The second is to conserve these unique collections for future generations of north Queenslanders and to make access to specific voices and images easily available to a much broader group of academic and community researchers. The North Queensland Oral History Project comprises a collection of nearly 2,000 tapes of interviews with north Queenslanders who were, for the most part, more than 80 years old in the 1970s or 1980s. In addition, from the 1970s on, a number of History staff and research students conducted interviews in connection with their own research and these interviews were deposited with the Project. The North Queensland Photographic Collection comprises some 50,000 historical photographs of north Queensland. It began as an ad hoc collection of research materials during the 1980s and received a huge boost when the University library decided to hand over its extensive collection to the History Department.
Photographs continue to be lodged.
While the materials contained in this collection are not always unique, the Photographic Project probably comprises the largest collection of north Queensland photographs outside the State Library. As such it is a very important research resource and has, in the past, supplied materials for private research and for public exhibitions, newspaper materials, films and television productions. Content by Wagner, Andreas. All rights reserved.