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Archive CD Books Australia available at QFHS
Histories, souvenir publications (A to I)
CDs on this web page are:
Aldine history |
Central Queensland |
Charters Towers Gold Mines 1892 |
Darling Downs Almanac 1900 |
Darling Downs souvenir 1840-1940 |
Discovery and Settlement of Port Mackay |
Early history of Rockhampton |
Early history of Warwick District and pioneers of the Darling Downs |
Fassifern Centenary 1844-1944 |
Forty-Five years’ experiences in North Queensland: 1861-1905 |
Fox’s history of Queensland |
Genesis of Queensland, Geographic history of Queensland |
German Mission to the Aborigines at Moreton Bay 1841 |
Gladstone colony (1898) |
Gympie in its cradle days |
Historical sketch of Gympie 1867 - 1927 |
History of Maryborough (1897) |
In the early day (1895) |
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Aldine
Aldine history of Queensland
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No of pages in original: 1,083 pp
Year published: (1888) 2006
Author/Compiler: W Frederic Morrison
ISBN: 9781921081453
$54.50AU + $2 postage worldwide.
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An elegant, artistic and extremely rare book, the
Aldine history of Queensland, is a comprehensive and beautifully illustrated record of Queensland's past, in two large volumes.
It was written in 1888 by W Frederic Morrison as a celebration of the centennial year of the settlement of Australia and includes chapters on Australian and Queensland history from the exploration of Australia through to the different districts of the colony of Queensland in 1888. It contains information on the different governors, the national constitution, interior exploration, resources, religious work, education, recreation, and a large biographical section. It also includes over 500 illustrations of people and places along with several maps.
The book is a classic that embraces sketches and portraits of Queensland's noted people; the rise and progress of her varied enterprises; and illustrations of her boundless wealth.
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Central Queensland Central Queensland
Central Queensland 1914
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No of pages in original: 170
Year published: (1914) 2005
Author/Compiler: Queensland Tourist Bureau
ISBN: 9781921081125
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‘Compiled and issued by the Queensland Government’ in 1914, this book was written to advertise Central Queensland to the outside world. It advertises the region’s ‘illimitable’ possibilities in its ‘marvellous pastoral and mineral resources, its unbound agricultural possibilities and its scenic beauties.’ In doing so it sets forth a detailed account of settlers life in Central Queensland.
‘Central Queensland’ has many different sections containing statistics and information on: the geography of the land, its industries, pastoral, grain and fruit farming, public services, infrastructure, mining, water resources, education, immigration and the experience of settlers.
It gives information on everything a prospective settler would want to know about the area and thus provides very valuable information for the genealogist or historian on the life and experiences of early Queensland settlers.
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Charters Towers Gold Mines 1892
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No of pages in original: 274
Year published: (1892) 2008
Author/Compiler: Marsland, LW
ISBN: 9781742221618
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Charters Towers Gold Mines was written in 1892 by LW Marsland in response to requests to provide information about the Gold Field of Charters Towers, its mines and the colonially constituted companies who owned them. It contains much information that has never before been published, and represents most of the largest mining interests in Charters Towers, with the most up-to-date reports of the time on the position, prospects and progress of the various mines.
The book is divided into five parts containing:
• Detailed information and statistics on the gold field and town
• A history of the gold field and notes on the technical elements of gold mining.
• Alphabetical lists of the more important reefs and mine holdings and mining companies with operations in Charters Towers
• Details and descriptions of the more important mines
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Darling Downs Centenary Souvenir 1840 – 1940
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Year published: (1940) 2007
No of pages in original: 179 pp
ISBN: 9781921416545
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This centenary history is a wonderful record of life as it was in the Darling Downs from 1840 to 1940. Encompassing both Toowoomba and Warwick in this history, also there are details of the Australian Aborigines, early settlement, pioneers, schools, sports, churches, industries. Information is also recorded on the geology of the region, animals, flora and fauna, pastoralists, bushranging, German immigration as well as expanded sections on the various early families.
There are many photographs throughout the book, as are advertisements for local businesses of the time. This is a valuable record for those who are interested in the area, or who have connections to this part of Queensland.
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Darling Downs Almanac and Directory 1900 (Groom)
Darling Downs Almanac and Directory 1900 (Groom)
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No of pages in original: 226
Year published: (1900) 2008
ISBN: 9781921461842
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The Darling Downs is a region in Queensland, where the principal town is Toowoomba. This 1900 edition of the Darling Downs Almanac and Directory contains a wealth of information relating to this region.
Starting with the almanac, this contains a gardening section which is useful not only for the regular gardener, but also the amateur giving practical advice. There are hints to farmers, as well as domestic hints and recipes, times for arrival and despatch of mail, government departments, stations and their post towns, and various miscellaneous information such as directions for making a will, treatment of snake bites, typhoid fever and its treatment, and more.
The directory covers the towns of Allora, Clifton, Crow's Nest, Dalby, Drayton, Goondiwindi, Jondaryan, Leyburn, Millmerran, Pittsworth, Roma, Stanthorpe, Toowoomba, Turallin and Warwick. Each of these starts with gazetteer information on each location, then lists the names and occupations of the primary business holders in the district, as well as local government office holders, ministers of religion, office holders of institutions and societies.
There are hundreds of advertisements from local businesses of the time, and thousands of names of persons mentioned throughout. A wonderful record of the Darling Downs as it was at the turn of the 20th century.
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Port_Mackay_1908Discovery and Settlement of Port Mackay, Queensland
Discovery and Settlement of Port Mackay, Queensland
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Year published: (1908) 2006
No of pages in original: 125 pp
ISBN: 9781921230820
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This book tells the early history of Port Mackay, from early expeditions to the area through its settlement to 1866.
It includes journals from Leichhardt and Captain Mackay’s expeditions, giving comprehensive detail of the area discovered and including many accounts of interesting, risky and difficult experiences, as well as a detailed account of the settlement of the area and events leading up to the settlement.
Also included are appendices on Ships that went up the coast, the ascent of Mount Dalrymple, the Aborigines of Mackay and notes on natural history and sport.
The accounts recorded in this book are personal, include great detail and are interesting to read. This book is of use to anyone interested in the history of the area.
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Rockhampton_1904Early history of Rockhampton
Early history of Rockhampton
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Year published: (1904) 2005
No of pages in original: 423 pp
Author/Compiler: J Bird
ISBN: 9781921081033
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A fine account of the early years of Rockhampton revised and reprinted in 1904 from articles that appeared in The Morning Bulletin and The Capricornian. A glance at the Contents below will show how wide ranging this book is..
This book is particularly valuable as the original articles on which it is based were compiled while many of the pioneers were still alive. “Though, in some instances the history of people and institutions has been brought up to date [1904], the articles have been largely confined to the story of the town up till 1870”.
This searchable CD opens up for the first time the wealth of information in this important record. The original book did not even have an index!
CONTENTS
• Introductory
• Arrival of the Archers
• The Canoona Rush
• Building and establishing the Town
• Town and country hotels
• Influx of immigrants
• Old-time amusements
• Horse racing and breeding
• Athletic Sports
• Manners, customs, and important events
• Amusing and interesting episodes
• Some notable pioneers
• Mostly personal matters
• An adventurous career
• Trouble with the Blacks
• The mining industry
• The Mount Morgan Mine
• The meat industry
• Capture of Gardiner, the Bushranger
• The Rockhampton bushrangers
• Murder of the Clermont escort
• Murder of Patrick Halligan
• A notorious character
• Central Queensland Railways
• Floods of the Fitzroy
• The wreck of the Maria
• Rockhampton explorers
• Conclusion
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Warwick_1925Early history of Warwick District and pioneers of the Darling Downs
Early history of Warwick District and pioneers of the Darling Downs
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Year published: (1925) 2007
No of pages in original: 140 pp
Author/Compiler: Thomas Hall
ISBN: 9781921416156
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This history was written in 1923 because it was felt that the history of the “very earliest settlement of the Southern Corner of the Darling Downs has been brushed aside”.
Thomas Hall writes about the history and pioneers of the Warwick District and Darling Downs region. Details of its discovery and settlement, along with the Australian Aborigines, climate and scenery are all mentioned. Churches, roads and streets, banking, newspapers, law enforcement, water, crops, saw mills and other occupations are all covered.
This volume includes portrait photographs of the early settlers, a detailed list of land purchases prior to 1852 in the Town of Warwick giving date of sale, allotment number, section, area, purchaser and price. In all it is a valuable record of the early history of this region.
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Fassifern_1844-1944Fassifern Centenary 1844-1944
Fassifern Centenary 1844-1944
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Year published: (1944) 2008
No of pages in original: 250 pp
Author/Compiler: Fassifern Centenary Committee
ISBN: 9781742221281
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The Fassifern centenary is a souvenir booklet containing information about the district from 1844 until 1944. It includes a descriptive history of the discovery and settlement of Fassifern and other surrounding districts. Also contained in this booklet are some biographical sketches, some district personalities, names of district council members, a list and photographs of fallen men who enlisted in the First World War from Boonah and districts, short stories, statistical information and much more.
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FNQ_1861Forty-Five years’ experiences in North Queensland: 1861-1905
Forty-Five years’ experiences in North Queensland: 1861-1905
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Year published: (1907) 2006
No of pages in original: 174 pp
Author/Compiler: WRO Hill
ISBN: 9781921230837
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Forty-Five years experience in North Queensland are the written memoirs of WRO Hill from 1844 when he was a young boy in England to his experiences in Queensland from 1861 to 1905.
The book records incidents and adventures from his life as the son of a prison governor to his life as a Mounted Policeman, Station Manager and worker, and Police Magistrate throughout North Queensland.
Giving accounts of different people he met and details of several major crimes the author was involved in solving, this book is an interesting read and will prove useful to people interested in early Queensland’s history from an original point of view.
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Fox's History of Queensland
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Year published: (1919-23) 2006
No of pages in original: 2,806 pp
Author/Compiler: Fox, Matthew
ISBN: 9781921081392
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Fox’s History of Queensland is similar to the Cyclopedias that were published for most states of Australia around the beginning of the 20th Century. Cyclopedias are a vast resource of historical and biographical information on the state concerned - the people, towns, industries, professional, commercial and social institutions and much more. ‘Fox’s History of Queensland’ is the largest of these publications and is very rare; an original set can cost as much as $3,000.
This comprehensive Queensland resource includes information ranging from flora and fauna to industry, from geology and history to politics as well as information relevant to the day on schools, hospitals, infrastructure and farming. It includes a large section on the major towns, regions and homesteads throughout Queensland, as well as a large number of biographies on influential and ordinary citizens throughout the community. The three volumes (3 CDs)have thousands of illustrations scattered throughout, a large number of these being photos of people as well as places, buildings, and scenes from the past.
This CD set includes searchable facsimile images of the entire three volumes of Fox's History of Queensland and is an essential resource for anyone interested In the history of that state.
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GenesisGenesis of Queensland
Genesis of Queensland
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Year published: (1888) 2005
No of pages in original: 636 pp + maps
Author/Compiler: Henry Stuart Russell
ISBN: 9781920978891
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The full title of this book is An account of the first exploring journeys to and over Darling Downs: the earliest days of their occupation; social life; station seeking; the course of discovery, northward and westward; and a resume of the causes which led to separation from New South Wales.
The outline of the contents of just one of the 26 chapters will give some idea of the flavour of this book.
CHAPTER VIII - Petty's Hotel - Letters of Introduction - Aldis' Cigars - Arthur and Pemberton Hodgson - Todd - Buying a Horse - Brown the Saddler - Major Barney - Disadvantage of a Name - Sydney as it seemed to me - Australian Club - En route to New England - Newcastle - Cox's Hotel - Paddy Grant - Lettsome and Archibald Boyd - Black Creek - Hughes and Isaac - Colburne "Old Soldiers" - Patrick's Plains - Cullen's Inn - Singleton's - Muswellbrook - Skellatar - Bengalla - Overton - Nagoa - St. Helier's - Cox - Allman - Aunty Bell - Nowland's Inn - Aberdeen - Potter Macqueen - Scone - Chivers' Inn - The River Page - Denny Day - Currabubbula - Charles Hall - Killalla - Salisbury - Hodgson's Highwayman - Denne's Station - Cashiobury - "Cocky" Rogers - Back to Sydney - Reverend Robert Allwood.
There are ten appendixes, with various extracts from journals, proclamations, an extract from the Sydney Gazette and even a murder account.
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Geographic history of Queensland
Geographic history of Queensland
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Year published: (1895) 2007
No of pages in original: 234 pp
Author/Compiler: Meston, Archibald
ISBN: 9781921315824
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Written by Archibald Meston in 1895, this book contains a detailed geographical history of Queensland from the first voyages to Australia.
The book covers information on early Queensland, the Queensland government, schools and education, infrastructure, Queensland stations, minerals, climate, aboriginals, flora and fauna, topography, geology and exploration.
It is an accurate and comprehensive account of the history and geography of Queensland’s early years and will be useful to Queensland historians.
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German Mission to the Aborigines at Moreton Bay 1841
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Year published: (1841) 2007
No of pages in original: 16 pp
Author/Compiler: Christopher Eipper
ISBN: 9781921371226
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Written by the Rev Christopher Eipper, a German missionary and Presbyterian minister who emigrated to Australia in 1838, landing in Sydney. Eipper and some others then sailed to Moreton Bay in 1838, set up a site 7 miles from Eagle Farm, which they named Zion Hill, and so began the German Mission to the Aborigines.
Classes were conducted by Rev Eipper and Re. Handt helped the newcomers to acquire the Aboriginal dialect.
The early history of the mission was first recorded by Eipper in this book the full title being Statement of the Origin, Condition, and Prospects of the German Mission to the Aborigines at Moreton Bay.
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Gladstone colony (1898)
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Year published: (1898) 2008
No of pages in original: 285 pp
Author/Compiler: JF Hogan
ISBN: 9781921494031
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Port Curtis was originally settled in 1847 as a penal colony by the New South Wales government, but was abandoned in 1848. The area was resettled by free settlers in 1853, and in 1863 it became a municipality, and was renamed Gladstone after William Ewart Gladstone, the British Colonial Secretary (and later British Prime Minister) who was dealing with the process of setting up the new colony in Northern Australia.
The township developed on the site of the original penal colony and for some time it was promoted as a future capital for the newly established colony of Queensland.
The Gladstone Colony: An Unwritten Chapter of Australian History was written in 1898, and covers the town's history up until the time of publication. A wonderful record of the history of this Queensland city, you will find information on the founding of the town, as well as its growth and development, together with details of pioneer squatters, the gold rush as well as details of Gladstone as it was in 1898 and plenty more.
This historical record available on fully-searchable CD will be useful not only for those with connections to the pioneers of the region, but also those who are interested in the social history of Gladstone.
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Gympie_1952Gympie in its cradle days: Reminiscences of Gympie's pioneer days
Gympie in its cradle days: Reminiscences of Gympie's pioneer days
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Year published: (1952) 2007
No of pages in original: 62 pp
ISBN: 9781921416569
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October 18, 1952 was the 85th anniversary of the birth of the city of Gympie and the discovery of gold by James Nash.
To celebrate this anniversary, this small booklet was produced, and includes a collection of memoirs of early pioneers which first appeared as articles in the Gympie Times in 1938.
In a collection of 24 articles, you will find details on the first settlers, Australian Aborigines, growing up in the town, the Chinese, stores, a women faces the hardships, Inglewood Hill, entertainment, mulberries, trips in the dray, on the road, life as a pit-sawyer and more.
This is a valuable collection of local reminiscences of a past era.
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Gympie_1927Historical sketch of Gympie 1867 - 1927
Historical sketch of Gympie 1867 - 1927
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Year published: (1927) 2007
No of pages in original: 162 pp
ISBN: 9781921416552
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The town of Gympie, north of Brisbane, and was originally settled for grazing purposes, but in 1867 the area became prominent when James Nash discovered gold. At the time Queensland was suffering from a severe economic depression and the discovery probably saved the colony from bankruptcy.
This souvenir book was produced to celebrate the town's Diamond Jubilee in 1927, and details the history of the town, starting with the early history and the 'momentous discovery' of gold. This is followed by information on the schools, churches, societies, sports clubs, Gympie's mayors, as well as other locals who played a part in Queensland's political scene. This book also includes information on the mining and agricultural pioneers, as well as many advertisements from local businesses, and numerous photographs of Gympie throughout this period.
This is a valuable record for those with an interest in not only the early pioneers of this Queensland town, but also for those whose interest is social and economic history.
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Maryborough_1897History of Maryborough (1897)
History of Maryborough (1897)
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Year published: (1897) 2005
No of pages in original: 423 pp
Author/Compiler: G Loyau
ISBN: 9781921081026
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This is a fascinating history of the town of Maryborough, which is situated to the north of Brisbane near the Queensland coast. It coverers the years 1850 to 1895, and deals with topics such as early settlement and the 'New Maryborough' in 1896. It also has details about various places surrounding such as Fraser Island and Gympie as well as various local railways and other nearby features.
This book also includes a biographical section listing "Pioneers of Wide Bay, Old Colonists, Living and Dead". For most people listed within this section there is at least a paragraph or two of details, however some are up to several pages long.
The latter parts of the book deal with the education, religion, societies and clubs of the town, and well as the local industries. The suburban and country townships section near the end, is almost a mini gazetteer ... which may help you find that small (or now non-existent) place in Queensland you were looking for. The book is completed with the inclusion of numerous photographs both of people and places.
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Early_1895In the early days: History and incident of pioneer Queensland (1895)
In the early days: History and incident of pioneer Queensland (1895)
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Year published: (1895) 2007
No of pages in original: 400 pp
Author/Compiler: JJ Knight
ISBN: 9781921371233
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JJ Knight compiled this unique history of Queensland in 1895. The 22 chapters of this book give information on the happenings of the region up until 1894. It truly is a goldmine of information.
Starting with Captain Flinders and the early settlers, it then gives information on how men were punished, workers wages, female prisoners, various trials, land sales, experiences of a jockey, the Brisbane survey, aborigines, murders, races, arrival of the 'Fortitude', roads, the arrival of orphan girls, newspapers, wrecks of various ships, and the 'election incident'. The separation of Queensland from New South Wales is also covered as is trade with New Caledonia, various floods, Dr Lang's visits, Norfolk Island pirates, and almost everything else.
This book is enhanced by the 'Table of Events' section which totals 37 pages, and details everyday happenings of Queensland in chronological order. Starting in 1606, and continuing through to 1894, here is an amazing timeline.
Example entries from the chronology:
1850, Feb 28 - First letter carrier appointed, salary £30
1852, July 30 - Dr Allan (surgeon 'Argyll'), first mate and immigrant drowned off Dunwich
1861, Jan 4 - Election first Toowoomba Municipal Council - Groom (51 votes), M'Carthy (4), Berkman (35), Shuttlewood (31), Boulton (30), Robertson (26), Annand (25), Peardon (24), Ryan (23); Groom, Mayor
1875, Nov 18 - First telegraphic message despatched from Cooktown towards the Palmer Goldfield was received at a station 85 miles distant
Everyone with an interest in early Australian history, particularly Queensland, will not only enjoy this book, but will learn fascinating facts about Queensland and its past.
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