Map, RACQ Townsville tourist district map, c1950

Australia
17 February 2015
17 February 2015

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Collection of the National Library of Australia

Map, RACQ Townsville tourist district map, c1950 (detail) showing location of Mt St John Zoo.

Tourist map, Townsville and District, c1960

17 February 2015
17 February 2015

Collection of the State Library or Queensland

Tourist map, Townsville and District, c1960. One of many maps produced by the Queensland Government Tourist Bureau, this map mentions Mount St John Zoo as a local attraction in the caption to the right. It is marked on the map just north of Townsville, in the lower right-hand corner. Ephemera Collection, State Library of Queensland

Lion at Mount St John Zoo, 1962. Slide by Beth Snewin.

Copyright © Beth Snewin, 2015

Crocodile enclosure at Mount St John Zoo, 1940s. St John Robinson was able to observe crocodiles building their nests in this enclosure.

Collection of Townsville City Libraries

Bull riding at the Mount St John rodeo, 1933. A competitor in the bull riding competition.

Collection of Townsville City Libraries

Crocodile feeding at Mount St John Zoo, 1957. Crowds at the Mount St John Zoo had a close-up view of crocodile feeding time.

Collection of Townsville City Library

The Fryer sisters used a boat to retrieve a clutch of crocodile eggs from a nest in the centre of the lagoon at Mount St John Zoo.

Compulsory feeding of crocodile at Taronga Park Zoo, 1934.

The Mount St John Zoo was a popular attraction in the Townsville region in the 1930s-40s, widely acclaimed as the largest privately-owned zoological garden in Australia.

Preparation of cricket oval, St Lucia, 1937. This photograph appeared in the annual report of the Queensland Bureau of Industry 1937 and shows preparations for the university cricket field. Located to the south-west of the St Lucia site, the grounds were one of the few areas to have trees which Bradfield and others so admired and considered integral to a landscape of knowledge. Queensland parliamentary papers, vol 2, 1937

Collection of the University of Queensland Library

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