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Picture relating to Bowen Hills - titled 'Bowen Hills, Brisbane, photographed from the hospital, ca. 1891'

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Shearers' Strike in Hughenden, 1891

contributed by QldPics, taken in 1891
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Townsville Mounted Infantry soldiers escorting a wagon train of blackleg workers to Hughenden Station during the Shearers strike. In late March and early April about sixty blacklegs were recruited at Townsville for Hughenden station. On 25 March 121 officers and men of the Townsville Mounted Infantry were called out to protect them. (Information taken from: S. Svensen, The Shearers' war : the story of the 1891 shearers' strike, 1989)

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