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

Album of twelve sepia photographs of views of North Queensland including Cairns, Herberton, Barron George, Barron Falls, Hambledon and railways in the area. Title handwritten inside album. Album is undated. A handwritten list of captions and supplied item numbers has been inserted prior to the title page. Most photographs appear to be around the construction of the railway to Herberton which began in Cairns in 1886. It finished in Ravenshoe in 1916.

Written on the inside cover the album, presumably by the seller: "In. [Inventory] 5033. Royal Qto. Oblong Purple toned. 10 [shillings]". These type of photographs were often taken by the Queensland Government.

Each photo has caption, supplied information is included in square brackets:

1. Glacier Rock . --
2. [Cairns-Herberton railway] From 28 bridge. --
3. Surprise Creek bridge [Cairns-Herberton railway]. --
4. Cairns end of long tunnel. --
5. The Barron Gorge. --
6. Herberton end of the tunnel. --
7. Near the Barron. --
8. Barron Falls. --
9. Aborigines of Cairns-Herberton district. --
10. Kanaka women working in sugar cane. --
11. Hambledon Sugar Plantation Cairns, general views. --
12. Hoeing weeds in young cane.

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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

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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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.

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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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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.

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.

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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.

Album of 52 albumen prints, (20 x 15cm) mounted on board. Written on the images in white capital letters are captions, a photographic number and the name of the photographic studio 'Kerry, Photo, Sydney'. Handwritten on the mounting boards are pencil captions, often with less information than the captions on the images and the photographic number supplied by Kerry crossed out and alternative numbering provided. The album itself has been bound and has a handwritten spine title stuck to it "Australian Aboriginal ceremonies". It looks to have been added to the album at a later date, thus not the original title of the album.

The images are of Australian Aboriginal people in what appears to be mostly staged poses for Australian Aboriginal ceremonies, corroborees, dance, tracking, fights as well as photographs of various individuals. Some of the photographs have painted backdrops. Some of the people in the photographs were members of "Meston's Wild Australia" (also know as Archibald Meston's "Wild Australia Show"). There are some photographs that were most likely taken in Sydney in December 1892 by Charles Kerry. This is based on the beach setting and the backdrops being identical to those photographs for Archibald Meston's "Wild Australia Show".

Listed below are the contents of the album. The number corresponds to the page number in the album; the tile is what appears on the image itself; and in brackets is the Kerry Studio photograph number and the alternative number if provided. Information in square brackets is provided by the processing archivist:

1. Aboriginal ceremony. Death of the deity (Kerry, Photograph number 2804 / 136). --
2. Leaving the bora ceremony (Kerry, Photograph number 2616). --
3. Crossing the mystic figures (Kerry, Photograph number 2614 / 137). --
4. Approaching the kings ground (Kerry, Photograph number 2615 / 138). --
5. Aboriginal ceremony "The sick warrior" (Kerry, Photograph number 2598 / 139). --
6. Aboriginal ceremony "Lying in wait" (Kerry, Photograph number 2608 / 140). --
7. Aboriginal ceremony "Death of the wild boar" (Kerry, Photograph number 2603 / 141). --
8. Aboriginal ceremony "Arrival of the king" (Kerry, Photograph number 2605 / 142). --
9. Aboriginal bora. "Waiting the decision of the king" (Kerry, Photograph number 2617 / 143). --
10. Aboriginal ceremony. "A duel to the death" (Kerry, Photograph number 2610 / 144). --
11. Aborigines worshiping figure of the deity (Kerry, Photograph number 2597 / 145). --
12. Arrival of the novices [unable to decipher writing on photograph] (Kerry, Photograph number 2611 / 146). --
13. Aboriginal ceremony "Warriors in ambush" (Kerry, Photograph number 2600). --
14. Aboriginal ceremony "Opening the Bora" (Kerry, Photograph number 2609 / 147). --
15. Aboriginal ceremony, "Spearing the wild bull" (Kerry, Photograph number 2599 / 148). --
16. Aboriginal corroboree "A battle" (Kerry, Photograph number 2586 / 149). --
17. Aboriginal ceremony "Following the footsteps of the deity" (Kerry, Photograph number 2606 / 150). --
18. Waiting for instructions ([Kerry, Photograph number] 2612 / 151). --
19. Aboriginals "Corroboree" (Kerry, Photograph number 2584). --
20. Aboriginal ceremony, "The Bora tree" (Kerry, Photograph number 2607 / 152). --
21. Aboriginal ceremony, "Spearing the Alligator" (Kerry, Photograph number 2601/ 153). --
22. Aboriginal ceremony, "Gathering wild bird eggs" (Kerry, Photograph number 2602 / 154). --
23. Aboriginals "Corroboree" (Kerry, Photograph number 2585 / 155). --
24. Aboriginal corroboree "Healing the sick warrior" (Kerry, Photograph number 2588 / 156). --
25. [Writing indecipherable] "Drafting sheep" (Kerry, Photograph number 2587 / 157). --
26. Aboriginals tracking ([Kerry, Photograph number] 2583 / 158). --
27. Corroboree Austn Aborigines [painted backdrop] (Kerry, Photograph number 1360 / 159). --
28. "Wermugga Dance" Austn Aboriginals [painted backdrop] (Kerry, Photograph number 1361 / 160). --
29. Aboriginals & Black Trackers (Kerry, Photograph number 1388 / 161). --
30. Group fighting men [painted backdrop] (Kerry, Photograph number 1391 / 162). --
31. Bora Corroboree (Kerry, Photograph number 1390). --
32. Aboriginal Corroboree (Kerry, Photograph number 1367). --
33. Fish Corroboree (Kerry, Photograph number 1393 / 163). --
34. Aboriginals & Black Trackers (Kerry, Photograph number 1378 / 164). --
35. Wermugga Corroboree (Kerry, Photograph number 1392 / 165). --
36. Aboriginals & Black Tracker (Kerry, Photograph number 1389 / 166). --
37. [Writing indecipherable on photograph] Group of Northern Territory natives (Kerry, Photograph number 1368). --
38. An Aboriginal fight (Kerry, Photograph number 2553). --
39. Aboriginals, upper Macleay River (Kerry, Photograph number 2162 / 167). --
40. Aboriginals, upper Macleay River (Kerry, Photograph number 2160). --
41. Aboriginals, upper Macleay River (Kerry, Photograph number 2161). --
42. Darling R. natives (Kerry, Photograph number 141). --
43. Aboriginal climbing tree (Kerry, Photograph number 2126 / 168). --
44. Aboriginal spearing fish (Kerry, Photograph number 2125 / 169). --
45. Native climbing with vine (Kerry, Photograph number 535). --
46. "Wharangoo". Aboriginal, Tenterfield District [painted backdrop] (Kerry, Photograph number 1989 / 170). --
47. "Borree", Aboriginal Chief, Jervis Bay (Kerry, Photograph number 2013). --
48. "Yenohan". Girl, Tumut Tribe, N.S.W. (Kerry, Photograph number 1899 / 171). --
49. Aboriginal women [painted backdrop] (Kerry, Photograph number 1914 / 172). --
50. Aboriginal girl, Brungle [painted backdrop] (Kerry, Photograph number 1913 / 173). --
51. Aboriginal warrior, Bellinger River (Kerry, Photograph number 2014). --
52. Aboriginal with Derri Head dress (Kerry, Photograph number 1371 / 174).

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