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Queensland State Archives Item ID2046905, Poster
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Queensland School Reader Poster letters A – I, 19 April 1948
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Queensland State Archives Item ID2046914, Art Works
Memo from the Director-General of Education to Bridget O'Sullivan informing her of her appointment as Head Teacher of the School of the Air, Cloncurry, 24 September 1959
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The School of the Air officially opened on 25 January 1960.
Queensland State Archives, Digital Image ID 2915
Nambour looking from Pringle Road, 19 September 1947
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The name is derived from the Aboriginal word “naamba” referring to the red-flowering bottle brush. It was originally named Petrie’s Creek after Tom Petrie, who set up a logging camp there in 1862.
Queensland State Archives, Digital Image ID 516
Letter from Ram Chandra of Mackay to the Nebo Shire Council supplying a full history of his work with taipans and his contribution to the development of anti-venom, dated 24 September 1972
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Edward Ramsay, better known as Ram Chandra, spent nearly 45 years researching and handling Australia’s most venomous snake and helped the Commonwealth Serum Laboratory develop an antivenene.
Queensland State Archives, Digital Image ID 4631
A letter to and reply from the Private Secretary of the Lieutenant-Governor and a letter to the Lieutenant-Governor from Basil Stubbs, a 15 year old who offers his assistance to the empire, 25 August 1914 – 22 September 1914
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Queensland State Archives, Digital Image ID 26083
Request made to the Commissioner of Police, by the Criminal Investigation Branch, for 300 copies of the instructions for taking fingerprints, 22 September 1904
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The first systematic use of fingerprints for identification was used in India in the 1850s. It was perfected by Scotland Yard in London in the 1890s. In 1902, the trail of Harry Jackson for burglary in London established the admissibility of fingerprints as evidence.
The Queensland Agent General in London obtained a copy of the treatise “Classification and Uses of Finger Prints” from Scotland Yard in July 1903 and forwarded it to the Queensland Police.
Queensland State Archives, Digital Image ID 22187
State rental house, Stafford, c 1954
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The Telegraph
11 July 1946
State Has 1,333 Building Blocks
Up to June 30 last the Queensland Housing Commission had acquired land totalling 1,333 building allotments in Brisbane, the Minister for Works and Housing (Mr Bruce) announced today.
The lands were located as follows: Ashgrove, 99 allotments; Banyo, 11; Camp Hill, 17; Cannon Hill, 11; Chermside-Wavell Heights, 261; Coorparoo, 187; Corinda-Graceville, 20; Enoggera-Gaythorne-Mitchelton, 228; Fairfield-Yeronga, 25, Indooroopilly-Taringa, 22; Kedron, 20; Wynnum-Manly. 11; Moorooka-Rocklea-Salisbury, 41; Morningside, 17; Mt. Gravatt, 2; Nundah, 29; Stafford, 161; Tarragindi, 171; total, 1,333.
On the north side, 831 allotments had been acquired, and on the south side, 502.
Queensland State Archives, Digital Image ID 10417
State rental house interior, Serviceton, c 1953
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The tiny township of Serviceton was selected in 1946 by the Serviceton Co-operative Society for development to help meet the shortage of post-war housing. The Society purchased 850 acres of land which was taken over by the Queensland Housing Commission in 1950, to which it added another 200 acres. The area was renamed Inala in 1953 to avoid confusion with the town of Serviceton in South Australia.
Inala was planned as a satellite town of Brisbane and houses were largely Modernist Revival style with elements of Art Deco.
Queensland State Archives, Digital Image ID 10403
Queensland Housing Commission dwelling, Kuraby, c 1954
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The Courier-Mail
16 March 1951
700 State homes
A new State Housing Commission estate will be established south-west of Kuraby and north of Compton Road. The Housing Minister (Mr. Hilton) said last night that more than 175 acres was being resumed. Erection of at least 700 houses was planned.
Queensland State Archives, Digital Image ID 10273