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Elgin Vale Sawmill, 1984
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Queensland Museum with Dinosaur, 30 April 1985
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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
Womens Supporting Service during WW2
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Mrs Emma Whitchurch and Mrs Elsie Horsfield, Babinda Ambulance Centre, 1943. They were among the six women appointed honorary bearers on 28 July 1943.
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Glass House Mountains, c 1931
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Glass House Mountains National Park
The volcanic peaks of the Glass House Mountains rise dramatically from the surrounding Sunshine Coast landscape. The Glass House Mountains were named by Lieutenant James Cook in 1770. The following extract from Cook’s journal on Thursday, 17 May 1770 noted:
‘These hills lie but a little way inland and not far from each other, they are very remarkable on account of their singular form elevation, which very much resemble glass houses which occasioned my giving them that name…’
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Aboriginal links to the land
The Glass House Mountains area was a special meeting place where many Aboriginal people gathered for ceremonies and trading. This place is considered spiritually significant with many ceremonial sites still present and protected today.
Aboriginal people could ‘read’ environmental signs and knew that certain events (such as a tree flowering) heralded another food supply. The people here planned large festivals and gatherings