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Dive helmet, pre 1939

This diving helmet was used by deep sea divers in the early twentieth century.

Location

Australia

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H3866

Queensland Museum

23 November 2010

Australia

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Rainforest basket, 1914-16

Rainforest basket, 1914-16

Location

Australia

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QE1477

Queensland Museum

Wrights Creek, north-east Queensland

23 November 2010

Australia

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Dimensions

480mm

450mm

300mm

Original plate from Ipswich locomotive, 1877

Plate from first Ipswich locomotive, 1877. Builders’ plates are affixed to locomotives and other rail transport to record when and where they were constructed.

Location

Australia

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R5954

Queensland Museum

Ipswich

1 January 1877

23 November 2010

Australia

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Dimensions

160mm

267mm

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

Depression era

The Great Depression of the 1930s, when economies crashed world-wide, had a devastating effect on people.

Solomon Island canoe paddle, 1884

Solomon Island canoe paddle, 1884

Location

Solomon Islands

E4508

Queensland Museum

Solomon Islands

1 January 1884

28 October 2010

Solomon Islands

Dimensions

1412mm

413mm

Staunch but conservative – the trade union movement in Rockhampton

At the start of the twentieth century, many workers in Rockhampton laboured more than 56 hours a week, earned low pay and suffered poor conditions.

Carters and Drivers’ Union float in Eight Hour Day procession, just prior to World War I. Central Queensland Collection, Central Queensland University Library, Rockhampton

Central Queensland University Library

Australian Workers Heritage Centre, Barcaldine, 1991. Celebration Theatre, Centenary of Australian Labour Movement, Barcaldine. Slide by Barcaldine Council, Collection of the Centre for the Government of Queensland

Changing landscape of radicalism

Queensland has always been known for its extremes.