Telling our storiesPresentation to the Community Heritage Grants participants

Catriona Bryce

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An unusual piece of evidence….

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Ken Mitchell pictured outside Southport Law Court, 1952

John Oxley Library, State Library of Queensland.

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Another murder story

Unknown (1902). Coins (Welded).Queensland Police Museum

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10John Oxley Library, State Library of Queensland

Australia’s last bushrangers, the Kenniff brothers

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Monument Australia

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First Sitting of the High Court in the Banco Court of the Supreme Court of Victoria, Melb. 6 October 1903.

Sketch of T. J. Ryan. John Oxley Library, State Library of Queensland

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Group at Martin's FollyRoyal Australian Historical Society

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1. Metadata

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3. Digitisation

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Frank Walker 1861-1948 A New Plan of the Settlements in New South Wales, taken by order of Government, July 20th, 1810.

Frank Walker 1861-1948 (1908). Illicit Still, Lawson.

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