Shipwrecks around an isolated continent in the southern hemisphere were common. As an imperial settlement, many ships carried troops as well as convicts and goods.

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

Goblet, 1865

Goblet, 1865

Location

Australia
R6068
Queensland Museum
23 November 2010

Copyright © Queensland Museum, 2010

Australia
Dimensions
135mm
85mm
85mm

Pith helmet

Pith helmet

Location

Australia
R5451
Queensland Museum
Melbourne St, South Brisbane
23 November 2010

Copyright © Queensland Museum, 2010

Australia
Dimensions
175mm
345mm
290mm

Album views, South Coast and seaside, 1914

Photographic representations of the landscape of Queensland were an important part of the promotion of rail travel in the early 1900s.

Location

Australia
Queensland Museum
Brisbane, Queensland
1 January 1914
23 November 2010
 Copyright © Queensland Museum, 2010 
Australia
Dimensions
220mm
300mm
10mm

Railways destination roll, Wallangarra

Railways destination roll, Wallangarra

Destination rolls listed a number of locations along rail routes and were wound by hand to indicate the train destination. 

Location

Australia
R4482
Queensland Museum
23 November 2010

Copyright © Queensland Museum, 2010

Australia

Queensland Railway Refreshment Rooms price list, 1972

This framed menu is from the Queensland Railways Refreshment Rooms at Toowoomba Station.

Location

Australia
R4084
Queensland Museum
1 January 1966
23 November 2010

Copyright © Queensland Museum, 2010

Australia

Hayman Island, 1968

Hayman Island, QLD
Australia
20° 3' 5.5692" S, 148° 53' 14.4564" E
1 January 1968
15 November 2010
15 November 2010

Location

Hayman Island, QLD
Australia
20° 3' 5.5692" S, 148° 53' 14.4564" E

Collection of the Centre for the Government of Queensland 

Hayman Island, 1968. The Royal Hayman Hotel did not open until 1950. Accommodation in the summer of 1938 was in fibro cabins with beach sand floors, a central dining room and cold showers in hessian shelters. This map of Hayman Island is from ‘Hayman Roylen 14 day tropic ecstasy holiday’ brochure by Ansett-ANA in 1968. Collection of the Centre for the Government of Queensland 

Portable altar set

Portable altar set

Location

Australia
H27692
Queensland Museum
28 October 2010

Copyright © Queensland Museum, 2010

Australia
Dimensions
295mm
265mm
115mm
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