The Rawson Archive - A fascinating glimpse at early Australian pioneer life

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The Rawson Archive

The Rawson Archive showcases a rare and insightful collection of hand-written pen and ink-illustrated diaries and photographs of the Rawson family. The images have been selected from a larger collection of family documents in the John Oxley Library, part of the State Library of Queensland devoted to Queensland history.

The material relates to members of the Rawson family, who were among the first European settlers in the Mackay area which was purchased by the Queensland Library Foundation at auction on Monday, 17 April 2000.

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Thanks for the information astro. I’ll be in Brisbane next week and if I get time, I’ll pop into the library and have a look at the exhibition.