Dreaming

SS Yongala, c1906. Postcard Collection of John Oxley Library, State Library of Queensland

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Shipwrecks as graves

Despite its beauty the Queensland coast is renowned as a dangerous place for shipping, with hundreds of vessels coming to grief on coral reefs and rocky shores over the last 200 years.

Mount Morgan Cemetery, 1893. Photograph (Richardson Collection) Fryer Library, University of Queensland

Cemetery Jericho, 1965. Slide by Richard Hopkins, Collection of the Centre for the Government of Queensland

Cemetery, Ravenswood, 1968. Slides by Lynne Clancy, Collection of the Centre for the Government of Queensland

Cemetery, Birdsville. Postcard, Murray Views Collection c1970-2000. Collection of the Centre for the Government of Queensland

The Cemetery, Ingham. Celtic crosses and Italian mausolea evoke memories from distant home lands. Made from grey Argyle granite or brilliant white marble, the dead could literally rest under a piece of the ‘old country’. Postcard Murray Views Collection c1970-2000, Centre for the Government of Queensland

Thursday Island Cemetery, 2009. Many Japanese headstones are reminders of the pearling industry. Digital images, Collection of the Centre for the Government of Queensland

Toowong Cemetery, 1991. The great and the good command the best views. The poor rest in the hollows. As in life, the dead were discriminated against. Slides by Ruth Read, Collection of the Centre for the Government of Queensland

Graves, Normanton Cemetery, 1986. In the Gulf country many children’s graves are surrounded by the cot they died in as some mothers would not let a newborn sleep in a cot in which a previous child had died. Slides by Michael Keniger, Collection of the University of Queensland Library

Collection of the University of Queensland Library