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New accession: Glen O’Malley Photographs, 1970-1978
Accession 30875. A recent acquisition for State Library of Queensland’s Original Materials collection are two photographs by Glen O’Malley, a photographer from North Queensland. Glen has exhibited...
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The Central Station Cafe
Recently digitised at the State Library of Queensland is this colourful lantern slide advertising the Central Station Café. The item, slightly damaged, was identified in a small collection among the...
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60th anniversary – Australia’s first drive-in shopping centre
On May 30, 1957, thousands of shoppers attended the opening of Allan and Stark’s Chermside Drive-in Shopping Centre in Brisbane’s north. Opening announcement for the Chermside Drive-in Shopping Centre....
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Gaul Estate, Gatton, 1902 (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. Gaul Estate, Gatton, 1902. John Oxley Library,...
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Queensland Places – Thursday Island – John Turnbull, Chemist and Druggist
This advertisement, published in 1897, shows what would have been a very important and familiar place for the residents of Thursday Island. At a time when access to health care was limited in terms...
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Second section of Jubilee Township, Bardon, 1887 (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. Jubilee Township Estate second section, 1887. John...
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Panoramic Queensland
Panoramic photographs are among the most powerful and evocative of historical images, their broad sweep enabling people to connect with the past and to easily identify the changes in their surrounding...
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Free milk for Queensland school children (1953)
“‘It’s On’, was the cry as John Bromage, Jeff Kearley, Jeff Eaton and Brian Heron carried the free milk quota to class 5D at Junction Park State School”. Brisbane Telegraph, March 3, 1953 On March 3,...
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Tarana Estate, Holland Park, 1926 (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. Tarana Estate, Holland Park, 1926. John Oxley...
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170th anniversary of George Croft’s Amphitheatre
On April 26, 1847, one of Brisbane’s first theatres gave its opening performance. In advertisements published in the Moreton Bay Courier, Mr George Croft’s Amphitheatre, situated in Russell Street,...
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Queensland Places – Victoria Memorial Institute, Thursday Island
The Victoria Memorial Institute building was an important part of the Thursday Island landscape for around ninety years, before being demolished in the early 1990s to make way for new council offices....
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Quilpie celebrates centenary
If you were to travel nearly 1,000kms west of Brisbane along the Warrego Highway you would arrive at the township of Quilpie. It is there you would receive a warm welcome and an invitation to call in...
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Show Ground Estate, Zillmere, 1917 (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. Show Ground Estate, Zillmere, 1917. John Oxley...
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51st anniversary of a 100 year time capsule
Guest blogger: Julie Hornibrook – 2015 Queensland Business Leaders Hall of Fame Fellow On 4 May 1966, 51 years ago, the Amoco Memorial Time Capsule, was buried in a ceremony at Bulwer Island, Pinkenba,...
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FREEDOM, FREEWAYS AND BRISBANE PROTEST IN THE SEVENTIES
In the lead-up to what promises to be a wonderfully engaging exhibition, the idea of freedom – our understanding of what it means to people, our shifting experience of its limits over time and the...
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Little Red School Book
Little Red School Book (Australian ed. 1972) The Little Red School Book was the work of two Danish schoolteachers, Soren Hansen and Jesper Jensen. It appeared in 1969 and then essentially went viral,...
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Freedom Then, Freedom Now (5 May – 1 Oct 2017)
From drinking, smoking and gambling to voting, marrying and travelling — and everything in between — what are the freedoms that Queenslanders take for granted? Freedom Then, Freedom Now – 5 May to 1...
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Silver Teapots and Serviettes: Samios Foods
Guest blogger: Toni Risson, 2016 Queensland Business Leaders Hall of Fame Fellow Frank Zantiotis, Peter Samios, and Peter Zantiotis. Photograph courtesy of the Zantiotis family While thousands of...
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The Cautious Amorist
‘The Cautious Amorist’ by Norman Lindsay. 1st pub. N.Y., 1932 The Cautious Amorist was banned in Australia from May 1933 to October 1953, with the authorities citing both indecency and blasphemy. A...
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Tarana Estate, Holland Park, 1926 (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. Tarana Estate, Holland Park, 1926. John Oxley...
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