The Cemetery, Ingham. Celtic crosses and Italian mausolea evoke memories from distant home lands. Made from grey Argyle granite or brilliant white marble, the dead could literally rest under a piece of the ‘old country’. Postcard Murray Views Collection c1970-2000, Centre for the Government of Queensland 

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Palma Rosa, Hamilton, 1974, designed and built by Italian architect Andrea Stombuco in 1887 who also designed All Hallows Convent School and Petrie Mansions in Petrie Terrace. Slide by Allan Webb, Collection of the Centre for the Government of Queensland

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 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

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

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

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