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Mossman Mill After 1911 cyclone
Keywords: Cyclones; Mossman Mill
Photo date: 1911.
Photo Location: Mossman.
Photo condition: (3) Satisfactory.
Photo ref.#: 393.
Original version: Available for purcase from SLQ; negative #127186
Subject: Cyclones; Mossman Mill
Category: Agriculture, Buildings
Copyright: Out of copyright.
Condition of Use: You are free to use without permission. Please attribute Series owner.
Comments: Daily Mercury 28/03/1911 - "The Mossman Central Mill, the machinery alone escaping the cyclone, which played terrible havoc with the woodwork attached to the mill. The barracks were razed to the the ground, as also were the cooking quarters and the stables, also other beuildings belong to the mill. Estimated at 2000 pound will not cover the loss".
Series: Douglas Shire Council
Bloomfield River Mission Station, 1880-1886
Keywords: Kuku Yalanji; Aboriginals; Bloomfield River Mission; Wujal Wujal
Photo date: 1880-1886.
Photo Location: Bloomfield.
Photo condition: (2) Good.
Photo ref.#: 315.
Original version: SLQ negative no. 103572
Subject: Kuku Yalanji; Aboriginal peoples (Australians)
Category: Agriculture
Other Referrences: John Oxley Library
Photographer: Unknown
Copyright: Out of copyright.
Condition of Use: You are free to use in line with State Library protocols. Please attribute Series owner.
Series: State Library of Queensland
Provisional Twyford School, Daintree, 1938
Keywords: Education; Twyford School The school was on Ramsay's farm, Stewart's Creek near Harlow's Bridge.
Photo date: 1938.
Photo Location: Daintree.
Photo condition: (3) Satisfactory.
Photo ref.#: 618 - 660.14.
Original version: Photographic print: black & white copy
Subject: Education; Twyford School
Category: Agriculture, Buildings
Photographer: Unknown
Copyright: Out of copyright.
Condition of Use: You are free to use without permission. Please attribute Series owner.
Comments: Opened on 28/2/1938 with 13 pupils. Closed 31/12/41 & dismantled after the war
Series: Harlow Family Collection
Mossman Mill, c. 1930
Keywords: Mossman Mill; Sugar cane
Photo date: c.1930.
Photo Location: Mossman.
Photo condition: (4) Bad.
Photo ref.#: 421.
Original version: SLQ negative no. 173378
Subject: Mossman Mill; Sugar cane
Category: Agriculture, Buildings, People
Photographer: Unknown
Copyright: Out of copyright.
Condition of Use: You are free to use without permission. Please attribute Series owner.
Comments: Mossman Sugar Mill, a Farmers' Cooperative concern. Located at the township of Mossman, the far northern outpost of the sugar industry. Queensland's 33 mills provide 6000 hands with work, while field workers total 10000.' a group of men standing in front of the main buildings of the mill.
Series: State Library of Queensland
View of the Bloomfield River Sugar Company Mill, ca. 1887
Keywords: Sugar cane; Sugar mill; Buildings
Photo date: c. 1887.
Photo Location: Bloomfield.
Photo condition: (3) Satisfactory.
Photo ref.#: 99.
Original version: SLQ negative no. 103550
Subject: Sugar cane; Sugar mill; Buildings
Category: Agriculture, Buildings
Copyright: Out of copyright.
Condition of Use: You are free to use without permission. Please attribute Series owner.
Comments: From "Canefields" APE 61, p. 50: "On Vilele plantation, managed by Messrs. Bauer and Sons, there are 500 acres under sugar-cane. There is a mill for crushing and refining sugar, a saw-mill worked by steam, also steam ploughs at work; and about ten miles of permanent and portable railway. The progress made in three years is astonishing, the results achieved being due to indomitable energy, and to the employment of some 200 Aboriginal natives, a number of coolies and , supplemented during the busy season by some 200 white men, who act as overseers, book-keepers, drivers, engineers, carriers, and ploughmen and labourers".
Series: State Library of Queensland
Cutting sugarcane at the Vilele Plantation, Bloomfield River, ca. 1884
Keywords: Sugar cane; Bloomfield; Vilele
Photo date: 1884.
Photo Location: Bloomfield.
Photo condition: (4) Bad.
Photo ref.#: 95.
Original version: SLQ negative no. 103546
Subject: Sugar cane; Bloomfield; Vilele
Category: Agriculture
Copyright: Out of copyright.
Condition of Use: You are free to use without permission. Please attribute Series owner.
Series: State Library of Queensland
Mossman Mill, c. 1950
Photo date: c. 1950's.
Photo Location: Mossman.
Photo condition: (3) Satisfactory.
Photo ref.#: 608.
Original version: Photographic print: black & white
Subject: Mossman Mill
Category: Agriculture, Buildings, Views
Photographer: Unknown
Condition of Use: You are free to use without permission. Please attribute Series owner.
Series: Ron Thompson
Last bag of sugar being loader onto lighter at Port Douglas, 1958
Keywords: Shipping / Wharves; Sugar cane
Photo date: 1958.
Photo Location: Port Douglas.
Photo condition: (3) Satisfactory.
Photo ref.#: 531.
Original version: Photographic print: black & white
Subject: Shipping / Wharves; Sugar cane
Category: Agriculture, People, Shipping / Waterways
Condition of Use: You are free to use without permission. Please attribute Series owner.
Series: Douglas Shire Council
'Ivy' loxo in front of Queen's Hotel, Mill Street, 1951.
Keywords: Streets; Tramways/Railways
Photo date: 1951.
Photo Location: Mossman.
Photo condition: (5) Poor.
Photo ref.#: 445.
Subject: Streets; Tramways/Railways
Category: Agriculture, Buildings, Rail, Streets
Photographer: Unknown
Condition of Use: You are free to use without permission. Please attribute Series owner.
Series: Ken Ziegler Collection
Newell Beach, c. 1930
Photo date: c. 1930.
Photo Location: Mossman.
Photo condition: (5) Poor.
Photo ref.#: 380.
Original version: Photographic print: black & white
Subject: Beaches; Newell Beach
Category: Agriculture, People
Copyright: Out of copyright.
Condition of Use: You are free to use without permission. Please attribute Series owner.
Series: Ken Ziegler Collection
Buildings on the Vilele Plantation, Bloomfield River district, ca. 1884
Keywords: Sugar cane; Vilele; Bloomfield; Buildings
Photo date: c. 1884.
Photo Location: Bloomfield.
Photo condition: (2) Good.
Photo ref.#: 97.
Original version: Available for purhase from SLQ; negative #103569
Subject: Sugar cane; Vilele; Buildings
Category: Agriculture, Buildings, Views
Photographer: Unknown
Copyright: Out of copyright.
Condition of Use: You are free to use without permission for educational purposes. Please attribute Series owner.
Series: State Library of Queensland
"Mango Park" cane cutting gang, c. 1950's
Keywords: Farming; sugar cane; cane cutting gang L to R: Ross Cavallaro, Bubby Jack, ?, Andy Henderson, Shorty Tayor (with water bag), Ned Henderson, ?
Photo date: c.1950's.
Photo Location: Mossman.
Photo condition: (3) Satisfactory.
Photo ref.#: 668.
Original version: Photographic print: black & white
Subject: Farming; sugar cane; cane cutting gang
Category: Agriculture, People
Photographer: Unknown
Condition of Use: You are free to use without permission. Please attribute Series owner.
Series: Ross Cavallaro Collection
Cane that has been cut manually is loaded onto a truck and taken along portable rail by horse to rail siding, Mowbray.
Keywords: Farming; Sugar cane; Agriculture
Photo date: Prior to 1950.
Photo Location: Mowbray.
Photo condition: (5) Poor.
Photo ref.#: 417.
Original version: Laminated copy
Subject: Farming; Sugar cane; Agriculture
Category: Agriculture
Copyright: Out of copyright.
Condition of Use: You are free to use without permission. Please attribute Series owner.
Series: Mrs Mary Ramsay
Loading cane by had at Brie Brie c. 1940
Keywords: Farming; Sugar cane; Agriculture; Brie Brie; Hoffman
Photo date: c. 1940.
Photo Location: Mossman.
Photo condition: (3) Satisfactory.
Photo ref.#: 416.
Original version: Photographic print: black & white
Subject: Farming; Sugar cane; Agriculture; Brie Brie; Hoffman
Category: Agriculture, People
Photographer: Unknown
Copyright: Out of copyright.
Condition of Use: You are free to use without permission. Please attribute Series owner.
Series: Ken Ziegler Collection
Working canefields with horse teams at Brie Brie Estate, c. 1900
Keywords: Farming; Sugar cane; Agriculture
Photo date: c. 1900.
Photo Location: Mossman.
Photo condition: (4) Bad.
Photo ref.#: 415.
Original version: SLQ negative no. 127098
Subject: Farming; Sugar cane; Agriculture
Category: Agriculture, Transport
Copyright: Out of copyright.
Condition of Use: You are free to use without permission. Please attribute Series owner.
Series: Douglas Shire Council
Hauling cane to rail siding
Keywords: Farming; Sugar cane; Agriculture
Photo date: Between the wars.
Photo Location: Mossman.
Photo condition: (4) Bad.
Photo ref.#: 414.
Original version: SLQ negative no. 127127
Subject: Farming; Sugar cane; Agriculture
Category: Agriculture, People
Other Referrences: State Library of Qld.
Photographer: Unknown
Copyright: Out of copyright.
Condition of Use: You are free to use without permission. Please attribute Series owner.
Series: Douglas Shire Council
Mossman Mill celebrated 100 years of crushing on 23rd August 1997.
Keywords: Mossman Mill
Photo date: 23rd August, 1897.
Photo Location: Mossman.
Photo condition: (2) Good.
Photo ref.#: 250.
Subject: Mossman Mill
Category: Agriculture
Photographer: D. Bent
Copyright: Out of copyright.
Condition of Use: You are free to use without permission. Please attribute Series owner.
Comments: L to R top platform - Steve Davis (Shift Fitter), Bill Phillips-Turner (Director). L to R lower platform - Alan Fischer & Michael Verri (Supervisors), John Quaid (Field & Transport Manager)
Series: Port Douglas and Mossman Gazette
Fred Bell Snr hauling cane from paddock to Mill, c. 1936
Keywords: Farming; Sugar cane; Agriculture;
Photo date: c. 1936.
Photo Location: Mossman.
Photo condition: (2) Good.
Photo ref.#: 111.
Original version: 127127
Subject: Farming; Sugar cane; Agriculture;
Category: Agriculture
Other Referrences: State Library of Qld
Photographer: Unknown
Copyright: Out of copyright.
Condition of Use: You are free to use without permission. Please attribute Series owner.
Comments: Fred Bell Snr hauling cane from paddock to Mill. Fred Bell Snr was first man to put the whole cane truck on a lorry. Note the wooden frame stand with short portable rails on it at rear of the truck. This frame was used to bring cane truck up higher so that it would be easier to hand winch.
Series: Douglas Shire Council
Brie Brie Estate
Photo date: Circa 1940.
Photo Location: Mossman.
Category: Agriculture
Chinese vegetable gardens at Marrs Bridge (close to present Goobiddi bridge)
Keywords: Agriculture; Farming; Rivers
Photo date: c.1920.
Photo Location: Mossman.
Photo condition: (5) Poor.
Subject: Agriculture; Farming; Rivers
Category: Agriculture
Photographer: Unknown
Copyright: Out of copyright.
Condition of Use: You are free to use without permission. Please attribute Series owner.
Series: Hessie Murday (nee Johnson) Mango Park Collection
Ploughing cane fields with horse teams at Brie Brie Estate, c. 1925
Keywords: Farming; Agriculture; Sugar Cane; Brie Brie
Photo date: c. 1925.
Photo Location: Mossman.
Photo condition: (4) Bad.
Photo ref.#: 268.
Original version: Laminated copy
Subject: Farming; Agriculture; Sugar Cane; Brie Brie
Category: Agriculture
Other Referrences: Douglas Shire Council
Photographer: Unknown
Copyright: Out of copyright.
Condition of Use: You are free to use without permission. Please attribute Series owner.
Series: Mossman Central Mill Collection
Early South Sea Islander workers employed on Mango Park and Drumsara, c. 1890
Keywords: Farming; Kanakas; Early South Sea Islanders; Mango Park; Drumsara
Photo date: c. 1890.
Photo Location: Mossman.
Photo condition: (2) Good.
Photo ref.#: 106.
Original version: Available for purchase from SLQ; negative #127136
Subject: Farming; Kanakas; Early South Sea Islanders; Mango Park; Drumsara
Category: Agriculture
Other Referrences: State Library of Qld
Photographer: Unknown
Copyright: Out of copyright.
Condition of Use: You are free to use without permission. Please attribute Series owner.
Series: Douglas Shire Council
Farmers who worked the Mossman Mill in the 1911 or 1915 strike,
Keywords: Mossman Mill
Photo date: c.1915.
Photo Location: Mossman.
Photo condition: (2) Good.
Photo ref.#: 191.
Original version: Available for purchase from State Library of Qld; negative #127130
Subject: Mossman Mill
Category: Agriculture
Other Referrences: State Library of Qld
Photographer: Unknown
Copyright: Out of copyright.
Condition of Use: You are free to use without permission. Please attribute Series owner.
Comments: Charlie Crees in white.
Series: Douglas Shire Council
Early Directors and staff of Mossman Mill, 1900
Keywords: Mossman Mill; Directors
Photo date: c. 1900.
Photo Location: Mossman.
Photo condition: (2) Good.
Photo ref.#: 193.
Original version: Available for purchase from SLQ; negative #127190
Subject: Mossman Mill; Directors
Category: Agriculture
Other Referrences: State Library of Qld
Copyright: Out of copyright.
Condition of Use: You are free to use without permission. Please attribute Series owner.
Comments: Rear L to R: WR Buchanan, HS Roberts (Secretary), FW Barnard, HF Wiseman. Front L to R: J Pringle, Thompson Low, JD Johnston, GL Rutherford, T Wilson
Series: Douglas Shire Council
J & L mechanical cane harvester demonstrations were held in Mossman / Saltwater areas
Keywords: Agriculture; Sugar cane; harvester; Saltwater
Photo date: 1958.
Photo Location: Mossman.
Original version: Photographic print: black & white. Original in album
Subject: Agriculture; Sugar cane; harvester; Saltwater
Category: Agriculture
Photographer: Unknown
Condition of Use: You are free to use without permission. Please attribute Series owner.
Series: Douglas Shire Council
Planting sugar cane
Keywords: Farming; Agriculture; Sugar cane
Photo date: c. 1920.
Photo Location: Mossman.
Photo ref.#: 286.
Original version: Laminated copy
Subject: Farming; Agriculture; Sugar cane
Category: Agriculture
Photographer: Unknown
Copyright: Out of copyright.
Condition of Use: You are free to use without permission for educational purposes. Please attribute Series owner.
Series: Mossman Central Mill Collection
JD Johnstone and Oscar Jensen planting cane
Keywords: Farming; Agriculture; Sugar cane
Photo date: c.1910.
Photo Location: Mossman.
Photo condition: (4) Bad.
Photo ref.#: 418.
Original version: Photographic print: black & white
Approval for release: GL, MS
Subject: Farming; Agriculture; Sugar cane
Category: Agriculture
Copyright: Out of copyright.
Condition of Use: You are free to use without permission. Please attribute Series owner.
Comments: J.D Johnstone and Oscar Jensen planting cane.
Series: Ken Ziegler Collection
Cutting cane on Brie Brie, c. 1950
Keywords: Agriculture; Farming; Cane cutting; Brie Brie
Photo date: c. 1950.
Photo Location: Mossman.
Photo condition: (3) Satisfactory.
Photo ref.#: 107.
Original version: Photographic print: black & white
Approval for release: GL, MS
Subject: Agriculture; Farming; Cane cutting; Brie Brie
Category: Agriculture
Photographer: Unknown
Copyright: Out of copyright.
Condition of Use: You are free to use without permission. Please attribute Series owner.
Comments: Cutting cane on Brie Brie. Cane cutting was hard, tough and dirty work. Cutters had to contend with snakes, rats and other vermin and the risk of diseases like leptospirosis or Weil's disease.
Series: Ken Ziegler Collection

Mossman Mill After 1911 cyclone

Bloomfield River Mission Station, 1880-1886

Provisional Twyford School, Daintree, 1938

Mossman Mill, c. 1930

View of the Bloomfield River Sugar Company Mill, ca. 1887

Cutting sugarcane at the Vilele Plantation, Bloomfield River, ca. 1884

Mossman Mill, c. 1950

Last bag of sugar being loader onto lighter at Port Douglas, 1958

'Ivy' loxo in front of Queen's Hotel, Mill Street, 1951.

Newell Beach, c. 1930

Buildings on the Vilele Plantation, Bloomfield River district, ca. 1884

"Mango Park" cane cutting gang, c. 1950's

Cane that has been cut manually is loaded onto a truck and taken along portable rail by horse to rail siding, Mowbray.

Loading cane by had at Brie Brie c. 1940

Working canefields with horse teams at Brie Brie Estate, c. 1900

Hauling cane to rail siding

Mossman Mill celebrated 100 years of crushing on 23rd August 1997.

Fred Bell Snr hauling cane from paddock to Mill, c. 1936

Brie Brie Estate

Chinese vegetable gardens at Marrs Bridge (close to present Goobiddi bridge)

Ploughing cane fields with horse teams at Brie Brie Estate, c. 1925

Early South Sea Islander workers employed on Mango Park and Drumsara, c. 1890

Farmers who worked the Mossman Mill in the 1911 or 1915 strike,

Early Directors and staff of Mossman Mill, 1900

J & L mechanical cane harvester demonstrations were held in Mossman / Saltwater areas

Planting sugar cane

JD Johnstone and Oscar Jensen planting cane

Cutting cane on Brie Brie, c. 1950