Photograph taken while Nelson was visiting Thursday Island Mission.
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Photograph taken while Nelson was visiting Thursday Island Mission.
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The top of Australia from Crab Island
Photograph taken while Nelson was visiting Thursday Island Mission.
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Photograph taken while Nelson was visiting Thursday Island Mission.
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Photograph taken while Nelson was visiting Thursday Island Mission.
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This series is comprised of the reports and plans related to visits by Norman F Nelson and Joshua Thomas Robinson to the four mission stations owned by Presbyterian Church of Queensland. The typescript reports by Nelson and the sketch plans for each mission by Robinson and Nelson precede the photographs related to that part of the journey or the mission station.
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Nelson, N. F. (Norman Francis)
Mornington Island Mission Station : Plan of main buildings
Original sketch plans prepared by JTR [Joshua Thomas Robinson] and NFN [Norman Francis Nelson]. Shows the Manse or Mission hours, Assistants cottage, Girl's dormitories, Worshop, Store and Boy's dormitory.
Typescript report on Morington Island. Norman Nelson provides his impressions of Mornington Island which includes: the people, select individuals, the land, the mission, the vegetable garden, the buildings with measurements, furnishings, staff, general activities undertaken on the Island, visitors, the effects of recent cyclone.
Original sketch plans prepared by JTR [Joshua Thomas Robinson] and NFN [Norman Francis Nelson]. Map showing Port Musgrave, Batavia River, Ducie River, Namaleata River and the location of mission.
Typescript report on Mapoon. Norman Nelson gives his impressions of Mapoon mission including the buildings and their measurements, furnishings, agriculture, equipment, and the people.