Interior and exterior images of the Walter Reid Cultural Centre, 2010. Photographs by Ana Stevenson, 2010

Collection of Ana Stevenson

Graffiti on the walls of the holding bay by American service personnel who occupied the Walter Reid Building during World War II. One soldier wrote ‘A. Pasrouke Dec 2 1941,’ followed by “Back Again – Dec 1 1947’. Photograph by Ana Stevenson, 2010

Collection of Ana Stevenson

Both Walter Reid warehouses were affected by fires in 1912 and 1918. These newspaper reports describe the damage and the importance of the business nationally. The Sydney Morning Herald, 14 October 1912, The Mercury, Hobart, 14 October 1912, The Northern Territory Times and Gazette, 14 September 1918, The Argus, 12 September 1918, The Mercury, Hobart, 12 September 1928.

Walter Reid Cultural Centre, 2010. Photographs by Ana Stevenson.

Collection of Ana Stevenson

The Walter Reid Centre has long maintained a dominating, yet transformative, presence in the landscape of Rockhampton.

Airdmillan, Kalamia and Seaforth sugar plantations, c1888

Lower Burdekin, QLD
Australia
1 January 1888
26 October 2010
26 October 2010

Location

Lower Burdekin, QLD
Australia

James Cook University Archives, Townsville

A sketch plan of Airdmillan, Kalamia and Seaforth sugar plantations, Lower Burdekin, c1888. Pioneer Mill Records, Photograph 52, James Cook University Archives, Townsville

 

Commercial production of sugar commenced in Queensland during the mid-1860s.

When Tinaroo Dam was completed, it was the only dam in Australia specifically constructed to service the needs of a single agricultural industry - tobacco - at that time. Slides by Beth Snewin, 1955-63, Collection of the Centre for the Government of Queensland

Copyright © Beth Snewin and the Centre for the Government of Queensland

Mareeba, the tobacco capital of Australia, c1961. Postcard folder GK Bolton, Collection of John Young

 

Collection of John Young

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