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Frontier and pioneer life -- Queensland
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Gertrude Eva Constance Kirk Papers

  • UQFL67
  • Collection
  • [1841-1979?]

Letters, holograph, scrapbooks of newspaper cuttings, stamp album, petty cash book, papers of Cressbrook Station, Toogolawah, Amateur Racing Club programmes, speech relating to the Joyce family.

Kirk, Gertrude Eva Constance

Letters of Patrick Leslie

  • F1715
  • Item
  • 1835-1848.

Volume of letters, from duplicates in the possession of the John Oxley Library, Brisbane.

Leslie, Patrick, 1815-1881

Mary Montgomerie Bennett Papers

  • UQFL202
  • Collection
  • 1839-1929?

The collection comprises two bound scrapbooks of records collected by Mary Montgomerie Bennett when compiling the history of her father, Sir Robert Christison; correspondence; and glass plate negatives. The bound volumes include: newspaper cuttings, extracts of newspaper cuttings, pamphlets, photographs, reprints of articles, and typescripts written by or relating to Sir Robert Christison and the Dalleburra people who lived on the same land. Most of the material covers the period 1870 to 1910. The correspondence is that received by Mrs Bennet regarding her book Christison of Lammermoor. There are notes compiled by Mrs Bennett that accompany the 21 glass plate negatives created by Mary Christison, Mary Bennett mother. The slides are of Lammermoor Homestead and a portrait of Robert Christison, most taken by Mary Christison between the years 1896 to 1910; and of individuals in the Dalleburra Tribe, Mitchell District in North Queensland, 1870 to 1900, taken by Mary Christison.

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.

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

McConnel Family Papers

  • UQFL89
  • Collection
  • 1844-1977

Durundur Station letterbooks and account book; autograph album; personal papers of John McConnel and Arthur John McConnel; legal and financial documents; surveyors' plans and parish maps (relating to family holdings in Burnett area); press clippings; breeding records; correspondence, miscellaneous papers, poetry, artwork.

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. Some photographs contain nudity. Women should be cautious as this resource includes some aspects of traditional Men's Business.

McConnel family

Records collected by Mrs Bennett when compiling the history of Robert Christison, 1837-1915

Two bound scrapbooks of records collected by Mary M. Bennett when compiling the history of her father, Sir Robert Christison, The bound volumes include: newspaper cuttings, extracts of newspaper cuttings, pamphlets, photographs, reprints of articles, and typescripts written by or relating to Sir Robert Christison and the Dalleburra people who lived on the same land. Most of the material covers the period 1870 to 1910.

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

Romance of the west

  • F410
  • Item
  • 1923

Press cuttings of a series of articles published in the Brisbane Courier, 1923.

Lonsdale, Thomas J.

The 1893 flood : recollections by Mr H.P. Somerset as published in an Esk newspaper dated June 18th 1932.

  • F540
  • Item
  • 1932-1972.

Includes: 'Reminiscences of H.P. Somerset'. (Typescript photocopy 87p.) ; Reprint of H.P. Somerset's letter to the editor and a 1972 proposed Wivenhoe Dam map ; Caboonbah Undenominational Church Golden Jubilee 1905-1955 - order of service (Photocopy 4p.) ; Letter to the editor, 16 Nov. 1935 - Courier Mail by H.P. Somerset. (Photocopy) ; Newspaper clippings (4 l.) ; Speech notes... Premier Hon. G.F.R. Nicklin MLA at the unveiling of a memorial plaque at Somerset Dam on Nov 15 1958. (Typescript & photocopy) ; Photograph of H.P. Somerset [identified on verso] (1 sepia 10 x 13cm plus 35mm negative).

Somerset, Henry Plantagenet, 1852-1936