Collision of the Steamer Guthrie with the Thursday Island Jetty
The steamer Guthrie was built around 1884 and originally part of the Eastern and Australian Steamship Company’s fleet. Later, it was acquired by the prominent Queensland company, Burns, Philp &...
View ArticleIt’s beginning to feel a lot like Christmas
The Christmas season is well and truly upon us now with decorations, trees and lights everywhere, and Christmas carols on endless repeat wherever you go. While the endless food and gift shopping and...
View ArticleMy Big Flash Greek Wedding
Blogger: Toni Risson – co-curator of Meet me at the Paragon. Greek migrants came to Australia with little money and no English, but possessed of a great determination to succeed. Many were as young as...
View ArticleParis Café, Clermont
John Dimitrious Faros and his wife Marouli ran the Paris Café in Clermont. The interior had glass fronted counters and a refrigerator cabinet at the front, with tables and chairs in a dining area...
View ArticleArchibald Meston Papers OM64-17.
Meston Vocabulary Notebook 6 – Birds. One of the significant items in the State Library collections for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Languages webpages is the Archibald Meston Papers. Items...
View ArticleOM79-32/17 William Ridley Notebook (1855).
Ridley Notebook, OM79-32/17. One of the earliest original items for Queensland Aboriginal languages is the 1855 notebook of Reverend William Ridley [OM79-32/17] This item is featured in the Spoken...
View ArticleEconomos’ Café, Rockhampton
Restaurant proprietors, Emanuel, William and Nicholas Economos, trading as the Economos Bros., ran their business in East Street, Rockhampton. East Street was a bustling metropolis when the brothers...
View ArticleState Library of Queensland visit to the Brisbane Synagogue
In December 2019, State Library of Queensland staff from three areas (Queensland Memory, Preservation Services and Information Services) visited the Brisbane Synagogue at the invitation of the...
View ArticleCafé Mimosa, Maryborough
The Andronicus Bros, Jim and George, formerly from the Greek island of Kythera, advertised their Café Mimosa in Kent Street, Maryborough in the local newspaper proudly promoting, “We serve the Best...
View ArticleHotel History of Gympie: part one
Guest blogger: Rochelle Bull, Local History Officer, Gympie Regional Libraries. Many hotels in Gympie were set up within weeks of the Gympie Gold Rush of October 1867. Publican’s licences were applied...
View ArticleHotel History of Gympie: part two
Guest blogger: Rochelle Bull, Local History Officer, Gympie Regional Libraries. Grand Hotel, formerly Otago Hotel – Mellor Street, Gympie Formerly known as the Otago Hotel and built in 1886, Mr E....
View ArticleBlue Bird Café, Innisfail
At 5:00am on 11 February 1929, the Blue Bird Café was saved from a devastating fire by the quick-thinking actions of the Greek owners who had climbed on the roof forming a bucket brigade to extinguish...
View ArticleOM91-69 Harriet Barlow Manuscript ca. 1865.
Another original item featured in the Spoken exhibition is the Harriet Barlow Manuscript dating from the 1860’s. ‘17,000 sheep crossing the Condamine River on Warkon Station, 1917’. JOL Image number:...
View ArticleConserving Richard Daintree’s hand-coloured photographs
As a university student, learning about the conservation of artefacts, I remember one of my professors talking about treatment ethics, citing a phrase often referenced in the medical field, “First, do...
View ArticleSurf, sand and fun: summer holidays at the Gold Coast
Ahhh, summer. For my family, and thousands of others who grew up in Brisbane and beyond in the 1950s, 60s and 70s, summer meant an annual pilgrimage to the Gold Coast to spend a week or two swimming...
View ArticleCafé Royal and Elite Café, Bundaberg
The Lathouras Brothers migrated to Australia from Alatsata in Asia Minor in 1906. By 1923 Jannos (Jack) Lathouras and his brothers, Michael and Mark, had opened two cafes in the main street of...
View ArticleCentral Café, Blackall
The Central Café played an important role in the small country town of Blackall, selling newspapers and books, petrol at the front of the café and mailing newspapers to the graziers and families as...
View ArticlePrinting Fitzgerald: the Queensland Government Printing Office Under Pressure
Guest bloggers: Matthew Wengert and Louise Martin-Chew – 2019 John Oxley Library Fellows Royal Commissions were more common and less politically ‘interesting’ in the early 20th century (for example, a...
View ArticleVintage Queensland cookery book – Fish as food and fish cookery (1921)
Fish as food and fish cookery : with appendix on cooking rabbit and turtle was compiled by the Department of Instruction, Central Technical College. According to newspaper reports the book was...
View ArticleBelle-vue Café, Roma
A former native of Tsesme in Asia Minor (Turkey), Adoni Karistinos (Tony Caris) was the café owner of the Bellevue Café in McDowall Street, Roma. Tony’s partners included his brother Mick (Margariti)...
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