Development

Photographs of the Brisbane River during the 1893 flood. Collection of Fryer Library, University of Queensland.

Cyclists' Road Map, Brisbane and Surrounding Districts, 1896

Brisbane, QLD

Australia

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1 January 1896

5 August 2010

Location

Brisbane, QLD

Australia

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Brisbane

Surveyor General's Department

Collection of the National Library of Australia

1 mile to an inch

The Cyclists’ Road Map of Brisbane and Surrounding Districts, 1896 was produced by the Surveyor General’s Department in two sheets and priced at one shilling per sheet. It stated, ‘All roads shown on this map have been ridden over by Officers of the Survey Department’. The map key indicates ‘Roads, Railways, Telegraph Stations, Omnibus Stands and Finger Posts’. It contains comments, speculation and personal observations relating to the state of the roads, amenities and features of the landscape. This is sheet one of two. Collection of the National Library of Australia.

Plaque to Stinson crash, O'Reilly's Guest House, Lamington National Park, Beaudesert Shire, 1978. The plaque documents the air crash on 19 February 1937 of the 'City of Brisbane' with the deaths of Rex Boyden, Beverley Shepherd, James Westray, Roland Graham and William Fountain, the survival of Josiah Binstead and John Proud and the role of Bernard O'Reilly in locating the site. Slide by John Boult, Collection of the Centre for the Government of Queensland.

Plaque at the site of the Stinson airplane that crashed February 1937, Lamington National Park, Beaudesert Shire, 1978. Slide by John Boult, Collection of the Centre for the Government of Queensland.

Remains of Stinson airplane that crashed February 1937, Lamington National Park, Beaudesert Shire, 1978. Slide by John Boult, Collection of the Centre for the Government of Queensland.

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.

Development

1893 flood, Brisbane River

Cyclists' Road Map, Brisbane and Surrounding Districts, 1896

Location

Plaque, 1937 Stinson Air Disaster, 1978

Plaque at the site of the 1937 Stinson air crash, Lamington National Park, 1978

Remains of the 1937 Stinson airplane crash, Lamington National Park, 1978

Aerial photograph, Darling Downs, 1969

Pleasure

Survival

Transformation

Exploitation