The Brisbane postcard market was underway. Aird says the photographers wanted to on-sell their photos to the many people coming and going from Queensland at the time.

AS postcards go it was unremarkable. It offered no information about the local culture, the weather, the food or the travelling conditions. Royal Mail's Area Manager for Aberdeen, Peter Smith ...

The earliest days of the sugar industry and its dependence on workers, willing and unwilling, from the Pacific are on show in Brisbane. Postcards, photographs, music and recorded anecdotes have ...