Fryer Library, Hume Collection

Collection Title: Fryer Library, Hume Collection
Repository: University of Queensland library - Fryer Library
Reference: http://www.library.uq.edu.au/fryer/hume/
Description: The Hume family lived at Drayton, Toowoomba, and in Brisbane. W.C. Hume was a surveyor and Chief commissioner for Lands for Queensland. The Hume Family Collection contains personal correspondence, photograph albums, travel journals, diaries of various family members, notebooks, and is available within the Fryer Library. A virtual exhibition is available at this site, and its introduction provides further information about the Hume family and the collection. The contents of the 14 photograph albums (972 items) have been digitised at 150 dpi, and are available online. They comprise family pictures, images of early Brisbane and Toowomba, overseas travel pictures, and a number of sketches. Many of the photographs were taken by W.C.Hume, his family and friends; some are commercial photographs.

Title: Children sitting on table with vegetables outside bark hut, with Chinese calligraphy, Stanthorpe
Type: Photograph
Date: 1875
Place: Australia - Queensland - Stanthorpe; Details

Prepared by: Sophie Couchman

Created: 17 May 2003, Last modified: 10 October 2005

Chinese-Australian Historical Images in Australia