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Historical Society Books and Bulletins |
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Prices current for 2013 and include GST. (Also available from the Cairns Museum Gift Shop)
Books
Photographic Memories: Glimpses of Cairns Life over 125 years. 2001, pp 96; ill. $20.00
Brown, V
School of Arts building 1907-2007. 2007, pp 28, ill. $10.00
Ryle, P
Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow: the first 50 years of the Cairns Historical Society 1958-2008. 2008, pp 96, ill. $15.00
Rapkins, Denise
A Remarkable Achievement, the Cairns-Mulgrave Tramway 1897-1911. 1997. pp 44., ill . $14.50
Broughton, AD & Stephens, SE (Eds)
Establishment Trinity Bay, a collection of historical episodes. 1984. 69 pp., ill. $15.50 [A series of essays relating to the establishment of Cairns]
Broughton, AD
A pictoral history of the Construction of the Cairns Range Railway, 1886-1891. 1991. 32 pp., ill. $12.00
Society Bulletins on CD
Cairns Historical Society Bulletins 1-550 on searchable disk $25.00
Society Bulletins by theme
Booklets consisting of 15 to 20 stapled pages -
- History of Cairns, reminiscences, Part I $7.70
- History of Cairns, reminiscences, Part II $6.60
- History of Cairns, reminiscences, Part III $6.60
- Palmer Goldfield by SE Stephens $5.50
- Palmer Goldfield (by various authors) $5.00
- Historical Cooktown by SE Stephens $5.50
- The Aborigines in North Qld, No. 1 $5.00
- The Aborigines in North Qld, No. 2 $5.00
- Cyclones in North Queensland $5.50
- Ships and Shipwrecks in North Queensland History, Part I by A McInnes $6.60
- Ships and Shipwrecks in North Queensland History, Part II (various authors) $7.70
- The Hodgkinson Goldfield $5.50
- Cairns at War, 1939-1945 (various authors) $7.70
Occasional papers
- A Short History of Cairns by G Jennex $4.40
- Battle of the Coral Sea by AD Broughton $4.00
- Australian Aborigines: Their Probable Origins by G Grimwade $4.00
- Chinese Religious Practices in Cairns, North Queensland by G Grimwade $6.00
- Pearl shells & Pearls, 1862-1972, mainly in the Torres Strait, a date outline by G Jennex $6.00
- Booby Island $4.00
- Malaytown by J Hodes $6.00
- Cairns Building Boom 1907-1914 by Dr D May $6.00
- Development of Pearl Cultivation in Australia by C Denis George $6.60
- A W Jones Pioneer Aviator by A D Broughton $7.70
The Cairns Historical Society publishes a monthly bulletin for its members and has been doing so since 1958. These two page bulletins contain information on a wide range of historical topics researched and written by interested members of the Society. Bulletins can be purchased at 50c each.
INDEX: A Cairns Historical Society Bulletins Index (with list of bulletins) can be purchased for $4.00
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