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John and Ann Collins settled at Mundoolun in a slab hut in 1846. The couple had five children. The family went on to own Tamrookum, Rathdownie, and Nindooinba. Sons Robert and William later formed the North Australian Pastoral Company in the Northern Territory. A world tour by the brothers led to their interest in the preservation of national parks. Robert later became the Independent Member for Albert in the Queensland Legislative Assembly and Queensland branch president of the Royal Geographic Society in an effort to further his dream of establishing national parks. He did not live to see the proclamation of the Lamington National park in 1915, which he and Romeo Lahey had worked towards. John Collins died in August 1898 and Ann in January 1901. The family then commissioned the design and construction of a church in honor of their parents. John Buckeridge who was the official Diocesan Architect of Brisbane designed the church. Construction was supervised by Robin Dodds, who designed another important local church, All Saints at Tamrookum, for his son Robert Martin Collins in 1915. St Johns was completed in 1901 as a memorial to John and Ann Collins. It is one of a few privately owned chapels in Queensland. The church and the adjoining cemetery are both on the State Heritage Register. The remains of John Allen are held in the Mundoolun Cemetery. He is otherwise known as Bullum and is best remembered for the work he undertook in documenting the language of the Wangerriburra tribe. Source: professionalsjimboomba.com.au/2012/09/the-history-of-mund...

A Hapsburg-Lorraine member: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archduke_Franz_Salvator_of_Austria

Other Bain/LOC photos of the Archduke:

A man interupted in his work, lol. Nice shot and a wry smile. Full of character.

And no windeyuppey telephone in sight! Just a dial phone in solid black bakelite!

Or is that a bottle of ink?

No Niall, I don't think that it is Irel! Their bottles were rectangular whereas that appears to be octagonal. If I remember my bottles right that was a bottle used for Goodalls Salad Cream or perhaps Goodalls Tomato Kechup, the shape of the bottle is right as is the label. I suspect that Mr. McCollins (never heard of that surname before) had something else in it such as tea or coffee?

I wonder if he was named Robert, or maybe William?