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[Loaded packhorses outside wooden store building].

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Landscape format. [Smithy not visible].

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Landscape format. [Teams outside buildings, one marked 'Baker'].

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Colour photographs measuring approximately 125 x 90 mm, pasted into the album pages. A detailed account of the second half of a six week holiday spent with ex-Kenya friends living in Queensland. Many day-trips to towns around Toowoomba, Brisbane and Warwick are described. The smaller, second section recounts similar information regarding Simon's home territory around Christchurch, Hampshire.

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[No print]. [Missing].

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Landscape format. [Flooded ford on the Barron river].

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350 x 250 mm. No print.

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[No print]. [Missing].

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[No print]. [Missing].

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Landscape format. [View down to river below].

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350 x 250 mm. No print.

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A commercially produced portfolio containing twelve prints, each 130 x 105 mm, mounted on card with printed captions, showing scenes in and around Brisbane. Photographer and publisher George P Wright, James Street, Valley, Brisbane.

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105 x 150 mm. A view of the Custom House decorated with flags, palm leaves and a sign reading ‘Welcome to our Royal Duke and Duchess’.

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270 x 205 mm. A view looking across the lawn to the bungalow beyond the fountain.

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265 x 215 mm. A front view of the Post Office, with three men standing on the balcony. The Post Office was rebuilt after the second great fire in Queen Street which destroyed a whole block of shops, and was completed on 28th October 1872. This picture was probably taken shortly after completion, as the building does not seem occupied or in use.

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265 x 207 mm. A three-quarters front view of these two buildings from the street, along which are telegraph poles and wires. The first telegraph message sent in Queensland was from Brisbane to Ipswich on 11 Apr. 1861. By 21 Oct. 1872 there was direct telegraphic communication with Europe.

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Landscape format. [A still sea with no boats. Jetty with shed visible behind trees]

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280 x 210 mm. A view of the Lands and Works Office from Adelaide Street. Signs in the window of the building read ‘Brisbane Land Agent’ and on plaques by the door, ‘Land Commissioner, Moreton District’, ‘Land Agent, Brisbane’, ‘Commissioner of Crown Lands’, and ‘Department of Public Lands’. A horse cab and driver stand in front of the building.

Scope and Contents Collection of twenty-four 165 x 122 mm black and white prints and 18 35 mm coloured slides. Dr Majory Warren, C.B.E. (1898-1960) consultant Physician at the West Middlesex Hospital, Isleworth, was a pioneer in the treatment of elderly patients. Her work was recognised when she was created C.B.E. in the New Years Honours of 1960, but she was killed in a car crash in France on 5th September of the same year. The Marjory Warren Geriatric Unit, attached to the Royal Brisbane Hospital, was...

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227 x 175 mm. Photograph showing the road running alongside the river, with residential houses scattered here and there.

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270 x 200 mm. A photograph taken from the same viewpoint as Y3085B/8. The foundation stone was laid in July 1865 and the building occupied in August 1868.

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150 x 105 mm. A view of the arch across Queen Street, with pictures of the King and Queen at either side and surmounted by a large crown. With an electric tramcar on the street in the foreground. Electric trams took over from their horse-drawn predecessors in 1897, at which time there were over six miles of track.

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On the left the Executive Building: at the back the Free Public Library: Queen Victoria's Monument; the gun in front is a Krupp Boer gun from Brakfontein.

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On the left the Executive Building: at the back the Free Public Library: Queen Victoria's Monument; the gun in front is a Krupp Boer gun from Brakfontein.

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280 x 225 mm. A view looking across the Botanic Gardens to the house, an imposing white structure, in George Street.