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View of the Townsville foreshore with a large mountain in the background

Townsville, 1897

Sweeping elevated views of the Ipswich township in the late 19th century

Ipswich from Denmark Hill, 1898

Aerial view of junction of Alice and George Street featuring the Queensland Club

Queensland Club, 1898

Brisbane River bank seen from a Ferry Station with a wooden ferry in the foreground

Garden Reach, from Alice Street Ferry

View of Lang Park from Caxton St

Lang Park

Bowen Salt Field Refinery

Bowen Salt Field Refinery

View from Mt Coot-tha overlooking the cityscape

Mount Coot-tha Lookout, 1930

Aerial view looking down to the old windmill in the foreground and William Jolly Bridge in the distance.

Pain and gain - the old mill tower, 1933

View from Heale's Lookout featuring automobile.

Heale's Lookout, c1935

Roma Street Railway Station with steam trains in foreground, c 1936

Roma Street Station, c1936

black and white photo of wind sculpted hills along Main Beach

Main Beach pre mining c. 1940

Three men shovelling mineral sand onto a truck on Main Beach, North Stradbroke Island. The North Stradbroke Island sandmining industry started soon after World War 2 (1939-1945). It began on the east-facing Main Beach where wave action exposed seams of the black, mineral-bearing sand.

Shoveling mineral sand c.1940