Sugar terminal, Mackay, c1960. Slide by John Thun, Collection of the Centre for the Government of Queensland

Copyright © John Thun and the Centre for the Government of Queensland 

A gang working on sugar cane tram lines, Isis central sugar mill, near Childers, 1976. Slide by George Moller, Collection of the Centre for the Government of Queensland

Copyright © George Moller and the Centre for the Government of Queensland 

Sugar cane, Atherton Shire, 1966. Slide by Robin Barron, Collection of the Centre for the Government of Queensland

Copyright © Robin Barron and the Centre for the Government of Queensland 

When I was a child I would ask my mother where we came from, she would take a tea towel from the drawer and show me a map of the New Hebrides.

Train being towed off Inkerman Bridge by donkey engine, flood February 1922.

QR Historical Collection/The Workshops Rail Museum

Airdmillan, Kalamia and Seaforth sugar plantations, c1888

Lower Burdekin, QLD
Australia
1 January 1888
26 October 2010
26 October 2010

Location

Lower Burdekin, QLD
Australia

James Cook University Archives, Townsville

A sketch plan of Airdmillan, Kalamia and Seaforth sugar plantations, Lower Burdekin, c1888. Pioneer Mill Records, Photograph 52, James Cook University Archives, Townsville

 

Commercial production of sugar commenced in Queensland during the mid-1860s.

South Sea Islander huts, Farnbro, Childers, 1904. Queensland agricultural journal, 1904. Collection of the Fryer Library, University of Queensland

Collection of the Fryer Library, University of Queensland

Group of South Sea Islanders, Watawa Plantation, Bingera, 1897. Queensland agricultural journal, 1897. Collection of the Fryer Library, University of Queensland

Collection of the Fryer Library, University of Queensland

South Sea Islanders cutting cane, Bingera, 1897. Queensland agricultural journal, 1897. Collection of the Fryer Library, University of Queensland

Collection of the Fryer Library, University of Queensland

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