Whitsunday Islands : Great Barrier Reef

A$300 · Offered by Douglas Stewart Fine Books

[Brisbane : Queensland Government Tourist Bureau, between 1930 and 1940]. Six large gelatin silver print photographs in panoramic format, each 170 x 520 mm; window-mounted in pairs in three original display mounts of heavy board; each mount has a poetic manuscript calligraphic caption in ink at the centre, plus across the lower margin Whitsunday Islands / Great Barrier Reef and circular Queensland Government Tourist Bureau with hand-drawn map; these photographs would have been used in either a tourism exhibition or travel agency display; the prints are all in excellent condition, some light foxing to the mounts (more pronounced on one).

• Binding: Hardcover

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