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Illustration from a prospectus of the Brilliant Gold Mining Company, Charters Towers, 1899. Collection of John Oxley Library, State Library of Queensland

Collection of John Oxley Library, State Library of Queensland image 33797

Workers and their families, Mount Craven Mines Eidsvold, 1889. Collection of John Oxley Library, State Library of Queensland

Collection of John Oxley Library, State Library of Queensland image 23777

Croydon Mining Exchange, c1895. Collection of John Oxley Library, State Library of Queensland

Collection John Oxley Library, State Library of Queensland image 44856

Gympie goldfields, 1909

Gympie, QLD

Australia

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1 January 1909

21 October 2010

Location

Gympie, QLD

Australia

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21 October 2010

Queensland Geological Survey

Collection of the State Library of New South Wales

Topographical map of Gympie and environs, Queensland Geological Survey, 1909. Illustrating report on Gympie Goldfield by B Dunstan, Government Geologist, sheets 9 and 10. Collection of the State Library of New South Wales

The Geological Survey of Queensland commenced in 1868 at the suggestion of Richard Daintree. Daintree, a geologist and photographer from Huntingdonshire in England, had arrived in Queensland in 1864, having spent time on the gold fields of Victoria. Daintree travelled through the north of the state finding several indications of gold, copper and coal and his prospecting work in North Queensland is recognised as a catalyst in the early development of gold in that area.

Gold

Gold symbolises wealth. It transformed Queensland’s history and landscape.

Scrub clearing by burning, Malanda, 1918. From Tablelands of North Queensland, Queensland Government Intelligence and Tourist Bureau, 1918. Collection of the Centre for the Government of Queensland

Collection of the Centre for the Government of Queensland

Pineapple farms, Beerwah, 1903

Beerwah, QLD

Australia

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1 January 1903

4 October 2010

Location

Beerwah, QLD

Australia

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4 October 2010

Brisbane

Survey Office, Department of Public Lands

6 chains to an inch

Pineapple farms, Beerwah. To be sold by auction at the Land Office, Brisbane on Wednesday 28 October 1903 at 11 o'clock. Queensland State Archives

Strips of winter crop and fallow make a striking contrast in this aerial picture taken over the Darling Downs, cover, Queensland agricultural journal, volume 95, number 4, April 1969.

Transformation

How the landscape has changed and being modified.