White children and Pacific Islander attendants, Hambledon Sugar Plantation, c1891

White children and their Pacific Islander attendants at the Hambledon Sugar Plantation outside Cairns, c1891. In late nineteenth-century north Queensland, privileged white children such as these (probably members of the Swallow family who owned Hambledon) were typically raised partly by non-white workers. Collection of the John Oxley Library, State Library of Queensland