Queensland Government immigration poster, c1891

2 March 2015
2 March 2015

John Oxley Library, State Library of Queensland

Queensland Government immigration poster, c1891. John Oxley Library, State Library of Queensland

Portrait of Anna Christina Kruse in Danish national costume. John Oxley Library, State Library of Queensland

John Oxley Library, State Library of Queensland

National Danish costume, c1907. John Oxley Library, State Library of Queensland

 John Oxley Library, State Library of Queensland

The defining feature of colonial Queensland was its high immigrant population.

Trinidad Garcia, c1939. Events in Europe prompted great changes in the cultural and industrial landscape of the north.

Copyright © Collection of the Noel Butlin Archive Centre, Canberra

Multiethnic gang of canecutters from Europe and the Pacific.

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