Southport intermittent relief camps, 1931. These images appeared in the first annual report of the Queensland Department of Labour and Industry on the ‘operations and proceedings’ under the Income (Unemployment Relief) Tax Acts 1930. They depict the type of hut built by the Southport Town Council and the Coolangatta Camp. Some of the children living at the Mudgeeraba camp were photographed. The erection of a camp at Redcliffe is shown. Queensland parliamentary papers, vol 2, 1931

Collection of the University of Queensland Library

Mudgeeraba and Currumbin Creeks unemployment relief camps, 1931. These images appeared in the first annual report of the Queensland Department of Labour and Industry on the ‘operations and proceedings’ under the Income (Unemployment Relief) Tax Acts, 1930. They depict the progress of cutting new roads as well as relief camps at Mudgeeraba and Currumbin Creeks. Accommodation consisted of simple timber and corrugated iron huts. At Mudgeeraba, occupants provided a personal touch by attaching fences and gardens to their new homes. Queensland parliamentary papers, vol 2, 1931

Collection of the University of Queensland Library

Key to Queensland public estate improvement works, 1937

QLD
Australia
11 October 1937
25 May 2011
25 May 2011

Location

QLD
Australia
Department of Public Lands

Collection of the University of Queensland Library

Key to Queensland public estate improvement works, 1937. This key to public works, complete or in progress, accompanied a map which appeared in the annual report of the Land Administration Board in 1937. Many of the works listed here were facilitated by relief funds made available under the Income (Unemployment Relief) Tax Acts, 1930 to 1935. Works included building a road between Amity Point and Point Lookout on Stradbroke Island as well as new forestry access roads in northern Queensland at Danbulla, Kuranda and to the top of the Kirrama Range. Land reclamation schemes were conducted around Cairns, Sandgate and Coolangatta. Major works such as these were conducted to help the unemployed survive in the Depression era, but these changes also caused a profound alteration to Queensland’s cultural landscape. Queensland parliamentary papers, vol 2, 1937

Queensland public estate improvements, 1937

QLD
Australia
11 October 1937
25 May 2011
25 May 2011

Location

QLD
Australia
Department of Public Lands

Collection of the University of Queensland Library

150 miles to an inch

Queensland public estate improvements, 1937. This map appeared in the annual report of the Land Administration Board and shows ‘improvements’ to the Queensland public estate made in 1937. Many of the ‘works in progress’ were facilitated by unemployment relief funds made available under the Income (Unemployment Relief) Tax Acts, 1930 to 1935. Works included building a road between Amity Point and Point Lookout on Stradbroke Island as well as new forestry access roads in northern Queensland: the Kirrama Range Road, Kuranda-McKenzie’s Pocket-Black Mountain Road and Robson’s Creek Road at Danbulla. Relief Funds were also used to fill in ‘unsightly’ swamps around coastal cities and towns. Land reclamation schemes were conducted around Cairns, Sandgate and Coolangatta. Major works such as these demonstrate how the Depression was a time of both survival and profound alteration to Queensland’s cultural landscape. Queensland parliamentary papers, vol 2, 1937

Aerial survey map west of Tully, 1936

Kennedy, QLD
Australia
18° 12' 17.8812" S, 145° 57' 21.8772" E
1 January 1936
12 April 2011
12 April 2011

Location

Kennedy, QLD
Australia
18° 12' 17.8812" S, 145° 57' 21.8772" E
Department of Lands

Aerial survey map west of Tully, 1936. In the 1930s, the rugged jungle country west of Tully presented numerous challenges for ground survey and remained ‘practically terra incognita’ as far as the Survey Office was concerned. Developments in aerial survey provided opportunities to examine large tracts of land and determine their value for exploitation. In 1936, Adastra Airways Ltd was contracted for the aerial survey of about 650 square miles. The company established its headquarters in Cairns and despite bad weather, succeeded in surveying approximately 560 square miles. Examination of the feature maps prepared from the photography revealed extensive scrub in the Tully and Jarra Creek valleys which had the potential for settlement. In this aerial mosaic, topographic features were highlighted including the Kennedy-Kirrama road under construction which would provide access to the valuable timbers in the Kirrama State Forest. This road was partially financed through unemployment relief funds made available during the Depression. Queensland parliamentary papers, Vol 2, 1936-37

Queue for employment, Castlemaine Perkins Brewery, Milton, c1937. John Oxley Library, State Library of Queensland

Collection of John Oxley Library, State Library of Queensland image 185406

Searching for work, c1932. Reprinted in Sunday Sun (Brisbane), 4 October 1987. John Oxley Library, State Library of Queensland

Collection of John Oxley Library, State Library of Queensland image 17257

The Great Depression of the 1930s, when economies crashed world-wide, had a devastating effect on people.

Cotton reel furniture

Cotton reel furniture

Location

Australia
H26644
Queensland Museum
28 October 2010

Copyright © Queensland Museum, 2010

Australia
Dimensions
435mm
620mm
235mm

Gold symbolises wealth. It transformed Queensland’s history and landscape.

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