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Our Own Make Button

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Small, copper alloy, sew-through four-eye button with dished centre and raised rim, stamped with the words:'OUR OWN MAKE'

Wilcox Button

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Small, copper alloy, sew-through four-eye button with dished centre and raised rim, stamped with words:'[_ _ _ _] WILCOX [_ _ _ _]' (most of the embossing is worn and illegible)

Pike Bros. Button

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Small, copper alloy, sew-through four-eye button with dished centre and raised rim, stamped with the words:'PIKE BROS. BRISBANE'

Suspender Button

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Small, copper alloy, sew-through four-eye button with dished centre and raised rim, stamped with the words:'· SUSPENDER BUTTON ·'

Josephson's Australian Ointment Lid

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Pot lid, 60mm in diameter, printed in black ink with the words:Josephson's Australian Ointment / For / All Sores, / Old Wounds Burns / Sunburns Chafing, / Chapped Hands, / &c., &c. / (Grey Star of David with a J in the middle) / - Sydney, N.…

Burns Cutty clay pipe

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The short kaolin clay pipe favoured by working men was called a 'cutty'. Being made of brittle kaolin clay, the stems broke easily. This pipe is a Burns Cutty pattern tobacco smoking pipe. It is broken in two places, has a plain bowl with no spur,…

Map C8.88, Smithfield Cemetery, 1878

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Survey of Cemetery [5 acres], Parish of Smithfield, County of Nares, District of Cook, Cat. No. C8.88. Signed and dated 'F.H. Warner L.S., 78.1173 P.L., 12 March 1878.

'The New Township, Barron River' [newspaper report]

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The New Township, Barron River, from our own correspondent at Smithville. I [Police Magistrate, Howard St. George] concluded my last communication – dated from Cairns, 21st instant [December 1877] – by stating that Mr. Surveyor Warner purposed going…

Cairns Advertiser & Smithfield Observer [newspaper]

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The Cairns Advertiser & Smithfield Observer was the region's first newspaper. It was a four-page publication, printed weekly every Saturday from 21 April 1877, by proprietors Hill, P.W. Byrne and Edward Engelbreckt August Marius Rhode. A "short…

Photograph (#2)

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Photograph of a part of Old Smithfield township on the Barron River.