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The tour of His Excellency the Governor through Northern & Western Queensland, 1908

Handmade photograph album with gold embossed title on cover The tour of His Excellency the Governor through Northern & Western Queensland, 1908. Cover has the top left-hand cover torn away thus first words of the inscription on the inside cover is missing: [To Colin] Bell from Ralph Verney in remembrance of a very pleasant tour. Ralph Verney was aide-de-camp to the Governor. The Governor, Frederick John Napier Thesiger, (Lord Chelmsford) accompanied by the Minister for Lands, Joshua Thomas Bell, left Brisbane on June 13 on a tour in Northern and North-western Queensland. Photographs:

  1. A change of horses
  2. Constable Dick
  3. Irvinebank
  4. Inspector Malone
  5. The native cooks at Forest Home
  6. Forest Home
  7. An Aboriginal
  8. Forest Home
  9. His Excellency’s Goat Escort at Georgetown
  10. His Excellency’s Goat escort at Georgetown
  11. Main St, Georgetown
  12. The luggage, Mr Mooney and Mr Smith
  13. Floraville Post Office
  14. Warandingo
  15. The start from Inverleigh Station
  16. Our hotel at Burketown
  17. Burketown water supply
  18. Burketown bore
  19. Gregory Downs Hotel
  20. Rocklands
  21. A Bore at Rocklands
  22. Gate in Boundary fence between Queensland and Northern Territory
  23. Boundary fence between Queensland and Northern Territory
  24. Colin Bell on the left, His Excellency, and Inspector McGrath on the right
  25. A midday meal
  26. Our Camp
  27. The Australian Gum Trees
  28. Roughing it
  29. A midday halt
  30. Colin Bell (1867-1934) on the trip with the Governor, and his brother Joshua Thomas Bell who was Minister for Lands and The Speaker
  31. Packing up in the morning
  32. On the road [in horse drawn carriage]
  33. Coming out of the Leichhardt river [in horse drawn carriage]
  34. The Leichhardt River
  35. The bath at Rocklands
  36. Harnessing up
  37. On the road
  38. The luggage buggy on the road
  39. Starting for the days journey
  40. Putting in the horses
  41. Native Trackers
  42. Native Trackers
  43. Colin Bell and Fogarty bringing the horses out

Verney, Ralph

Bell Family Photographs

This file has 120 items of photographic material that was previously housed loosely in the collection. Most are black and white phototgraphs. The list of photographic material:

  1. View of Jimbour head station from creek, 1869
  2. Real photo postcard of the log cabin Isisford, ca. 1884
  3. With my brother in law Dr Lorrimer Dods taken at Fenton? Sunday 3rd’, 1928?, [Lorrimer Dods knighted for world child welfare] and Colin Basil Peter Bell, [United Graziers president]
  4. Jimbour [garden]. From post-it note (now removed): garden being created, ca. 1890.
  5. J. P. Bell [Joshua Peter Bell]. From post-it note (now removed): J. P. Bell, knighted 1881, died 1881
  6. [Unknown place, undated]
  7. [Men in stockyards, at Westland?], most of caption on missing corner, undated
  8. Colin B. P. Bell [Colin Basil Peter Bell] Taken March 4 1898 on wedding trip. [He married Theodora Sybil Frances Needham of Canning Downs]. Photographic studio: Freeman & Col, Ltd, 318 George Street, Sydney. Platinotype.
  9. Take great care of this photo [initials indecipherable], The late Sir Joshua Peter Bell. Return photo to Mr Colin B. P. Bell "Westland" Longreach, [undated].
  10. Jimbour about 1890. Left to right, back row: J. T. Bell [ Joshua Thomas Bell], Miss Galletly, Mrs Buckland Taylor with Isabell (baby), Isabell Moffatt, Lady Bell, Colin Bell, Maida Bell. Sitting: Emma Armytage. On ground: A. P. MacDonald, Willie [William Alexander] Bell, [Baten Tale?], 1890
  11. ‘Gambetta’ [by] ‘Lord of the Hills [from] ‘Greyskin’. From post-it note (now removed): taken at Jimbour, ca. 1896
  12. Outside Jimbour house, [Aboriginal man with horse and foal], undated
  13. Mr & Mrs C B P Bell [Colin and Sybil] Longreach show, first prize pair. From post-it note (now removed): for best pair of buggy horses, ‘Westland’ bred horses, ‘Lydia’ and ‘Foam’, ca. 1920
  14. Mr & Mrs Colin Bell at Longreach Show - date unknown. From post-it note (now discarded): Mr & Mrs C B P Bell (Colin and Sybil) at Longreach show, best four-in-hand, Westland Station horses, ca. 1920
  15. Coach from Jimbour house. From post-it note (now discarded): now in Cobb & Co Museum in Toowoomba, known as ‘The Yellow Buggy’, undated. Photograph from the Courier-Mail.
    15a. Coach. Most likely ‘The Yello Buggy’. Undated.
  16. Jimbour. From post-it note (now discarded): Jimbour house ca. 1880
  17. Colin Basil Peter Bell, 1889
  18. Real photo postcard. Joshua [Joshua Peter Ferguson Bell (1907-1997) son of Joshua Thomas Bell (1863-1911)] at the children’s picnic on his first birthday, 3 Feb 1908, Dalby
  19. Xmas 1932: [Colin Basil Peter Bell (1867-1934), manager of Westland]. Tennis at ‘Westland’, Longreach, 1932: Back Row L-R 1. [unknown], 2. Jock Inglis (manager, Welshot), 3. Colin Basil Peter Bell (manager, Westland), 4. Holmes, 5. Alec Ramsay (manager, Tocal), 6. Francis Needham Bell (son of Colin and Sybil); Row 2: Theodora Sybil Frances Needham Bell (wife), 2. Josephine Thora Bell (daughter of Colin and Sybil) 3. Mrs Alex Ramsay, 4. Lynette Bell (daughter of Colin and Sybil); Front – 1. Dick Barnes of ‘Rivoli Downs’ 2. Arthur Taylor (nephew of Banjo Patterson) 3. Hugh Patterson (son of Banjo Patterson) 4. Les Hayward (Jackeroo), 1932
  20. Photograph of [Colin Basil] Peter Bell, receiving award, [C.B.E. in 1968?], 1968?. Photograph from Queensland Country Life Photo.
  21. [Photograph of [Colin Basil] Peter Bell’s retirement dinner, 1971] 12 x 16 cm. Photograph from Queensland Country Life Photo.
  22. [Photograph of Peter Bell's retirement dinner, 1971], 8 x 13 cm. Photograph from Queensland Country Life Photo.
  23. Photograph of Peter Bell's retirement dinner, 1971, 8 x 13 cm.
  24. Peter C.B.E. [On cover]. New Year card with a photo of [Colin Basil] Peter Bell, Apr 1976.
  25. Wedding photograph of Sibyl Bell (nee Needham), 12 Mar 1989.
  26. Photograph of Colin [Basil Peter] Bell, undated.
  27. Photograph of Sybil Bell, undated.
  28. Group photograph, includes Sybil and Thora, undated.
  29. Carte-de-visite photograph of Joshua Thomas Bell, 1880. Photograph by: Mathewson Artist Photographer Brisbane.
  30. Carte-de-visite photograph of Lady Bell, 1880.
  31. Carte-de-visite photograph of Colin Basil Peter Bell, 1886. Photograph by: R.H. Lord, Cambridge.
  32. Carte-de-visite photograph of Oswald Marmaduke D'Orsey Bell, 1880. Photograph by: Mathewson Artist Photographer Brisbane.
  33. Carte-de-visite photograph of Warraba. Caption on the back of the photograph: "Warraba" with my father when he was a boy in Jimbour, originally he [rode?] on to Jimbour from N.S. Wales ... Warraba was well known in Brisbane in 1880, he stayed there while my [people?] were there at Gov. House. C. B. P. Bell.
  34. Longreach Show: C.B.P. Bell & - Allden president and secretary of C. & N. Graziers Assn.
  35. Colin Basil Peter Bell (1867-1934), undated, [DISCARDED: active mould]
  36. Unidentified photograph of men in sporting attire, undated. [In very poor condition]
  37. Bell family at Jimbour, 7 Apr 2002.
  38. Moffatt and Bell families sandstone vault, obelisk style monument with fencing surrounding the site at the Ipswich cemetary, 2003? The sandstone vault honors Thomas de Lacy Moffatt, Colonial Treasurer of Queensland who died in 1864.
  39. Close up of the Moffatt and Bell families sandstone vault at Ipswich cemetary with plaque for Gerald Kellett Moffat (1862-1894) and Thomas de Lacy Moffatt (ca. 1857-1894) , Nov 2003.
  40. Close up of the Moffatt and Bell Families vault with the plaque at the base for John Alexander Bell (ca. 1829-1901), Nov 2003.
  41. Fragment of a stone plaque for the Moffatt family vault 1864.
  42. Photograph of Thomas de Lacy Moffatt (1857-1894
  43. Photograph of Thomas de Lacy Moffatt (1857-1894) [son of Thomas de Lacy Moffatt (1824-1864) and Mary Isbella Moffatt (previously MacDonald, nee Bell (1826-1866)] mounted on card.
  44. Photograph of Gerald Kellett Moffat (1862-1894) [son of Thomas de Lacy Moffatt (1824-1864) and Mary Isbella Moffatt (previously MacDonald, nee Bell (1826-1866)]
  45. 'Mother on Valery Longreach', 'Sibyl Frances Bell at Longreach Show Chapion HackTaken about 1926 born 4 Feb 1877 m. 1898 Mr C.B.P. Bell', ca. 1926, mounted on card, edges damaged.
  46. Photo photo postcard with handwritten note: 'The Morgan Parliamentary Party before the General Election 1904. I wish you a Happy New Year JTB. Graceville 11-12-04.'; addressed to Hon. [indecipherable] Ferguson, London.
  47. Carte-de-visite photograph of Joshua Thomas Bell, with handwritten annotation 'JTB 1880). Photographer is Albert Lomer of Queen Street, Brisbane.
  48. Real photo postcard with annotation on reverse 'J.T. Bell speaking at opening of Dalby-Tara railway'. Very faded.
  49. Photograph of Joshua Peter Ferguson Bell (1909-1997) with note on version 'J.P.F. Bell son of Joshua Thomas (Bell) eldest son of Sir Joshua Peter and Lady Bell', mounted on card and missing sections of the photograph.
  50. Real photo postcard of Joshua Thomas Bell and Joshua Peter Ferguson Bell, with annotation on reverse 'JTB & JPFB on board Q.C.S. Otter'.
  51. Photograph of ACM Alden and CBP Bell (Colin Basil Peter Bell (1902-1977)), Cattle committee meeting, Townsville, 1954.
  52. Photograph of Jimbour Station, mounted on card.
  53. Photograph of Lady Bell (wife of Sir Joshua Peter Bell) and children: from left Oswald Marmaduke D’Orsey Bell (Ossie) (1871-1942), Colin Basil Peter Bell (Colin or Collie) (1867-1934), Maida Isabella Sarah Bell (1872-1942), Lady Bell (Margaret Miller Bell) (1849-1914), Joshua Thomas Bell (Joey) (1863-1911), and William Alexander D’Orsey Bell (1865-1940) taken at Lindin, 1889 [broken in half but still connected]. Photographer: Tho. Fall, Portman Square.
  54. Photograph of five men at Arrilalah Races. Eric Duflies [?], George Coar, Dad (CPB Bell), Bobbie Miller, C J Allicht. Undated.
  55. Black and white photograph of a couple, unidentified.
  56. Black and white group photograph, unidentified.
  57. First stage of the Public Offices, viewed from corner of Queen and William Streets, North Quay, Paul L Poulsen, Photographer, 7 Queen Street, Brisbane, ca. 1889.
  58. The main street in Tanga - Tanganyika Territory [previously inserted in Joshua Peter Ferguson Album].
  59. Negative of ship at dock, [previously inserted in Joshua Peter Ferguson Album].
  60. Real photo postcard. [previously inserted in Joshua Peter Ferguson Album].
  61. 'New Public Offices, Brisbane', mounted on card. Reverse side of card has information for Post and Telegraph Department, Queensland.
  62. Rakeevan, 1912.
  63. Jinny Maxwell Dads nurse. Maxwell was nurse to the Bell children], oval picture, mounted on card, undated.
  64. Margot Margaret Maxwell Bell, undated.
  65. My cousin Margot Bell aged 19, ca. 1927.
  66. Peter Bell holding Colin Bell at Watreley [?], Southport.
  67. Bell family relatives at Jimbour, Sunday 7 April 2002

[68 to 103.] [36 colour photographs from the opening of the Cellar Door at Jimbour House, April 2002].
[104 to 121. ] [18 colour 35mm negatives from the opening of the Cellar Door at Jimbour House, April 2002].

Jim Gasteen Papers

  • UQFL510
  • Collection
  • 1946-2010

Notebooks, photographs, slides, correspondence, reports and other material relating to land use and conservation, and the establishment of National Parks in Queensland.
It includes images of people (Album 4), stone axes (Album 1 and 4), middens (Album 4), Kata Tjuta and Uluru (Albums 1, 3 and 4), Jane Table Hill (Rirrmerr) (Albums 1 and 4) and burial sites (Albums 1, 3 and 4).

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Gasteen, Jim, 1922-

Glass slides

Glass slides containing images mostly of Aboriginal peoples, digitised scans of the images from the glass slides, and contact sheets of the digitised images.

Parcel 2
Item 6
DVD-R containing 107 digital files, in JPG and TIF formats, of digitised scans of images from the glass slides.

Folder 2
Nine contact sheets for the digitised scans of images from the glass slides.

Parcel 3
49 glass slides, 9 x 9 cm. Many of the slides also have a handwritten number attached to the frame, possibly assigned by the creator.

011: overwater stilt dwellings and inhabitants in Papua New Guinea; typed label on slide reads 'Marine village at Gaile [Gaire]'; label numbered '592'.
012: man with canoe; handwritten annotation on frame reads 'Hawaiian outrigger canoe'; label numbered '1546'.
013: young mother possibly wearing sling baby carrier; label numbered '721'.
014: young man sitting on river bank among reeds; label numbered '1062'.
015: side portrait of a boy; label numbered '331'.
016: group of twelve Aboriginal children, adolescents and adults standing with what appears to be one Caucasian woman.
017: Aboriginal rock art; label numbered '968A'.
018: row of elevated timber cottages.
019: full-length portrait of Aboriginal man standing on one leg and holding a spear; label numbered '689'.
020: full-length portrait of an Aboriginal woman with a little boy and little girl standing either side of her.
021: facade of an elevated timber cottage and front yard.
022: eleven Aboriginal children sitting on the front steps of a timber dwelling.
023: the backs of four Aboriginal men and women standing together, one of whom is having a headdress placed upon or taken off their head by the other members, with a group of Aboriginal women in hats watching on from the left.
024: the backs of six Aboriginal men, some decorated with body paint.
025: Aboriginal woman making diamond string figures with her hands.
026: four hands holding up a string figure.
027: close-up of Aboriginal man's hands making a string figure.
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Tennant-Kelly, Caroline, 1899-1989

Professional photographs

Album containing 73 black-and-white photographs (sizes vary), 106 negatives (sizes vary), one colour photograph (17 x 23 cm) and 18 mounted slides (35 mm) relating to Caroline Kelly's professional life in the theatre and as an anthropologist. Includes photographs of Margaret Mead, people in possibly Samoa or another location in the Pacific Islands, people at the Cherboug community in Queensland, tobacco farming and a community gathering on the Atherton Tableland, and housing developments associated with Kelly's work for the New South Wales State Planning Authority (later known as the New South Wales Planning and Environment Commission). One set of negatives is accompanied by a handwritten note, possibly authored by Caroline Kelly, marked 'Scenes from a corroboree, N. Queensland'; another set is accompanied by a handwritten note marked 'Studies in a native settlement'.

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Tennant-Kelly, Caroline, 1899-1989

Fryer Library Photograph Collection

  • UQFL477
  • Collection
  • ca. 1860-ca. 1980

Approximately 900 photographs, mostly black and white, some sepia. Photographs mostly relating to Queensland people and places, but including interstate and overseas photographs. Includes photographs of Australian authors, the 1893 Brisbane floods, and Mornington Island (Queensland). There are also a number of photographs of Papua New Guinea which were originally in the Beazley collection (UQFL271). Other photographs of Queensland people and places can be found in UQFL479.

Fryer Memorial Library

William James Gall Papers

  • UQFL43
  • Collection
  • 1851-1960

Diaries, newspaper clippings 1892-1934, official and private correspondence, photographs, records, Prizewinners' list from Ipswich Grammar School, financial papers, invitations and programmes; inter-departmental memoranda from period as Under-Secretary for Home Affairs and Protector of Aborigines; manager and inspector list from Bank of New South Wales, mining and share prospectuses, reports and circulars; notes on Queensland and Australian history.
Bulk of papers 1880-1938.

Gall, William James, 1867-1938

Sidney Richardson Photographs

  • UQFL243
  • Collection
  • 1884-1893

Two hundred and three (203) photographs of Queensland towns from circa 1880s to1890s, and 211 black & white 35mm negative derivatives with 13 proof sheets.

Richardson, Sidney

Glass plate negatives

Twenty one (21) glass plate negatives created by Mary Christison:

  1. ‘Mattamundukka waterhole at the Lammermoor Homestead’, published in Bennett, Mary M., ‘Records’, Vol 1, p70
  2. ‘Mattemundukka on Tower Hill Creek’
  3. ‘Lammermoor Homestead’
  4. ‘Royal Wilton Stud cows’
  5. ‘My last muster’
  6. ‘Robert Christison in 1857’
  7. Notes of race on back of photograph of R Christison
  8. ‘R Christison, 1912’
  9. ‘R Christison, 1877’ [damaged]
  10. ‘Tommy’, full portrait of a young child taken in 1898
  11. ‘Tommy’, in European dress in garden taken in 1898
  12. ‘Warmbunny’ taken in 1898
  13. ‘Charley’, portrait taken in 1898
  14. ‘Kyra’, portrait taken in 1898
  15. ‘Kyra’, portrait taken in 1898
  16. ‘Ko Bro’, portrait taken in 1896
  17. ‘Topsy’, portrait taken in 1898
  18. ‘Ko Bro’, portrait taken in 1898
  19. ‘Ko Bro’ portrait taken in 1896
  20. ‘Wyma’, portrait taken in 1898
  21. ‘Ko Bro, Wyma and friends’.

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Bennett, M. M. (Mary Montgomerie), 1881-1961

Records collected by Mrs Bennett & presented to Queensland University : Vol. 1

Scrapbook with handwritten page numbering to 138 with records collected by Mary Bennet. On page.iv "Volume I :Pamplets and notes by Robert Christison, photographs, etc." Contains photographs, reprints and typescripts written by or relating to Sir Robert Christison and also relating to the Dalleburra people who lived on the same land as him.

Includes:
• a comprehensive index;
• article by S. E. Pearson (1928) 'In the tracks of the pioneers : iv. The laird of Lammermoor', The Pastoral review;
• typescript extracts from letter from C. W. Bowly to Mrs Bennett;
• 'Photograph of a korobbery [sic] of the Dalleburra tribe', taken in 1874 by C. W. Bowley;
• 'Photograph of the old Lammermoor Homestead', taken in 1874 by C. W. Bowly;
• typescript pages with title 'Dalleburra Dictionary' (8 leaves);
• typescript page with title 'Dictionary of the Dalleburras on the Upper Thomson, by R. Christison (The Australian Race, ny E. M. Curr.)' ;
• typescript page with title 'Proper names';
• typescript page with title 'Aboriginal songs';
• copy of M.M. Bennett's article 'Notes on the Dalleburra Tribe of Northern Queensland', reprinted from the Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute vol. LVII, 1972;
• newspaper cuttings pasted onto pages, which include articles by M. M. Bennett, and many from the Townsville Daily Bulletin
• papers relating to Alexander Christison: biography, births days of his children, photographs of him, copy of his pamplet titled ‘Saint Paul as a tent-maker’;
• biographical information on Robert Christison;
• pamphlets by Robert Christison: ‘United Australia and Imperial Federation’ (1888); ‘Our colonies suffering a recover : a paper read by Robert Christison at Hobart on March 15th, 1894’
• pamphlets: ‘A letter from the Bishop of North Queensland to the contributors to the North Queensland Church Fund’ (1879);
• 90 b&w photographs.

The photographs are taken between 1896 and 1910 mostly by Mary Christison (nee Godsell) and include views of the Lammermoor Station, Lammermoor homestead, Lammermoor musterers, the Lammermoor herd, Robert Christison, Robert Gray, Charlotte Gray, Fanny Allingham, Dr R. L. Jack (Geologist), Mrs Jack, Mary Sympson Christison (nee Tovey), Bishop Stanton, Mary Christison (nee Godsell), and 21 portrait photographs of individual members of the Dalleburra tribe, dated 1898.

List of full or partial names of Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander individuals mentioned in the file:
King Narkool
Kobro (Barney)
Mary
Mickey

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