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Album containing nine coloured (180 x 130 mm) and one black and white (205 x 135 mm) photographs of the Port of Brisbane, with printed captions. The album, which is not full, is a Saga self-adhesive album made in Japan. The first page reproduces the Charter and the Coat of Arms, with description (all in colour). The second page sets out brief facts about the Port's involvement in coal exports.

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195 x 130 mm. The same building as photographed in Y3085C/10, but with an identical extension on the right of the picture, built in the intervening period. With a horse and cart in front of the building.

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232 x 160 mm. A view of the new Post Office. The post office in Y3085C/10 is now the Post and Telegraph Offices. Built by John Petrie, the first mayor of Brisbane, the Post Office was completed in October 1872.

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235 x 185 mm. A view of the street showing numerous pony traps and a stage coach on the right. This end of the street shows the tram lines, with a horse-drawn tram at the crown of the hill. Queen Street was the first thoroughfare in Brisbane to have tramways; the work was started in January 1885 and opened for general on traffic 12th August.

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235 x 185 mm. A view down the hill along Queen Street, showing various shops (including a ‘Lithographers and bookbinders’ on the left) and with various kinds of horse carts and traps on the road including what were known as ‘Molly Maguires’, small two wheeled traps, with the seat set axle-wise.

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

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

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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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200 x 150 mm. Photograph showing sheep loaded in pens aboard ship. Pinkenbah is a suburb of Brisbane, on the river in the north-east part of the city.

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In the foreground is seen the Queensland Government steamer 'Lucinda.' This view is taken from the Agricultural College.

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200 x 150 mm. Showing a steamer pulling out onto the river, with spectators and dockers on the wharf.

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280 x 230 mm. Two horses are tethered outside the grounds of the court, while a policeman and one other man watch the camera. The law courts were first used in 1879.

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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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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.