Vintage shots from days gone by!

Bicycles piled up outside a picture theatre in Cairns, ca. 1915

Photographer: Unidentified

Location: Cairns, Queensland, Australia

 

Locomobile at the front of the Trackson's home, Sedgley Grange, 1900

Photographer: Unidentified

Location: Brisbane Queensland, Australia

 

Mr & Mrs Trackson in the steam Locomobile

Photographer: Unidentified

Location: Queensland, Australia

Date: 1902

 

Performing a stunt on a motorcycle

Photographer: George Jackman

Location: Queensland, Australia

Date: Undated

 

Newlywed U.S. army soldier and wife, 1944

Photographer: Unidentified

Location: Columboola District, Queensland, Australia

Date: October 1944

 

City Service Station, Mackay, 1939

Photographer: Unidentified

Location: Mackay, Queensland, Australia

 

Streamlined mobile home in a Brisbane suburban street, 1948

Photographer: Unidentified

Location: Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

 

Italian airship being paraded on a De Dion truck, Patriotic Day, Brisbane, August 1915

 

Two young men having fun with their home-made watercraft on the Brisbane River

Photographer: George Jackman

Location: Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

 

Child driving a toy car

Photographer: Unidentified

Location: Unidentified

Date: Undated

 

Crowds gather to see a tank outside the General Post Office in Brisbane during World War 1

 

Wrecked steam locomotive after its boiler exploded, Brisbane, 1898

Photographer: Unidentified

Location: Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

Description: The boiler of this locomotive exploded on 2 December 1898 at Roma Street, Brisbane. The locomotive was an American built QGR Class A 12, No. 62, built by Baldwin Locomotive Works. Information about this locomotive can be found in the 1898 Votes and Proceedings of the Queensland Legislative Assembly volume 1 commencing on page 315. The Court of Enquiry into the explosion was recorded in the 1899 Votes and Proceedings of the Queensland Legislative Assembly.

 

Cars and trams travelling along Victoria Bridge, Brisbane, 1952

 

Promotional vehicle advertising Life Saver lollies

Photographer: Unidentified

Location: Brisbane, Queensland; -27.46888, 153.022827

Date: ca. 1930

 

Fairlie double bogie patent rolling stock, ca. 1890

Photographer: Unidentified

Location: Queensland, Australia

Description: Class 8 D 11, in service from 1877.

 

S. Shepherd and mother at Archerfield Aerodrome, 1939

Photographer: Unidentified

Location: Archerfield, Queensland, Australia

Date: November, 1939

Description: City of Grafton, a tri-motor Stinson, was an Airlines of Australia plane. Here it is on its way to Townsville/Cairns. (Description supplied with photograph.)

 

Butchers posing in front of their Labor Day float, Brisbane, 1920

Photographer: Unidentified

Location: Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

 

Motor vehicle on the brink of toppling into the water, Gold Coast

Photographer: George Jackman

Location: Queensland, Australia

Date: Undated

 

Motor bike racer getting a push start at the track, Brisbane

Photographer: George Jackman

Location: Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

 

Indooroopilly Bridge at night

Photographer: George Jackman

Location: Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

 

Farm machinery in a working display

Photographer: George Jackman

Location: Queensland, Australia

 

Aircraft on the tarmac at Archerfield, Brisbane, ca. 1936

Photographer: George Jackman

Location: Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

Description: Several aeroplanes are parked on the tarmac and hangars are visible in the background. One of the aeroplanes has a registration UHH. This is the aircraft that crashed on the Lamington Plateau in 1937.

 

Farm workers picking crops in the paddock

Photographer: George Jackman

Location: , Queensland, Australia

 

Hulda Lundager with her cat and her doll, Mt. Morgan

Photographer: Jens Hansen Lundager, 1853-1930

Location: Mount Morgan, Queensland, Australia

 

Yeah, great shot, but I really wish LIFE had sent a photog who had known how to shoot fast action at sporting events! This is probably a one-of-a-kind photo, and it's blurred.

 

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