Cunningham's Gap 1851

Cunningham's Gap 1851 by Conrad Martens (1801-78). Pencil heightened with white, black and sepia on paper 27.5 x 18cm. Courtesy Queensland Art Gallery.

Location

Australia

Darling Downs land use map, 1952

Australia
Dalby, QLD
Australia
27° 10' 59.8296" S, 151° 15' 49.4928" E
1 January 1952
15 April 2011
15 April 2011

Locations

Australia
Dalby, QLD
Australia
27° 10' 59.8296" S, 151° 15' 49.4928" E
Brisbane
Bureau of Investigation

Collection of the University of Queensland Library

Darling Downs land use map, 1952. Under the Land and Water Resources Development Acts, 1943 to 1946, the Bureau of Investigation’s annual report summarised its inquiry into agricultural development in the Darling Downs. The report included a ‘tentative’ soil map to assist future planning as well as this land use map. This map showed areas under cropping and different types of grazing and was compiled using aerial photographs and records from the government statistician. Queensland parliamentary papers, vol 2, 1952

Darling Downs soil map, 1952

Dalby, QLD
Australia
27° 10' 59.8296" S, 151° 15' 49.4928" E
1 January 1952
15 April 2011
15 April 2011

Location

Dalby, QLD
Australia
27° 10' 59.8296" S, 151° 15' 49.4928" E
Brisbane
Bureau of Investigation

Collection of the University of Queensland Library

Darling Downs soil map, 1952. Under the Land and Water Resources Development Acts, 1943 to 1946, the Bureau of Investigation presented its eighth annual report in October 1952. The report commented on the potential for further agricultural development of the Darling Downs and included a ‘tentative’ soil map based upon ground traverses and inspection of aerial photographs. According to the Bureau of Investigation, soldier settlement had contributed significantly to development, however, there were still large areas available for agricultural production on the western section of the Downs. Where Brigalow once stood between Warra and Jandowae, wheat growing was another option, while the open grassland between Dalby and Brookstead could be ‘brought under the plough’. Development of winter crops like linseed and wheat were expected west of the Condamine. According to the Bureau, these areas comprised of older alluvia than the fertile black soil plains and would require fertilizer. Similarly with the application of fertilizer the ‘sandier portions from Kurrawa towards Lake Broadwater’ had the potential for winter cropping. Maps such as this demonstrated the growing significance of soil science for the economic development and exploitation of the land. Queensland parliamentary papers, vol 2, 1952

Southern portion of Queensland showing surveyed runs, 1872

1 January 1872
17 November 2010
17 November 2010
Brisbane

Collection of the National Library of Australia

Map of the southern portion of the colony of Queensland showing the surveyed runs. Compiled from official records in the Crown Lands and Survey Office under the supervision of W. Alcock Tully, Chief Commissioner of Crown Lands, 1872. In four parts. Collection of the National Library of Australia

By the 1890s there was a demand for good agricultural land in parts of southeast Queensland. This shortage was mainly due to previous ambiguous land regulations.

In Adventure in watercolour: an artist’s story (1948), Queensland painter Kenneth Macqueen (1897-1960) called for art that walked ‘steadily and simply and, by its very truth to the environ

Chinese merchants travel by wagon through the Darling Downs, c1875. Collection of John Oxley Library, State Library of Queensland

Collection of John Oxley Library, State Library of Queensland image 63654

Strips of winter crop and fallow make a striking contrast in this aerial picture taken over the Darling Downs, cover, Queensland agricultural journal, volume 95, number 4, April 1969.

Map of the southern portion of the colony of Queensland showing the surveyed runs, 1872, Sheet 1

Moreton QLD
Australia
Darling Downs QLD
Australia
Wide Bay/Burnett QLD
Australia
1 January 1872

Locations

Moreton QLD
Australia
Darling Downs QLD
Australia
Wide Bay/Burnett QLD
Australia
Brisbane
Surveyor General’s Office
12 miles to an inch
Sheet 1: Map of the southern portion of the colony of Queensland showing the surveyed runs. Detail of Moreton, Darling Downs, Wide Bay, and Burnett Districts. Printed at the Government Engraving & Lithographic Office Brisbane. Drawn on stone by H.W.Fox, Surveyor General’s Office Brisbane, 1872. The map key indicates ten year leases (green), resumed halves of runs (brown), surveyed land (purple), boundaries of runs in unsettled districts (green lines), and tin discoveries (blue). Collection of the Museum of Lands, Mapping and Surveying, Queensland

Electoral Districts of East & West Moreton, Northern, Western & Eastern Downs, Queensland

QLD
Australia
1 January 1865

Location

QLD
Australia
Brisbane
Office of the Surveyor General, Queensland
16 miles to 1 inch
Electoral Districts of East & West Moreton, Northern, Western & Eastern Downs, Queensland from Office of the Surveyor General, Queensland, 'Atlas of the Colony of Queensland, Australia', Brisbane, Government Printing Office, 1865. Described in the Government Notice of 1 February 1866: 'EAST and WEST MORETON, and the EASTERN, WESTERN, and NORTHERN DOWNS, with portion of the LEICHHARDT and WIDE BAY DISTRICTS. Showing Towns, Railways, Electric Telegraph Lines, Principal Bush Roads and Tracks, Rivers, Creeks, Ranges, Agricultural and Village Reserves, Boundaries of Surveyed Areas, Principal Squatting Stations, &c., &c, with more than 200 miles of Coast ; also Bays, Ports, Islands, &c., according to the most recent Surveys. Scale, 16 miles to 1 inch ; size, 27 inches by 20 inches. Printed on fine paper, and colored. Price, 2s. per copy.'
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