[Glass House Mountains], 1853

Thomas Harford, [Glass House Mountains], 1853. Drawing, ink, 16.1 x 24.6 cm. Rex Nan Kivell Collection NK6860/D, National Library of Australia

Location

Glasshouse Mountains, QLD
Australia
26° 54' 50.7276" S, 152° 55' 17.868" E

Glasshouse Mountains III, 1971

Glasshouse Mountains, QLD
Australia
26° 54' 50.7276" S, 152° 55' 17.868" E
1 January 1971
27 September 2012
27 September 2012

Location

Glasshouse Mountains, QLD
Australia
26° 54' 50.7276" S, 152° 55' 17.868" E

Collection: Queensland Art Gallery

Fred Williams, Glasshouse Mountains III, 1971, Gouache on paper, 55.5. x 76.5cm. Collection: Queensland Art Gallery

 

Glasshouse Mountains from the Nth. boat passage, 29 July 1853

Henry Douglas Scott-Montagu, Glasshouse Mountains from the Nth. boat passage, 29 July 1853. Watercolour on paper. Collection: John Oxley Library, State Library of Queensland

 

The striking, weathered volcanic plugs of the Glasshouse Mountains, to the north of Brisbane, have long dominated the cultural landscape of south-eastern Queensland.

Hugh Sawrey’s mud map of outback travels, 1993

QLD
Australia
1 January 1993
17 June 2011
17 June 2011

Location

QLD
Australia
Brisbane
University of Queensland Press

Collection of the University of Queensland Library

Hugh Sawrey’s mud map of outback travels, 1993. The Rockhampton born writer and journalist Lawrie Kavanagh met Hugh Sawrey at an art exhibition in the back bar of the Royal Hotel, Brisbane, in 1963. The two would later form a bond and travel extensively throughout Queensland and its remote places ‘beyond the glow of the city lights.’ This map appeared in Kavanagh and Sawrey’s record of their travels Outback (1993). Signed by Sawrey, the map features a rough sketch of a stockman which formed a salient motif in Sawrey’s imagined Queensland. Lawrie Kavanagh and Hugh Sawrey, Outback, Brisbane, University of Queensland Press, 1993

Tinnenburra land sales, 1864. This advertisement appeared in the Sydney Morning Herald in 1864 regarding the sale of three Tinnenburra blocks and 1200 head of ‘well-bred’ cattle. The land was described as permanently watered, ‘unsurpassed’ in its ‘fattening properties’ and capable of supporting 40,000 sheep. These exaggerated appraisals, however, ignored the presence of Aboriginal people, unaware that their country was being sold off at auction. The advertised Tinnenburra runs were adjacent to stations belonging to the Bogan River Company and Thomas Danger, an early selector in the area. These blocks were later purchased by James Tyson and formed one of the largest pastoral properties in the world. Sydney Morning Herald, 1 March 1864  

Sydney morning herald 1 March 1864  

Early Tinnenburra blocks, 1863

Cunnamulla, QLD
Australia
28° 4' 4.3896" S, 145° 41' 0.996" E
1 January 1863
1 June 2011
1 June 2011

Location

Cunnamulla, QLD
Australia
28° 4' 4.3896" S, 145° 41' 0.996" E
Department of Lands

Department of Environment and Resource Management, 2011

Early Tinnenburra blocks, 1863. The first surveys of the Warrego River were conducted a few years after European settlers crossed from the Darling River. Drafted in 1863, this map shows the boundaries of early pastoral runs. The location of town reserves, sheep yards, waterholes, blazed trees and the Queensland-New South Wales border are also shown as well as the tentative outline of watercourses. Pastoral interests were closely tied to water as blocks rarely extend more than ten miles away from creeks and rivers. In this map, three ‘Tinnenburra’ blocks line the banks of Cuttaburra Creek, an offshoot of the Warrego River. These were later taken up by James Tyson and formed one of the largest pastoral stations in the world. The name ‘Tinnenburra’ probably comes from ‘Dinnenbooroo’, the Aboriginal name for a waterhole on the Cuttaburra. While both place and name were appropriated by Europeans, its appearance alludes to an Indigenous landscape beyond what is conventionally represented by maps. Collection of the Museum of Lands, Mapping and Surveying, DERM, Brisbane

Preparation of cricket oval, St Lucia, 1937. This photograph appeared in the annual report of the Queensland Bureau of Industry 1937 and shows preparations for the university cricket field. Located to the south-west of the St Lucia site, the grounds were one of the few areas to have trees which Bradfield and others so admired and considered integral to a landscape of knowledge. Queensland parliamentary papers, vol 2, 1937

Collection of the University of Queensland Library

A probe into the façade of the university, 1978. In 1978 the University of Queensland-run newspaper the Semper ran an article into the university system in Queensland. On the cover of the issue was this caricature image of the Forgan Smith Building at the University of Queensland St Lucia campus. The Semper, 15 February 1978, Collection of the Fryer Library

Fryer Library

Venus block, Tinnenburra, 1935

Tinnenburra, QLD
Australia
28° 44' 14.928" S, 145° 36' 14.6808" E
27 November 1935
9 May 2011
9 May 2011

Location

Tinnenburra, QLD
Australia
28° 44' 14.928" S, 145° 36' 14.6808" E

Collection of the Noel Butlin Archives, Canberra

Venus block, Tinnenburra, 1935. This map shows two of Queensland’s major pastoral investment companies abutting one another. Bordering with Thurulgoona, ‘Venus block’ was the most easterly paddock of Tinnenburra. Thurulgoona was owned by the Squatting Investment Company and had leased this land for a number of years. In 1934, the AML&F manager in Sydney, Mr R. Sinclair Smith, informed the Squatting Investment Company of their intention to terminate the agreement and fence off the block within Tinnenburra. In anticipation of the transfer, the local manager of Thurulgoona inspected the fences and found that they did not correspond with the surveyed boundaries. In a letter to his superiors in the Squatting Investment Company, the manager provided this rough map and explained that altering the existing agreement would be complicated. The pegs and original blazed trees were all non-existent and would need re-surveying. This would cost at least £50. The existing north-south fence would then have to be moved 50 chains west. In addition to over seven miles of new fencing, this would cost approximately £250. According to the Thurulgoona manger, the fences were probably put in the wrong place to evade the high sand hill country in the area, not suitable for erecting rabbit proof netting over. As both parties had only limited tenure on their respective leases, changing the arrangement would have no benefit. A more pragmatic solution was therefore chosen. As compensation for keeping Venus, Thurulgoona exchanged a small square parcel of land with Tinnenburra. This provided access to one of Thurulgoona’s bore drains from Tinnenburra’s ‘Gidgie Camp’ paddock and remained a novel feature of the ‘Bluegrass’ pastoral holding after Tinnenburra was sub-divided. Held in archives around Australia, pastoral run files often contain rough hand drawn maps. In this instance they demonstrate how boundaries can be a physical reminder of past activities and corporate decisions. Collection of the Noel Butlin Archives, Canberra

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