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EXPANDED LABEL: 1:0868A WISHART

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A black-and-white photograph of an older man seated on a verandah in the late 1890s; he is smiling gently, and seated with his hand at an open book and with a small vase of roses at the table.
ISAAC WALTER JENNER

Meet Isaac Walter Jenner

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Angry Penguins in a Brisbane bedroom

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An oil painting depicting a jacaranda tree blooming in a backyard.

ESSAY: Charles H Lancaster’s Jacarandas

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EXPANDED LABEL: 2004.194.004 JENNER

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Sail boats docking into early Brisbane in the 19th century

ESSAY: 2004.194.002 JENNER

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ESSAY: 2006.019 BUSTARD

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A detail view of an oil painting of the Brisbane cityscape as it was in the 1930s; sandstone-coloured buildings are seen under a blue sky.
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Lancaster’s corner of Brisbane

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A detail view of an oil painting of a Butea monosperma tree

ESSAY: Godfrey Rivers: An alien in Australia

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Margaret Cilento: House at Annerley Junction

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LABEL: 2006.024a LAHEY

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EXPANDED LABEL: 1:0063 RIVERS / Under the jacaranda

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Conrad MARTENS: View of Brisbane (in 1851)

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Cai Guo-Qiang: Dragon or Rainbow Serpent

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Vida Lahey: Morning light, Brisbane River

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