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.

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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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Queensland Government immigration poster, c1891

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2 March 2015
2 March 2015

John Oxley Library, State Library of Queensland

Too remote, too primitive and too expensive: Scandinavian settlers in colonial Queensland

Queensland Government immigration poster, c1891. John Oxley Library, State Library of Queensland

Major settlements of Scandinavians in 19th century Queensland

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2 March 2015
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Too remote, too primitive and too expensive: Scandinavian settlers in colonial Queensland

Major settlements of Scandinavians in 19th century Queensland. From Jens Lyng, ‘Scandinavian Settlement in Queensland: IV, A Troubled Beginning’, Norden, 27 June 1931, p 5

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