Queensland Railways socks, c1970

Queensland Railways socks, c1970

Location

Australia
R1898
Queensland Museum
23 November 2010

Copyright © Queensland Museum, 2010

Australia

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

Pineapple peeler, c1972

Pineapple peeler, c1972

Location

Australia
H22737, H22738, H26451
Queensland Museum
Brisbane
1 January 1971
23 November 2010

Copyright © Queensland Museum, 2010

Australia
Dimensions
155mm
73mm
56mm

Griffith Taylor's Climograph, 1918

Australia
1 January 1918
30 August 2010
30 August 2010

Location

Australia
Queensland Geographical Journal

Griffith Taylor’s climographs comparing selected Australian towns with the ideal climate for the white race. Taylor’s climographs combine wet-bulb temperature and humidity data for each month of the year, producing a twelve-sided polygon for each location to allow easy comparison between them. Other climographs compiled by Taylor show the close similarity between tropical Australia and India.

Griffith Taylor, ‘Geographical factors controlling the settlement of tropical Australia’, Queensland Geographical Journal, No18-19, 1918, vols 32-33.

The Australian Institute of Tropical Medicine, Townsville, 1910. This institution played a key role in propagating the message that there were no significant medical impediments to the establishment of thriving white communities in the tropics. Collection of the National Archives of Australia.

Collection of the National Archives of Australia

In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, two visions of a white tropical Queensland vied for ascendancy. One was based on the principle of white dominance.

Clothing worn in Queensland has been, and remains rich with inconsistencies.

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