John’s Notable Australians, 1906

The Johns Notable Australians (Fred Johns 1906) was the first book of its kind to be issued after Federation. It is the forerunner of what became Australian Who’s Who – effectively the first edition of this. Arranged alphabetically apart from a special section dealing with the government of Australia and each of the states. It has approximately 1300 brief biographies of men and women of the Commonwealth. It also has a list of ‘Notable Dead’ at the rear.