American Historical Ephemera & Photography

Oblong large quarto (11 x 15 in.) 285 x 385 mm. 45 silver gelatin photographs, 10 1/2 x 13 3/4 in., mounted recto to 11 x 14 in. album pages (toning, some prints with light soiling, chipping and some edge loss to prints, album pages loose, brittle, with corner and edge wear including chipping and loss). Cloth flexible boards with "Photographs" in gilt, and "of Queensland Australia" written below (disbound, wear to extremities). Manuscript caption on mount below each photograph. 

Highlighted scenes showing Queensland include: Stacking wheat Darling Downs (library ink stamp to top left corner of print). -- Southport Pier. -- The Mining Country. Stanthorpe. -- Bald Mountain, Stanthorpe. -- Warwick...the centre for the wheat growing areas of the Darling Downs. -- Timber hauling, Stanthorpe. -- Bush Track. Woombye. -- Cedar Creek Falls. Tambourine. -- Wellington Point. Cleveland Branch. -- Coolangatta. -- Tweed Heads. Border New South Wales & Queensland. -- Wallangarra Station. Railway. -- Lamington plateau. -- Mt. Crosby Pumping Station (Water Supply). -- Minto Crag. Dugandan District. -- "Blacks Camp. Australian Natives." Cairns. -- "Aboriginals tree climbing. Kenilworth...These aboriginals use a tomahawk to cut a niche in the trees to enable them to climb the tallest of trees for observation purposes." -- Timber hauling. Yarraman. -- Barron Falls. Cairns. -- Party ready to ascend Mt. Wilson. -- Tamrookum Lagoon. Beaudesert District. -- Wheat farms. -- Hereford cattle. -- Buchanan's Fort. Beaudesert District. -- Portion of Barron Falls. -- Cashmere Gorge. Cairns. -- "Group of Aboriginals - Australian naties. Cairns...this is the vanishing race of only a few thousand left, the remainder mostly quartered toward the center of North West Australia." -- Millstream Falls. -- Irvinebank Dam (Tin Mining). -- Orange Orchard Mapleton. -- Maroochy River.