The life and death of Smith's Weekly: The death of a newspaper plays out in a box of cartoons

You don’t often stumble on a death in a library, but that is exactly what happened to me in the Mitchell Reading Room while studying Smith’s Weekly when I innocently called up a box of pictures, PXD 840.
Smith’s was a weekly newspaper produced in Sydney and distributed nationally. It started as a broadsheet on 1 March1919 and thrived and survived through three very different decades: the Roaring 1920s, the Depression of the 1930s, and the1940s, dominated by war.