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2016 Queensland Memory Awards announced
The State Library of Queensland recently announced the recipients of the Queensland Memory Awards at a ceremony held on site and hosted by award winning journalist Trent Dalton. Q ANZAC 100 Fellowship...
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Normanby Hotel – History in Pictures
The historic Normanby Hotel, which sits on the corner of Musgrave Road and Kelvin Grove Road in the Brisbane suburb of Red Hill, has been a distinctive landmark since the building’s construction in...
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A night at Festival Hall with the Ramones (1980)
From its opening in 1959 until its demolition in 2003, Festival Hall was one of Brisbane’s premiere concert venues. A wide variety of Australian and international artists played at Festival Hall over...
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Ivy Estate, Toowong, Brisbane, 1884 (Map of the Week)
State Library of Queensland has an extensive collection of historical maps of Queensland, some of which have been digitised and can be viewed online. Ivy Estate, Toowong, Brisbane, Queensland, 1884....
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Trespass Posts
Guest blogger: Bill Kitson – Retired museum curator and co-author of Surveying Queensland 1839-1945 : a pictorial history It has been said and words have been written, that the boundary posts erected...
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Building the Kuranda railway : history in pictures
One of the noblest characteristics of true greatness is modesty, but the people of Cairns are not altogether prepared to admire it when connected too intimately with so important an event as the...
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Indooroopilly Township, Brisbane, 1889 (Map of the Week)
State Library of Queensland has an extensive collection of historical maps of Queensland, some of which have been digitised and can be viewed online. Indooroopilly Township adjoining the Nelson Estate...
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Queensland Places – Claremont, Ipswich
Claremont, located in Milford Street, Ipswich, is one of the city’s finest colonial residences and dates from around the time of Queensland’s separation from New South Wales. Ipswich Residence –...
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An Englishwoman in the Torres Strait, 1969-70 (Elaine Sinnamon collection)
State Library of Queensland recently received a donation of images and other artefacts collected by a young Englishwoman during her time in the Torres Strait between 1969 and 1970. Elaine Sinnamon (nee...
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The films of Frank W. Moorhouse
The State Library of Queensland has recently received donation of a collection of 9.5mm films relating to the Moorhouse Family. The majority of these films were created by Frank W. Moorhouse in the...
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Mittleheuser interns research the collections of the John Oxley Library
For one week of the June / July school holidays, Year 11 students Eliza Woods and Caitlin Trout joined staff of the State Library of Queensland to learn more about the professional activities...
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Planting the Peanut in Kingaroy
Guest Blogger: Caitlin Trout, 2016 Mittleheuser student internship Kingaroy is an agricultural town that is the centre of Australia’s peanut industry. It is located in the South Burnett Region of...
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Mr Cooper Comes To Town
Guest blogger: Eliza Woods, 2016 Mittleheuser student internship Illustrated front cover from The Queenslander, March 30 1938. John Oxley Library, State Library of Queensland. Image...
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150th anniversary of Australian Rules Football in Queensland
On May 21 and 22, 1866, notices were placed in the Brisbane Courier newspaper inviting “gentlemen desirous of forming a football club” to a meeting at Braysher’s Metropolitan Hotel. Brisbane Courier,...
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Bloomfield River Oral Histories
Guest blogger: Lauren Erikson – Project Officer, Indigenous Library Services, State Library of Queensland In 1996, Bloomfield Valley resident Camilla Darling conducted a number of interviews with local...
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Queensland Railway Bridge Photographs
State Library of Queensland holds a massive amount of photographic material and although the large majority of it is catalogued these collections still hold many treasures yet to be unearthed and...
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Malanda Show : 100 years of dairying on the Atherton Tablelands
This weekend the people of Malanda and surrounding areas of the Atherton Tablelands will be gathering for the 100th Malanda Show. The first Malanda Show took place in September 1916 on land belonging...
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Online index of names to the Margaret Lawrie collection
State Library of Queensland have recently created an online index to Torres Strait Islander names recorded in the genealogical sheets from the Margaret Lawrie Collection of Torres Strait Islander...
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Thorrold Town, [Wooloowin], 1882 (Map of the Week)
State Library of Queensland has an extensive collection of historical maps of Queensland, some of which have been digitised and can be viewed online. This Brisbane real estate map from 1882 is...
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Condoman and Lubelicious
This year’s Musgrave Park Fun Day during NAIDOC Week was alive with people, music, stalls and rides. One of the highlights during the day was the arrival of Condoman and Lubelicious. Condoman and...
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