agriculture

Assistance to cotton growers, Upper Burnett and Callide Valley, 1937. Under the Cotton Production Relief Scheme, advances were made to ‘necessitous' cotton growers in the Upper Burnett and Callide Valleys. In 1937, a total of £20,000 was made available from the Unemployment Relief Scheme of which just over £14,317 was spent. These images show the clearing and burning of native vegetation to make way for increased cotton production. Queensland parliamentary papers, vol 2, 1937

Collection of the University of Queensland Library

St Lucia Farm School from the air, c1936. Photographed by J.J.C. Bradfield, Collection of the Fryer Library, University of Queensland, ms F3376

Collection of the Fryer Library, University of Queensland

Tea-towel: Nerada Tea

Nerada Valley, QLD

Australia

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3 December 2010

Location

Nerada Valley, QLD

Australia

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3 December 2010

Reef Productions

Collection of Glenn Cooke

Tea-towel: Nerada Tea. The Cutten Brothers established a farm at Bingal Bay in 1882 and began the first tea planting in Australia in 1886. The farm was destroyed by a cyclone in 1918 but Indian born Dr Allan Maruff settled in Cairns in the early 1950s and, discovering the surviving trees and seedlings, purchased 320 acres in the Nerada Valley in 1958. By 1970 the estate was thriving and Dr Maruff utilised mechanical harvesting and formed a partnership with Burns-Philp to establish the first tea-processing factory in Australia. Collection of Glenn Cooke

Machine shears

Wool was a central colonial economy for Queensland and the basis for European expansion and settlement. The arrival of large numbers of sheep transformed the physical landscape.

Location

Australia

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Queensland Museum

23 November 2010

Australia

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Dimensions

92mm

470mm

65mm

Rabbit trap

Rabbits introduced to Queensland, as in other parts of Australia, rapidly became a pest and damaged agricultural land and native vegetation.

Location

Australia

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Queensland Museum

23 November 2010

Australia

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Dimensions

128mm

845mm

73mm

Album views, South Coast and seaside, 1914

Photographic representations of the landscape of Queensland were an important part of the promotion of rail travel in the early 1900s.

Location

Australia

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Queensland Museum

Brisbane, Queensland

1 January 1914

23 November 2010

Australia

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Dimensions

220mm

300mm

10mm

South Sea Islander cane knife

South Sea Islander cane knife

Location

Erakala Mackay, QLD

Australia

21° 8' 28.356" S, 149° 11' 8.25" E

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E16946

Queensland Museum

Mackay

23 November 2010

Erakala Mackay, QLD

Australia

21° 8' 28.356" S, 149° 11' 8.25" E

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Dimensions

651mm

157mm

Harvesting the first sorghum crop on Peak Downs, June 1949. Massey Harris model 55k tractors hauling Sunshine model No 4 header harvesters. Collection of Andy Plunkett

Collection of Andy Plunkett

Planting the first sorghum crop on Peak Downs, January 1949. Massey Harris model 55K tractors hauling Sunshine 24 run combine drills. Collection of Andy Plunkett

Collection of Andy Plunkett

Mechanical harvest of sugar-cane, Kingaroy Shire, 1956. Slide by John Thun, Collection of the Centre for the Government of Queensland