Roma (inhabited place)
Found in 6 Collections and/or Records:
Experimental oats, Roma State Farm, 1910
200 x 150 mm. Showing a field of oats, with a man standing waist-high amongst the crop.
Experimental wheat crop, Roma State Farm, Roma, 1910
200 x 150 mm. Showing a field of wheat, with a briefcase placed in front as an indication of scale.
Grapes growing at Roma, Maranoa District, 1910
200 x 150 mm. Showing grapes ripening on the vine. Roma lies about 270 miles north-west of Brisbane.
Pumpkins, Roma State Farm, 1910
200 x 150 mm. Showing ripe, harvested pumpkins under a rough thatched barn.
Silo at Roma, 1910
200 x 150 mm. Showing a large wooden silo being loaded. The machine loading the silo is driven by a steam engine. With a windmill at right of picture (Caption in crayon on reverse identifieds location as Oakey rather than Roma).
University of Basutoland, Bechuanaland and Swaziland [now the University of Lesotho], 1963 - 1964
156 x 108 mm. Showing the buildings of the three-nation university at Roma. Originally the Pins XII Catholic University College, the non-denominational university came into existence on January 1 1964. With the change of name of two of the participating states, it later became the University of Botswana, Lesotho and Swaziland (U.B.L.S.). The Roma Campus was nationalized in October 1975 and thenceforward became the National University of Lesotho.