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The Little Boy from Manly was a national personification of
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Cartoon ''A jubilee'' featuring the Little Boy from Manly, National Library of Australia.
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Cartoon ''The Roll Call - or The Contingent's Return'' with the Little Boy from Manly in right foreground (1885) by Livingston Hopkins, State Library of New South Wales. {{Symbols of Australia National personifications National symbols of Australia Manly, New South Wales Comics characters introduced in 1885
The Little Boy from Manly was a national personification of New South Wales
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and later Australia created by the cartoonist Livingston Hopkins of '' The Bulletin'' in April 1885.
In March 1885, as the New South Wales Contingent was about to depart for the Sudan, a letter was addressed to Premier William Bede Dalley containing a cheque for £25 for the Patriotic Fund 'with my best wishes from a little boy at Manly'. It was Australia's first overseas military adventure, and the little boy became a symbol either of Australian patriotism or, among opponents of the adventure, of mindless chauvinism. Hopkins put the boy in a cartoon, dressed in the pantaloons and frilled shirt associated with English storybook schoolboys of the namby-pamby kind. Over the following decades, he became ''The Bulletins stock symbol of Young Australia.Davison, Graeme, 'The Little Boy from Manly', in ''The Oxford Companion to Australian History'' (1998), p.395, .
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Cartoon ''A jubilee'' featuring the Little Boy from Manly, National Library of Australia.
Births of a Nation
Powerhouse Museum.
itemID=844353
Cartoon ''The Roll Call - or The Contingent's Return'' with the Little Boy from Manly in right foreground (1885) by Livingston Hopkins, State Library of New South Wales. {{Symbols of Australia National personifications National symbols of Australia Manly, New South Wales Comics characters introduced in 1885