Club badges from Western Queensland towns in the range of the bottle tree

Club badges from Western Queensland towns in the range of the bottle tree. Private Collection

Roma Capital of the Western Downs

Tea towel: Roma Capital of the Western Downs.  Linen/cotton, 76 x 47cm. Glenn Cooke Collection, State Library of Queensland

Glenn Cooke Collection, State Library of Queensland

Bottle Tree, Tambo

Bottle Tree, Tambo. Private Collection

Greetings from Longreach postcard featuring the bottle tree

The bottle-tree appears on postcards and tourism ephemera of many towns in the region

Cunningham's Gap 1851

Cunningham's Gap 1851 by Conrad Martens (1801-78). Pencil heightened with white, black and sepia on paper 27.5 x 18cm. Courtesy Queensland Art Gallery.

Location

Australia
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Bottle tree, Boobajyn

A more personal connection is with the property Boobajyn, in the Burnett River hinterland, The tree depicted has claim to the earliest planting of the bottle-tree in this state as it commemorated t

Bottle tree, 1892

The curious shape of the bottle-tree was calculated to intrigue European readers. Unidentified publication dated 1892. Collection of Glenn Cooke

Copyright ©Collection of Glenn Cooke, 2015

Queensland trees (Research notes)

Queensland has a selection of unique native trees which have particular claims to distinctiveness as they have all coloured and shaped the character of Queensland's life and imagery.

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Map showing the flooded areas of the Channel Country, Walkabout, January 1952

Monkira, QLD
Australia
24° 49' 0.0012" S, 140° 31' 59.9988" E
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1 January 1952
24 February 2011
24 February 2011

Location

Monkira, QLD
Australia
24° 49' 0.0012" S, 140° 31' 59.9988" E
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24 February 2011
Melbourne
Walkabout

Copyright © Collection of the Centre for the Government of Queensland, the University of Queensland

Channel Country
Walkabout

Map showing the flooded areas of the Channel Country, Walkabout, January 1952. Collection of the Centre for the Government of Queensland, the University of Queensland

Tea-towel: Crow’s Nest

Crow's Nest, QLD
Australia
27° 15' 43.4736" S, 152° 3' 19.5156" E
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3 December 2010
3 December 2010

Location

Crow's Nest, QLD
Australia
27° 15' 43.4736" S, 152° 3' 19.5156" E
See map: Google Maps
3 December 2010
Murray Views Pty Ltd

Collection of Glenn Cooke

Queensland on a tea-towel

Tea-towel: Crow’s Nest. This tea-towel is from Crow’s Nest, in the hinterland of Brisbane. It depicts some of the wild-life, local attractions such as the Valley of Diamonds and Perseverance Dam and provides the story of Jimmy Crow the town’s namesake. Collection of Glenn Cooke

 

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