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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.

[The Queensland Court at the Philadelphia International Exhibition 1876]

  • F3640
  • Item
  • 1876

"Stereoscopic albumen print photograph, 104 x 80 mm each image (slightly pale). The display includes large format framed photographs (most of which appear to show rural scenes), glass cabinets with geological specimens, animals pelts and an extensive selection of books." -- Douglas Stewart Fine Books.

Centennial Photographic Co.

Souvenir of the Northern Tour of the Hon J.G. Appel (Home Secretary)

  • F3584
  • Item
  • 1914

Bound album, 28 x 25 x 6 cm, of 167 black and white photographs. Appears to be a record of Appel's voyage while Home Secretary in the Queensland Government Steamer "Otter" in 1914 which went as far north as Daru on the coast of south-western Papua. Title embossed on cover of album. Several pages are without photographs. Photographs have been pasted to the mid-weight card and none have captioning. Photographs include: Baron Falls; a lighthouse (possibly Booby Island Light); possibly Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples from Northern Queensland and Papuan New Guinea peoples; and places from his travels.

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.

Appel, John George, 1859-1929

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

Robert Browning Photographs

  • UQFL480
  • Collection
  • [1858]-1920

54 black and white photographs of late 19th and early 20th century Brisbane. Includes many photographs of Brisbane 1893 flood. Some photographs have been reproduced in publications such as 'Brisbane past and present', or appear to be duplicates of photographs held elsewhere.

Browning, Robert B.

Photograph album of reproductions of artworks from various European galleries and museums, and photographs of Europe, New York and Queensland

  • F3470
  • Item
  • c1900

Album of 83 sepia and coloured photographs of European scenery and artworks (mostly France), views of the city of New York, and views of North Queensland, including the Barron Falls. Some photographs have printed captions, and name of photographic studios. Photographs are various sizes. Photographic studios include Francis Ellis & W. Hayward London, Detroit Photographic Co., and G. Brogi.

Mayne, James O'Neil, 1861-1939

Manuscript of compositions/ Ivie Murchie.

  • F452
  • Item
  • 1885-1887.

Exercise book containing handwritten poems by Ivie Murchie. Includes 6 photographs of schools and residences where Ivie Murchie taught and lived (Mungar, Normanton, Bundaberg; [187-] - [1904] ). Also includes typed list of schools at which he taught, and the dates.

Murchie, Ivie, 1863-1945

Images of Western Queensland

  • F3782
  • File
  • 1954-1955

Slides of Western Queensland including Mount Isa, Cloncurry, Barcaldine, Rodney Downs Station and the Shannon Family, Dandaraga Station, Longreach, Stonehenge, Ilfracombe, Boulia and Cramsie.

Luck, Geoffrey, 1931-

Bell Family Papers

  • UQFL79
  • Collection
  • ca.1845-ca. 2019

Photographs, correspondence, diaries, journals, newspaper cuttings, personal papers relating to the Bell Family, Jimbour Station, various Bell Family properties, Jimbour House, and its occupants.

Bell Family