Centre for the Government of Queensland

Settled portions of Queensland, 1880

1 January 1880

22 September 2010

London

William Collins Sons & Co

‘Settled portions of Queensland’, from The student’s atlas consisting of forty-five maps of modern geography embracing all the latest discoveries and changes in boundaries and six maps of ancient and historical geography, William Collins Sons & Co, London 1880. This school atlas produced in London and Glasgow between 1880 and 1889 contained this map of the settled portion of south-east Queensland. According to Peter Barber and Tom Harper, ‘Maps are rarely about geography ... Educational maps are about more than learning: they can carry some of the most powerful messages of propaganda and even indoctrination’, from exhibition Magnificent maps: power, propaganda and art at the British Library in 2010.

Emerald Hospital, 1964. Slide by Ross Phillis, Collection of the Centre for the Government of Queensland.

Main acute care block, Princess Alexandra Hospital, Buranda, 1966. Slide by Ruth Read, Collection of the Centre for the Government of Queensland

New 'Geriatric Unit', Princess Alexandra Hospital, Buranda, 1966. Slide by Ruth Read, Collection of the Centre for the Government of Queensland

Mossman District Hospital, 1972. Slide by Ruth Read, Collection of the Centre for the Government of Queensland

The General Hospital at North Ward Townsville, with L-shaped new nurses quarters behind. The two storey wooden building in the centre is the old Townsville hospital, demolished soon after this photograph was taken in 1958. Slide by Peter Petersen, Collection of the Centre for the Government of Queensland.

The General Hospital at North Ward, Townsville, with L-shaped new nurses quarters behind, 1958. Slide by Peter Petersen, Collection of the Centre for the Government of Queensland