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Kidnappers of Space
Kidnappers of Space (London, Lutterworth, 1953) Set in the future, 1976, this juvenile science fiction novel tells the story of two brothers captured by ‘golden men’ of Mars. The original edition,...
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New Accession: Dr Errol Solomon Meyers Collection
The John Oxley Library has received a fascinating and very comprehensive collection regarding the life and medical career of Dr Errol Solomon Meyers. The collection includes photographs,...
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Share your images of Anzac Day commemorations 2015
Anzac Day dawn service in Cairns Queensland 2014 Are you attending commemoration activities in your local community on Anzac Day? Join us with our Anzac Day Today project and share images of these...
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New Accessions: ‘Henry’ Typescript
‘Henry’ Typescript (by Florence Cornwall) Dedicated to Marjorie ‘Henry’, a typescript recently acquired by the State Library’s Original Content unit, is a humorous story about a Model T Ford and his...
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Maryborough’s Immigration Celebrations (2015)
Ship Star Queen Guest blogger: Kay Gassan – President, Maryborough Family Heritage Institute Inc Our Immigration Celebrations is an annual event. This year, we are celebrating 150 years since the...
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Queensland Places – Holy Trinity Church, Saibai
The present Holy Trinity Church on Saibai replaces a number of previous places of worship, with the first of these church buildings dating to the 1880s. The first church building, constructed by the...
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Climbing the Mountains
Guest Blogger: Peachester History Committee – Sunshine Coast Region Series: Changing Landscapes Glass Mountains, John Oxley Library, 4831 postcard collection While those of us who live in Glasshouse...
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Digitised @ SLQ – migrant women at Wacol
Guest Blogger – Dr. Donna Kleiss discusses Wacol Immigrants Holding Camp and interviews with women migrants from SLQ’s OH24 Migrant Women Oral History Collection Dr. Donna Kleiss “… The decision to...
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Opening of the Trocadero Dansant (1923)
Billo Smiths Dance Band at the Trocadero, Brisbane 1927 The evening of 31 May 1923 saw Brisbane’s dancers kick up their heels in delight at the opening of the newest high-class dance palace, Trocadero...
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Queensland Places – Musgrave Telegraph Station
One of the more important events in the history of the Cape York region was the opening of the overland telegraph line in 1887, which linked Brisbane as the capital with Queensland’s northern outposts...
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Building the railways : one man’s story
It was in the year 1864, when a boy of twelve years, that I started my first of many years as a Railway man. My home being in the Walloon district I heard of the projected commencement of the first...
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Royal Flying Doctors
Guest blogger: Saadia Thomson Dwyer – Queensland State Archives This May marks the 87th anniversary of the Royal Flying Doctor Service (RFDS). The RFDS quickly became a lifeline for the people of...
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Wattlebrae Infectious Diseases Hospital
Lamington nurses quarters is at the back left of the photograph, with Wattlebrae or Lowson House on the right. The centre building housed Wards 16 and 14. The original Wattlebrae Hospital was a house...
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Queensland Memory Awards 2015
State Library of Queensland announced the recipients of four history awards at its annual Queensland Memory Awards Ceremony last night. State Librarian Janette Wright said the Queensland Memory Awards...
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Professional and Business Archive of Allom Lovell Architects
This large collection records a practice which specialised in working with historic buildings and was perhaps only the second such practice in Australia to do so. In the early years there was little...
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Podcast: Preserving our built heritage (A night in the JOL)
Illustration of the Barcaldine Shire Hall and Office from the Allom Lovell Architects collection Listen to architects Richard Allom and Desley Campbell-Stewart in conversation with ABC journalist Ian...
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The colossal Queensland cheese (1923)
Pittsworth cheese display in the Australian Pavilion at the British Empire Exhibition 1924 In October 1923, the Pittsworth Dairy Company proudly announced their triumph in making a colossal cheese to...
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FRIGHTFUL RAILWAY ACCIDENT
FRIGHTFUL RAILWAY ACCIDENT MOST SERIOUS IN QUEENSLAND. Disaster to Northern Mail A disastrous railway accident, the worst in the history of the Queensland railways, occurred at an early hour this...
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Queensland State Election Photographs 2015
At the last Queensland State Election in 2012, voters delivered an unprecedented result in the State’s history. Not only was Labor unceremoniously booted out of office, but it was left languishing with...
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Digitised @ SLQ – Go home and have babies
Recently digitised @ SLQ, women who lived at Queensland’s Wacol Immigrants Holding Camp tell their stories in OH24 Migrant Women Oral History. While at the camp in 1955, Christa Braun describes the...
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