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Photograph album of Cairns Railway, Barron Falls and Kuranda

  • F3377
  • Item
  • [1909]

Photograph album of Cairns Railway, Barron Falls and Kuranda containing 48 photographs (21 x 16cm) mounted on board in a blue and grey album. The album shows the Cairns Railway Line and the surrounding countryside during its construction. Views include the Barron Gorge, Barron Falls, Kuranda Railway Station, Robb's Monument, and indigenous Australian families living in the area.

Hill, Colleen

Souvenir of official trips by the Home Secretary, Hon. James Stopford M.L.A.

  • F3091
  • Item
  • 1923-1928

Album, 32 x 28 x 5 cm, of ninety-two (92) black and white photographs presented to William James Gall of the official trips by James Stopford. The photographs feature James Stopford and William James Gall, as well as others possibly during the period from 1923 to 1928. Stopford was Home Secretary in the Queensland Government from 1923 to 1929. Gall worked as under-secretary for home affairs and protector of Aborigines from 1913 until possibly 1926.

Includes photographs of: Stopford Home for Aboriginal Girls at Barambah Aboriginal Settlement (now Cherbourg); Yhurri Gurri ceremonial arch at Barambah Aboriginal Settlement, 3-May-1928; Cherbourg Hospital; Cobbo Williams play acting with Mr Stopford at Cherbourg Aboriginal Settlement ca. 1925; a resident of Barambah giving a speech to welcome the members of the parliamentary party at the opening of the Stopford Home for Aboriginal Girls (The bandsmen, left to right, are Eddie Gilbert, Freddy Martin and Jimmy Dodd); the G-AUER air plane, called Hermes; photographs of a mine; and many unidentified Aboriginal and Torres Straits islander peoples.

Only the last six photographs have notations indicating that the photographs were taken by/belonged to E.W. Dabelstein. The album has the title embossed on the cover with the photographs pasted, generally two per page, onto the leaves which are made of green mid-weight card. There are some panorama photographs which have been folded to fit in the album.

Content advice: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples are warned that 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.

Stopford, James, 1878-1936

Reminiscences of my early days in Ipswich / by George Harris.

  • F344
  • Item
  • [1923?]

Personal memoir of an early settler of Ipswich. Describes Ipswich and surrounds in the 19th century, including accounts of contacts with local indigenous people. Includes account of 1893 flood of Brisbane River.

Harris, George, 1845-1924

Articles published in newspapers, ca.1923-1924

  • F438
  • Item
  • ca.1923-1924.

Cuttings of articles by Archibald Meston on various subjects, in different newspapers. Also : obituary articles about Meston, including one typescript article (6 leaves, unidentified); typescript poem, 'When Murphy comes : advance of Kuropatkin Murphy to the relief of Port Arthur Morgan' (2 leaves); handwritten letter about Meston, to W.J. Gall from Thomas J. Barker, 1924 Apr. 24 (5 leaves); one leaf handwritten note, about Aboriginal language.

Content advice: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples are warned that this resource may contain images, transcripts or names of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people now deceased. It may also contain historically and culturally sensitive words, terms, and descriptions.

Meston, Archibald, 1851-1924

Gwendolyn Edith Millicent Spurgin Album

  • F3718
  • Item
  • ca. 1927-ca. 1930

Six loose leaf double-sided pages of black and white photographs from an album once belonging to Gwendolyn Edith Millicent Risson (née Spurgin). The photographs include university excursions, possibly at Townsville, Palm Island and Tweed Heads, and at least one with Dorothy Hill. There are also some photographs of current events, including the visit of the Duke and Duchess of York in 1927, and the Sydney Harbour Bridge under construction.

Spurgin, Gwendolyn E. M.

Letter, 1928 Nov. 10 : Ooldea, to Phoebe Kirwan.

  • F1519
  • Item
  • 1928

Handwritten reply to Phoebe Kirwan's suggestion that Daisy Bates write about Aboriginal people for the Brisbane Telegraph.
Includes references to cannibalism.

Bates, Daisy, 1861-1951

Letter, 1928 Dec. 12 : Ooldea, to Phoebe Kirwan.

  • F1520
  • Item
  • 1928

Handwritten letter includes discussion about murders by Aboriginal people, some anecdotes about Aboriginal people at Ooldea and New Norcia Benedictine Mission, and general observations about the social conditions of Aboriginal people at the time.
Refers to a possible article by Daisy Bates for the Brisbane Telegraph.

Bates, Daisy, 1861-1951

Visit to Queensland of H.R.H. Duke of Gloucester, December 1934

  • F3474
  • Item
  • 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.

Aborigines Gang Work Book

Transcribed handwritten copy of entries into the 'Aborigines Gang Work Book from Dunwich, Stradbroke Island, Benevelont [sic] Asylum for the Aged and Infirm, 1934'. Date of transcribing unknow; and transcriber unknown, but possibly Oodgeroo Noonuccal. Diary entries are from 18 Jun 1934 to 30 Jun 1934; E. Ruska is listed as the foreman; entries include information about the time the gang signed on and off and work conducted at the Dunwich Benevolent Asylum. Written in a Dux exercise note book

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