The 1949 Royal National Show (Ekka)

Bowen Park
Bowen Hills, QLD
Australia
1 January 1949
8 October 2010
8 October 2010

Location

Bowen Park
Bowen Hills, QLD
Australia
Royal National Agricultural and Industrial Association of Queensland

Royal National Agricultural and Industrial Association of Queensland Archives

The 1949 Royal National Show. From the very first show, the organisers of the Brisbane Exhibition sought to represent all of Queensland. The front cover of the 1949 catalogue declared that the Exhibition ‘covers Queensland’ and featured a stylised image of the showgrounds imposed on a map of Queensland. Royal National Agricultural and Industrial Association of Queensland archives.

Exhibition Eccentricities, 1885

Och! the gorgeous condition

Of this year’s Exhibition;

Och! the pyramids!

1 January 1885
7 October 2010
7 October 2010

Since 1876 the Brisbane Exhibition – or Ekka, as it is affectionately known today – has enticed visitors from across Queensland and beyond with the promise of a combination of sights, sounds, taste

Albert Street Literary Trail, 2004

Albert Street
Brisbane, QLD
Australia
1 January 2004
7 October 2010
7 October 2010

Location

Albert Street
Brisbane, QLD
Australia

Collection of Lara Cain-Gray

Albert Street Literary Trail, 2004. From Your guide to the Albert Street Literary Trail, 2004. Collection of Lara Cain-Gray

Book cover Nick Earls, Zig Zag Street, Sydney, Anchor, 1996 and street sign Zig Zag Street, Red Hill, Brisbane, photographed by Kris Anderson. Collection of Lara Cain-Gray

Collection of Lara Cain-Gray

Book cover Venero Armanno, Romeo of the underworld, Sydney, Picador, 1994 and Venero Armanno street plaque, Albert Street, Brisbane, photographed by Kris Anderson. Collection of Lara Cain-Gray

Collection of Lara Cain-Gray

Book cover David Malouf, Johnno, Penguin edition, 1975 and David Malouf street plaque in Albert Street, Brisbane photographed by Kris Anderson. Collection of Lara Cain-Gray

Collection of Lara Cain-Gray

Book cover Andrew McGahan, 1988, St Leonard's, Allen & Unwin, 1995 and street plaque, Albert Street, Brisbane, photographed by Kris Anderson. Collection of Lara Cain-Gray

Collection of Lara Cain-Gray

Panorama from the Mount Coot-tha Lookout, c1958

Mt Coot-tha, QLD
Australia
1 January 1958
7 October 2010
7 October 2010

Location

Mt Coot-tha, QLD
Australia
Nucolorvue

Copyright © Collection of the Centre for the Government of Queensland

ABC TV transmitter tower, Mount Coot-tha, 1959. Slide by Patrick Conaghan, Collection of the Centre for the Government of Queensland

Copyright © Patrick Conaghan and Collection of the Centre for the Government of Queensland

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