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Queensland State Archives posted a photo:

Mrs Emma Whitchurch and Mrs Elsie Horsfield, Babinda Ambulance Centre, 1943. They were among the six women appointed honorary bearers on 28 July 1943.

Queensland State Archives Item ID436383, Photographic material

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Queensland State Archives posted a photo:

Old Museum Building
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In 1900 the Brisbane City Council, following the purchase of the Concert Hall’s purpose built organ, leased the hall from the Government and organised a program of regular concerts and civic functions. At the same time, the Queensland Museum decided to move to and adapt the Exhibition Hall for a museum, after twenty years in a comparatively smaller purpose built building in William Street. Tenders for altering the Exhibition Hall into a museum were called in March 1899 and involved the construction of a gallery withing the main hall, addition of a line of windows in the main northern wall to to light the new gallery and modifications to the basement dining room to provide offices, preparation and storage spaces. The boundary wall and fence along Bowen Bridge Road and Gregory Terrace were completed soon after and the grounds around the building were

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