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Protect Your Luv Against AIDS
Protect Your Luv. From 3248 AIDS Posters and Artefacts. John Oxley Library, State Library of Queensland This poster was produced for the Australian AIDS campaign by Student Initiatives in Community...
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Croydon Park, [Norman Park and Camp Hill], 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. Croydon Park, [Camp Hill / Norman Park], 1887. John...
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Back to Yamsion Day
During October this year the residents of the Yamsion district forwarded an invitation to State Library and the Queensland Memory team to attend their Back to Yamsion Day. Prior to receiving the...
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Magnificent Makers: Frank Tunley’s Braille Maps
Frank Tunley’s braille map of Australia. Source: State Library of Queensland, Accession 29279/29. Readers of the John Oxley Library blog may remember a previous post regarding photographs of Frank...
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Queensland Places – Gulf of Carpentaria – Commonwealth Lightship Carpentaria
Lightships were used in various locations in Queensland as an effective means to protect shipping from the dangers of reefs or shoals, or as general navigational aids. They were to prove an effective...
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Wilson Estate, Sandgate, 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. Plan of the Wilson Estate, Sandgate, 1882. John...
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Brisbane South Sudanese community photographs, 2010-11
On July 9, 2011, South Sudan, in East-Central Africa, formally obtained their independence after the results of a referendum showed an overwhelming 98.83% voted for separation. The referendum was held...
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Proclamation of Port Douglas
Guest blogger: Bill Wilkie – Douglas Libraries, Douglas Shire Council. This month on 1 December, Port Douglas celebrated its 140 year anniversary of settlement. A new information sign was unveiled at...
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Michael Gannon’s Pirates
Guest blogger: Conor Feehely – Archivist, Queensland Rugby Union. The skull and crossbones emblazoned across his team’s jersey may not have been to Michael Gannon’s liking, but it did characterise the...
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Allan & Stark Christmas book, 1917
The 1917 Christmas shopping catalogue from Brisbane’s Allan & Stark Ltd department store provides an insight into the types of products on offer to Queenslanders during the festive season. Allan...
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A J Hunting and Speedway
Albert John Hunting was an ideas man. The National Archives hold many of his patents and the list of the companies that he registered is lengthy. His business interests were incredibly varied, ranging...
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Christmas and New Year in Brisbane 1904/1905
Accession 31214, C.W. Loughridge Shipboard Diary. The John Oxley Library has recently acquired a fascinating shipboard diary written by 4th Officer, C.W. Loughridge, on the cargo ship “Torr Head” on a...
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Lady Flo
Florence Isabel Bjelke-Petersen was the wife of Queensland’s longest serving and most controversial Premier and served as a Queensland Senator for twelve years, yet according to the blurb of her book...
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Santa Claus visits Roma, 1922
This photograph of Father Christmas driving a group of children in his automobile in Roma on Christmas Eve, 1922 was published in the Sydney Mail newspaper on January 10, 1923. The Roma newspaper,...
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Raineys Hill Top Park, [Chermside], 1925 (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. Raineys Hill Top Park Estate, [Chermside], 1925....
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New Year’s Day at the seaside, 1907
New Year’s Day crowds at Sandgate [Shorncliffe] 1907. John Oxley Library, State Library of Queensland. Image 48274 This photograph from our collection was purportedly taken on New Year’s Day in 1907...
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Anyone For Tennis?
Competitors in a junior tennis competition, Brisbane, 1940s. John Oxley Library, Image No. 7708-0001-0136, GL-12 George Jackman Photograph Albums. With the Brisbane International in full swing, in a...
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Charles Archer and the squatters chair
Bob Norris lay sprawling back in a shabby but comfortable old squatters’ chair, his leather-cased legs lying along the extended arms, and his head back amongst the cushions; a good-looking fellow, with...
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The backyard, free-standing sleep-outs of WW II: Are there any left?
The Queensland backyard structure we most associate with WW II is the air raid shelter but there was another. It was one of the solutions to the lack of accommodation for war workers and problems with...
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Thorne Estate, [Thorneside], 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. This real estate map from 1917 advertises 603...
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