Last night at Her Majesty’s
The State Library holds a large collection of ephemera, containing documents of everyday life generally covering publications of fewer than ten pages. These may include: advertising material,...
View ArticleIndigenous Languages Research Discovery Workshop
The State Library of Queensland will be hosting an Indigenous Language Research Discovery Workshop from 26-28 November 2012. March 2012 Research Discovery Workshop This workshop builds upon similar...
View ArticleIn Conversation: David Hill and Phil Brown discuss The Great Race
The Great Race by David Hill This event gives meaning to the phrase “putting Australia on the map”. David Hill’s latest book chronicles the race between Frenchman Nicolas Baudin and Englishman Matthew...
View ArticleYear of the farmer
Cream cans from Fishers’ farm taken by horse and slide to the roadside, 1930s. Photograph courtesy of the Peachester History Committee Guest blogger: Helen Page, President of the Peachester History...
View ArticleQueensland Places – First Ipswich Railway Station
The first Ipswich Railway Station was built in Lower Ellenborough Street as the terminus of the first railway line in Queensland. Ipswich Railway Station ca.1865 - State Library of Queensland Negative...
View ArticleRoma’s towering inferno
Gas fire in Roma - burned for 45 days in 1908 On 27 October 1908 at a place called Hospital Hill, about half a mile from the town of Roma, oil exploration drilling continued at the Mineral Oil...
View ArticleTindale and Aboriginal Languages
The Transforming Tindale exhibition highlights some of the many stories behind photographs taken during Norman Tindale’s anthropological expedition of 1938-1940 Transforming Tindale exhibition, State...
View ArticleFrom the Darling Downs to Brisbane (via Somerset)
A unique collection of material reflecting early life on the Darling Downs has just arrived at State Library from the United Kingdom. The collection is from Sir Arthur Hodgson, who was one of the first...
View ArticleQueensland Places – Goodna
The suburb of Goodna, located to the east of Ipswich, owes its beginnings to agriculture and pastoralism with many of the area’s early settlers and businesses working or serving in these areas. The...
View ArticleSobriety in ruins – Demolition of The Canberra Hotel
Canberra Hotel, Brisbane, 1941 Usually when we reflect on Brisbane’s “lost” buildings we immediately think of the Bellevue Hotel or Cloudland. However some may have forgotten about another building...
View ArticleDo you remember Huntingtower?
The John Oxley Library recently received a donation of three beautiful photographs of the Annerley residence, Huntingtower. This was a significant acquisition as the only other photograph of the house...
View ArticleAssisted immigration 1848–1912 launch at the Queensland Maritime Museum
Guest blogger: Niles Elvery from Queensland State Archives Queensland State Archives launched its improved Assisted Immigration 1848–1912 Index at the Queensland Maritime Museum on Thursday 25 October...
View ArticleTotal eclipse of the sun 1922 and 2012
2012 is a good year for rare astronomical phenomena in Queensland. In June we witnessed a transit of Venus and on 14 November North Queensland will be privileged to experience a total eclipse of the...
View ArticleDoes heritage have a future? Podcast now available
Left to right: Dr Kate Evans, ABC Radio National; Benjamin Law, author and social commentator; and Richard Fidler, national broadcaster On 24 October a lively panel discussion with several well-known...
View ArticleDavid Bowie, Russ Hinze and the “intolerable” Brisbane concert
Pop star David Bowie (left) and politician Russ Hinze (right). Published in the Telegraph newspaper, 22 November 1978. Images in copyright This is a tale of two concerts; one in 1978, the other in...
View ArticleQueensland Places – Amberley
Present day Amberley is more well known as the home of one of Australia’s largest RAAF bases, but its beginnings were more humble. The area was first used for farming, in particular dairying as well as...
View ArticleLooking back – Digitisation at the State Library of Queensland
Did you know? The first occasion in which State Library of Queensland digitised material was in 1999. The focus was to develop a package of 250 images from the John Oxley Library for the website....
View ArticleEvent: Reflections of Outback Queensland; a narrative of defiance
Reflections of Outback Queensland Brilliantly marrying her flair as a story teller with her skills as a pen and ink artist, in Reflections of Queensland; a narrative of defiance, Patricia Coates has...
View ArticleAnthony Alder painting to be shared with the world
Homeward Laddie (1895) by Anthony Alder. State Library of Queensland One of the most interesting paintings in State Library’s collection is Homeward Laddie, located in the White Gloves Room, 4th Floor....
View ArticleGunsynd : the Goondiwindi Grey
In 1922 Goondiwindi was ‘on the map’ as a hub of scientific endeavour surrounding the total eclipse of the sun but in the 1970s Goondiwindi’s fame came from another source. Gunsynd, the Goondiwindi...
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