Scope and Contents 150 x 105 mm. Archibald Meston (1851 - 1924) posing with an Aboriginal Australian spear. The spear is inserted into a small cup at the end of the stick, and flicked out, enabling the spear to be thrown over 100 yards. Meston was a journalist and explorer who became interested in the language and culture of the Aboriginal Australian peoples, and being a keen sportsman, was a practiced thrower of the boomerang and spear. From 1898 to 1903 he was protector of Aboriginal Australians in Southern...

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205 x 155 mm. A view of the arch, with the crowds in front and the Lamington Hotel behind.

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105 x 150 mm. An Aboriginal Australian about to hurl a spear.

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150 x 105 mm. A group of Aboriginal Australians wrestling, while one man wearing a kangaroo skin stands in the background.

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150 x 105 mm. A continuation from Y3085J/20. Aboriginal Australians sit on the ground or stand, some with boomerangs, while a man in a kangaroo skin crouches with his back to the camera.

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150 x 105 mm. Showing Aboriginal Australians with raised hands, with a man dressed in a kangaroo skin to their right.

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150 x 105 mm. Showing Aboriginal Australians doing gymnastics, with men doing handstands over a line on their hands and feet.

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150 x 105 mm. Showing Aboriginal Australians on their hands and knees, while a man in a kangaroo skin leaps between them.

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205 x 130 mm Showing a line of Aboriginal Australians holding spears, boomerangs and painted shields.

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205 x 130 mm. Showing a group of Aboriginal Australians in a semi-circle around a man wearing kangaroo skin. The sequence of photographs possibly represents a symbolic hunt, although Wallace, who describes the event in ‘The Web of Empire’, makes no specific mention of it.

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155 x 110 mm. Photograph showing a mock fight between A. Meston (see Y3085J/18) and an Aboriginal Australian. Photograph blurred through movement.

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205 x 145 mm. First of a series of five photographs taken from the same viewpoint showing the ceremony of laying the foundation stone of the Cathedral Church of St John the Evangelist. The foundation stone at the right, with churchmen and choir in centre. The Duke and Duchess have just arrived, and onlookers raise their hats as they pass by.

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205 x 145 mm. The ceremony in progress. The Duke bends over the stone and applies mortar, while the Duchess stands to his right with umbrella. The Bishop of Brisbane stands next to the Duke. (Bishop William Thomas Thornhill Webber, 1837 - 1903).

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205 x 140 mm. A hymn is sung while the stones are joined.

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205 x 145 mm. The end of the ceremony, with children filing away. This is in fact the last in the series and should be preceded by Y3085J/16.

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205 x 145 mm. The Duke and Duchess sit to the right of the foundation stone, during an address by the Bishop of Brisbane.

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227 x 175 mm. A view of the gardens, with Government House in the background, largely obscured by trees.

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235 x 186 mm. A view showing palm trees of various sorts in the gardens, with an unidentified house in the background.

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138 x 99 mm. A view showing palms and other shrubs in the Botanical Gardens.

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Collection of photographs measuring mainly 90 x 63 mm. Photographer unknown.

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261 x 203 mm. A view looking along the Brisbane River, showing Petrie’s Bight and wharves, with shipping moored along the river, and with the Metropolitan Baths in the foreground. Photograph by George P. Wright. Another print of the same photograph occurs in Y3085C/7. It is likely that all the Brisbane photographs are by Wright, although only Plates 190, 191 and 198 are positively identified.

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121 x 99 mm. A view looking across the Brisbane River towards a wharf piled high with timber, with houses beyond. Exact location unknown.

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129 x 100 mm. A view looking along the Brisbane River bank with houses on the hill beside the river. Exact location unknown.

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Monochrome postcards.

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200 x 250 mm. View of the pulpit from in front of the lectern, with some choir stalls visible.