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  "Thursday Island, Queensland", 1879
Glover, Thomas
 
Watercolour by Thomas George Glover, from his collection Sketches 1878-79. (National Library of Australia nla.pic-an4336227-v).
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  Children and plantation workers, Cairns c1891
State Library of Queensland
 
The Hambleton children on the Hambleton Sugar Plantation near Cairns with South Sea Islander labourers. (John Oxley Library, State Library of Queensland, Image number 172486.)
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  Governor Arthur's Proclamation to the Aboriginies
National Library of Australia
 
Oil on wood cartoon, aimed at illustrating Governor Arthur's Proclamation on law and punishment to Indigenous people, was nailed up in the Tasmanian bush in 1828.
Format: jpg | Size: | Length: 245x334 | Date Added: 23 July 2002 | | VIEW |
 
  Japanese farm labourers, Cairns c1896
State Library of Queensland
 
Group portrait of Japanese sugar cane workers at Hambleton near Cairns. (John Oxley Library, State Library of Queensland, Image number 172494.)
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  Japanese pearl diver, date unknown
State Library of Queensland
 
A Japanese diver on a pearl lugger at Thursday Island in the Torres Strait, probably early twentieth century. (John Oxley Library, State Library of Queensland, Image number 31866.)
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  Javanese workers, Croydon c1905
State Library of Queensland
 
A group of Javanese workers having a meal break, watched by officers, outside the Croydon Court House. (John Oxley Library, State Library of Queensland, Image number 44909.)
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  Planting sugar cane, Mackay 1870s
State Library of Queensland
 
South Sea Island labourers work a plantation near Mackay, supervised by men on horseback. (John Oxley Library, State Library of Queensland, Image number 21683.)
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  Sugar mill workers, Brandon 1880s
MacFarlane, D and State Library of Queensland
 
A pair of South Sea Islander "time-expired" labourers at the Pioneer Sugar Mill in Brandon, about to return to the islands. (Photographer: D. MacFarlane, John Oxley Library, State Library of Queensland, Image number 9925.)
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  The Petrie Tableau (detail)
Walker, Stephen
 
Detail of Stephen Walker's Bicentennial sculpture depicting the Petrie family and their friends in 1842 - honouring the achievements of the early settlers in Brisbane.
Format: jpg | Size: 39K | Length: 550x400 | Date Added: 11 September 2007 | | VIEW |
 
  The Petrie Tableau - Plaque
Walker, Stephen
 
The plaque from Stephen Walker's Bicentennial sculpture depicting the Petrie family and their friends in 1842 -honouring the achievements of the early settlers in Brisbane.
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  The South Sea Labour Trade
May, Phillip
 
An 1886 cartoon depicting a slave trader using coconuts as a lure to entice buyers for his "niggers".
The caption reads: “South Sea Island Trader: ‘Now gentlemen, give me a start. What shall we say for this ‘ere cocoanut – and the nigger thrown in? Five pounds only bid for this cocoanut. Five pounds; five o’ny; five – did I hear six? No advance; going at five; gone. Next nigger; I mean next cocoanut.’ ”
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  "View of Murray's Islands, with the natives offering to barter"
Westall, W.
 
Painting by W. Westall from Matthew Flinders' 1802 voyage through the Torres Strait.
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