Summary

This large collection of photographs is composed of duplicates of those in photograph albums held by Special Collections. The albums are: Charters Towers Historical Albums, Volumes 1-10 (Roderick numbers 1-366); and Bromhall Album (ID numbers 8571-8599) (Roderick numbers 367-395).

There are 395 photographs in this collection and they are accompanied by a descriptive list, "Charters Towers Historical Photographs with Historical Notes," that was prepared by Don Roderick, Life Member of the National Trust of Australia. All photographs were copied and reproduced by the Townsville College of Advanced Education.

This archive includes three articles on Thomas Mathewson (1842-1934) who, according to one of these sources, "became one of the most prominent photographers of his day" in North Queensland. The articles were written by family members.

To make this collection more complete a very fragile copy of the North Queensland Times for 19 December, 1908 (Christmas Number) has been added. A substantial part of this issue has an article by "F.B." entitled, Charters Towers Mines and Mills: A Wonderful Record of Rise and Progress of Queensland's Richest Goldfield.