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Native kangaroo hunters, Queensland, Australia - stereocsopic card

Native kangaroo hunters, Queensland, Australia - stereocsopic card

Photograph shows Aboriginal natives of Australia: kangaroo hunters with spears. No. 24269. No. 24269.

North Queensland aborigines - very early 1900s
The black police of Queensland - reminiscences of official work and personal adventures in the early days of the colony (1902) (14778470381)

The black police of Queensland - reminiscences of official work and pe...

Identifier: blackpoliceofque00kenn (find matches) Title: The black police of Queensland : reminiscences of official work and personal adventures in the early days of the colony Year: 1902 (1900s) Authors: Ke... More

The black police of Queensland - reminiscences of official work and personal adventures in the early days of the colony (1902) (14801493553)

The black police of Queensland - reminiscences of official work and pe...

Identifier: blackpoliceofque00kenn (find matches) Title: The black police of Queensland : reminiscences of official work and personal adventures in the early days of the colony Year: 1902 (1900s) Authors: Ke... More

Lubras Camp, Maloga, New South Wales - 1890s

Lubras Camp, Maloga, New South Wales - 1890s

After European settlement in the tribal lands of the Yorta Yorta people of the Murray - Goulburn region of New South Wales, the remaining Yorta Yorta population and other tribal groups from neighboring areas we... More

Eddie Gilbert demonstrating his bowling style, 1933 (22400050618)

Eddie Gilbert demonstrating his bowling style, 1933 (22400050618)

Creator: Unidentified. Copied and digitised from The Queenslander, 2 February 1933. Location: Brisbane, Queensland. Description: 3 consecutive photos published in The Queenslander Illustrated Weekly demonstrat... More

The black police of Queensland - reminiscences of official work and personal adventures in the early days of the colony (1902) (14781272692)

The black police of Queensland - reminiscences of official work and pe...

Identifier: blackpoliceofque00kenn (find matches) Title: The black police of Queensland : reminiscences of official work and personal adventures in the early days of the colony Year: 1902 (1900s) Authors: Ke... More

Normanton natives - circa 1897, Australian aborigines

Normanton natives - circa 1897, Australian aborigines

Normanton is a town in far north Queensland.

StateLibQld 1 395129 Quiet reach of the Lower Tully River, ca. 1910

StateLibQld 1 395129 Quiet reach of the Lower Tully River, ca. 1910

Quiet reach of the Lower Tully River, ca. 1910 A man is rowing a boat with two Aboriginal boys standing and looking ahead.

Illustrated front cover from The Queenslander, December 1, 1927 (8230357307)

Illustrated front cover from The Queenslander, December 1, 1927 (82303...

Creator: Agnew Garnet Description: A Christmas issue featuring an image of an aborigine with a stained glass frieze depicting aborigines with spears and boomerangs behind the main image. A census of the abori... More

Aged Natives, South Queensland - very early 1900s

Aged Natives, South Queensland - very early 1900s

Tommy, King of Noosa - Weyba, Cootharaba, Tumburrawa.King Brown - Woolumba.Members of the Gubbi Gubbi tribe.

Aborigines from north Queensland - circa 1900

Aborigines from north Queensland - circa 1900

Possibly members of the Kalkadoon tribe of Australian aborigines from the Mt Isa region..Caption: Queensland Blacks 'North'

Queensland State Archives 1380 Palm Island natives in war paint c 1935

Queensland State Archives 1380 Palm Island natives in war paint c 1935

Palm Island natives in war paint. (The photograph is part of an album of tourist activities in North Queensland coastal and hinterland areas.)

At home with the most primitive people on earth--Natives of North Queensland, Australia

At home with the most primitive people on earth--Natives of North Quee...

Photograph shows Aboriginal natives of Australia: family group with dog in front of low hut; man holding spear and dead kangaroo. Stereo by Keystone. Caption card tracings: Shelf.

Aboriginal stockmen Digby Denham and Old Mango at Midgenoo 1916 (17239414382)

Aboriginal stockmen Digby Denham and Old Mango at Midgenoo 1916 (17239...

Creator: Unidentified. Location: Midgenoo, Far North Queensland, Queensland Description: Stockmen for William Dallacy. (Description supplied with photograh.) Conditions of use: Aboriginal and Torres Strait I... More

Queensland State Archives 5795 Residents of Palm Island June 1931
Cape Bedford Mission Station

Cape Bedford Mission Station

Cape Bedford Mission Station, undated but must be before the death of the photographer in 1933

Cullin-La-Ringo massacre, Queensland, Australia

Cullin-La-Ringo massacre, Queensland, Australia

The Wills Tragedy: The arrival of the neighbouring squatters and Mon collecting and burying the dead, after the attack by the blacks on H.R. Wills ESQ. Stationed Leichhardt district, Queensland.

Queensland State Archives 5805 Mrs J C Peterson and child Yarrabah June 1931
Aborigines from Townsville, Qld - circa 1905
The black police of Queensland - reminiscences of official work and personal adventures in the early days of the colony (1902) (14781283432)

The black police of Queensland - reminiscences of official work and pe...

Identifier: blackpoliceofque00kenn (find matches) Title: The black police of Queensland : reminiscences of official work and personal adventures in the early days of the colony Year: 1902 (1900s) Authors: Ke... More

Two aborigines of the Worki (?) tribe, Gilbert R[iver], N. Queensland

Two aborigines of the Worki (?) tribe, Gilbert R[iver], N. Queensland

Public domain reproduction of colorized lantern slide, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Aborigine man of the Worki (?) tribe, Gilbert River

Aborigine man of the Worki (?) tribe, Gilbert River

Public domain reproduction of colorized lantern slide, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Aboriginals Camp, Herbert River, Queensland, Australia - circa 1910

Aboriginals Camp, Herbert River, Queensland, Australia - circa 1910

NaN Public domain scan of the vintage Queensland postcard, Australia, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Jubilee of Point McLeay Mission, South Australia - 9 May 1909

Jubilee of Point McLeay Mission, South Australia - 9 May 1909

Point McLeay Mission (renamed Raukkan in 1982) was founded in 1859 by the Aborigines' Friends Association. This station was designed to help the Aboriginal people of the Lower Lakes area. The poor quality of t... More

Warrior Chiefs in War Paint - Australian Aborigines

Warrior Chiefs in War Paint - Australian Aborigines

A Queensland government photograph possibly from the 1930/40s.

233 of 'Ethnological Studies among the North-West-Central Queensland Aborigines ... With ... illustrations' (11243978375)

233 of 'Ethnological Studies among the North-West-Central Queensland A...

Image taken from: Title: "Ethnological Studies among the North-West-Central Queensland Aborigines ... With ... illustrations" Author: ROTH, Walter Edmund. Shelfmark: "British Library HMNTS 10491.ff.27." Page: 2... More

Flour rations to natives, South Australia - 1911

Flour rations to natives, South Australia - 1911

"I originally joined Flickr to dedicate and share on my photostream vintage photographs taken by Henry William Mobsby F.R.G.S., F.R.S.A. (1860-1933) who was my husband's great great uncle... He was an Englishma... More

Queensland State Archives 5787 Home Secretarys inspection visit to Mapoon June 1931
Two Representative Tribes of Queensland - A comparatively straight-haired and a curly-haired man

Two Representative Tribes of Queensland - A comparatively straight-hai...

A comparatively straight-haired and a curly-haired man

Two Representative Tribes of Queensland - Kagariu or Johnnie Campbell

Two Representative Tribes of Queensland - Kagariu or Johnnie Campbell

Kagariu, or Johnnie Campbell, Kabi Tribe, Mary River, Queensland, the most notorious native bushranger

Aboriginal Camp somewhere in Queensland - circa 1910

Aboriginal Camp somewhere in Queensland - circa 1910

Vintage Queensland A group of people standing in a field. A group of indigenous people standing in a field. Public domain postcard scan.

State Lib Qld 1 395125 Lily Lagoon, a backwater of Tully River, ca. 1910

State Lib Qld 1 395125 Lily Lagoon, a backwater of Tully River, ca. 19...

Lily Lagoon, a backwater of Tully River, ca. 1910 An Aboriginal boy is rowing a boat in a lagoon.

Two Representative Tribes of Queensland - A Native of the Kabi Tribe

Two Representative Tribes of Queensland - A Native of the Kabi Tribe

A Native of the Kabi Tribe, Maryborough, Queensland

The black police of Queensland - reminiscences of official work and personal adventures in the early days of the colony (1902) (14779259904)

The black police of Queensland - reminiscences of official work and pe...

Identifier: blackpoliceofque00kenn (find matches) Title: The black police of Queensland : reminiscences of official work and personal adventures in the early days of the colony Year: 1902 (1900s) Authors: Ke... More

Scene at Palm Islands, North Queensland - 1908

Scene at Palm Islands, North Queensland - 1908

One of many postcards produced by the Queensland Government to hand out at the Franco-British Exhibition in London in 1908.

Queensland State Archives 5737 Mission conducted by Seventh Day Adventists Mona Mona June 1931

Queensland State Archives 5737 Mission conducted by Seventh Day Advent...

Mission conducted by Seventh Day Adventists, Mona Mona.

The black police of Queensland - reminiscences of official work and personal adventures in the early days of the colony (1902) (14594959629)

The black police of Queensland - reminiscences of official work and pe...

Identifier: blackpoliceofque00kenn (find matches) Title: The black police of Queensland : reminiscences of official work and personal adventures in the early days of the colony Year: 1902 (1900s) Authors: Ke... More

Queensland State Archives 2474 Aborigines 1898

Queensland State Archives 2474 Aborigines 1898

Aborigines. (Original photograph caption as it appears in the album. Register listing indicates Yandilla.)

Queensland State Archives 5801 Dancers Palm Island June 1931

Queensland State Archives 5801 Dancers Palm Island June 1931

Dancers, Palm Island. (Home Secretary's inspection visit to Palm Island)

Map of Area Occupied by Wangerriburra People, Queensland

Map of Area Occupied by Wangerriburra People, Queensland

Map of area occupied by Wangerriburra people, Queensland.

Queensland State Archives 1000 Aborigine climbing for Coconuts Neck Bay Shaw Island near Lindeman Island c 1931

Queensland State Archives 1000 Aborigine climbing for Coconuts Neck Ba...

Aborigine climbing for Coconuts, Neck Bay, Shaw Island, near Lindeman Island. (Original photograph caption as it appears in the album of tourist activities in North Queensland coastal and hinterland areas.)

Queensland State Archives 2984 Panel from the Exhibition of Australian Aboriginal Culture prepared by the Australian National Committee for UNESCO at the Queensland Museum Brisbane 1959

Queensland State Archives 2984 Panel from the Exhibition of Australian...

Panel from the Exhibition of Australian Aboriginal Culture, prepared by the Australian National Committee for UNESCO, at the Queensland Museum, Brisbane. (As part of the Queensland Centenary celebrations, the e... More

Queensland State Archives 3072 Sergeant Whiteford and his trackers 1898

Queensland State Archives 3072 Sergeant Whiteford and his trackers 189...

Sergeant Whiteford and his trackers. (With text from A Report to the Commissioner of Police - On the Aboriginals occupying the "Hinter-land" of Princess Charlotte Bay together with a Preface containing suggesti... More

Queensland State Archives 5866 Residents on the beach Mapoon 20 July 1911
Queensland State Archives 928 Messrs Davidson and Deering and two Black Boys from Lindeman Island who went spearing turtles c 1931

Queensland State Archives 928 Messrs Davidson and Deering and two Blac...

Messrs Davidson and Deering and two Black Boys from Lindeman Island who went spearing turtles. (Original photograph caption as it appears in the album of North Queensland coastal and hinterland areas. This phot... More

Queen'sland Blacks. Albumen print, Getty Museum. Public domain photograph.

Queen'sland Blacks. Albumen print, Getty Museum. Public domain photogr...

Public domain photograph - 19th-century albumen print, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Queensland State Archives 3217 Maranoa Charlie King of Tinnenburra c 1910
Queensland State Archives 5800 Dancers Palm Island June 1931
Queensland State Archives 5803 Hon James Christian Peterson Home Secretary and party with residents of Fantome Island June 1931

Queensland State Archives 5803 Hon James Christian Peterson Home Secre...

Hon James Christian Peterson, Home Secretary and party with residents of Fantome Island.

Queensland State Archives 5812 Crew of the Melbidir II Badu June 1931
Queensland State Archives 5818 Home Secretarys party and residents of Cowal Creek June 1931

Queensland State Archives 5818 Home Secretarys party and residents of ...

Home Secretary's party and residents of Cowal Creek.

Nativepolicemusgrave, Queensland, Australia

Nativepolicemusgrave, Queensland, Australia

Native Police detachment at Musgrave around 1898

Ethnological Studies Among the North-West Central Queensland Aborigines - Plate II - Sign language
Two Representative Tribes of Queensland - Turandiu

Two Representative Tribes of Queensland - Turandiu

Turandiu, son of Dick and Fanny Public domain photograph related to Queensland, Australia, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

The black police of Queensland - reminiscences of official work and personal adventures in the early days of the colony (1902) (14758621456)

The black police of Queensland - reminiscences of official work and pe...

Identifier: blackpoliceofque00kenn (find matches) Title: The black police of Queensland : reminiscences of official work and personal adventures in the early days of the colony Year: 1902 (1900s) Authors: Ke... More

The black police of Queensland - reminiscences of official work and personal adventures in the early days of the colony (1902) (14779267754)

The black police of Queensland - reminiscences of official work and pe...

Identifier: blackpoliceofque00kenn (find matches) Title: The black police of Queensland : reminiscences of official work and personal adventures in the early days of the colony Year: 1902 (1900s) Authors: Ke... More

Queensland State Archives 1388 An aboriginal climbing a tree in the Jungle Malanda NQ c 1935

Queensland State Archives 1388 An aboriginal climbing a tree in the Ju...

An aboriginal climbing a tree in the Jungle, Malanda, NQ. (Original photograph caption as it appears in the album of tourist activities in North Queensland coastal and hinterland areas.)

Queensland State Archives 5802 Residents of Palm Island June 1931
Tambo-aboriginal-circus

Tambo-aboriginal-circus

Kukamunburra (Tambo) and R. A. Cunningham's Australian Aboriginal international touring company in c. 1884

The black police of Queensland - reminiscences of official work and personal adventures in the early days of the colony (1902) (14594965789)

The black police of Queensland - reminiscences of official work and pe...

Identifier: blackpoliceofque00kenn (find matches) Title: The black police of Queensland : reminiscences of official work and personal adventures in the early days of the colony Year: 1902 (1900s) Authors: Ke... More

The black police of Queensland - reminiscences of official work and personal adventures in the early days of the colony (1902) (14778471631)

The black police of Queensland - reminiscences of official work and pe...

Identifier: blackpoliceofque00kenn (find matches) Title: The black police of Queensland : reminiscences of official work and personal adventures in the early days of the colony Year: 1902 (1900s) Authors: Ke... More

Queensland State Archives 1376 Natives display before tourists at Palm Island c 1935

Queensland State Archives 1376 Natives display before tourists at Palm...

Natives display before tourists at Palm Island. (Original photograph caption as it appears in the album of tourist activities in North Queensland coastal and hinterland areas.)

Queensland State Archives 5783 Dancers Mapoon June 1931
Queensland State Archives 5797 Dancers Palm Island June 1931
Queensland State Archives 5813 Boys dormitory Palm Island June 1931
2 phot., portraits d'aborigènes du Queensland (Australie). Don en 1886 de Edmond Cotteau - btv1b53273678q (3 of 3)

2 phot., portraits d'aborigènes du Queensland (Australie). Don en 1886...

Français : Sujet : Anthropologie physique Queensland Australie Appartient à l’ensemble documentaire : PhoGéo1 Couverture : Australie Langue : français Sujet : Anthropologie physique Queensland Australie Appa... More

Queensland State Archives 5810 Hon J C Peterson Home Secretary and party with residents of Yarrabah June 1931

Queensland State Archives 5810 Hon J C Peterson Home Secretary and par...

Hon J C Peterson Home Secretary and party with residents of Yarrabah.

Queensland State Archives 5814 Girls dormitory Palm Island June 1931
The black police of Queensland - reminiscences of official work and personal adventures in the early days of the colony (1902) (14594964289)

The black police of Queensland - reminiscences of official work and pe...

Identifier: blackpoliceofque00kenn (find matches) Title: The black police of Queensland : reminiscences of official work and personal adventures in the early days of the colony Year: 1902 (1900s) Authors: Ke... More

Queensland State Archives 1350 A typical Palm Island Native c 1935

Queensland State Archives 1350 A typical Palm Island Native c 1935

A typical Palm Island Native. (Original photograph caption as it appears in the album of tourist activities in North Queensland coastal and hinterland areas.)

Queensland State Archives 4938 Permanent Residence Maalan Country North Queensland 1953

Queensland State Archives 4938 Permanent Residence Maalan Country Nort...

Permanent Residence, Maalan Country, North Queensland.

Queensland State Archives 5789 Resident of Mapoon June 1931
Queensland State Archives 5799 Residents of Palm Island June 1931
Queensland State Archives 1288 Jackie Cattle Camp an aboriginal climbing a tree in Mr Englishs Jungle at Malanda NQ c 1935

Queensland State Archives 1288 Jackie Cattle Camp an aboriginal climbi...

Jackie Cattle Camp an aboriginal, climbing a tree in Mr English's Jungle at Malanda, NQ.

Queensland State Archives 1366 A native preparing for a war dance at Palm Island c 1935

Queensland State Archives 1366 A native preparing for a war dance at P...

A native preparing for a war dance at Palm Island. (Original photograph caption as it appears in the album of tourist activities in North Queensland coastal and hinterland areas.)

Queensland State Archives 1389 An aboriginal climbing a Monkey Rope Malanda NQ c 1935

Queensland State Archives 1389 An aboriginal climbing a Monkey Rope Ma...

An aboriginal climbing a Monkey Rope, Malanda, NQ. (Original photograph caption as it appears in the album of tourist activities in North Queensland coastal and hinterland areas.)

View of sunset from Palm Island (19517454659)

View of sunset from Palm Island (19517454659)

Photographer: Unidentified Location: Palm Island, Queensland; Lat/long: -18.72665,146.630569 Description: The image shows the view of a a sunset from the beach, with a young boy standing on the shore looking ... More

PSM V85 D227 Natives of kuranda queensland

PSM V85 D227 Natives of kuranda queensland

Natives of Kuranda, Queensland

Queensland aborigines photographed by J.J. Hogg & Co, George Street, Brisbane - circa 1900
North Coolgardie Blacks, Western Australia - very early 1900s

North Coolgardie Blacks, Western Australia - very early 1900s

"I originally joined Flickr to dedicate and share on my photostream vintage photographs taken by Henry William Mobsby F.R.G.S., F.R.S.A. (1860-1933) who was my husband's great great uncle... He was an Englishma... More

Queensland State Archives 3207 Blacks Dugout Tinnenburra c 1910

Queensland State Archives 3207 Blacks Dugout Tinnenburra c 1910

Aboriginal dugout, Tinnenburra Station, south of Cunnamulla, Queensland. Original title: "Blacks' Dugout, Tinnenburra."

Queensland State Archives 3329 Aboriginal axe found in gravel dump 25 February 1936

Queensland State Archives 3329 Aboriginal axe found in gravel dump 25 ...

Aboriginal axe found in gravel dump. (Story Bridge construction)

Queensland State Archives 5804 Hon J C Peterson Home Secretary and party with residents of Yarrabah June 1931

Queensland State Archives 5804 Hon J C Peterson Home Secretary and par...

Hon J C Peterson Home Secretary and party with residents of Yarrabah.

Queensland State Archives 5808 Residents of Yarrabah June 1931
Queensland State Archives 5809 Residents of Yarrabah June 1931
Among cannibals; an account of four years' travels in Australia and of camp life with the aborigines of Queensland; (1889) (14595469569)

Among cannibals; an account of four years' travels in Australia and of...

Identifier: amongcannibalsac1889lumh (find matches) Title: Among cannibals; an account of four years' travels in Australia and of camp life with the aborigines of Queensland; Year: 1889 (1880s) Authors: Lumh... More

Queensland State Archives 5738 Hon J C Peterson Home Secretary and party with residents of Mona Mona June 1931

Queensland State Archives 5738 Hon J C Peterson Home Secretary and par...

Hon J C Peterson Home Secretary and party with residents of Mona Mona.

Queensland State Archives 5798 Dancers Palm Island June 1931
Queensland State Archives 5811 Crew of the Melbidir II Badu June 1931
2 phot., portraits d'aborigènes du Queensland (Australie). Don en 1886 de Edmond Cotteau - btv1b53273678q (1 of 3)

2 phot., portraits d'aborigènes du Queensland (Australie). Don en 1886...

Français : Sujet : Anthropologie physique Queensland Australie Appartient à l’ensemble documentaire : PhoGéo1 Couverture : Australie Langue : français Sujet : Anthropologie physique Queensland Australie Appa... More

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