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State Library of Queensland  >  Collections  >  Queensland history  >  More

Piscitelli Archive
The children's art archive is multicultural in scope and contains artwork of Indigenous children.

The Archer Brothers in Queensland
The Archer brothers were some of the earliest settlers in Queensland.

Manifesto of the Queensland Labour Party
Written at a time of social and political upheaval, this document is regarded as one of the formative documents of the present day Australian Labor Party.

QANTAS logbook
The first logbook for the first QANTAS aircraft

Voyage of the Rattlesnake
Captain Owen Stanley on Her Majesty's Surveying Vessel Rattlesnake was commissioned to: conduct the first systematic hydrographic survey of Hervey Bay; conduct an exploration of the Torres Strait; identify a safe anchorage at Cape York; and examine the southern part of New Guinea and the Louisiade Archipelago. 

Shipboard diaries
Four of the diaries describe 19th century immigration. Another diary was written on board a South Sea Islander labour recruitment ship in the 1890s. The sixth diary is from a post-World War II immigration voyage.

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• Picture Queensland
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Queensland stories

• Digital story - The 1899 pearling fleet disaster
• Digital story - Five senses
• Digital story - Palms of Queensland
• Digital story - Discover Queensland by Emeritus Professor Kay Saunders

External links

• Queensland Museum
• Fryer Library
• Central Queensland University Library
• James Cook University Library
• Queensland State Archives
• National Archives of Australia
• Indigenous Cultural Heritage
• Royal Historical Society of Queensland