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"Thursday Island, Queensland", 1879
Glover, Thomas |
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Watercolour by Thomas George Glover, from his collection Sketches 1878-79. (National Library of Australia nla.pic-an4336227-v). |
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Children and plantation workers, Cairns c1891
State Library of Queensland |
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The Hambleton children on the Hambleton Sugar Plantation near Cairns with South Sea Islander labourers. (John Oxley Library, State Library of Queensland, Image number 172486.) |
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Governor Arthur's Proclamation to the Aboriginies
National Library of Australia |
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Oil on wood cartoon, aimed at illustrating Governor Arthur's Proclamation on law and punishment to Indigenous people, was nailed up in the Tasmanian bush in 1828. |
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Japanese farm labourers, Cairns c1896
State Library of Queensland |
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Group portrait of Japanese sugar cane workers at Hambleton near Cairns. (John Oxley Library, State Library of Queensland, Image number 172494.) |
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Japanese pearl diver, date unknown
State Library of Queensland |
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A Japanese diver on a pearl lugger at Thursday Island in the Torres Strait, probably early twentieth century. (John Oxley Library, State Library of Queensland, Image number 31866.) |
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Javanese workers, Croydon c1905
State Library of Queensland |
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A group of Javanese workers having a meal break, watched by officers, outside the Croydon Court House. (John Oxley Library, State Library of Queensland, Image number 44909.) |
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Planting sugar cane, Mackay 1870s
State Library of Queensland |
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South Sea Island labourers work a plantation near Mackay, supervised by men on horseback. (John Oxley Library, State Library of Queensland, Image number 21683.) |
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Sugar mill workers, Brandon 1880s
MacFarlane, D and State Library of Queensland |
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A pair of South Sea Islander "time-expired" labourers at the Pioneer Sugar Mill in Brandon, about to return to the islands. (Photographer: D. MacFarlane, John Oxley Library, State Library of Queensland, Image number 9925.) |
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The Petrie Tableau (detail)
Walker, Stephen |
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Detail of Stephen Walker's Bicentennial sculpture depicting the Petrie family and their friends in 1842 - honouring the achievements of the early settlers in Brisbane. |
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The Petrie Tableau - Plaque
Walker, Stephen |
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The plaque from Stephen Walker's Bicentennial sculpture depicting the Petrie family and their friends in 1842 -honouring the achievements of the early settlers in Brisbane. |
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The South Sea Labour Trade
May, Phillip |
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An 1886 cartoon depicting a slave trader using coconuts as a lure to entice buyers for his "niggers".
The caption reads: “South Sea Island Trader: ‘Now gentlemen, give me a start. What shall we say for this ‘ere cocoanut – and the nigger thrown in? Five pounds only bid for this cocoanut. Five pounds; five o’ny; five – did I hear six? No advance; going at five; gone. Next nigger; I mean next cocoanut.’ ” |
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"View of Murray's Islands, with the natives offering to barter"
Westall, W. |
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Painting by W. Westall from Matthew Flinders' 1802 voyage through the Torres Strait. |
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