Pleasure: how people enjoy the landscape

When news spread that Governor George Bowen’s long anticipated arrival in Brisbane in December 1859 had been delayed, the Queensland Free Press claimed ‘Pleasure arrangements were upset, a

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Tea-towel: Gold Coast

Gold Coast, QLD
Australia
28° 0' 6.2784" S, 153° 25' 42.384" E
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3 December 2010
3 December 2010

Location

Gold Coast, QLD
Australia
28° 0' 6.2784" S, 153° 25' 42.384" E
See map: Google Maps
3 December 2010

Collection of Glenn Cooke

Queensland on a tea-towel

Tea-towel: Gold Coast. Exotic tropical flowers and a native lorikeet surmount this map of the Gold Coast. Elephant Rock, Kirra had been an important subject for watercolourist H.C. Simpson from the 1930s but its status as an icon of the coast was soon taken over by structures such as the RSL Club at Tweed Heads. More specific locations within the Gold Coast, in this instance Currumbin Beach, are identified by overprinting. Collection of Glenn Cooke

 

Military survey, Tamborine, 1954

Tamborine Mountain, QLD
Australia
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1 January 1954
25 November 2010
25 November 2010

Location

Tamborine Mountain, QLD
Australia
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25 November 2010
Royal Australian Survey Corps

Collection of the Queensland State Archives

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The writers of Tamborine Mountain

Military survey map of Tamborine published in 1954 and compiled by the Royal Australian Survey Corps from gound surveys and air photographs in April 1944 and August 1952. The topography and settlements around North Tamborine, Eagle Heights and Mount Tamborine are clearly shown, with the escarpment visible from Southport. Collection of the Queensland State Archives

Pet Porpoise Pool Coolangatta -Tweed Heads tea-towel

Pet Porpoise Pool Coolangatta -Tweed Heads tea-towel. Collection of Glenn Cooke

Location

Australia
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17 November 2010
17 November 2010
Collection of Glenn Cooke
Australia
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Creating rural attractions

Queensland brand

Queensland, twice the size of New South Wales and eight times the size of Victoria. That’s how the recently established Government Tourist Bureau promoted the state on postcards in 1912.

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Queensland clothing

Clothing worn in Queensland has been, and remains rich with inconsistencies.

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Walkabout cover, June 1963

Our cover shows Gold Coast holiday-makers lunching in luxury beside a hotel swimming-pool, cover image Walkabout, June 1963. Copyright Collection of the Centre for the Government of Queensland

Penrod's Guide to the South Coast

In 1952 the coastal area south of Brisbane is still referred to as the South Coast, later to be known as the Gold Coast. Penrod's Guide, 1952 Copyright Collection of the Centre for the Government of Queensland

The Sunny South Coast of Queensland

This view card features the South Coast of Queensland, later to be renamed and marketed as the Gold Coast, c1952. Copyright Collection of the Centre for the Government of Queensland

Copyright Collection Centre for the Government of Queensland

The 200 kilometre city

Over the past thirty years three rapidly growing urban areas in south-east Queensland have merged into a two hundred kilometre long city.

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