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The Australasian Supplement published a long report from a ‘Special Correspondent’ on the Universal Exhibition in Vienna. From the perspective of Vienna, and through Daintree’s ‘charming coloured photographs’, they were able to see Queensland as a whole: They are so pretty and so instructive, without seeming to be so, that few people can pass them by without going steadily through them. They are of high interest to the geologist, while at the same time the person who is not a geologist will be just as much interested; for in addition to the regular sequence of views, commencing with the alluvial districts and the sugar plantations, and working up to the gold formations, there is so much life introduced into them that one feels that one is looking at Queensland through a camera.55 Richard Daintree was not only a frontier photographer, and he was not only a metropolitan photographer – his work was the product of both spaces as they interacted within the new space of modern spectacle. The images were exposed right at the outer edge of imperial expansion, but they were produced into meaning right at its center, integrating the very latest in display technologies within the most sophisticated of scientific systems. In many ways, therefore, they anticipate the future role of ‘the photograph’ over the 150 years that followed when, within the increasingly sophisticated exhibition, publication, and, eventually, online digital spaces, photographs increasingly became retrievable polysemic units within a mobile dataset, and they were increasingly experienced as retinal events aggregated together into a synthetic optical field. Source: Frontier and Metropole, Science and Colonisation: The Systematic Exhibitions of Richard Daintree Martyn Jolly, published online 2020 doi.org/10.1080/03087298.2020.1788233

A United Methodist Free church opened on Sunday 11 August 1878 on the corner of Gympie Road and Banfield Street, (then Church Street, approx 27.3818°S 153.0230°E).[8][9] In 1926 a more central site was purchased on the southeast corner of Gympie Road and Hamilton Road and the church building was relocated to the new site and renovated.[10][11][12] It was replaced by a brick church that opened on 30 September 1950.[13] It became part of the Uniting Church in 1977. This brick church was demolished in 2004,[14] probably because the current Chermside-Kedron Community Church (a Uniting Church) in Chermside on the north-western corner of Gympie Road and Rode Road had opened on 23 September 2001. Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chermside,_Queensland

I'd be lost!

Which one goes where? ;-)

I wonder if they ever were all labelled, or whether you were just supposed to know?

Hello Just thought I'd let you know that one of our associate curators, Rebecca Smith, has selected this photograph as his February Flickr Favourite on our blog. - Emma

Massive complexity.