Italian cane farmers, 1932

Italians taking stools of cane to an agricultural show in north Queensland, photograph from Queensland Agricultural Journal, 1932. Collection of Fryer Library, University of Queensland

Monument to the pioneers of the sugar industry, Innisfail, 1980

Monument to the pioneers of the sugar industry made of Italian marble. The monument was donated in 1959 by the Italian community of Innisfail, 1980. Postcard by Murray Views Pty Ltd, Collection of the Centre for the Government of Queensland

The New Cemetery, Ingham, c1970

Italian mausoleums at the New Cemetery, Ingham, c1970. Postcard, Murray Views Collection, Centre for the Government of Queensland

Italians in north Queensland

Being Italian is central to the Queensland experience. Italians have literally shaped the landscape through sugarcane plantations.

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Aerial photograph, Darling Downs, 1969

Strips of winter crop and fallow make a striking contrast in this aerial picture taken over the Darling Downs, cover, Queensland agricultural journal, volume 95, number 4, April 1969.

Land classification, Channel Country, 1949

Channel Country Channel Country, QLD
Australia
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1 January 1949
16 July 2010
16 July 2010

Location

Channel Country Channel Country, QLD
Australia
See map: Google Maps
16 July 2010
Brisbane
Bureau of Investigation, Department of Public Lands
Channel Country

Channel Country

From the air, the braided Channel Country constitutes some of the most distinctive landscape in Australia.

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Clara Lahood Joseph

Clara Lahood Joseph

Advertisement Calile Malouf & Sons, 1933

Advertisement for the drapery store Calile Malouf & Sons, located at Adelaide Street, Brisbane City, from Courier Mail, 20 December 1933, p18

Calile Malouf & Sons, c1910

Calile Malouf & Sons Drapery, located in Adelaide Street, Brisbane, c1910. In 1923 Michael Calile Malouf who described himself as being of 'Syrian nationality, born at Mount Lebanon in Syria and resident 30 years in Australia' and residing in South Brisbane applied for naturalisation.
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