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LABEL: 1985.026 ROBERTS

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A detail view of an oil painting depicting Brisbane city in the 1930s.
ESSAY

Bustard's Brisbane lightscapes

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A photograph of the bright green leaves of a bodhi tree.
AIR

AIR: Lee Mingwei

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EXPANDED LABEL: 2022.001 LAHEY

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EXPANDED LABEL: 1:0306 BUSTARD

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EXPANDED LABEL: 1:0306 BUSTARD

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An oil painting of a ship passing through waters devastated by a volcanic eruption.
ISAAC WALTER JENNER

Jenner’s journey to Brisbane

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A craftsman wearing protective gear works on a fishing net cast in bronze.
TOW ROW

The making of tow row

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LABEL: 2005.046 CAMPBELL

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LABEL

Gordon Bennet: Eddie Mabo

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A black-and-white photo of a timber house, in front of which a person hangs washing on a Hill's Hoist-style washing line
BRISBANE IN PICTURES

SUBURBIA: A reorganised forest

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A black and white photograph depicts a garden with a large jacaranda tree and palms.
UNDER THE JACARANDA

Under the jacaranda

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Detail view of a textile work with plants and the Brisbane river embroidered onto it
BRISBANE IN PICTURES

Brisbane: NOW

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A black-and-white photograph of a bridge mid-construction
BRISBANE IN PICTURES

RIVER CITY: Bridges of Brisbane

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LABEL: 2003.111 HIRST

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Brisbane panorama

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The cover of a magazine called The Queenslander depicts a large jacaranda tree in bloom.
UNDER THE JACARANDA

Brisbane’s first jacaranda

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EXPANDED LABEL: 2004.194.003 JENNER

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EXPANDED LABEL: 1:0868A WISHART

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A black-and-white photograph of an older man seated on a verandah in the late 1890s; he is smiling gently, and seated with his hand at an open book and with a small vase of roses at the table.
ISAAC WALTER JENNER

Meet Isaac Walter Jenner

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Angry Penguins in a Brisbane bedroom

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LABEL: 1999.041 OWEN

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Watercolour in Queensland 1850s–1980s

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LABEL: 1983.149 LAHEY

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EXPANDED LABEL: 1:0246 LANCASTER

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EXPANDED LABEL: 1986.035 JENNER

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EXPANDED LABEL: 1986.036 JENNER

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EXPANDED LABEL: 1995.076 JENNER

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An oil painting of a landscape with a winding river
BRISBANE IN PICTURES

Brisbane: THEN

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An oil painting depicting a jacaranda tree blooming in a backyard.

ESSAY: Charles H Lancaster’s Jacarandas

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