Torres Strait reader: illustrations, [192?]
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- [192?]
Approximately 80 proof page illustrations, some in duplicate, for Reader series published by Queensland Home Secretary's Department for use in schools.
Gall, Ian
Torres Strait reader: illustrations, [192?]
Approximately 80 proof page illustrations, some in duplicate, for Reader series published by Queensland Home Secretary's Department for use in schools.
Gall, Ian
Visit to Queensland of H.R.H. Duke of Gloucester, December 1934
Album of 120 black and white photographs aranged chronologically.
Photographs show the Duke of Gloucester conducting official duties during his visit to Queensland in 1934. Places featured include: Wallangarra, Stanthorpe, Warwick, Clifton, Toowoomba, Gatton (including Agricultural College), Laidley, Rosewood, Ipswich, central Brisbane, Cleveland, Wynnum, R.N.A. Exhibition Grounds, University of Queensland, Bowen Park (Brisbane), Rosemount Repatriation Hospital, Archerfield Aerodrome, Dalgety's Wharf, and H.M.A.S. Australia on the Brisbane River. Photographs of Archerfield Aerodrome show the Duke dispatching the first airmail of the Australia-Great Britain Service.
Photographs are (10 x 14.5 cm and larger) mounted on boards with handwritten captions. Album bound in red leather. Cover title.
A "Bedford" series photo scrap album with 40 leaves (the last 13 unused) containing 104 black and white photographs of the Murray Island group of islands and inhabitants. Inscriptions with some photographs and pencil numbering of each photograph. The photographer was probably Neville Lyons, Manager of Murray Island Fisheries (MIF). Captions were apparently written in the 1960s and include the names of people who appear in the photographs. Some photographs are duplicates of others in the collection; titles in square brackets assigned by processing archivist.
List of photographs (with their pencil numbers):