White children and Pacific Islander attendants, Hambledon Sugar Plantation, c1891

White children and their Pacific Islander attendants at the Hambledon Sugar Plantation outside Cairns, c1891.

Collection of the John Oxley Library, State Library of Queensland image 172486

Pith helmet

Pith helmet

Location

Australia
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R5451
Queensland Museum
Melbourne St, South Brisbane
23 November 2010
23 November 2010

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Australia
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Passages to India: military linkages with Queensland
Queensland clothing
Separate spheres: gender and dress codes
Separation
Separation: divisions in the landscape
Dimensions
175mm
345mm
290mm

Sure proof of a white race living and thriving in the Queensland tropics, 1928

Group of sugar growers and families, Innisfail, North Queensland. Sure proof of a white race living and thriving in the Queensland tropics.

Collection of the Centre for the Government of Queensland

Map of the world showing the warm countries in which the skin of human beings gradually becomes brown, 1903

Australia
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1 January 1903
30 August 2010
30 August 2010

Location

Australia
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30 August 2010
Melbourne
E.W. Cole Book Arcade
Whiteness in the tropics

Map of the world showing the warm countries in which the skin of human beings gradually becomes brown, and the hot countries in which it gradually becomes black, 1903. E.W.

Whiteness in the tropics

In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, two visions of a white tropical Queensland vied for ascendancy. One was based on the principle of white dominance.

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