ToadShow Labour Day photographs
Collection
The photographs depict Labour Day parades, Labor politicians, banners and placards, costumes and parade floats and events at the RNA showgrounds, Brisbane. The Barcaldine photographs include images showing events related to the Tree of Knowledge. Photographs for 1998, 1999 and 2000 are physical prints; for 2003 there is a physical proof sheet only; for 2004 there are both physical and digital photographs; for 2005-2012 there are digital photographs only. There are no photographs for 2001, 2002 and 2011. Many of the Brisbane photographs specifically depict participants in the Labour Day March representing the Labor Party, the Liquor, Hospitality and Miscellaneous Union (LHMU) and the Rail, Tram and Bus Union (RTBU).
ToadShow is a Brisbane based graphic design company formed in 1986 and "led by Anne Jones, Damien Ledwich and Robert Whyte supported by a freelance team of writers, researchers, designers and illustrators". ToadShow "took on small and large scale design jobs in print, web, multimedia, museums and interpretive displays". It closed its office and stopped taking new customers in 2019. (Information taken from: ToadShow website, viewed 16 June 2021)
In copyright.