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Germans in early Queensland
From Becoming Queensland - an online exhibition looking at the first 50 years of Queensland, Australia, through stories about the people, places, institutions and lifestyles
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Farm wagon built in the traditional German style, Ipswich district, ca. 1907, William Higlett. Image No: APO-033-0001-0019
Holzheimer farm at Bethania, Queensland, ca. 1872, William Boag. Image No: 20134
German wagon in Laidley, ca. 1897. Image No: APU-048-0001-0007
First dwelling of a German settler (Erste Wohnhutte eines Deutschen Ansiedlers), possibly Rosewood, ca. 1880. Image No: 168500
Lutheran Christ Church at Highfields ca. 1880. Image No: 7080
Members of the German Club, Brisbane, ca. 1890, Robert Shaw. Image No: 54065. Hermann Viertel is 5th from right at the back, with bowler hat and moustache. Franz Viertel is 3rd from left in the second back row.
Class portrait of the students of the German Community School, South Brisbane, ca. 1890s. Image No: 10122
Gentlemen seated around tables outside the German Club (known as Deutsche Halle), Toowoomba, ca. 1896. Image No: 168484
German family outside a farm building in the Bethania area, Queensland, ca. 1871, William Boag. Image No. 20265
Wedding guests and bridal party at a German wedding, Ropeley, ca. 1905. Image No: 96063
Hay wagon towing a Model T Ford at Stonehouse, ca. 1914. Image No. 116428. Description from photograph: 'Grandpa Martin pauses at Stonehouse with his German Wagon, towing the remains of a T Ford from the Blackbutt Ranges.'
German Empire celebration at Enoggera, Brisbane, 25 January 1908. Image No: 39297
Advertisement for a cream separator in a German language publication, Queensland magazine, 1898. Image No: 62478
Advertisement for A. Wegener & Son, Cash Grocers, Ipswich Road, Woolloongabba, 1898. Image No: 108185
Estate map of German Station Estate, Nundah, Brisbane. Image No: 703065
New German Baptist Church at Marburg, April 1905, William Higlett. Image No: APE-064-0001-0009
Twin cupolas decorate the German Club in Woolloongabba, Brisbane, 1907, Image No: 48347. Signage on the front of the German Club in Vulture Street reads 'Brisbane Deutcher Turn Verein AD 1890'.
Sketch of the German Mission Station at Nundah, Brisbane, 1846, Carl Friedrich Gerler. Image No: 67294