rainforest

I pretend it is a hundred million years ago, 1987

Jeannie Baker’s children’s picture-book, Where the Forest Meets the Sea, tells the story of a young boy’s imaginative engagement with the rainforest.

North Queensland calls you, c1950s

North Queensland calls you, c1950s, poster by Percy Trompf.

Len Webb and students at the opening of the Tully State High School Rainforest Reserve, 1982.

Collection of the Wildlife Preservation Society of Queensland

Rainforest Aboriginal people, c1890.

Collection of the Cairns Historical Society, AIATSIS Negative 2111.02

Cutting through the scrub, 1848.

Rainforests of North Queensland

Environmental perceptions are seldom straightforward.

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

Timber souvenir bookcase, 1958

'Timber souvenir from the jungle rain forests of North Queensland', 1958. Good Wood Goods (GudWudGuds), Cairns. 'Included in this souvenir are Top and underside - Nth Qld Silky Oak, Left map - Rich Stum figured Nth Qld Maple, Right map - NQ Walnut'. Collection of the Centre for the Government of Queensland