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Fraser Island : address by Jules L. Tardent to the Royal Geographical Society of Australia (Queensland)

  • F1240
  • Item
  • 1948

Typescript (photocopy) of address given 7 May, 1948.

Content advice: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples are warned that this resource contains brief and broad mentions of burial rites, initiation ceremonies, and cannibalism. This resource may contain images, transcripts or names of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples now deceased. It may also contain historically and culturally sensitive words, terms, and descriptions.

Tardent, Jules L. (Jules Louis), 1894-1982

Diary kept at Banka Banka Station

  • F2619
  • Item
  • 1959

Records daily weather conditions, station activities, work undertaken. Written in a Week on a Page Invicta Australian Economic Diary No. 7 : 1959. For almost every day there is an entry giving the temperature for the day, wind direction, rain and weather details. Activities noted for each day include who went to do which farm repairs, what creeks were running, goods and mail deliveries, illnesses, arrivals and visitors. There is a brief entry on 17 March, saying Philip (Ted) Ward had died in Longreach. There are general references to Australian Aboriginal peoples employed on the station, without names. Daily entries have been written by several people, some in third person and some in first person. There are no financial or asset statements or lists of workers. Inside cover has contact details for selected friends and relatives, like DL and V Edwards.
Includes colour negative of painting of Banka Banka Station by Hilda Tuxworth.

Banka Banka Station (N.T.)

Photograph album of reproductions of artworks from various European galleries and museums, and photographs of Europe, New York and Queensland

  • F3470
  • Item
  • c1900

Album of 83 sepia and coloured photographs of European scenery and artworks (mostly France), views of the city of New York, and views of North Queensland, including the Barron Falls. Some photographs have printed captions, and name of photographic studios. Photographs are various sizes. Photographic studios include Francis Ellis & W. Hayward London, Detroit Photographic Co., and G. Brogi.

Mayne, James O'Neil, 1861-1939

Interior at Bellingen

  • F3905
  • Item
  • 1984

This painting depicts the writer Peter Carey reading his prize-winning novel Illywacker, and the artist herself, inside a house designed for them by acclaimed Australian architect Richard Leplastrier. Signed and dated on verso.

Hutcheson, Margot, 1952-

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