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This pic was taken during the King's Birthday holiday weekend in early June 1935, when a group of some 15 climbers from the National Parks Association's camp at Mt Ernest climbed the nearby Mt Lindesay. This photo shows the group on the open Northen slopes of Mt Lindesay... This pic is from one of Ken Rogers' photo albums which were at one point held at the National Parks Association of Queensland archive...I gather the albums are now held at the SLQ. Ken Rogers was one of a group of more adventurous hikers and climbers who were active in SE Queensland from the later 1920s and thru the 1930s...his photo albums include a number of photos taken by other photographers...he and his friends appear to have shared their photos...and prints of many of the photos that appear in Ken's albums also appear collections compiled by Bert Salmon, Cliff Wilson and Nora Dimes...the accompanying note indicates this particular pic was taken by 'R.W.B.' (ie. Reg Booth)... All up Ken Rogers' albums provide a fascinating insight into leisure and recreation in 1930s Queensland...Ken worked in the Queensland Public Service...as did many of the people who appear in the various photos...Bert Salmon worked as a photographer with the Department of Agriculture and Stock...Muriel Patten worked at the Department of Agriculture and Stock...Doris Goy worked at the Queensland Herbarium, Irene Booth and her brother Reg worked at the PMG's Department, etc... Unfortunately, one of Ken Rogers' albums...covering the period 1932-33...appears not to have made its way to the SLQ...either that or it hasn't been scanned yet...this 'missing' album contains some particularly significant photos that don't appear in the various other collections... For what it's worth, Bert Salmon (seen here 1st left) was one of the preeminent Australian climbers of the earlier 20th century...he was also probably the most prolific Mt Lindesay climber until relatively recent times…Bert’s log of his Mt Lindesay ascents indicates that he made 27 ascents between 1928 and 1964…this 1935 King's Birthday holiday weekend ascent was evidently his 10th...

Bert Salmon's pic of the same group on the summit tier...another print of this pic also appears in Ken Rogers' album... www.flickr.com/photos/193158484@N02/53470545687/ Fox Movietone News cameraman George Burne filming the climbers...this pic might have been taken on the afternoon of 2nd June, after the group had returned from climbing Mt Lindesay... www.flickr.com/photos/193158484@N02/53471787731/

This photograph almost certainly taken at what is now Memorial Park at Bulimba

The children at the mission learned to read and write in Guugu Yimidhirr (which had been transcribed earlier by the missionaries), and the girls helped in the missionaries’ houses and in the garden. It was routine for the girls to be confined to a dormitory each night and to have limited access to their families. Initially, the missionary Wilhelm Poland supervised them closely at Elim while the senior missionary, Georg Heinrich Schwarz, attempted to establish a second station at Hope Valley. This arrangement was altered in 1890 after the older girls, including Mulun, secretly invited Guugu Yimidhirr boys into their dormitory at night. Thereafter the older girls were periodically sent to Hope Valley to stay with Schwarz. Source: ia.anu.edu.au/biography/mulun-magdalena-29712