Pathways

Radio transceiver, Traegar pedal radio

Location

Australia

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28 October 2010

Australia

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Crate of Kirk's softdrink bottles

Crate of Kirk's softdrink bottles

Location

Australia

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H43559

Queensland Museum

28 October 2010

Australia

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Dimensions

220mm

412mm

270mm

Portable telephone and case

Location

Australia

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28 October 2010

Australia

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Pituri bag, c1897. Collection of the Queensland Museum

Collection of the Queensland Museum

Pituri bag

When pituri was traded throughout Central Australia it was carried in beautiful bags like this one. This bag was collected by J.A.

Queensland Bush Book Club, Annual Report, 1936

I have to thank you for the wonderful holiday. I haven’t been away for many years but I travelled far and wide with the last parcel. The perfect holiday they say combines escape inwards with escape outwards but when the latter is not forthcoming, it is still possible to obtain the escape inwards - for a member of the Bush Book Club anyway.

I have had the most entrancing holiday, visiting Java with Winifred Ponder. I have been admitted to Farthing Hall and watched the development of a romantic love story and enjoyed the domestic difference of two very likeable people.

1 January 1936

28 September 2010

Queensland Bush Book Club, Annual Reports, 1921-67, University of Queensland Library

Queensland Bush Book Club, Annual Report, 1926

I would like to thank you for your letters and your books. My husband’s mother must have been one of our first readings and she often spoke of the Club. It added such an interest to her life. I think she was the finest type of pioneer I know, and I would like to tell you about her.

She was born near Cunnamulla and during all her life I don’t think she knew a dozen women intimately. She only went to Brisbane twice. But please don’t pity her because she was the happiest woman I know.

1 January 1926

28 September 2010

Queensland Bush Book Club, Annual Reports, 1921-67, University of Queensland Library

‘A little bit of love for me and a murder for my old man’: the Queensland Bush Book Club

Life for a woman in the Queensland Outback in the early twentieth century featured relentless chores and many hardships.

Aboriginal dreaming paths and trading ways

An important aspect of a distinct Aboriginal culture derives from the tradition of travel, and the tangible and intangible goods that were traded along communication routes that criss-crossed Austr

Henry Ah Foo’s Oriental Store, Marshall Street, Goondiwindi, 1906.

Collection of the John Oxley Library, State Library of Queensland image 60940