The Red Cross Journal was the main method of communication used by the Queensland division committee located in Brisbane to correspond with the widely spread and often remote district bran

Collection of the John Oxley Library, Brisbane

Bicentennial mail bag, 1970

Bicentennial mail bag, 1970

Location

Australia
R00518
Queensland Museum
23 November 2010

Copyright © Queensland Museum, 2010

Australia
Dimensions
970mm
670mm
10mm

Programme for the inauguration of the Queensland railway, 1864

Programme for the inauguration of the Queensland railway, 1864

Location

Ipswich, QLD
Australia
27° 36' 50.7348" S, 152° 45' 30.4992" E
R6048
Queensland Museum
Ipswich
25 February 1864
23 November 2010

Copyright © Queensland Museum, 2010

Ipswich, QLD
Australia
27° 36' 50.7348" S, 152° 45' 30.4992" E
Dimensions
517mm
290mm
21mm

Wall telephone, 1908

Wall telephone, 1908

Location

Australia
H3088
Queensland Museum
23 November 2010

Copyright © Queensland Museum, 2010

Australia
Dimensions
350mm
250mm
200mm

Television viewer's licence

Location

Australia
H13851
Queensland Museum
23 November 2010

Copyright © Queensland Museum, 2010

Australia

Candlestick telephone, 1966

Candlestick telephone, 1966

Location

Australia
H26975
Queensland Museum
Sweden
23 November 2010

Copyright © Queensland Museum, 2010

Australia
Dimensions
213mm
152mm
97mm

Ceramic electrical insulator

Ceramic electrical insulator

Location

Australia
H47633
Queensland Museum
23 November 2010

Copyright © Queensland Museum, 2010

Australia
Dimensions
160mm
250mm
120mm

Operator using the manual telephone exchange, photographed as the auto-exchange was being completed, Talwood, 1965. Slide by Jim McDougall, Collection of the Centre for the Government of Queensland.

© Jim McDougall and the Centre for the Government of Queensland

Women telephonists in Queensland, who commenced at the Brisbane telephone exchange on 5 June 1899. Collection of the National Archives of Australia

Back row, left to right: Kate Sheldon, Annie Murray, Edith Aulsebrook, Amy Abraham, Edith Hawker, Sarah Gallagher, Alice Hibbert. Front row, left to right: Mary Armstrong, Ada Warburton, Frances Wall, Mrs Dick (Supervisor), Eleanor Ferguson, Annette Bowler, Lil McDonnell

Collection of the National Archives of Australia

Women telephonists at the Brisbane magneto telephone exchange, Elizabeth Street, Brisbane, 1910. Collection of the National Archives of Australia

Collection of the National Archives of Australia

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