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Central Queensland - Core Books

McDonald, Lorna (2001) West of Matilda : life in outback Queensland, 1890s - 1990s
Call number: 994.304 4

McDonald, Lorna (2001) Capricornia Queensland : a heritage sketchbook
Call number: 994.35 199

Please note: This is not an exhaustive list. You may like to search the Library Catalogue for more resources. 

Gladstone - Core Books

McDonald, Lorna (1988) Gladstone : city that waited
Call number: 994.35 110

Please note: This is not an exhaustive list. You may like to search the Library Catalogue for more resources. 

Livingstone Shire - Core Books

Carpenter, Leo (1989) Livingstone : a history of the Shire of Livingstone
Call number: 994.35 143

Cosgrove, Betty (1984) Yeppoon, Central Queensland 1867-1939 [Manuscript] : establishment and growth of a seaside holiday resort
Call number: 994.35 58

Smithwick, T E (1979) Oopal, where the emus roamed; a history of Emu Park
Call number: 994.35 13/1983

Stock, Lynne (1982) The Development of Yeppoon
Call number: 994.35 25

Mount Morgan - Core Books

Johansen, Grace (2003) Pioneers to prosperity (Fitzroy Shire) (in process)

Kerr, John (1982) Mount Morgan; gold, copper and oil
Call number: 338.7622099435 1

Grabs, Cyril (1982) Gold, black gold and intrigue
Call number: 994.35 10

Town resources

Mount Morgan Oral History Project


Mine resources

Mount Morgan Mine Manuscript Collection

Mount Morgan Mine Drawings

Mount Morgan Mine Photograph Collection

Queensland

Australian Historic Records Register [microfiche]
Content: Listing of privately-held paper-based records of historic importance. Rarely used but a serious researcher might like to look at it.
Call number: CQ Pamphlet 016.994 14

Pugh's Queensland almanac 1859-1927 [microfilm]
Call number: s919.43

Queensland Government Gazettes
Content: 7 January 1865 - 27 April 1963
Call number: s354.943 2

Queensland Government Mining Journal
Content: Volume 2, 1901 onwards
Call number: s622 5

Bibliography & indexes of geological papers published in the Queensland government mining journal. Compiled by Barbara C. Robertson.
Content: Covers Volumes 1-75, 1900 -1974. Excludes Wardens' monthly reports
Call number: 016.55943 1

Queensland Pioneers Index 1829-1889 [cd-rom]
Records of births, deaths and marriages registered in Queensland under a compulsory registration system introduced in March 1856 whilst Queensland was still part of the colony of NSW. Qld separated from NSW in December 1859. Also contains church records of baptism and burial (1829+) and marriage (1839+).
Call number: 929.3943 24

Queensland Post Office Directory [microfiche]
Content: Lists Queensland telephone numbers from 1868 to 1949, with listings for Brisbane and Country Queensland and also an early version of "yellow pages". Useful for checking spellings, addresses, names of hotels or businesses, etc. Includes listing by town. Some years include a listing by street number.
Call number: 383.49943 2

Votes and proceedings. Queensland Legislative Assembly [microfilm]
Content: 1860 - 1901
Call number: s328.943 4

Please note: This is not an exhaustive list. You may like to search the Library Catalogue for more resources. 

Rockhampton - Core Books

Abbay, Olivia (1980). Rockhampton: a bibliography to 1975.
Note: Also available online.

Bird, J.T.S. (1904). The early history of Rockhampton : dealing chiefly with events up to about 1870.
Note: Re-issued in 1999.
Call number: 994.35 52

Hermann, A.E. (1964). Development of Rockhampton and district.
Note: Re-printed in one volume in 2003.

McDonald, Lorna (1994) Sketches of old Rockhampton
Call number: 994.35 1/1994

McDonald, Lorna (1995) Rockhampton : a history of city and district
Call number: 994.35 2/1995

Pattison, J Grant (1939) Battlers tales of early Rockhampton
Note: Re-issued in 2000.
Call number: 994.35 45

Webster, Barbara (2003) Marooned; Rockhampton's great flood of 1918
Call number: 551.489 14

Please note: This is not an exhaustive list. You may like to search the Library Catalogue for more resources.