Joe Downey's Diary [JD/1/17]

Joe Downey (1957) Joe Downey's Diary [JD/1/17]. [Manuscript]

Joe Downey's Diary [JD/1/17]
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Work By: Author: Joe Downey
Item Type: Manuscript
Collection: Library Archives
Location: Townsville Campus Library
Item Code: JD/1/17
Related Links: NQH: Joe Downey Archive
Subjects: diaries

Summary

Joseph (Joe) Downey was born in the Mingela – Ravenswood area in 1911 and died in Townsville in 1986.

A renowned horseman and long-term employee of Swift Australian Company Pty Ltd, it is believed Downey began buying stock for Swifts in 1941 and developed a terrific eye for estimating the dressed weight of a mob of cattle. He travelled thousands of miles throughout his career, mostly around the Charters Towers district but also as far as Mareeba to the north and Rockhampton to the south.

The archive contains a significant record of his working life within a twenty year span, primarily through his diaries which date from 1941 to 1961. This particular diary is from 1957.

Additional Information

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Copyright Information

© Joe Downey. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License, which permits the redistribution of the work in its current form for non-commercial purposes, provided the original author and source are credited. (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/)

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