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South Brisbane
Queensland
4000
Australia
For over 148 years, the Queensland Museum has been documenting, discovering, preserving and sharing Queensland’s natural and cultural heritage. More than a million items and specimens make up the State Collection that tells the changing story of Queensland.
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QM00030
Bark Cloth Collection
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Bark cloth tools
Bark cloths
Pacific island cultures
Masks
Tapas
An extensive collection of bark cloth or tapas from the Pacific region, including Fiji, Papua New Guinea, Vanuatu, Solomon Islands, Samoa and Tonga. The collection ranges from ceremonial items including masks to tools used in the production of bark cloth and stencils used to create decoration. The cloths date from the late 18th century to the present day.
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Fiji
Vanuatu
Samoa
Tonga
Papua New Guinea
Solomon Islands
1890
QM00003
Builder's Plate Collection
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Builders plates
Engineering
Manufacturing
Rail transport
Trains
Locomotives
Railway carriages
Wagons
The Workshops Rail Museum's collection of over 300 Builders Plates contains a range of plates from Australia and international manufacturers, representing locomotives from steam to diesel electric as well as rolling stock of many types.
This large collection contains more than 300 Builder's Plates representing manufacturers such as the Ipswich Railway Workshops, Dubs & Co, Glasgow; Baldwin Locomotive Works (USA) and Clyde Engineering, Granville, NSW and Eagle Farm, Brisbane. Builders Plates were affixed to locomotives, carriages and wagons to identify the manufacturer and, in the case of locomotives, the number they had built. These range from locomotives built in Glasgow, Scotland in 1866 to the first locomotive built at the railway workshops in Ipswich in 1877 and through to diesel locomotives built between 1960 and 1980. These builder's plates identify the stories of the companies concerned as well as the development of locomotive technology and link to the stories of individual locomotives.
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Glasgow, UK
Maryborough, Qld, Australia
Eagle Farm, Qld, Australia
Granville, NSW, Australia
Philadelphia, USA
Ipswich, Qld, Australia
Leeds, UK
QM00023
Charles & Kati Marson Musical Instrument Collection
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musical instruments
musicology
Regional music
Traditional music
This collection consists of 830 traditional musical instruments from around the world, with particular emphasis on African, Asian and Pacific cultures. The breadth of the Charles and Kati Marson Collection demonstrates the wide diversity of ways in which different cultures have made music, and how significant music is to all cultures.
In 2002 the Queensland Museum has received a major donation from Charles Marson of over 830 traditional musical instruments from around the world, with particular emphasis on African, Asian and Pacific cultures. The breadth of the Charles and Kati Marson Collection demonstrates the wide diversity of ways in which different cultures have made music, and how significant music is to all cultures. This generous donation to the Queensland Museum by Brisbane-born Charles Marson now of Ottawa, Canada is the product of the donor and his family's wishes and a partnership between the Queensland Conservatorium - Griffith University and the Queensland Museum. Charles Marson was born in Brisbane in 1932. He travelled overseas in 1959 and apart from a brief return to Brisbane with his wife Kati, he continued to work overseas. He developed a life long love of music and built up this internationally significant collection over many years, ending up with it in his home in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. The collection grew to such a size that it required special curation and maintenance. Charles and Kati decided they wanted the collection kept together, preferably in Charles' hometown of Brisbane. So they negotiated with the Queensland Museum and the Queensland Conservatorium who are working in partnership on the conservation and preservation of the instruments. The breadth of the Charles & Kati Marson Collection will encourage people to marvel at the diversity of ways in which different cultures have approached the production of music and the significance of music to all cultures. The Charles & Kati Marson Collection, together with traditional musical instruments already in the Museum, now form the basis for collaborative ethno-musicological exhibitions with the Queensland Conservatorium. Sing Sing Bilong Pasifik (2003 to 2005) and now Tune, Tone and Tempo are examples.
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Africa
Asia
Pacific
QM00018
Cinema and Projection Equipment
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20th century
Cinema equipment
Film-making
Motion Picture Cameras
Film editing equipment
Movie Cameras
photographic equipment
Projectors
The Cinema and Projection Equipment Collection contains a representative sample of late 19th and early 20th century technology including magic lanterns, a Mutoscope, a Lumiere cinematographe, 8mm and 16mm motion picture projectors, home movie cameras, film reels and editing equipment (film cement and splicers etc.)
The camera technology in the collection dates primarily from the 1930s to the 1960s although some earlier models are represented. The camera collection ranges across film types and sizes, with a focus on the popular Kodak and Bell and Howell models, and these correspond to an extensive projection equipment collection. The collection includes a large number of late nineteenth century and early twentieth century magic lantern models as well as carousel projectors from the 1950s and 1960s which allowed the display of many multiples of still slides without the need to constantly change slides. In terms of motion picture projection, QM has a large collection of twentieth century models, primarily dating from the 1910s-1930s and the 1950s-1970s. Historical highlights include a Lumiere Cinematographe (circa 1894), a Russian projector used by the Queensland Communist Party, a movie projector from Wintergarden Theatre in Maryborough, a 'Panoramagram' 3D projector, and a cinema projector from Boggo Road Jail.
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Queensland, Australia
QM00019
Cobb and Co Museum Carriage Collection
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agriculture
Farms
Land transport
Pioneers
Carriages
Horsedrawn Vehicles
Cobb & Co
WRF Bolton
Horse and bullock powered transport including coaches, carriages, buggies and sulkies, carts and wagons.
The collection was established by Toowoomba businessman and philanthropist WRF (Bill) Bolton. The Collection encompasses much of Queensland's social and economic history, with vehicles associated with wool and beef industries, squatting runs and small selections, and public transport in the horse era. The collection includes a city omnibus, regal carriages, workers' drays and water cart, Cobb & Co coaches, and wagons used by German settlers.
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Darling Downs, Queensland, Australia
Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
1860
1930
QM00032
Coghlan Collection
Jeremiah Andrew Coghlan Collection
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Anthropology
Australian Aboriginal culture
ethnography
Indigeous artefacts
late 19th century
Indigeous Australian Peoples
Jeremiah Andrew Coghlan
The collection includes a diverse range of objects of Aboriginal material culture including spears, boomerangs, stone tools, knives, bags and baskets collected from 1891-1896, almost exclusively drawn from the Glenormiston and Boulia districts. The collection of Jeremiah Andrew Coghlan was both donated and sold to the Queensland Museum over the course of the 1890s, with some material being donated by Coghlan's brothers and daughter in the following decade.
Jeremiah Coghlan was the manager of a pastoral station at Glenormiston in the early to mid 1890s, during an extensive drought in the region. Coghlan only wrote one article on Aboriginal people, which was published in the journal Man. He had no aspirations to professional ethnography or anthropology and merely traded with local Aboriginal people as their objects became available to him. Coghlan's collection has rarely been studied in any detail and remains almost completely unknown, though Coghlan was acknowledged by other noted ethnographers for his assistance, such as by Dr Roth. Coghlan's collection is chiefly interesting because it is highly localised, exclusive to a specific region, and was not collected in a deliberate or planned manner to serve the purposes of ethnography.
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Glenormiston, Queensland
Boulia, Queensland
Central-West Queensland
QM00020
Communication Technology
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19th Century
20th century
Communications technology
postal service
Telegraph equipment
Television
television components
Computers
Letters
radio components
Radios
Stationery
television sets
Postal objects include letters, postcards and stationery designed or used by Queenslanders to communicate with family, friends and colleagues in Australia and overseas. There is telegraph equipment, and telegrams, morse keys and telephones which exhibit the evolution and increasing speed of technologies across the State. Queensland Museum also has a large collection of radios and radio components, as well as televisions and, more recently, computers. The majority of the collection dates to the early twentieth century
Queensland Museum's collection of two-way communication devices runs chronologically from telegraphy in the nineteenth century, to early desk phones through to mobile handsets of the early 21st century, with a distinct focus on the late nineteenth and early twentieth century technologies used in Queensland homes and businesses. Other forms of communication such as radio and television may be more unidirectional, but they provide cohesion in a dispersed population. Through media, members of a community share news, events, jokes and music. These sources of entertainment and news provide company and information for those who are socially or physically isolated. Some important collection items include the equipment used in the first television broadcast in Queensland, Brisbane-made radios from Music Masters and Crammond, the Traeger pedal radio used in the Royal Flying Doctor's Service, and a substantial collection of electronic components vital to early 20th century radio and television.
Communication is and has been essential to a colony or state the size of Queensland. The relatively decentralised population over a vast area meant that communication technologies, like transport infrastructure, were vital to the development of the state. Communication through post, telegraph and telephone, and more recently the internet, allows two-way communication between distant people. This can lessen the void between distant loved ones, and provide vital aids in times of medical emergency or natural disaster.
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QM00022
Daintree Photograph Collection
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agriculture
mining
c1870s
geology
Landscapes
Photography
Photographs
Richard Daintree
The Daintree Photograph Collection consists of over 200 photographs of Queensland in the 1870s. Daintree, a photographer and geologist, took these photographs during his visits to north Queensland. They were displayed at a range of colonial exhibitions in Australia and Europe.
Richard Daintree was a Queensland Government Geologist and avid photographer. This collection showcases landscapes, geological formations and people from across Queensland in the 1870s, and are particularly focused in the north of Queensland and on mining and agricultural endeavour. Photographs from the Richard Daintree collection were show in the Queensland displays at 10 international exhibitions from 1871 (London) to 1897 (Brisbane). A selection of photographs was also shown in the Queensland Court at the Sydney International Exhibition, 1879-1880. The collection holds over 200 photographs, including photographic prints and overpainted Albumen prints mounted on boards.
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North Queensland, Australia
QM00008
Ellis Rowan Collection
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Australian flora
Australian plants
Botany
ceramics
floral painting
Ellis Rowan
paintings
A collection of 125 exquisite paintings by celebrated Australian artist Ellis Rowan. Rowan painted a range of flowers, plants, bird and butterflies during her career. The Queensland Museum collection focuses on plants and flowers, including spectacular Queensland species like Brisbane Golden Wattle.
Ellis Rowan was one of Australia's most celebrated flower painters. An adventurous, emancipated woman, she trecked to remote parts of Australia and New Guinea in search of subjects to paint. She found the tropical flowers 'more beautiful than all' and made six visits to Queensland between the years 1887 and 1913. Queensland Museum is home to 125 of Ellis Rowan's paintings, which were purchased by the Queensland Government in 1912 from her exhibition at the Town Hall. The paintings were later transferred to the care of the Museum. The paintings are appreciated for their aesthetic value, as well as their role in recording unique flora and fauna from the places to which Ellis Rowan travelled. Rowan painted a range of flowers, plants, birds and butterflies during her career. The Queensland Museum collection focuses on plants and flowers, including spectacular Queensland species like Brisbane Golden Wattle. Rowan had commercial and critical success in Britain and America, where she collaborated on three books and experimented with painting murals, screens and porcelain. The Museum's collection also includes two examples of Royal Worcester porcelain decorated with Ellis Rowan designs.
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1827
1922
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QM00029
Explorers & Adventurers Collection
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Aviation
shipwrecks
Bert Hinkler
Charles Kingsford Smith
Lorres Bonney
Ludwig Leichhardt
Exploration
Explorers
Surveying (Geography)
A small collection of objects which belonged to noted explorers and adventurers. The objects range from aviation history including Bert Hinkler’s Avro Baby G-EACQ aircraft, Sir Charles Kingsford Smith’s wrist watch and Lorres Bonney’s camera to Ludwig Leichhardt’s chest and a compass attributed to a seaman on Captain Cook’s Endeavour. Also included are surveying instruments and an inscribed message from the shipwrecked sailor John Renton.
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Queensland
1848
1940
QM00025
Expo 88 Collection
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Arts festivals
cultural festivals
Tourism
souvenirs
World Exposition
World's Fair
Uniforms
The 1988 World Exposition was held in Brisbane. Commonly known as Expo 88, it attracted large numbers of tourists and was known for its innovative technological and cultural displays. Queensland Museum holds a wide range of souvenirs from Expo 88 including t-shirts, plush toys and a novelty passport. Additionally, the Museum holds clothing including the attendant's uniform as worn at the Queensland Pavilion and an Expo Oz costume.
The 1988 World Exposition was held in Brisbane. Commonly known as Expo 88 it is viewed as a turning point for Brisbane, and Queensland, having attracted large numbers of tourists and increased local interest and investment in arts and cultural industries. Expo was known for its innovative technological and cultural displays based around pavilions representing the nations of the world. Pavilions housed displays on the theme of Leisure in the Age of Technology, while outside in the wider Expo site daily parades, concerts, street entertainment and artworks entertained visitors. Staff and volunteers of the event wore uniforms designed by leading fashion identities of the time, such as Prue Acton, and several of these are in the Museum's collection. Two other key motifs of the event were Expo Oz - the event's platypus mascot - and the 'sunsails' logo, a graphic that depicted the colourful pavilions over the Brisbane river. These two motifs are represented across the Museum's Expo souvenir collection.
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Brisbane
1988
1988
QM00009
Fainges Toy Collection
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20th century
collectables
Board Games
dolls
Puzzles
Teddy bears
Toy motor cars
Toy vehicles
Toys
The Fainges toy collection comprises 20th century toys including teddy bears, dolls, cars and trucks, wooden toys, puzzles and board games. Amongst the many well-known toy producers are Toltoys, Boomaroo, Fethalite and John Sands; however smaller, local toymakers are also represented.
Marjorie Fainges was an avid toy collector and author on the subject. The collection of almost 1000 objects comprises 20th century toys (approximately 1930 to 1970) including many rare Australian-made examples. Teddy bears, dolls, cars and trucks, wooden toys, puzzles and board games are all included in the collection. Amongst the many well-known toy producers are Toltoys, Boomaroo, Fethalite and John Sands; however smaller, local toymakers are also represented.
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1930
1970
QM00026
Games memorabilia collection
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20th century
Commonwealth Games
Goodwill Games
Olympic Games
souvenirs
sport
Sports equipment
The Museum holds a collection of souvenirs and official mementos from various Commonwealth, Olympic and Goodwill games. For example, from the Brisbane Commonwealth Games of 1982, the Museum holds batons, commemorative coins, uniforms and flags. Examples from the Sydney Olympics of 2000 include a uniform and a ball signed by the gold medal winning volleyball team.
Queensland has always been well represented at international sporting events. The Museum reflects this through a collection of souvenirs and official mementos from various Commonwealth, Olympic and Goodwill Games. The Commonwealth Games and Goodwill Games were held in Brisbane (1982 and 2001), and the bulk of this collection relates to those events. The Sydney Olympics of 2000 and the Melbourne Olympics of 1956 are also featured. The Museum holds many general souvenirs, including commemorative coins, clothing, flags and ceramic ware. The collection also includes some official objects, such as the baton used to complete the relay and open the Commonwealth Games and a ball signed by the gold medal winning volleyball team at the Sydney 2000 Olympics.
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1956
2001
QM00033
Greg and Helen Langley Diving Collection
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Augustus Siebe
Greg Langley
Melbourne Charles Ward
Commercial diving
diving
Exploration
Marine salvage
Military technology
Pearl shelling
Sponge diving
Underwater cutting and construction
Diving equipment
maritime history
The Langley Diving Collection comprises 36 diving helmets, plus 28 other standard dress diving objects including: air pumps, diving knives, torches, suits, boots, and communication equipment. Standard dress diving (as opposed to open helmet diving, free diving, or SCUBA) refers to the type of diving in which diver's wore a helmet or 'hard-hat' sealed to a water tight canvas suit. The collection was built up over a 30 year period by former abalone diver, Mr Greg Langley of Hobart. The Langley Diving Collection was donated to the Queensland Museum through the Federal Government's Cultural Gift Program between 2008 and 2010
This collection is historically significant for its many associations with the history and evolution of standard dress diving around the world as well as in Queensland and Australia. Of particular interest is the Augustus Siebe Diving Helmet which dates from between 1840 and 1844. As its name suggests it was made by Augustus Siebe (known as the 'father of diving') and is significant as the second earliest standard dress diving helmet in the world and one of only 4 known examples of its type. Other significant objects include Melbourne 'Mel' Ward's shallow water helmet - a unique Australian made helmet used to study and collect specimens in the Great Barrier Reef and PNG for Australian and International museums during the 1930s; pearl-shelling diving helmets; and an Australian made Robison diving helmet made in 1943 for the Commonwealth Salvage Board (a war time agency which employed specialist salvers and divers to recover shipping). The collection is widely regarded in Australia and internationally as the most extensive and high quality in the country.
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Torres Strait, Australia
Queensland, Australia
1840
1969
QM00034
HMS Pandora archaeological collection
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archaeology
Conservation Science
maritime archaeology
Tourism
maritime history
shipwrecks
The Queensland Museum holds over 6,800 artefacts from the wreck of the Royal Navy warship HMS Pandora (1791). Pandora was lost on the Great Barrier Reef in 1791, and its wreck was discovered in 1977.
While artefacts recovered during its discovery and a preliminary survey in 1979 are held, the bulk of the material was recovered during the subsequent nine seasons of archaeological excavation carried out by the Queensland Museum between 1983 and 1999. The collection is legally protected by the Commonwealth Historic Shipwrecks Act 1976 as historic shipwreck relics. Types of objects including: parts of the ship; furniture and fittings; weapons and accessories; tools and instruments; domestic equipment; clothing and accessories; medical equipment; and ethnographic 'curiosities' are represented in the Pandora collection. The Pacific ethnographic artefacts were collected by Pandora's crew within a five-month period during 1791 and have some specific geographic provenance through the surgeon's journal and captain's log book. Some outstanding items in the collection are:A gold and silver cased pocket watch thought to have belonged to the ship's surgeon, George Hamilton; 10 intricately carved wooden Tongan war clubs; A six pounder cannon and an 18 pounder carronade with the coat of arms of King George III; A French sea service flintlock pistol;A sandstone dripstone used by Pandora's crew to purify drinking water.
The Pandora shipwreck and artefact assemblage is of historic significance because of its direct association with the aftermath of the mutiny on the Bounty - one of the most well known (and romanticised) sea stories in the annals of maritime history. The Pandora collection is significant for its scientific (archaeological) values. It represents a well preserved comprehensive and coherent assemblage from the wreck of an 18th century Royal Navy vessel engaged in the Pacific. The collection has the research potential to elucidate aspects concerning the material culture, nautical technology and organisation of life on board European sailing ships engaged on long inter-ocean voyages during the 18th century as well as aspects of culture contact between 18th century European and Oceanic societies
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Great Barrier Reef, Australia
1791
1971
QM00005
Locomotives and Rolling Stock
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20th century
Diesel Trains
Rail motors
Railway wagons
Railways
Rolling stock
Steam trains
Locomotives
Railway carriages
Railway cars
Queensland Rail
Walkers Ltd
The Workshops Rail Museum holds a small collection of locomotives and rolling stock used on Queensland Rail in twentieth century. The oldest locomotive in our collection is a B13 1/2 Class 0-6-0 steam locomotive, built in 1904.
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Queensland, Australia
QM00027
MacGregor Collection Anthropological Collection
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19th Century
indigenous artefacts
Melanesian Culture
Oceanic Anthropology
Sir William MacGregor
The MacGregor Collection consists over 4000 objects from British New Guinea. The collection includes domestic utensils, dress, musical instruments, tools, hunting, weapons, head ornaments, watercraft, fishing, raw material and ceremonial objects. The material collection dates 1888 to 1898.
Sir William MacGregor was Administrator of British New Guinea (later Papua) from 4 September 1888 until 1894 and then for a second term as Lieutenant Governor from 1895 to 1898. During that time he made an extensive anthropological collection the "British New Guinea Official Collection" which was deposited in the Queensland Museum. He also made geological, ornithological and other zoological collections some of which are in the Queensland Museum.
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Papua New Guinea
QM00028
Marks family collection
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19th Century
20th century
Domestic life
entomology
indigenous artefacts
medicine
ophthalmology
Scientific instruments
Textiles
weaponry
Scientific equipment
The Marks Collection comprises over 3000 items donated by members of the Marks family, many of whom were prominent Brisbane doctors and scientists. The collection includes domestic and personal objects, weaponry, scientific instruments and Aboriginal artefacts.
The Marks family have occupied an important place in the medical, scientific and social life of Brisbane and Queensland for over a century. The Museum's Marks collection comprises over 3000 items, the bulk of which are domestic objects from the Marks family home at 101 Wickham Terrace. The collection is the result of a series of donations since 1919 from several members of the Marks family, who were prominent in scientific and medical fields. The collection is eclectic, including domestic and personal items, weaponry, scientific and medical instruments, and Aboriginal and Pacific Island artefacts. The first items were passed to the Museum in 1919 by Charles Ferdinand Marks (a medical practitioner). Sizeable donations later came from the estates of Edris Marks and Pat Marks. Pat Marks was one of Australia's leading entomologists and a malaria expert. She donated some 960 objects to the Museum, mostly around the time that she vacated the Wickham Terrace family home to move to the family's other estate at Samford. Some significant items from Pat Marks' donation include microscopes and a ball gown made around 1890 by Brisbane dressmaker Janet Walker. Other notable objects from the Marks Collection include a clock made by renowned British clockmakers Tompion and Banger and an early marine chronometer
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Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
QM00011
Photographic Equipment Collection
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19th Century
photographic studios
Photography
cameras
photographic equipment
Captain Leslie Blake
CM Yonge
F A Whitehead & Sons
Haig Photographic Studio
Kingsford Smith
Lorres Bonny
Prickly Pear Board
This collection contains a representative sample of 19th and 20th century technology for both studio and outdoor photography, including cameras, printing frames and photo folders, burnishing rollers, light masks, change bags, back sheets, developing tanks and trays, timers, enlargers, tripods, plate holders, flash guns, and exposure meters
The majority of the cameras and associated developing and printing equipment in the Queensland Museum collection are pre-1950s models, particularly folding cameras, box cameras and Kodak branded objects, with some significant SLR and TLR models from the 1960s-1970s. Significant groupings include: Cameras in Research - the Prickly Pear Board, based in Queensland from 1921 used cameras in their research activities both in Australia and overseas. The Museum has three camera models used by the Board. There is also the Kodak 3A Autographic Brownie used in CM Yonge's Great Barrier Reef Expedition, and the Kodak that accompanied Captain Leslie Blake on Mawson's Australian Antarctic Expedition. Cameras in Aviation - includes Lorres Bonney's Kodak Brownie Six-20 and the folding roll-film camera presented to Kingsford Smith by his Co-Directors from National Airways. Box Brownies - approximately 50 box cameras including the first Kodak Box Brownie model. Queensland Photographic Studios - includes a very large studio plate camera and accessories from Ipswich photographic studio of F A Whitehead & Sons. The Haig Photographic Studio Collection (1868-1984), one of the longest running studios in Queensland. Along with the accessories, studio decoration and developing technology, these cameras tell the story of a Queensland family studio (based in Warwick) that evolved from a nineteenth into a twentieth century business. The Port Collection consists of whole and partial cameras used by an early freelance news photographer and this equipment complements photographic images taken by Port which are held in the Queensland Museum and State Library collections.
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Queensland, Australia
QM00007
Queensland Environmental Science Technology Collection
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19th Century
20th century
Environment
Laboratories
Pest control
Science
Laboratory equipment
Microscopes
A large collection of items relating to the research, preservation and exploitation of Queensland's unique landscape. Environmental science objects in the QM collection include implements aimed at the control of introduced pests such as rabbits and prickly pear, as well as microscopes and testing equipment from centres of research like the University of Queensland or the Department of Environment and Heritage.
Queensland Museum's environmental science technology collection encompasses a broad range of scientific equipment used in the research of Queensland's flora, fauna and waterways. There are approximately 260 items relating to microscopy in the Social History collection, the majority of which come from the University of Queensland Museum of Microscopy. This collection of microscopes and associated equipment was used across a variety of research disciplines at UQ, including Zoology and Geology. There are other miscellaneous laboratory items and portable test kits, like ozone monitors and hydrographs, which represent changes in scientific technology over time and contribute to the history of environmental research in Queensland. QM also has cameras, singeing and pulping machines, poison injectors and containers from the Australian Prickly Pear Board, based in Queensland. There is also a significant collection of animal traps, snares and baits used across the state to control levels of rabbits, insects, foxes and other introduced pests.
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Queensland, Australia
QM00016
Queensland Museum Aviation Collection
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19th Century
Aircraft parts
Aviation
Aircraft
Engines
Uniforms
Bert Hinkler
Bill Lancaster
Charles Kingsford Smith
Charles Ulm
Lores Bonney
The Queensland Museum Aviation collection consists of a range of objects including aircraft, flying equipment and personal memorabilia. Also a rich archival and photographic collection pertaining to aviation history in Queensland and famous Queensland Aviators and Aviatrix.
The Queensland Museum Aviation Collection holds some iconic objects including the AVRO Baby and AVRO Avian aircraft, used by Bert Hinkler in long distance flights in the 1930s. It also contains the wreck of the Southern Cross Minor, which crashed in the Algerian Sahara in 1933, its pilot Bill Lancaster surviving the wreck but perishing in the desert conditions. The collection holds 8 aircraft, a range of aircraft engines, parts and navigational equipment, aviation clothing and uniforms, and memorabilia from a number of pilots including Charles Kingsford Smith, Bert Hinkler, Charles Ulm, and Lores Bonney.
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Queensland, Australia
QM00021
Queensland Museum Cross-cultural collection
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19th Century
20th century
migration
numismatics
Retailing
Banknotes
coins
musical instruments
Kwong Sang
Kwong Sang and Co
The Museum has a growing collection representing the diversity of cultural communities in Queensland. This collection includes musical instruments, flags, national costumes and dolls. A significant subset includes a large collection of shop stock from Kwong Sang & Co, Chinese merchants based in Toowoomba.
The Museum has a growing collection representing the diversity of cultural communities in Queensland. This collection includes musical instruments, flags, national costumes and dolls. Significant subsets include - A large collection of shop stock from Kwong Sang & Co, Chinese merchants and importers who were based in Toowoomba from the 1880s. The Kwong Sang collection includes a calendar, jewellery, a shop window and many Chinese cultural objects, which relate to a significant era for Chinese-Australian relations. Also included are ceremonial flags from the Tully Suomi Seura (Finnish Society), Australia's second oldest Finnish Society and banknotes and coins from around the world.
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Indonesia
China
Finland
Toowoomba
QM00015
Queensland Museum Domestic Life Collection
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cookware
Domestic life
packaging
social history
Kitchen equipment
This collection includes objects for personal use, such as spectacles, toothbrushes and vanity sets along with objects found around the home, like cutlery, mixing bowls or washboards. New inventions represented in the domestic life collection include the prototype pineapple peeler and innovative home medicine solutions. Objects date from across the 19th and 20th centuries, with the largest subsets created between 1920 and 1950.
The social history collection at the Queensland Museum is rich in objects from domestic life. These range from 19th century furnishings through to modern kitchen gadgets. Objects from the domestic sphere provide an insight into lifestyles, social mores, new inventions and entertainments throughout Queensland history. The day-to-day goings on in the Queensland family home are as important to our understanding of the past as politics or public events.
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Queensland, Australia
QM00014
Queensland Museum Furniture Collection
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cabinet making
Depression furniture
Design
Timber
Furniture
A collection of silky oak furniture, including a table inlaid with the federation coat of arms, believed to have been given to Sir Leslie Wilson, Governor of Queensland. Notable local cabinet-makers represented include John Mason of Maryborough, as well as Lewis J. Harvey and Ed Rosenstengel of Brisbane. Examples of recycled, homemade furniture - kerosene crate and cotton-reel shelves are also represented. Queensland furniture from the 1820s was largely Classical in design. Useful rather than ornamental furniture was the first requirement, and much of Queensland Museum's collection, albeit mostly 20th century, reflects this earliest tendency to simplicity and pragmatism in design. The furnishings of the main rooms of Queenslander houses changed with the transition from the Colonial/Victorian era to Federation. Red cedar disappeared from fashion to be replaced by silky oak, Queensland maple, white cedar and stained pine. The timbers were often fumed with ammonia to enrich their colour to a warm brown.
Queensland Museum's collection of furniture and furniture catalogues reflects changes in Queensland's lifestyle and aspirations, with a particular focus on early to mid twentieth century Queensland cabinet-makers who used local timbers, and early twentieth century thrift furniture or 'making-do' furniture where common and cheap household materials were made into useful domestic articles. These homemade, recycled items were common in many pioneer households, and throughout Queensland during the 1890s and 1930s Depressions. Both approaches, while vastly different in style and cost, indicate resourcefulness and a want or need to use local materials to fashion the Queensland home.
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Queensland, Australia
QM00013
Queensland Political Collection
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ephemera
Politics
Florence Bjelke-Petersen
Heather Beattie
Joh Bjelke-Petersen
Kevin Rudd
Peter Beattie
Samuel Griffith
A range of objects relating to Queensland and federal politics. The collection includes official State material, campaigning ephemera, promotional t-shirts and novelty items, as well as personal items belonging to politicians. Some of the earliest objects relate to Queensland's 9th Premier Samuel Griffith. The largest collections relate to former Premiers Peter Beattie and Joh Bjelke-Petersen, whilst more recent acquisitions include objects relating to the Prime Ministership of Kevin Rudd.
The Museum holds a range of objects relating to Queensland and federal politics. The collection includes official State material, campaigning ephemera, promotional t-shirts and novelty items, as well as personal items belonging to politicians. Some of the earliest objects relate to Queensland's 9th Premier Samuel Griffith. The largest collections relate to former Premiers Peter Beattie and Joh Bjelke-Petersen. More recent acquisitions include objects relating to the Prime Ministership of Kevin Rudd. The collection includes a novelty Bjelke-Petersen beer bottle, and a pumpkin scone recipe written by Lady Florence Bjelke-Petersen. A large donation from Peter Beattie includes his personal degree certificates, robes and medallions as well as photographs and documentation from his wife Heather Beattie, whose family had connections to North Queensland missions.
The political collection reflects the Museum's focus on Queensland whilst acknowledging the role of prominent Queenslanders in federal politics. For example, Kevin Rudd's Kevin 07 campaign is represented through t-shirts and ephemera. The collection also interprets political relevance broadly, recognizing that satire can impact on public opinion and that there is a growing interest in the personal life of politicians
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Queensland, Australia
QM00004
Queensland Railways Crockery and Cutlery
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20th century
Crockery
Cutlery
dining cars
Inlander Train
Midlander Train
On-Board Services
Queenslander Train
Railway Refreshment Rooms
Sunlander Train
Sunshine Express Train
Tilt Train
Westlander Train
Queensland Rail
Rail transport
Tableware
This is a large collection of crockery, cutlery and silverware used at Queensland Railways Refreshment Rooms and for on board train services throughout the twentieth century.
This collection of over 1000 objects features crockery, cutlery and silverware used in Queensland Railways Refreshment Rooms and on Dining Cars for such train services as the Sunshine Express, Sunlander, Westlander, Midlander, Inlander, Queenslander and the electric tilt train. The experience of dining during long distance journeys has long been a feature rail travel in Queensland. The collection includes a range of crockery types and exhibits Queensland Railways branding from different eras of rail travel. The collection also holds a range of dining related equipment from tourist trains such as the Queenslander.
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Queensland, Australia
QM00012
Queensland Social History Photograph Collection
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19th Century
20th century
ferrotypes
holograms
Photography
slides
stereoscopes
AE (Bert) Roberts
F Port
Ispwich Photographic Society
Richard Daintree
ambrotypes
daguerreotypes
Photographs
A collection of some 5000 photographic images relating to Queensland's social history. These include photographs, slides, negatives and examples of early photographic processes such as ambrotypes and daguerreotypes. The subject matter ranges from personal family photographs to commercially produced educational slide sets.
A collection of some 5000 photographic images relating to Queensland's social history. These include photographs, slides, negatives and examples of early photographic processes such as ambrotypes and daguerreotypes. The subject matter ranges from personal family photographs to commercially produced educational slide sets. Significant subsets include: - a series of 1300 glass plate negatives taken by Bert Roberts, an early member of the Ipswich Photographic Society, whose images document Ipswich life from around 1890 to 1915, A series of 240 images taken by pioneering Australian geologist and photographer Richard Daintree. - Images associated with early Brisbane freelance news reporter F Port. - Images of prominent Queensland figures, such as Charles Kingsford Smith and Andrew Petrie. - Image collections by well-known photographers, such as the Haigs of Warwick
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Queensland, Australia
QM00010
Roberts Photograph Collection
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AE (Bert) Roberts
Ispwich Photographic Society
Carriages
Manufacturing
Transport
This collection contains the photographs of AE Roberts, holding over 1000 photographs depicting life in SE Queensland around 1900.
Photographs in the collection include depictions of the Roberts' family coachworks and vehicles in Ipswich, as well as people at work and leisure in south eastern Queensland. 'Bert' Roberts was a member of Ipswich Photographic Society who conducted excursions around the Bremer River and Ipswich, photographing landscapes and architecture.
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Ipswich, Queensland
South East Queensland
Moreton Bay, Queensland
1890
1920
QM00002
Ronalds Collection
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ceramics
glassware
porcelain
Royal Worcester
Benjamin Charles Ronalds (1892-1970) was a Brisbane-based glass worker who collected porcelain, ceramics and glass. His complete collection, of about 800 items, consists primarily of Royal Worcester porcelain and also contains comparative pieces from other British, European and Oriental ceramics manufacturers, a wide range of glassware, and a few selected pieces representing other applied arts.
Ronalds migrated to Brisbane from England, having served an apprenticeship in the glass trade. He obtained employment with Oxlades, a leading glazing firm, and then opened the Decorative Glass Company at 57 Vulture Street, West End, Brisbane in 1924. In addition to carrying out glazing work he stocked glassware and ceramics. He specialised in collecting Royal Worcester porcelain and built up a remarkable collection of this factory's products. As well as collecting locally, he made several trips overseas and many to Melbourne and Adelaide. Ronalds' huge collection was moved to the Museum in August 1976. The Ben Ronalds Collection pays tribute to a passionate Queensland collector.
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Queensland, Australia
1801
2000
QM00031
Roth Collection
Dr Walter Edmund Roth Collection
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Anthropology
Australian Aboriginal culture
ethnography
Indigeous artefacts
late 19th Century - early 20th Century
Indigeous Australian Peoples
Walter Edmond Roth
The Roth Collection comprises over 300 objects collected, as Roth claimed, in his capacity as Protector of Aborigines from 1898-1906. The material primarily comes from North Queensland, with a strong concentration of objects in the Cape, and Central Queensland districts. The collection includes Aboriginal material culture incorporating spears, stone tools, bags and baskets. The collection also includes duplicates of photos taken by Roth which he sold to the Australian Museum. These photos are of Aboriginal people and dwellings.
Dr Walter E. Roth was the Northern Protector of Aborigines from 1898-1904, and then overall Protector from 1904-1906. Roth was an avid collector and cataloguer of Aboriginal material and culture. He wrote a significant contribution to ethnography which, in its attention to material culture, had no rival at the time. Roth followed this 1897 publication with numerous bulletins on Aboriginal culture, with the last in the series published in 1910. Roth's collection at the Queensland Museum is small in comparison with the material he sold to the Australian Museum, however its under-studied nature and the fact that it was claimed to be his government collection lends its significance. Roth had an international standing at the time as an ethnographer, and this legacy remains in the numerous Indigenous material culture he collected which is retained in international museums such as the Smithsonian Institution.
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Central Queensland, Australia
Cape York, Australia
1898
1906
QM00024
Royal Queensland Show 'Ekka' Collection
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Agricultural shows
confectionery
Embroidery
Royal Queensland Show
Textiles
Toys
agriculture
Chantler Family
Sample bags
The Ekka collection includes an array of show bags (sample bags) and their contents ranging from the 1930s to the 1980s. The contents include confectionery packaging, novelty objects and toys, while the bags themselves range from cloth drawstring bags to printed plastic bags. The Museum also holds prize winning examples of embroidery and other handcrafts, along with the medals and certificates awarded to winners of craft and agricultural displays.
The Ekka is a 10 day annual festival that commences on the second Thursday of August held at the RNA showgrounds. The official title of the Ekka is the Royal Queensland Show, though it has had several names over the years. The first show was the Queensland Intercolonial Exhibition, held in 1876 and the Museum holds prize medals that go back to this date. The Show was intended to promote local industries, but also to showcase the agricultural, pastoral and industrial resources of the whole of Queensland, and this has continued to be the key purpose of the Show. Show bags, with samples of the wares of many different manufacturers and organisations, have been a distinctive feature of the Ekka for many years. Showbags were designed to provide samples of products produced specifically at the Royal Queensland Show, however the content expanded progressively to represent wider commercial interests, and later to tie in with film and television trends. Most of the Museum's showbags were donated by avid collectors the Chantler family.
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Brisbane
1930
1989
QM00035
The Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Archaeology Collections
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38,000 years ago to 1890 AD
archaeology
prehistory
Indigeous Australian Peoples
The archaeology collections consist of over 800 archaeological assemblages derived from known archaeological contexts. Some of these such as Kenniff Cave, Princess Charlotte Bay, Cathederal Cave and Lawn Hill have played a prominent role in rewriting the Aboriginal prehistory of Australia. The collection represents one of the most valuable archaeological assemblages in Australia for understanding complexity and change in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander society prior to the arrival of Europeans
The archaeology collections at QM date back to the initial archaeological investigations of Sydney Skertchly who argued in 1924 that he had identified artefacts in stratigraphic layers dating to the late Pleistocene. This is the earliest record in the history of archaeology in Australia identifying through stratigraphic grounds a very early antiquity for Aboriginal Australia. The scientific assemblage grew dramatically throughout the 1960s with the appointment of formal curators with training in archaeology and holds collections that have played a prominent role in rewriting Australia's human prehistory. Kenniff Cave was the first scientifically dated archaeological site extending Aboriginal occupation back to the late Pleistocene. Princess Charlotte Bay produced models arguing for increased Aboriginal population expansion in the mid to late Holocene. Lawn Hill helped develop a model to understand how Aboriginal people were able to continue to use arid landscapes at the peak of the last Ice Age. The Mer Island archaeological assemblages from the Eastern Torres Strait Islands have produced evidence of the earliest pottery in Australia and helps identify the antiquity of long distance maritime trade and exchange networks with Papua New Guinea. The archaeological assemblages are regular used by researchers and students to develop a clearer understanding of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander past.
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Princess Charlotte Bay, Queensland
Lawn Hill, Queensland
Mer Island, Queensland, Australia
QM00036
The Embroidery Collection
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1712 -1970
Agricultural shows
Embroidery
Elsie Wright
Mary Dwyer
Paula Gubar
Needlework
Samplers (needlework)
Textile crafts
The Embroidery Collection consists of over four hundred and fifty pieces of embroidery and embroidered garments, as well as related material including, embroidery equipment, fabric, threads, patterns, prize certificates and sashes, samples, threads, and transfers.
A large proportion of the Embroidery Collection consists of the prize winning embroideries executed by Mrs Elsie Wright of Landsborough, and Mrs Mary Dwyer of Toowoomba. From 1930 to the 1960s these two women monopolised the embroidery prizes at most Queensland agricultural shows, as well as taking out major prizes in Adelaide, Hobart, Sydney, and Melbourne. Approximately 130 pieces in the collection are attributed to Elsie Wright and fifty to Mary Dwyer. There are also thirty five samplers, and a small collection of machine embroidered samples and garments executed by fashion designer, Paula Gubar
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Toowoomba, Queeensland
1712
1970
QM00039
The Janet Walker Costume Collection
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Costume
Custom Made Clothing
dress
Dressmaker
Dressmaking
late 19th and early 20th century
Queensland Designers
Dresses
Outfits
Fashion
Fashion design
Janet Walker
The Janet Walker Collection consists of twelve women's garments from the early 1890s to the late 1920s. The collection includes ball gowns, wedding dresses and daywear.
Mrs Janet Walker (1850-1940) began her custom made clothing business in the Central Chambers, Queen Street in 1882. From there she moved to larger premises in Adelaide Street in 1886 and 1892, then back to Queen Street in 1919, where she remained until her retirement in 1938. By the end of 1898 Janet Walker employed 120 staff in the 'Ladies Emporium' which had been established in Adelaide Street in September 1896. From 1887 to 1901 the local press acknowledged Janet Walker's designs at eighty-four weddings, fourteen balls, six receptions at the opening of Federal Parliament in Melbourne, as well as describing thirty sets of trousseau garments made at her atelier.
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Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
1890
1929
QM00040
The Olive Ashworth Collection
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1970s and early 1980s
Clothing
Printed Textiles
Fashion design
Graphic Arts
Olive Ashworth
The Olive Ashworth Textile Collection consists of artwork, fabric and clothing samples, fabric yardage, fashion photographs, price lists and press clippings. Most of the objects in this collection were executed during the 1970s, with a very small number from the early 1980s
Olive Ashworth (1915-2000), artist, textile designer and photographer studied graphic art at the Art Training Institute, Melbourne in 1931. The impact of the 1930s depression forced her return to Brisbane we she began working in the art department of Burns Philip & Co. At the same time Olive completed a graphic art course by correspondence. In 1947 Ashworth went freelance. Her label, Indigenous Design of Australia was established in 1971. Many of her textile designs were inspired by the Great Barrier Reef (Aquarelle, Coral Garden, Great Barrier Reef, Heron Island, Reef Ballet, Reef Fantasy, Reef, Rhythm, Reef Shells, Mushroom Coral, Feather Starfish, Butterfly Fish, Fringing Reef) and the rainforests in Far North Queensland (Tropical Rainforest, Tropical Cairns, Tropical Fan Palms, Queensland).
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Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
QM00037
The Patrick Ogilvie Hat Collection
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1960s
Hat Design
Milliner
Millinery
Fashion
Fashion design
hats
Patrick Ogilvie
The Patrick Ogilvie Collection consists of approximately thirty-two hats and head pieces designed and made in Brisbane during the 1960s
Following a short career with the Queensland Treasury as a trainee accountant, Patrick Ogilvie moved to Sydney in 1946 where he trained with the milliner, Margot Macrae, and then worked for the milliner and couturiere, Valda Normoyle. In 1947 he returned to Brisbane and operated his own millinery business in a small room at the back of the Gredden's clothing factory in Elizabeth Street. As the business began to flourish he moved to more spacious premises on the third floor of the Rowe's Arcade where he eventually employed thirty-eight staff. The Rowe's Arcade shop was closed in 1972 when the popularity of hats as fashion accessories had diminished considerably
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Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
1969
1969
QM00038
The Paula Stafford Beachwear Collection
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1960s and 1970s
Beachwear
Queensland Designers
Fashion
Fashion design
Paula Stafford
swimwear
The Paula Stafford Collection consists of approximately forty beachwear outfits which were designed and manufactured on the Gold Coast predominately during the 1960s and 1970s
Paula Stafford is unanimously linked with Queensland beachwear design. Stafford originally trained in dress design at the Melbourne Technical College during the 1930s. In 1942 Stafford and her husband moved to Surfers Paradise where she began to experiment with swimwear design, including her version of the bikini. It was not until 1952 following the reprimand Sydney model Anne Ferguson received from the beach inspector, John Moffat, for wearing a rather brief Stafford bikini that her reputation as a designer and business woman began to flourish. At the peak of her business Stafford was operating two large workrooms which employed up to 65 staff, and was supplying up to 400 shops in Australia. The collection which includes, beach coats, bikinis, dresses, hats, jumpsuits, pants and skirts, reflects the output of these workrooms.
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Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia
1960
1979
QM00017
Thomas Macleod Queensland Aviation Collection
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Aircraft
Aviation
Navigation
Propeller
Wreck
Archives
Bert Hinkler
Charles Kingsford-Smith
Charles Ulm
Lores Bonney
Thomas Macleod
The Thomas Macleod Queensland Aviation Collection is a collected archive of documents, photos and objects relating to the early aviation history of Queensland.
Named after Thomas Macleod, pioneer of heavier-than-air flight in Queensland, the Thomas Macleod Queensland Aviation Collection is a collected archive of documents, photos and objects relating to the early aviation history of Queensland. A wide range of aviation endeavour is represented in the collection which contains a diversity of material. Archival material represents a range of Queensland aviators including Bert Hinkler, Lieutenants William Fraser and Val Rendle, Charles Lindsay Campbell and Group Captain Cedric Hill. Another feature of the collection is the Kingsford Smith Series containing a large number of items from the airman's personal collection.
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Brisbane; Bundaburg
1910
1968
QM00006
World Wars I and II Collection from Queensland
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20th century
defence
Documents
medals
memorabilia
Mephisto
Uniforms
weapons
World War One
World war Two
Military medals
Uniforms
weapons
Military service
Soldiers
world wars
A large collection of World War I and World War II relics, medals, memorabilia, weaponry, uniforms, documents and personal effects of soldier's as well as their wives and mother's back home relating to Queenslanders' professional and private experiences of war.
With the outbreak of the First World War, tens of thousands of Queenslanders were involved in the Great War which saw the death of thousands of men. The Great War changed many Queenslanders' perceptions of conflict. Highlights of the QM collection include the Mephisto - a German Army 20 A7V Sturmpanzerwagen tank recovered from the field in Villers-Bretonneux by the 26th Batallion, made up primarily of Queensland soldiers; Bert Hinkler's flying goggles, material from a soldier who fought at Viller-Bretonneux, including, pay books, ration cards, photographs, uniform and ribbons; decorative pins made from the wires of the zeppelin shot down over Cuffley, Essex; and a Mk III Hythe gun camera.In 1939 a Second World War commenced which once again saw Queenslanders involved in conflict, this time in the Mediterranean and North Africa. With the entrance of the Japanese in the War in 1941, conflict was brought to the doorstep of Australia for the first time. Some of the most violent conflict on Australian land and water occurred in Queensland, with numerous Japanese air raids in the north targeting military facilities at Horne Island and Townsville. The destruction of the neutral AHS Centaur off Brisbane in 1943 was representing one of the most dramatic incidents on the home front. Some highlights of the Queensland Museum collection include a Japanese flag captured and signed by AIF soldiers at Milne Bay, Papua New Guinea; a chair made by POW's working on the Burma-Thailand railway; relics of the Japanese bomb dropped on Townsville, crafts from an Italian family interned in Australia during the war, and a large collection of radio equipment.
As part of Colonial Britain, and then the British Commonwealth, Queensland was involved in international warfare. In the twentieth century, Queenslander's fought in Europe, the Mediterranean and the Pacific to defend the British Empire and the new Australian nation. World Wars I and II and the resulting ANZAC tradition have become highly significant symbols of Australian identity
Some material included in this collection may be subject to copyright
1918
1945
QM00001
X-Ray Technology Collection
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anode
cathode
exposure
medical imaging
x-rays
X-Ray Equipment
A collection of over 70 objects associated with x-ray technology in Queensland.
The Queensland Museum X-Ray Technology Collection contains a range of x-ray equipment for dental, medical, and scientific testing manufactured in Australia, Europe and America. This includes x-ray machines and their components, most particularly x-ray tubes, together with paraphernalia for use with x-ray equipment, such as protective wear, frames, x-ray plates, and exposure meters and calculators. The collection extends over 80 years from the late 1890s to the 1970s and demonstrates changing configurations and advances with x-ray technologies through time. It features one of the earliest cathode x-ray tubes in Brisbane, a hand blown piece from 1898, and the prototype of the rolling loop mechanism which enabled the rapid transport of 70mm film, designed for x-ray photography and developed in Brisbane
Some material included in this collection may be subject to copyright
Queensland, Australia
1898
1975