the years Colebourn served in the war, and he eventually donated her to the zoo.
Winnie-the-Pooh makes a debut on Christmas Eve, 1925. X
The inspiration for Winnie-the-Pooh came after creator A. A. Milne’s son Christopher Robin visited the bear at the zoo and changed the name of his toy bear from “Edward Bear” to “Winnie the Pooh”.
On the 21st of March, 1925, the Butler Act, a Tennessee law banning the teaching of evolution, and forcing public school teachers to acknowledge the Biblical account of the origin of humankind, came into effect.
Austin Peay
Signed into law by Austin Peay, the Governor of Tennessee, it was infamously challenged in court a few weeks afterwards.
The law stayed in effect until 1967.
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