color cover of postcard book. picture of South Gorge and Main Beach.
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Postcard book sold at Point Lookout Post Office.  Series of 132 images of Stradbroke Island.

Sold at the Point Lookout Post Office. It is postcard folder showing photographs of View from the Hotel Stradbroke, 'North Gorge, Cabarita Cafe,, 'M.V. Mirana, Main Beach, Dunwich jetty, Swimming Gorge, TAZI ropeway, Headland Chalet, Cylinder Beach, Frenchman's Beach

. PUBLISHED BY SYDNEY G. HUGHES  154 ARTHUR STREET, NEW FARM, BRISBANE

Colour photographs by BRUCE WEGNER

PRINTED IN QUEENSLAND, AUSTRALIA  COPYRIGHT

MAIN BEACH- POINT LOOKOUT

Donor Gladys Rahnsleben

 

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Loads of people visiting Southbank beach, in inner-city Brisbane

Southbank Beach, Brisbane, 1992

image of dozer on beach

Bogged sand truck ca 1954

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