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Originally entitled Bulletin.

Scope and Contents The collection comprises twenty-two boxes of photographs and thirty boxes plus one file of negatives. Each of the boxes is individually labelled with subject summaries (ten in total) as follows:1 - Constitutional and Independence Conferences x 5 boxes2 - Britain and ... x 6 boxes3 - Commonwealth Parliamentary Association visitors (incl. Commonwealth Relations 1-61) x 2 boxes4 - Commonwealth Exhibitions x 3 boxes5 - Miscellaneous Conferences x 1...

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Coloured postcards

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Album containing seventy three coloured lithographic plans and elevations, pages measuring 200 x 335 mm. of various country buildings to be made of wood, with additions such as fences and gates, drawn to various scales. The title on the front cover is blocked in gold and reads: 'Queensland Court/Colonial and Indian Exhibition/Queensland State Schools. /Lithographed plans/ of /Country Buildings etc. /With additions complete / Constructed of Hardwood.'

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205 x 155 mm. A view showing the front of the house from the drive.

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205 x 150 mm. View showing sugar plantation on right and sheds, still in the process of being built, on the left, with the river in the background. The picture has been taken from the roof of one of the sheds (which can be seen at bottom of picture), and this gives an aerial sense of perspective. The date of this picture is at the height of the expansion of the sugar industry in Queensland, sugar being first manufactured near the Hastings River in 1823.

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260 x 205 mm. View from a hill behind the station, showing covered platform with a passenger train in the station, and a goods train just outside. Two pony cabs wait alongside the platform. The first section of railway in Queensland was from Ipswich to Bigges Camp (now Grandchester) and was opened on 31st July 1865. Brisbane, however, was not connected to the railway system until 1875.

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230 x 160 mm. A view of the station buildings, with a pony and trap outside.

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235 x 180 mm. Photograph shows the raised line of a metal girder bridge crossing the Condamine

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195 x 145 mm. Photograph shows the wooden school house at the left, the rectory in the centre and the edge of the church at the right.

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210 x 135 mm. Showing the bore flowing and with a herd of cattle drinking from the irrigation channel.

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210 x 130 mm. Photograph showing the construction of the drilling derrick, with a large steam engine to the right, and several large teams of horses pulling carts.

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200 x 150 mm. A view looking down Roma Street with the fruit market on the left, and horse-drawn taxicabs parked on either side of the road.

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210 x 150 mm. Showing young orange trees recently planted out, with figures in the distance. Stamped on the reverse with 'Silverwood Gazette.'

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69 x 112 mm. Young plants growing beneath a canopy of sacking with two growers in the background.

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180 x 225 mm. A view of a rather more imposing church than that shown in Y3085E/12.

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170 x 130 mm. Showing a man standing beside the flowing bore.

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180 x 130 mm. Showing the flow from the bore, with two huts behind. Over the door of the first is hung a notice warning of trespass and damage to machinery.

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195 x 145 mm. Photograph taken from the same viewpoint as Y3085D/8, but further back. The bank where Y3085D/8 was taken from is now under water, with the river reaching almost to the roadway across the bridge. With man standing by the river, and a couple in a pony cart drawn by two horses.

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200 x 150 mm. Photograph showing various types of timber.

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220 x 150 mm. Front view of small weatherboard building, with signs in windows reading ‘Library’ and ‘Reading Room’.

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175 x 205 mm. A view from the road of the entrance to this two-storeyed, balconied building.

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195 x 145 mm. Looking down a side street, on to Palmerin Street. A view taken from the street leading off to the left beyond the shops in Y3085D/4 with two labourers standing by the roadside.

Scope and Contents Album containing printed title page and twelve mounted prints measuring approximately 290 x 235 mm., and showing scenes in and around the Exhibition Buildings. All the photographs have brief printed captions. The title page in full reads: 'Under the Patronage of His Excellency Sir Arthur E. Kennedy KCMG., C.B., twelve photographic views of the Second Intercolonial Exhibition held in Brisbane, Queensland August 21 1877, under the auspices of the National Agricultural and Industrial...

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200 x 150 mm. A view showing cleared and cultivated land, surrounded by woodland, with a man feeding chickens in the foreground.