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Queensland State Archives posted a photo:
The Queensland International Exhibition, held from 22 March to 28 July 1897, showcased Queensland’s agricultural and mineral wealth to the public. This included a a cake of retorted gold from Gympie weighing 2,679 oz.
Some of the exhibits later went to the the Greater Britain Exhibition in London in 1899 and the Glasgow International Exhibition in 1901.
Queensland State Archives, Digital Image ID 23688
Queensland State Archives posted a photo:
Wynnum State School, later Wynnum Central State School, was established in 1896. Major extensions to the building were completed in 1919 and 1953.
Queensland State Archives Item ID435713, Photographic material
Queensland State Archives posted a photo:
On the wall is a calendar from Simpson Halligan & Co, a Brisbane printing company which often did work for the Lands Department.
Queensland State Archives Item ID435714, Photographic material
Queensland State Archives posted a photo:
The Survey Office was responsible for the surveying, mapping and management of Crown lands.
Queensland State Archives Item ID435714, Photographic material
Queensland State Archives posted a photo:
Stirling Henry Limited was originally a Sydney importing warehouse. It branched out into textile manufacturing in the 1920s. A new factory was opened in Whinstanes in 1948.
Queensland State Archives Item ID435714, Photographic material
Queensland State Archives posted a photo:
Five new Housing Commission houses on Logan Road, Holland Park. As of July 2017, four of them are still there.
Queensland State Archives Item ID435717, Photographic material
Queensland State Archives posted a photo:
The hospital was built on the site of the 1883 Diamantina Orphanage. In 1901 it became the Diamantina Hospital for Chronic Diseases, then 1943 the South Brisbane Auxiliary Hospital, then South Brisbane Hospital in 1956 and finally the Princess Alexandra Hospital in 1959.
Queensland State Archives Item ID435717, Photographic material
Queensland State Archives posted a photo:
The Petrie paper mill was opened in 1957. At the time, Prime Minister Robert Menzies said it was “the largest industrial undertaking in southern Queensland”. The mill closed in 2013.
Queensland State Archives Item ID435717, Photographic material
Queensland State Archives posted a photo:
The State Farm at Beerburrum was initially set up as a training farm for soldier settlers taking up blocks in the nearby soldier settlement. Developed on the western side of the railway, the 610 acre farm was where returned soldiers received instruction in farming and fruit growing to aid their transition on to the land. The returned soldiers would have been instrumental in producing the first crop of pineapples.
Queensland State Archives Item ID435717, Photographic material
Queensland State Archives posted a photo:
The Mourilyan Bulk Sugar Terminal opened in 1960 and could hold 175,000 t of raw sugar.
Queensland State Archives Item ID436293, Photographic material