Aboriginal Australians -- Queensland

Letter, 1971 May 6 : Mt. Gravatt, to Secretary, Union of Australian Women.

F1933
Item
1971

Asks for support for campaign by the National Tribal Council against the Queensland Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders' Affairs Act, 1965.
Letter signed by Len Watson, Education Officer.

Aboriginal and Islanders Tribal Council, Brisbane

Reminiscences of Mr. W.E. Hanlon : early days of Nerang Heads, and Southport's infancy

F315
Item
1940

Typescript copy of W.E. Hanlon's memories of South East Queensland in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, including stories relating to local Aboriginal people.

Hanlon, William Egan, 1862-1941

Views of Cairns-Herberton Railways, etc., Queensland

F3462
Item
ca. 1890-ca. 1910

Album of twelve sepia photographs of views of North Queensland including Cairns, Herberton, Barron George, Barron Falls, Hambledon and railways in the area. Title handwritten inside album. Album is undated. A handwritten list of captions and supplied item numbers has been inserted prior to the title page with an estimate of [1990s] as the date the pictures were taken. Most photographs appear to be around the construction of the railway to Herberton which began in Cairns in 1886 and finished in Ravenshoe in 1916.

Each photo has caption, supplied information is included in square brackets: 1. Glacier Rock . -- 2. [Cairns-Herberton railway] From 28 bridge. -- 3. Surprise Creek bridge [Cairns-Herberton railway]. -- 4. Cairns end of long tunnel. -- 5. The Barron Gorge. -- 6. Herberton end of the tunnel. -- 7. Near the Barron. -- 8. Barron Falls. -- 9. Aborigines of Cairns-Herberton district. -- 10. Kanaka women working in sugar cane. -- 11. Hambledon Sugar Plantation Cairns, general views. -- 12. Hoeing weeds in young cane.

Foundation for Aboriginal and Islander Research Action Ephemera