AML&F wool store, 1913. Collection of the John Oxley Library, Brisbane, negative number 5311

Collection of the John Oxley Library, Brisbane

AML&F ram sale at Bulimba, 1925. Collection of the John Oxley Library, Brisbane, negative number 187044

Collection of the John Oxley Library, Brisbane

Site of former AML&F Creek Street offices, 2014. Demolished in 1972, the AML&F offices in central Brisbane have been replaced by a commercial high rise building. Private Collection

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Entrance to AML&F Creek Street offices, 1971. The entrance to AML&F’s Creek Street office consisted of a grand archway supporting a carved plaque featuring the company’s name.

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AML&F Creek Street offices, 1971. Designed by the renowned architect Robin Dods, the Brisbane branch of AML&F operated out of this office from 1913. The building was demolished in 1972.

Collection of the John Oxley Library

AML&F Offices, branches and pastoral stations, 1956

4 February 2015
4 February 2015

John Oxley Library, Brisbane

AML&F Offices, branches and pastoral stations, 1956. By the late 1950’s AML&F had 14 offices established throughout Queensland as well as three station properties. The Tinnenburra lease expired in 1944 and was later subdivided. Retro was sold to the Queensland British Food Company in 1950 leaving AML&F with Maneroo, Caiwarro and Currawinya. AML&F Directors Report, 1956. Australian Mercantile Land and Finance Company Moreheads Records, Box 3918 c.1, John Oxley Library, Brisbane

Financial companies exerted a profound impact on the land, transforming the land itself, creating built landmarks like wool stores, and changing ownership, boundaries and the development of the lan

Queensland is home to nearly half of Australia’s beef cattle, and the vast majority of those beasts contain at least some Brahman blood.

Edward River Mission (now Pormpuraaw) crocodile farm, 1990. Slides by Marie Hayes. Collection of the Centre for the Government of Queensland, University of Queensland

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Crocodile caught near the punt on the Normanton River, trapped by the local police sergeant, Normanton, 1973. Slide by John Hindmarsh.

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