A token to the future : a digital ‘archive’ of early Australian children’s literature

This essay considers a specific digital ‘archive’ of early Australian children’s literature, known as the Children’s Literature Digital Resources (CLDR), which is located in AustLit: The Australian Literature Resource ( http://www.austlit.edu.au ). We examine what the CLDR collection can tell us about Australia’s history. To narrow the scope, we focus on how Australia was constructing itself as a nation with its own character, or national identity, in texts written for children from the latter part of the nineteenth century up until the end of World War II. Our approach is to consider how early Australian children’s literature included in the CLDR collection rhetorically constructs nation and place, and in so doing constructs an Australian identity for its implied readers.

Seasonal Greeting token-1981

Obverse: Emblem of the Israel Government and Medals Corporation. Reverse: A Jerusalem panorama, inscription.

Seasonal Greeting token-1977

Obverse: Within a circle (a symbol of the sun) an inscription. Reverse: The emblem of the Israel Government Coins and Medals Corporation, inscription.

Seasonal Greeting token-1976

Obverse: Stylized Star of David. Reverse: Emblem of the Israel Government Coins and Medals Corporation.

Seasonal Greeting token-1974

Obverse: Emblem of the 25th Anniversary of the State of Israel, menorah and number 25 created by ribbon. Reverse: Emblem of the Israel Government Coins and Medals Corporation.

Seasonal Greeting token-1973

Obverse: Stylized Desing of an Israeli Navy ship with rocket coming out of the canon. Reverse: Emblem of the Israel Government coins and Medals Corporation.

Seasonal Greeting token-1975

Obverse: In the center stylized number 26. Reverse: The emblem of the Israel Government Coins and Medals Corporation.

Seasonal Greeting token-1980

Obverse: In the center stylized inscription. Reverse: Emblem of the Israel Government Coins and Medals Corporation.

Seasonal Greeting token 1983

Obverse: Emblem of the Israel Government Coins and Medal Corporation. Reverse: Stylized design of the Western Wall and the Mount above.

Seasonal Greeting token 1986

Obverse: Emblem of the Israel Government Coins and Medal Corporation. Reverse: The monument to Jewish soldiers erected at the Jewish Martyrs Memorial Institute of Yad Vashem in Jerusalem.

Seasonal Greeting token 1993

Obverse: Emblem of the Israel Government Coins and Medal Corporation. Reverse: Stylized menorah, inscription.

Seasonal Greeting token 1978

Obverse: emblem of the Israel Government Coins and Medal Corporation. Reverse: Dove with spread wings.

Seasonal Greeting token 1998

Obverse: Emblem of the Israel Government Coins and Medal Corporation. Reverse: Stylized menorah with number fifty in the middle part.

Seasonal Greeting token 1994

Obverse: Emblem of the Israel Government Coins and Medal Corporation. Reverse: Three runners stylized, countryside in the background.

Seasonal Greeting token 2000

Obverse: Emblem of the Israel Government Coins and Medal Corporation. Reverse: Map from the15th century with Jerusalem as a center of the world.