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Title
Cairns District, N.Q., ca. 1895-1900 / J. Lyne Brown
Creator
J. Lyne Brown
Call number
PXD 543
Level of description
fonds
Date

ca. 1895-1900
Type of material
Graphic Materials, Photographs
Reference code
64256
Physical Description
1 album (64 photoprints) - 31.5 x 43.5 cm.
Scope and Content
1. Abbott Street, Cairns
2. The Esplanade, Cairns
3. Fig tree
4. Trees at the court house
5. State Nursery
6. Palm Oil trees
7. Bread fruit tree
8. Pau Pau [i.e. pawpaw] tree
9. Young tobacco plants
10. Bannana [i.e. banana] plantation
11. Hambledon sugar plantation canefields
12. The Lodge - residence of [Dr. Annyer?], Museum to left, on the 15 acre block
13. From the Lodge looking towards Walsh's Pyramid, 3000ft high
14. In the plantation 9 months old, [trees] 10ft apart so that [men can] work between [them]
15. An average tree 9 months old
16. Cotton picking tree 9 months old ...
17-18. Wrights Creek bordering the 15 acre block
19. At the back of the Creek there is an Aboriginal tribe available for labor. 2/6 per week, rations, tobacco and clothes
20. Our tribe at home
21. Ready for corroboree
22. The King of the local tribe
23. The 500 acre block
24. Gossypium Park, Caree, with ginnery in distance - the 400 acre block
25. Trees 12 months old covered with green balls, promising even one pound per tree
26. The land drawn out in furrows 10ft apart, cotton planted at junction
27. Clearing by dynamite - saving of 10/- an acre
28. Anthill converted into oven by blacks. Ginnery in distance ...
29. The ginnery complete as per pamphlet, the day's picking out to dry ...
30. The 50 acre block - 30 acres under cotton, trees 6 months old
31. Residence of I. Campbell just opposite Gossypium Park - sugar and dairy farm
32. Property of C.V. [Huias] Esq. - sugar cane 12ft high, 40 tons to acre
33. Sugar cane 12ft high - 40 tons to acre
34. Loading sugar cane, Gossypium Park Ginnery to right
35. Mulgraeve Mill
36. Nelson Station
37. Mulgrae River
38. From Harveys Creek
39. Junction Creek
40. Redlynch the foot of the range
41. No. 1 Tunnel [railway tunnel]
42. Stoney Creek Falls
43. The Barron Gorge
44. The Barron Falls
45. The Barron Falls in flood
46. Picking coffee, Kuranda
47. Irevinebank, tin smelting centre
48. Stannary Hills tram line
49. Slannery Hills
50. Balancing rock, Chillagoe
51. Royal Arch Cave, Chillagoe
52. Mount Molloy cooper smelters
53. Timber depot, Mount Molloy
54. Mount Molloy scrub - falling pine
55. Mount Molloy scrub, cutting a tree into lengths
56. Atherton
57. Atherton scrub [with horsedrawn vehicle]
58. Yarraba [ie. Yarrabah] settlement
59. Yarraba [ie. Yarrabah] Mission boat
60. Cathedral Rock
61a-b. [Aboriginal male diving from row-boat]
61c. [Crops growing]
61d. [Mill blown down by cyclone]
Copying Conditions
Out of copyright: Created before 1955
Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
General note

No.22. Aboriginal male possibly Menmuny, prominent local elder -- Indigenous Services Librarian, Sept. 1997
Digital order no:Album ID : 1077231
Signatures / Inscriptions

"Lyne Brown, Photo, Cairns, N.Q.", on reverse of album cover
Subject
children
Adult Females
Adult Males
Photograph albums.
Topic
Aboriginal peoples (Australians)
ant hills
banana plantations
boats
caves
coffee
copper refineries
corroborees
cotton
creeks
groups (people)
horsedrawn vehicles
houses
missions (church settlements)
railway lines
railway stations
railway tunnels
rivers
rocks (landscape)
streetscapes
sugar cane plantations
timber yards
tin smelters
tobacco
tree-fellers
tree-felling
trees
waterfalls
jetties & wharves
Place
Cairns (Qld.)
Cairns Region (Qld.)
Yarrabah Aboriginal Reserve (Qld.)
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