agricultural shows

Cedar log at the 1897 exhibition, Bowen Park. Product of the North Queensland Timber Co. Queensland agricultural journal, 1897. Collection of the University of Queensland Library

Women's woodchop, Goombungee show, c1960. Slides by John Thun, Collection of the Centre for the Government of Queensland.

Bird's eye view, Queensland Exhibition, 1876. This bird’s eye view of the first show included inset ‘now’ and ‘future’ images of the Exhibition building. The Week, 26 August 1876.

The Jubilee show of 1909 celebrated fifty years since Queensland’s separation from New South Wales. Organisers declared that ‘We intend to show our own people what is being done within and without the State, and we desire to demonstrate to our Sister States and to New Zealand what wealth lies in our fertile soil, in our ore and coal deposits, and in our forests’. In the main ring, the Children’s Display involved 1200 girls performing callisthenics followed by 1500 boys who provided a display of physical drill.