Tasmania : gem of the south (c.1940s)
Brochure
Hobart , Tasmanian Government Tourist Bureaux [c.1940s]
Front cover displayed
23.5 x 10.5 cm

A double-sided tourist brochure promoting the island of Tasmania as a precious stone, cut and polished; something greatly prized, a "treasure". Nearly every precious and semi-precious mineral known has been found in Tasmania. “This beautiful island has been aptly named ‘The Jewel’, because the blue of the sapphire is in her lakes and the green of the emerald in her verdant valleys… Tasmania may be visited for several years in succession without exhausting its galaxy of scenic beauty.”