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Barcaldine alight in 1909
This week marks 110 years since a disastrous fire destroyed twelve businesses and stores and four hotels in Oak Street in the central business district on Oak Street, Barcaldine, Queensland during the...
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Richter Estate, Annerley, 1889 (Map of the Week)
This real estate map from 1889 advertises land for sale at the Richter Estate, located in the Brisbane suburb of Annerley. The allotments were situated along Ipswich Road, Richter Street (now Devon...
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CROWD GIVING 2019: $30,000 RAISED TO SUPPORT STATE LIBRARY OF QUEENSLAND...
On 15 August, donors and library-lovers came together in support of State Library of Queensland at the fourth annual Crowd Giving event. The Queensland Library Foundation fundraiser attracted around...
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A bird by any other name
Naming a café was a big deal for Greek proprietors. Many aligned themselves with their new homeland, choosing the Empire, Regal, Royal, Australia or Allies Café. Such names said, “We’re Aussies”...
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Queensland LGBTQI+ collection highlights
In preserving the history of Queensland’s LGBTQI+ communities, State Library of Queensland has developed a fascinating collection including photographs, recorded oral histories, posters, t-shirts,...
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Queensland’s Upper House, or the House of Fossils
Monkeying with the Legislative Council, ca. 1926. Harry Julius. ACC 4679 Queensland is the only state in Australia without an Upper House, although that wasn’t always the case. The Legislative...
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The Palms Café, Brisbane
The Palms Café, established in 1951 by Jerry Palmos, was located in Brisbane’s CBD at 171 Queen Street, next to the Regent Theatre. Diners at the Palms Café in Queen Street, Brisbane, in the 1950s....
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Lutheran Archive language books from Hope Vale, Bloomfield River State School...
As avid supporters of the International Year of Indigenous Languages celebrations, State Library of Queensland and the Lutheran Archives entered into a partnership to digitise and to provide online...
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Balonne Café, St George
The Balonne Central Café opened on The Terrace in St. George on the 3 April 1912. T.C. Andrews was the first proprietor. Paspalas & Co. took over the café from 1924 to 1953, employing Ioanis...
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“If it isn’t in the Longreach Leader, it hasn’t happened”
Guest blogger: Tony Brett Young. My Aunt Thora gave it the rather dismissive description ‘The Two Minute Silence’. That’s how long she reckoned it took to read the Longreach Leader, the weekly...
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Paragon Café, Dalby
Milton (Miltiadis) Dimitrios Samios bought the cafe in 1935, renovating it, adding carpet and supplying the waitresses with green uniforms and head piece. At the time of purchase the café earnings...
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Texas, no. Terror, yes.
Guest blogger: Mark Clayton. Notions of personal responsibility and safety mustn’t have counted for much when I was nineteen, else I mightn’t have risen early one winter’s morning in 1978 thinking –...
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Intimate stories, challenging histories
Guest blogger: Elisabeth Gondwe – President Oral History Queensland. Oral History Queensland (OHQ) delivers the 2019 Oral History Australia (OHA) Biennial Conference at State Library of Queensland,...
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Miss Warana 1973
With spring in the air and the weather warming up, some of us, over a certain age, may remember Brisbane’s Warana Spring Festival. The John Oxley Library recently received a lovely donation of...
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American Bar, Brisbane
Situated at 276-278 Brunswick Street, Fortitude Valley, the American Bar was operated by George Sklavos between 1911 and ca.1929. George Sklavos was born in the Kytherian village of Mitata in Greece...
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Vale James Birrell, architect
James Birrell, one of Queensland’s preeminent architects, recently passed away. Birrell was responsible for some of Queensland’s best known buildings from the 1950s onward. His work includes the...
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Torres News (1957-2015) available online
Amateur and professional historians, family historians and other researchers in search of the more recent history of the Torres Strait will be excited to discover that the Thursday Island based...
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Queensland Government Printing Office
The 2019 John Oxley Library Fellows are Louise Martin-Chew and Matthew Wengert who plan to jointly develop a proposal for an exhibition and a book about the Queensland Government Printing Office. This...
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Café Many Peaks, Boyne Valley
Nicholas Gianis Veneris (Nicholas Hellen) migrated from Kythera at the age of fourteen in 1898, arriving in Bundaberg in the early 1900s. He bought his first café in Bourbong Street in 1903-1904. He...
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Meet me at the Paragon
Meet Me at the Paragon, a free exhibition exploring Queensland’s Greek café phenomenon, is now open in the Phillip Bacon Heritage Gallery at the State Library of Queensland until 15 March 2020. Meet...
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