Category: Queensland State Archives’ Photostream About Fortitude Valley

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“These hills lie but a little inland, and not far from each other: they are remarkable for the singular form of their elevation which very much resembles a glass house, and for this reason I called them the Glass Houses: the northern most of the three is the highest and largest; there are several other peaked hills inland to the northward of these, but they are not nearly so remarkable…”

Captain Cook, 1770

Queensland State Archives Item ID1076744, Photographic material

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Queensland State Archives posted a photo:

“These hills lie but a little inland, and not far from each other: they are remarkable for the singular form of their elevation which very much resembles a glass house, and for this reason I called them the Glass Houses: the northern most of the three is the highest and largest; there are several other peaked hills inland to the northward of these, but they are not nearly so remarkable…”

Captain Cook, 1770

Queensland State Archives Item ID1076744, Photographic material

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Queensland State Archives posted a photo:

“These hills lie but a little inland, and not far from each other: they are remarkable for the singular form of their elevation which very much resembles a glass house, and for this reason I called them the Glass Houses: the northern most of the three is the highest and largest; there are several other peaked hills inland to the northward of these, but they are not nearly so remarkable…”

Captain Cook, 1770

Queensland State Archives Item ID1076744, Photographic material

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From the Queensland Heritage Register.

The first railway station, built in 1880, was located in Flinders Street near the corner of Jones Street, about three blocks west of the present station building. The original plan during the construction of the Townsville Railway was to locate the station near Magazine Island at the mouth of Ross Creek. The idea was revived when plans were being drawn up for a new station in 1910. Commercial interests backed the Mayor who argued that Ross Creek would cut off the railway terminus from the city centre. The community successfully partitioned the government to have the building located in Flinders Street between the town centre along Flinders Street and the busy business district at West End.

Construction of the new terminus for the Great Northern Railway commenced in 1910 and the building opened on 24 December 1913. Vincent Price, an architectural draftsman

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Maryborough Chromicle
14 November 1949

Surveyor Shortage

The soldier settlement programme has been delayed by a shortage of surveyors, the Lands Minister, Mr Foley, said in a broadcast to-night. The Government was making strenuous efforts to secure experienced surveyors and to attract and train new men. Available surveyors would take years to catch up with arrears of work and current jobs. In addition to staff surveyors the Government was offering scholarships in surveying and cadet surveyors were being appointed under the Public Services Act thereby ensuring their employment after qualification.

Queensland State Archives Item ID435649, Photographic material

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Cairns Post
25 November 1949

Housing Commission Works

Three timber houses are to be built lor the Queensland Housing Commission at Main-street and Herberton Road, Atherton. The contract price is £4332/10/-. It includes, baths, chip heaters, fuel stoves and coppers. Five rental houses of timber construction are to be built for the commission at Troughton and Abbott-streets, Mareeba. The contract price is £6740. It includes fencing, drainage, fuel stoves and coppers.

Queensland State Archives Item ID392367, Photographic material

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A bit of our own history! Queensland State Archives was established in 1959. Robert Sharman was appointed as the first Archivist within the State Library. The Archives originally occupied part of the space was initially allocated in the Commissariat Store in William Street, Brisbane. In 1968 it moved to a purpose-built facility in Dutton Park and to the current build in Runcorn in 1992.

Queensland State Archives, Digital Image ID 5055

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On 1 August 1957, funds were allocated to the Agriculture And Stock Department Horticulture Branch for the building of a Food Preservation Research Laboratory. In May 1960, the new facility at Hamilton was opened and on 4 August 1960 a separate Food Preservation Research Branch was created within the Department, Plant Industry Division. The Food Preservation Laboratory was re-absorbed into the Horticulture Branch in May 1969.

The Branch’s responsibilities included research into the storage, transport and handling of fruit and vegetables; improved canning, freezing and dehydration; spoilage control, fruit quality and flavour; and advice on food preservation and transport to food processors.

Queensland State Archives Item ID1076703, Photographic material

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The General Electric GE-225 Computer was installed in the Hawken Building (now called the Prentice Building) at the University of Queensland in 1962. It was used up until 1977 and was donated to the Queensland Museum.

Queensland State Archives Item ID1076702, Photographic material

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A shipment of Unity Blue cheese being loaded on a ship in Brisbane for export to Yokohama, Japan. Unity Blue was manufactured by the Downs Co-op Dairy Association in Toowoomba.

Queensland State Archives Item ID1076702, Photographic material

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