Wikimedia Commons

File:The Gympie flood, June 19 1873.jpg

Original file ‎(2,126 × 1,469 pixels, file size: 1.57 MB, MIME type: image/jpeg)

Captions

Captions

Add a one-line explanation of what this file represents

Summary

edit
Description
English: By 1868 there were more than 25,000 people in the Gympie area.
  • It was officially named Gympie in 1868. Previously it had been known as Gympie Creek.
  • The first flood of the Mary River during European settlement occurred in 1870.
  • The town was proclaimed a municipality in 1880.
  • The railway arrived in 1881 and in 1888 it had its own stock exchange.
  • In 1891 the rail line connected Gympie to Brisbane.
  • The town's worst flood was recorded in 1893 when the Mary River reached 25.45 metres.
Queensland State Archives Item ID 435742, Photographic material
Date
Source https://www.flickr.com/photos/queenslandstatearchives/31256979570/
Author Queensland State Archives

Licensing

edit
This image was originally posted to Flickr by Queensland State Archives at https://flickr.com/photos/60455048@N02/31256979570. It was reviewed on 14 May 2020 by FlickreviewR 2 and was confirmed to be licensed under the terms of the Public Domain Mark.

14 May 2020

Public domain
This image or other work is of Australian origin and is now in the public domain because its term of copyright has expired. According to the Australian Copyright Council (ACC), ACC Information Sheet G023v19 (Duration of copyright) (January 2019).1
Type of materialCopyright has expired if …
 A Photographs or other works published anonymously, under a pseudonym or the creator is unknown: taken or published prior to 1 January 1955
BPhotographs (except A): taken prior to 1 January 1955
CArtistic works (except A & B): the creator died before 1 January 1955
DPublished editions2 (except A & B): first published more than 25 years ago (prior to 1 January 1999)
ECommonwealth, State or Territory owned3 photographs and engravings: taken or published more than 50 years ago (prior to 1 January 1974)
1 Copyright Amendment (Disability Access and Other Measures) Bill 2017 (Australian Government)
2 means the typographical arrangement and layout of a published work. eg. newsprint.
3 owned means where a government is the copyright owner as well as would have owned copyright but reached some other agreement with the creator.
When using this template, please provide information of where the image was first published and who created it.
You must also include a United States public domain tag to indicate why this work is in the public domain in the United States.
العربية ∙ català ∙ Deutsch ∙ English ∙ español ∙ français ∙ 日本語 ∙ македонски ∙ മലയാളം ∙ Nederlands ∙ русский ∙ slovenščina ∙ Tok Pisin ∙ Türkçe ∙ українська ∙ 简体中文 ∙ 繁體中文 ∙ +/−
Australia
Australia

File history

Click on a date/time to view the file as it appeared at that time.

Date/TimeThumbnailDimensionsUserComment
current11:31, 28 February 2020Thumbnail for version as of 11:31, 28 February 20202,126 × 1,469 (1.57 MB)Kerry Raymond (talk | contribs)User created page with UploadWizard

You cannot overwrite this file.

There are no pages that use this file.

Retrieved from "https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=File:The_Gympie_flood,_June_19_1873.jpg&oldid=895090680"