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.

There are 48 black and white photographs, 5.5 x 8 cm, pasted on to boards. Some photographs appear to be missing. The numbering against the photographs are mostly in reverse order. Photographs have the following captioning:

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