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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

Papers and photographs relating to Moongalba and Moolgunfun

  • F3696
  • Item
  • [18--?]

Handwritten history of Moongalba including hand drawn map with names of inhabitants (9 p.) -- "Grannies Moongalba history" list of Grannies of Moongalba -- 'Australian Aboriginal legend of the lightnings playground on Moreton Island (Moolgunfun) -- four handwritten partial pages -- one newspaper cutting from the Telegraph Feb 28 1936 on Sam Rollands -- two photographs of Paul Tripcony's grandmother Sydney Rollands (mother of Sam Rollands) -- photograph of Paul Tripcony aged about 22, inscribed to Dear Vince with best wishes from Paul -- photograph of Fernandez Gonzales and family showing dugong fillets -- photograph of early Amity.

Tripcony, Stacia

Dry as a wooden God

  • F3118
  • Item
  • [198-?]

Personal recollections of life in north Queensland in 1930s.

Mason, Walter W.

Aboriginal tribes in the Woocoo Shire

  • F2220
  • Item
  • [1972?]

Typescript (duplicated), which includes descriptive information about the Kabi tribe, an account of conflict between white settlers and local indigenous people in about 1849, and an account of indigenous customs at Mt. Mowbollan. Includes bibliography.

Woocoo Historical Society

Submissions re Aboriginal legislation

  • F1939
  • Item
  • 1963

Includes : 'A.C.T.U Congress, September 1963, Melbourne, Decision : Aborigines' (2 pp. typescript)

Trades and Labor Council of Queensland

Cherbourgh settlement, Thursday March 24, 1966

  • F2046
  • Item
  • 1966

Report of visit to Cherbourg Aboriginal community by R. Wright and K. Loughlin, representatives of Building Workers' Industrial Union of Australia.
The visit was to investigate wage rates and employment conditions of Aboriginal Union members.

Loughlin, K. B.

Papers relating to Australian Dictionary of Biography entry for Sir Evan Mackenzie

  • F1621
  • Item
  • 1977

Photocopied papers compiled in support of an amended entry on Sir Evan Mackenzie, in Australian Dictionary of Biography. The papers document a massacre of Aboriginal people on or near Mackenzie's station at Kilcoy. Included : letter from Jim Gibbney , Australian Dictionary of Biography, to Gerry Langevad, 19 Oct 1977; death certificate of Richard James Coley; "Preliminary Suggested Amendment" of Australian Dictionary of Biography entry for Sir Evan Mackenzie; and supporting notes.

Langevad, Gerry

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