Tea-towel: Nerada Tea

Nerada Valley, QLD
Australia
3 December 2010
3 December 2010

Location

Nerada Valley, QLD
Australia
Reef Productions

Collection of Glenn Cooke

Tea-towel: Nerada Tea. The Cutten Brothers established a farm at Bingal Bay in 1882 and began the first tea planting in Australia in 1886. The farm was destroyed by a cyclone in 1918 but Indian born Dr Allan Maruff settled in Cairns in the early 1950s and, discovering the surviving trees and seedlings, purchased 320 acres in the Nerada Valley in 1958. By 1970 the estate was thriving and Dr Maruff utilised mechanical harvesting and formed a partnership with Burns-Philp to establish the first tea-processing factory in Australia. Collection of Glenn Cooke

Tea-towel: Chillagoe Historical Centre

Chillagoe, QLD
Australia
17° 9' 18.9324" S, 144° 31' 27.4332" E
3 December 2010
3 December 2010

Location

Chillagoe, QLD
Australia
17° 9' 18.9324" S, 144° 31' 27.4332" E
Cairns, Queensland
Reef Productions

Collection of Glenn Cooke

Tea-towel: Chillagoe Historical Centre.The smokestacks of the copper smelters, abandoned in the 1940s dominate the design. The ‘underground’ theme is continued with details of the spectacular cave formations in the vicinity, including the Royal Arch Cave and the Madonna Donna Cave. Collection of Glenn Cooke

 

Tea-towel: Atherton Tablelands

Atherton Tablelands, QLD
Australia
17° 22' 13.8756" S, 145° 24' 10.3248" E
3 December 2010
3 December 2010

Location

Atherton Tablelands, QLD
Australia
17° 22' 13.8756" S, 145° 24' 10.3248" E

Collection of Glenn Cooke

Tea-towel: Atherton Tablelands.This striking design shows a map of Atherton Tableland in the Cairns hinterland surrounded with images of the beautiful Lake Barrine, the most impressive of the waterfalls in Queensland, on the Barron River. Collection of Glenn Cooke

 

Tea-towel: Gold Coast

Gold Coast, QLD
Australia
28° 0' 6.2784" S, 153° 25' 42.384" E
3 December 2010
3 December 2010

Location

Gold Coast, QLD
Australia
28° 0' 6.2784" S, 153° 25' 42.384" E

Collection of Glenn Cooke

Tea-towel: Gold Coast. Exotic tropical flowers and a native lorikeet surmount this map of the Gold Coast. Elephant Rock, Kirra had been an important subject for watercolourist H.C. Simpson from the 1930s but its status as an icon of the coast was soon taken over by structures such as the RSL Club at Tweed Heads. More specific locations within the Gold Coast, in this instance Currumbin Beach, are identified by overprinting. Collection of Glenn Cooke

 

Tea-towel: Queensland Centenary, 1959

Australia
1 January 1959
3 December 2010
3 December 2010

Location

Australia

Collection of Glenn Cooke

Tea-towel: Queensland Centenary, 1959. If this was an appropriate representation of the State, Brisbane should have been represented by Parliament House rather than the Brisbane City Hall – the centre of the greater Brisbane council area. In this and many other examples, the City Hall, opened in 1930 as the home Greater Brisbane Council, was the iconic image of the city. Collection of Glenn Cooke

Tea-towel: Sunshine Coast, 1990s

3 December 2010
3 December 2010

Collection of Glenn Cooke

Tea-towel: Sunshine Coast, 1990s. The lettering of ‘Sunshine Coast’ is applied over the disc of the sun whose rays beam on the pineapples and bananas that grow in plantations as well as the key attractions: Aussie World, The Big Pineapple, Bli Bli Castle, Nostalgia Town, the Big Shell and the Ginger Factory. This towel probably dates to the 1990s as Aussie Town was opened in 1988. Collection of Glenn Cooke 

Tea-towel: Map of Queensland, c1960

3 December 2010
3 December 2010
Ireland

Collection of Glenn Cooke

Richardson's Tea-towel: map of Queensland, c1960. This tea-towel was based on map the Queensland published in the Queensland State Governments principal souvenir of the centenary 'Queensland centenary: the first 100 years 1859-1959’. It was edited by Arthur Smout with the historical assessment provided by Leslie Slaughter and was widely distributed through the state school system. The poinsettias (Brisbane’s floral emblem), the Cooktown Orchids (the State flora emblem) and the cluster of tropical fruit add a note of colour. Collection of Glenn Cooke

Why did I kiss that girl at Mooloolaba, 1938. Postcard. Collection of the Centre for the Government of Queensland, the University of Queensland

Collection of the Centre for the Government of Queensland

Australian Tourist Guide

3 December 2010
3 December 2010

Collection of the Centre for the Government of Queensland

Australian Tourist Guide. Tea towel. Collection of the Centre for the Government of Queensland

Queensland Top State

3 December 2010
3 December 2010
Wren Souvenirs

Collection of the Centre for the Government of Queensland

Queensland Top State. Tea towel, Wren Souvenirs. Collection of the Centre for the Government of Queensland

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