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Motorising Queensland – Introducing the Canada Cycle and Motor Agency (Qld) Ltd
Guest blogger: Dr Hilary Davies, 2018 Queensland Business Leaders Hall of Fame Fellow. Between 1905 and 1929, the Canada Cycle and Motor Agency (Qld) Ltd (CCM) put Queenslanders on the road in a wide...
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Coorparoo Heights, [Camp Hill], 1916 (Map of the Week)
Coorparoo Heights, [Camp Hill], Brisbane, 1916. John Oxley Library, State Library of Queensland This real estate map from 1916 advertises 174 allotments of land for sale at the Coorparoo Heights...
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The War Diaries of Nurse Taylor
Guest blogger: Debbie Terranova – QANZAC100 Fellow. Among State Library of Queensland’s collections are four dainty cloth-covered diaries. The War Diaries of Joan Peeters (nee Taylor) cover the period...
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Can you find your home on the Corley Explorer?
On 7 December 2018, State Library of Queensland launched its latest exhibition, Home: a suburban obsession, as well as the Corley Explorer, a database of over 61,000 photographs of homes taken during...
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Everton Park Estate, 1885 (Map of the Week)
Real estate map for Everton Park Estate, Brisbane, 1885. John Oxley Library, State Library of Queensland This real estate map from 1885 advertises 231 allotments of land for sale at the Everton Park...
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Navigating Brisbane with Harris’ street and road directories, 1916-17
Front cover of Harris’ street and road directories, 1917 edition. John Oxley Library, State Library of Queensland For those of us of a certain age, before the advent of satellite navigation and Google...
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Dora Vale Estate, Moorooka, 1927 (Map of the Week)
Real estate map for Dora Vale Estate, Moorooka, Brisbane, 1927. John Oxley Library, State Library of Queensland This real estate map from 1927 advertises 83 allotments of land for sale at the Dora Vale...
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Marly, Myora and St. Magnus : auction catalogues of three Brisbane houses
State Library’s ephemera collections contain volumes of small publications of the kind that are produced for a limited use and then usually thrown away. Such items as advertising material, postcards,...
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Queensland Places – Palmer River – James Venture Mulligan
James Venture Mulligan holds an important place in the history and development of the Cape York region and is widely credited with supporting and encouraging the exploitation of gold discoveries in the...
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Land ballots in Queensland
Guest blogger: Dr Jennifer Moffatt, 2018 John Oxley Library Fellow. Over almost 100 years1, thousands of Queenslanders won millions of hectares of agricultural land by ballot. This resulted from long...
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Vaughan Estate, Wooloowin, 1905 (Map of the Week)
Real estate map for Vaughan Estate, 1905. John Oxley Library, State Library of Queensland This real estate map from 1905 advertises 56 allotments of land for sale at the Vaughan Estate in the Brisbane...
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Remembering Brisbane artist Wim de Vos
The State Library of Queensland visual arts community was deeply saddened by the death of one of our respected artists’ book makers Wim de Vos on 8 December 2018. Wim was a regular visitor and...
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Plans for Queensland Bungalows (1937)
In 1937, the fourth edition of Queensland Bungalows, compiled by architect Joseph Vaudville Douyere Coutts was published. Front cover of the 1937 edition of Queensland Bungalows by J.V.D. Coutts The 48...
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Seskenore Estate, Kedron, 1927 (Map of the Week)
Real estate map for Seskenore Estate, Kedron, 1927. John Oxley Library, State Library of Queensland This real estate map from 1927 advertises 34 allotments of land for sale at the Sekenore Estate,...
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Gunner Ivan PEREL QX22561
Ivan PEREL, the youngest son of Isiodore ‘Jack’ Perel and Henrietta Hurford, lived with his widowed mother in Albion before volunteering for service with the 2nd AIF. His father Jack Perel had been a...
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Discovering Scouting’s past – bravo and thank you to the State Library
Guest blogger: David Teufel, Branch Commissioner – Heritage, The Scout Association of Australia, Queensland Branch Inc. With the first Scout troops starting in Queensland in 1908, Scouting has been...
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Rocky Waterholes Township Proper, [Rocklea], 1885 (Map of the Week)
Real estate map for Rocky Waterholes Township Proper, 1885. John Oxley Library, State Library of Queensland This real estate map from 1885 advertises allotments of land for sale at the Rocky Waterholes...
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Group Captain Alan Groom DSO, RAF
Alan Groom’s passion for aircraft took him to the other side of the world when he was only 22. Having graduated as an air cadet at Point Cook RAAF base, Victoria, he was welcomed into the Royal Air...
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Collection of Queensland glass lantern slides now digitised
State Library of Queensland recently digitised and made available online a collection of seventy-six glass magic lantern slides. The hand coloured slides, from ca.1910, take the viewer on a tour of...
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Lizzy Lee Estate, Bardon, 1884 (Map of the Week)
Lizzy Lee Estate, Bardon, 1884. John Oxley Library, State Library of Queensland This real estate map from 1884 advertises land for sale at the Lizzy Lee Estate in the Brisbane suburb of Bardon. The...
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