Glass House Mountains, a case study: Increasing access to our heritage collections
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#ALHF2016 Glass House Mountains viewed from Mary Cairncross Reserve. Source: Bidgee via Wiki Commons. 2005.
The Glass House MountainsSunshine Coast, Queensland
Mt Coochin 235m
Mt Beerwah 556m
Mt Coonowrin 377m
Mt Ngungun 253m
Mt Cooee 106m
Mt Tibrogargan 364m
Wild Horse Mountain 123m
Mt Beerburrum 278mMt Tunbubudla
312m and 293mMt Miketeebumulgrai 199m
Mt Elimbah 129m
Mt Tibberoowuccum 220m
The journal of James Cook, Thursday 17th May, 1770
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On the summit of Crookneck on the Sunshine Coast, Queensland. 25 May 1912. hdl.handle.net/10462/deriv/116729
Appears on p.27 of The Queenslander (Brisbane, Qld. : 1866 - 1939) June 8, 1912. nla.gov.au/nla.news-article21914563
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Clark Party on the summit of Coonowrin, 1912.Courtesy of Sunshine Coast Council Bankfoot House Collection@jjsttn
LHS: As the image appeared in The Queenslander, 8 June 1912. Caption: On the summit of Coonowrin. Back Row: Mr. J Sairs, Miss L.J Clark.Front Row: Miss H.D. Clark, Miss S.E. Clark, Mr.W. Fraser, Mr. G.A. Rowley. RHS: The original image kept by Sunshine Coast Council Bankfoot House Collection, 1912.
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Source: Andy Hay, Flickr CC BY 2.0
SLQ: 5 records in the collections are returned when searching the keyword ‘Crookneck’, 2 of those are of the mountain Coonowrin returns another 5 records, 1 sharing the both names in the record.SCL: Crookneck returns 21 records Coonowrin returns 53 records15 are related to Crookneck somewhere in the record (usually title or content summary)6 refer to the mountain as Crookneck alone
Trove newspapers : 178 Crookneck mentions, 83 of those in tags and comments, nearly all of them relating to Coonowrin and the Glass House Mountains. 236 results for Coonowrin, 33 of those in tags and comments
The Brisbane Courier, 16 Dec 1880 http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article902925
View of the Glasshouse Mountains, 1894, John Oxley Library, State Library of Queensland. hdl.handle.net/10462/deriv/127352
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Driving through the Glasshouse Mountains District,1935. John Oxley Library, State Library of Queensland, hdl.handle.net/10462/deriv/13016.
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Left: Interior of Townsville library, ca. 1948. John Oxley Library, State Library of Queensland., neg: 184898Middle: Courtesy Pixabay CC0 Public DomainRight: Reader consulting computer terminals, 1987. John Oxley Library, State Library of Queensland, neg: 144002
On the summit of Crookneck on the Sunshine Coast, Queensland. 25 May 1912. hdl.handle.net/10462/deriv/116729
Mr. H. G. Stokes, Queensland Museum geologist:‘Briefly to allude to what is already known concerning the Glasshouse Mountains, it may be remarked that the literature relating to the geology of this district is somewhat meagre and conflicting.’
18 May, 1893 Page 21 of the Queenslander Pictorial, supplement to The Queenslander, 23 September, 1916. John Oxley Library, State Library of Queensland. hdl.handle.net/10462/deriv/314818
Courtesy of Sutherland Shire Council
Ginny Love (nee Clark), Clementina Burgess and Mrs Mickalsen climbing Mt Coonowrin (Crookneck) ca. 1948. Bankfoot House, Sunshine Coast Library collection.
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