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Representatives of the UQ Senate, staff and students gathered at short notice in March 1954 to catch a glimpse of Prince Philip, as the Duke of Edinburgh made a whirlwind tour of the St Lucia campus. The informal UQ visit was a late addition to the 1954 royal tour of Australia, during which Prince Philip joined Her Majesty, Queen Elizabeth II, on her first tour of Australia as British monarch. Prince Philip arrived at UQ shortly after 6 pm on 17 March and spent about one-and-a-half hours at the University, where he was received by Queensland Deputy Premier John Duggan, Chancellor Dr. Otto Hirschfeld, and Vice-Chancellor John Story AO. The Duke was then escorted to the John Darnell Art Gallery, where he was presented with a souvenir of bound photographs of UQ buildings, before moving to the library, where he met and greeted about 50 student union representatives. The visit concluded with a stroll through the Great Court cloisters to the Geology building, where Prince Philip stopped to admire a collection of minerals, murals, and seismographs Source: alumni.uq.edu.au/contact-magazine/article/2021/04/remembe... The photo may not be related to this article, yet it was just in addition to describing some details of the Royal visit to Queensland.

A stilt race !

Wikipedia has a good 'now' pic "Māori meeting house in Rotorua" - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:2001-01_Rotorua.jpg From - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rotorua

Here's how the building looked on 4/6/1902, from this equally fascinating travel album - www.flickr.com/photos/35658363@N00/albums/72157646246091908 -

Robley Dunglison Evans (1846-1912), Civil War veteran, commanded a battleship during the Spanish-American War, commanded the Atlantic Fleet from 1905, called "Fighting Bob." There have been two US Navy destroyers named for Evans: www.history.navy.mil/photos/pers-us/uspers-e/rd-evans.htm

The Japanese Admiral at right is not "Yamamota", but rather "Yamamoto". He is not to be confused with Admiral Isoroku Yamamato, famous of WW Two exploits. He is Yamamoto Gonnohyōe, or Admiral Count Yamamoto Gonbee. From wikipedia: "Yamamoto's subsequent rise through the ranks was rapid: rear admiral (1895); vice admiral and Navy Minister (1898). He was raised to the rank of danshaku (baron) under the kazoku peerage system in 1902; and he was promoted to the rank of admiral in 1904. As Minister of the Navy during the Russo-Japanese War, Yamamoto showed strong leadership and was responsible for appointing Tōgō Heihachirō as commander-in-chief of the Combined Fleet. He gave voice to Tōgō's reports when he read his aloud his reports from the war to the assembled Diet.[2] Yamamoto was elevated to hakushaku (count) in 1907. Count Yamamoto served as Prime Minister in 1913-14." (ref. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yamamoto_Gonnohy%c5%8de ) This photograph was almost certainly taken on July 10 or on July 11, 1907. The two admirals met on both those days inthe midst of Admiral Baron Yamamoto's July 1907 trip to the USA. The met at the New York Navy Yard, and at a luncheon at the hotel Astor on July 11. Note the references to Admiral Baron Yamamato in this NYT article of the next day: query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9D0CE7D7133EE033A... See also the NYT of July 11, 1907: query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9405E1DC1738E033A... 1907&st=cse

Thanks for the information (and correct spelling of Yamamoto's name!) It's helpful to know what likely made the photo newsworthy for the Bain News Service. Another photo held by the Library of Congress, hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3c03788 copyrighted by Bain in 1907 is inscribed 7/10/07 so your suspicions about the occasion are correct. (That photo was incorrectly attributed as Isoroku Yamamoto but the record has been corrected and will soon appear in the public catalog correctly.) The date in reverse on the upper edge of the negative, 8/24/13, may indicate that the photo was used when Yamamoto Gonnohyōe became prime minister. We'll adjust the description when we update the record