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In the late 1800s ladies were portrayed on "Cabinet Cards" to serve as photographic advertisements that appealed to the needs of the public…in today's world a veritable walking internet display of goods and services.

Many commentators argue that, until the 1980s, Brisbane and Queensland were cultural backwaters within the Australian context. However, with the hosting of the highly successful XII Commonwealth Games (1982) and World Expo 88 (1988) and with the development of the Queensland Cultural (1976-) and South Bank (1974-) Precincts, Brisbane and Queensland cast aside perennial apologism to acquire prominence, maturity, and self-respect. Within these national, state, and municipal settings, the theme, timing, and venue for the 24th Australian Dental Congress (1985) involved risk. Enter a Brisbane dental practitioner, Colin Robertson: a theater critic and a scriptwriter, who possessed competitive and entrepreneurial streaks, a vivid imagination, a steely resolve, and a love of golf. Robertson became an erudite, incisive, and prolific commentator, who penned much of the historical musical Smile A While (aka Smile Awhile) for the abovementioned congress. He contributed to an outstanding Dental Health Week (1980), served on the Australian Dental Association Queensland Branch Council (1981), its Fluoridation Committee (1973) and chaired both its Oral Health Education Committee (1981) and the Congressional Entertainment Division within the Congress Organizing Committee (1982-1985). Accordingly, the authors use historical methods to expose and explore a scarcely acknowledged narrative within dental history in Queensland.

James Washington Bartlett (1839-1910, FAG Memorial #124715057) was born in Derby Line, Orleans County, Vermont to Nathaniel Bartlett (1791-1866), a harness maker, and Martha Pinkham Bartlett (1798-1847). Little is known about his youth nor his education. He was evidently preceptor trained in dentistry but we were unable to determine with whom.

The French dentist Désirabode was the author of Nouveaux Éléments Complets De La Science Et De L'art Du Dentiste Théorique Et Practique De L'art Du Dentiste (Complete Elements of the Science and Art of the Dentist) in 1843, in two volumes.

Dr. George C. Ainsworth and Dr. George F. Emerson were two Boston dentists from the late 19th century who were interested in preventive dentistry, "irregularities" in teeth arrangements, and generally, the oral health care of children. Leaflets from their practices reveal much about their services and concern for all their patients.

Leonard Koecker was outspoken in 1821 when he criticized the procedure of pulp extirpation and tooth retention, a procedure that had been advocated and practiced by Fauchard and others. He again registered his thoughts on this issue in 1826 in the publication of his textbook entitled "Principles of Dental Surgery". He claimed the tooth was dead and a repugnant foreign body that impacted on the surrounding living tissues. This controversial position ensued for close to a century, with advocates for Koecker's position, especially in the time of the Focal Infection and those opposed who favored a biological/scientific approach to this issue. Although today the desire to retain teeth through pulpal extirpation and proper root canal procedures is the treatment of choice when possible, it is common globally to frame the pulpless tooth as a dead tooth by both the dental professional and laypersons alike.

Henry Jacob Bigelow (1818-1890) qualified in Medicine at Harvard and was appointed Surgeon at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) in 1847 and to the Chair of Surgery at Harvard Medical School in 1849. His international reputation was earned by two operations he developed, namely the treatment of hip dislocation and litholapaxy. Perhaps even more important to the practice of surgery was his role in facilitating the introduction of ether anesthesia. A dentist, William Morton (1819-1868), had used ether for the painless extraction of teeth. Through Bigelow's influence, Morton was given the opportunity to use ether for more advanced surgery at Massachusetts General Hospital. There, the leg of a patient was successfully amputated on November 7, 1846. Henry Bigelow published the first full account of ether in major surgery on November 18, 1846, while not even being in the surgical team and before his own Professor, John Collins Warren. Despite the slowness of others, he ensured that ether was used continuously in Massachusetts General Hospital, championing its use and supporting the claim of William Morton as the discoverer of anesthesia.

In 1904, Mr. Maurice Lemaistre of Bermonville, France received four postcards at his home (Chez Monsieur Lemaistre) from family (Par Famille). The reverse of one of those "CARTE POSTALES" is shown in Figure 1.