Party: Winton Historical Society. Winton and District Historical Society, Qantilda Pioneer Place, Elderslie Street, Winton, 4735
Summary
Strong Room and display area.
Letterbooks, Queensland National Pastoral Company, September 1908-February 1909, 1 vol., all volumes very frail, December 1908-March 1909, 1 vol., very frail, August 1910-September 1911, 1 vol., very frail, September 1924-June 1930, 1 vol., very frail, July 1926-December 1930, 1 vol., very frail. The letterbooks are of Cork Station, situated to the north west of Longreach and are signed by company staff, including Martin Hayward, M. Macdonald, D.A. Mathieson, R.B. Norris, T.A. Snelling and William Stone. Some books are also used to record wages and expenditure figures, and miscellaneous notes.
Correspondence file, Dalgety and Co., Winton Office, stock and station agents. March 1933-June 1934, some 300 sheets.
Records relating to the Shearers' Strike, including correspondence, official telegrams, lists of special constables appointed, newspaper extracts, March 1891-September 1894, pp. 182, 32, all items photocopied and arranged in display cases.
Diary of R.M. Watson, ca 1873, an account of early pastoral settlement of Gregory Downs run in the Gulf country, typescript, pp. 28, donated to the Historical Society by Dr F.H. Bauer, with covering note. The Winton and District Historical Society kindly allowed this item to be copied for the Delamothe Collection of History, James Cook University.
Typescript, 'An outline History of Winton Queensland, 1862 - 1960 - 1970', by E.C.P. Phillott, pp. 28, bound in folder.
Printed records:
The Australian Estates Machinery and Merchandise Purchasers Guide 1938, Brisbane, 1938, catalogue to serve the needs of country people, pp. 84.
Investigation Report, Accident of Viscount 832 Aircraft VH-RM1 near Winton Queensland, 22 September 1966, prepared by Air Safety Investigation Branch, Melbourne, March 1967, Commonwealth of Australia, Department of Civil Aviation, 2 vols.
Newspaper extracts and photographs, relating to Ansett ANA air crash near Winton, September 1966.
Report of the Third Interstate Conference on Artesian Water, Adelaide, 1921, Adelaide, 1921, pp. 32, with appendices, charts, statistics, maps, transactions, soft bound.
Winton Jubilee Souvenir Book, 1878-1928, compiled by Father Burke, Townsville [1928] includes historical account of settlement and development, poetry, illustrations, advertisements, pp. 63.
Newspapers:
Winton Herald, 30 July, 3 10 September 1928, 20 April 1931, 7 March 1932, 26 April 1939, 17 January, 14 February 1940, 16 April, 28 November 1952.
North Queensland Herald, 19 December 1908. Longreach Leader, 13 January 1940.
Photographs:
An extensive collection including a series on Boulia Aborigines 1907, 22 prints. Other subjects cover pastoral pioneering, transport (horse, camel, goat and donkey teams, Cobb & Co. coaches), hotels, homesteads, Winton views, parades, native and mounted police, Winton militia associated with the Shearers' Strike of 1890s, strike scenes, shearing shed groups, football teams, Winton Rifle Club 1909, scenes of opal mining, also family groups and portraits.
Aviation History Room. Contains display items and records, chiefly relating to the Royal Flying Doctor Service and Qantas Airways, includes printed items and photographs. A number of maps and surveys, including: Winton Township and Surrounding Selections, 1927.