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Podcast: The Medical Front (A night in the JOL)
Medicos from Queensland played significant roles during the First World War. The John Oxley Library features holdings such as the Marks Family Papers, which include the letters and photographs of...
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Queensland Government Steam Yacht Lucinda
Guest blogger: Jo Seccombe – Senior Reference Archivist, Queensland State Archives 150 years ago this month, the QGSY Lucinda steamed from Dumbarton, Scotland bound ultimately for Queensland. This...
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80th anniversary – First women’s international cricket test match was played...
Souvenir and official programme of the visit of the English Women Cricketers to Queensland 1934-35 On 28 December, 1934, Queensland hosted the very first women’s international cricket test match. This...
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Queenslanders celebrate NYE, 1934
Illustrated front cover from The Queenslander, December 27, 1934 On the evening of December 31, 1934, partygoers across the state prepared to celebrate the coming of the new year, as illustrated in The...
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2014 WEB ARCHIVING HIGHLIGHTS
2014 was another busy year for John Oxley Library staff involved in web archiving. Each year we select several hundred Queensland websites and online publications to be preserved for future...
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Research station recognised for posterity
Guest blogger: Susan Boulton, Queensland State Archives In August 2014, the Meringa Sugar Experiment Station was entered on the Queensland Heritage Register as a State Heritage Place. The Station...
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Queensland Places – Burketown
The town of Burketown, located on the Albert River, on the Gulf of Carpentaria, has a long and interesting history. In 1841, Captain J. Lort Stokes discovered the mouth of a river which he named the...
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Election 2015 : we need your help again
It’s election time again and once again we need your help to ensure we have a comprehensive collection of election ephemera. State Library has significant collections of ephemera. This material, which...
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Scottish Adventurers on the Darling Downs
An interesting story was recently uncovered when a client enquiry requesting information about a couple of Scotsmen grew into a tale of courage and success. John and George Gammie left their homeland...
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Heritage listing for the Cairns Technical College and High School building
Guest blogger – Susan Boulton, Queensland State Archives The Queensland Heritage Council listed the Cairns Technical College and High School building on the Queensland Heritage Register in May 2014....
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Digitised @SLQ – Boer War Diary describes Queensland troops’ movements
Officers of the 5th Queensland Contingent taken on the day of their return, May 1902. Major Toll is sitting in the middle of the front row A newly digitised Boer war diary of the 5th Queensland...
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Queensland Places – History of Golden Gate
Golden Gate - Forsyth's Mill Crushing Works, 1904 The town of Golden Gate developed late in the period of the Croydon gold rush, but once it was surveyed and settled, it was to become one of the area’s...
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Sudden deluge swamps Brisbane – January 1941
Marooned in the bookmaker's ring at Albion Park after a storm, Brisbane, January 1941 A sudden deluge hit the inner suburbs of Brisbane on the afternoon of January 18, 1941, in what the Sunday Mail...
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17th December 1887 – a significant day for Queensland
Guest blogger: Thom Blake – John Oxley Library Fellow and historian Derrick for drilling second artesian bore in Barcaldine in 1893 So what is special about that day? You will not find it mentioned in...
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Digitised @SLQ – iconic Black Friday poster
Iconic Black Friday Poster ‘Äustralia’ draws back the Queensland curtain to reveal the Black Friday strike of 1912 ‘Australia’ draws back the Queensland curtain to reveal the Black Friday strike in...
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Queensland Places – Dinmore
Dinmore, to the north-east of the city, was settled as early as the 1870s with development progressing more rapidly from the 1880s, as shown by the opening of a railway station in 1884 and the...
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Murder at St Helena Penal Establishment
Guest blogger: Jo Seccombe – Senior Reference Archivist, Queensland State Archives “A picture is worth a thousand words…” is how the saying goes. In this case it’s not the picture held at Queensland...
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Queensland Places – Gulf of Carpentaria – Albatross Bay
Albatross Bay, within which the town of Weipa is located, is situated on the western coast of Cape York. It is believed to have been named by either the Honourable John Douglas, the government...
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Connecting collections on the Sunshine Coast
Many different groups, individuals and organisations across the state hold incredible Queensland heritage items, and the State Library offers programs and resources to the stewards of this distributed...
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Digitised @SLQ Geological surveys of Queensland
What did your neck of the Queensland woods look during the past 150 years? Enjoy digitised Geological Survey maps in the State Library’s collection. Featured is a newly digitised geological map of...
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