Alcock Image Collection

Henry Alcock, McCaughey Professor of History and Economic Science, 1922-1948, at the University of Queensland, was the University’s first Professor of Modern History. He was born in 1886 in Bath, England; graduated with First Class Honours from Oxford in 1908; and began a teaching career in England. In 1914 he was appointed as a lecturer in History at the University of Queensland. In his first years at the University he remodelled all the modern history courses, and developed a full Honours programme. He became increasingly interested in economics and commercial studies, and in 1922 was appointed to the Chair of History and Economic Science. The first full Faculty of Commerce was created in 1925, and Henry Alcock became its first Dean, serving in this position until 1938.

Alcock was involved in the newly-formed Workers’ Educational Association in Queensland, teaching classes in Economic History and acting as Secretary to the W.E.A. Committtee of Management. At the university, his administrative activities included being Dean of the Faculty of Arts from 1923 to 1938, and membership of the University Senate liaison committee to work with architects Hennessy and Hennessy on the development of the St Lucia site. He was a member of the University Senate from 1929 to 1944, and President of the Professorial Board from 1932 to 1938.

Henry Alcock died in Brisbane in 1948. A representation of him was one of the first grotesques to be erected in the cloisters of the Great Court of The University of Queensland at Street Lucia.

The Alcock Collection consists of over 2000 glass slides. The series within the collection, called "Images of early Brisbane", includes images of buildings, landmarks and views of Brisbane, including the 1893 floods. Also included are images of the University of Queensland in its early years.
 

Each photograph is available here in three formats:

  • full size (the dimensions are given) [file size: 500-1500 Kb];
  • reduced so the longest dimension is 1024 pixels [100-200 Kb];
  • reduced so the longest dimension is 512 pixels [30-60 Kb].

Full size publication quality PCX files can be obtained from the Fryer Library.

Each image is between 3.5 and 5.5 Mb in size

The labels given are those on the original glass slides, except that dates have been expanded.

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This database was supported through THE BRISBANE CITY COUNCIL Local History Grants

 

[160] Brisbane River in flood,
6 Feb 1931
2375 x 1885; 1024; 512

[161] 7 Feb 1931.
St Lucia in time of flood
2445 x 1345; 1024; 512

[485] 1934. UQ.
Visit of Duke of Gloucester
2485 x 1965; 1024; 512

[565] Observatory, Brisbane
2800 x 1730; 1024; 512

[567] Drill shed and armoury: Brisbane
2480 x 1280; 1024; 512

[568] 1868. Old police quarters
2525 x 1730; 1024; 512

[569] Hospital: surgeon’s residence
2450 x 1745; 1024; 512

[571] Petrie’s Bight in 1873
2260 x 1870; 1024; 512

[572] Government House: Brisbane
2385 x 1710; 1024; 512

[573] 1868.
Commissioner of police and staff
2490 x 1800; 1024; 512

[575] 1874.
[Original caption] Blacks under fig tree
2260 x 1915; 1024; 512

[578] Old Victoria Bridge: unfinished
2340 x 1740; 1024; 512

[579] Old Victoria Bridge
2490 x 1240; 1024; 512

[589]
Government yacht: Lucinda
2125 x 1685; 1024; 512

[590] 1893.
Brisbane: Queen and Eagle Streets
1965 x 1990; 1024; 512

[591] 1893.
Brisbane: Queen Street
2575 x 1790; 1024; 512

[593] 1893.
Bulimba Point: flood
1860 x 1835; 1024; 512

[594] 1893.
Alice Street: flood
1840 x 1690; 1024; 512

[595] 1893.
Musgrave Park, West End
2385 x 1860; 1024; 512

[596] Queensland National and Union Banks, Brisbane
2170 x 1815; 1024; 512

[597] 1893.
Union Bank, Queen Street, Brisbane
1720 x 1750; 1024; 512

[598] 1893.
Brisbane: Creek Street
1740 x 1735; 1024; 512

[599] 1893.
Creek Street and boats: during flood
1885 x 1840; 1024; 512

[601] 1893. South Brisbane
2020 x 1800; 1024; 512

[602] 1893
Queensland National Bank, Brisbane
1695 x 1745; 1024; 512

[622]
Prof. Cumbrae-Stewart: Endeavour anchorage
2645 x 1850; 1024; 512

[629]
Cumbrae-Stewarts
2050 x 1670; 1024; 512

[630]
F.W.S.C.S. [Cumbrae-Stewart] in fancy dress
1630 x 2100; 1024; 512

[662] 1868.
Police under fig tree
2120 x 1680; 1024; 512

[691] Rev. T. Jones
(now Ballow Chambers)
2540 x 1760; 1024; 512

[692] 1862.
First All Saints Church, Brisbane
2185 x 1705; 1024; 512

[693] 1869-76.
All Saints Church< Brisbane
2410 x 1735; 1024; 512

[694] 1870.
First Altar, All Saints Church, Brisbane
2095 x 1600; 1024; 512

[695] 1898.
All Saints' Church, Easter
1875 x 1865; 1024; 512

[696] 1908.
All Saints' Church Easter
2225 x 1835; 1024; 512

[697] 1918.
All Saints' Church 2nd altar
2230 x 1810; 1024; 512

[698] 1 May 1938.
First Free Settlers’ Monument: Nundah
2365 x 1810; 1024; 512

[699] 1 May 1938.
Medical School, University of Queensland.
2200 x 1835; 1024; 512

[700] 1 May 1938.
Foundations: Main Building, UQ, St Lucia
2515 x 1850; 1024; 512

[701] 1 May 1938.
Bridges in Indooroopilly
2190 x 1900; 1024; 512

[702] 1 May 1938.
Roma Street Police Station from Albert Street, Brisbane
1730 x 1865; 1024; 512

[703] 1 May 1938.
Brisbane from Observatory
2180 x 1885; 1024; 512

[704]
Brisbane: Observatory
1936 x 2552; 1024; 512

[774] 16 Sep 1938.
Staff inspecting excavation for service tunnel, St Lucia
2200 x 1800; 1024; 512

[775] 16 Sep 1938.
Mr Cramb in excavation for large lecture theatre, UQ
2308 x 1800; 1024; 512

[776] 16 Sep 1938.
Staff inspecting cricket ground, Village Green, St Lucia
2204 x 1856; 1024; 512

[794] 11 Feb 1942.
Air raid precautions, new library building
2164 x 1832; 1024; 512

[795] 11 Feb 1942.
Air raid precautions, back of new library building
2068 x 1820; 1024; 512

[813]
Brisbane Town Hall
1790 x 2200; 1024; 512

[814]
Brisbane Town Hall
1825 x 2225; 1024; 512

[815]
Queen & Creek Streets, Brisbane
2332 x 1920; 1024; 512

[816] Brisbane City
2272 x 1876; 1024; 512

[817]
Victoria Bridge: south end
2296 x 1784; 1024; 512

[818]
Brisbane: Toowong Reach
2468 x 1804; 1024; 512

[849] 1 Nov 1942.
Air raid precautions in university courtyard
2208 x 1844; 1024; 512

[850] 1 Nov 1942.
UQ main building: from tennis courts
2144 x 1776; 1024; 512

[851] 1 Nov 1942.
Brisbane Dental Hospital
2168 x 1872; 1024; 512

[852] 1 Nov 1942
Brisbane Old Masonic Temple
1792 x 1888; 1024; 512

[853] 1 Nov 1942
UQ Physiology Building
2584 x 1856; 1024; 512

[854] 1 Nov 1942
UQ Medical School: rear
2264 x 1780; 1024; 512

[857] 1 Nov 1942
Meteorological Bureau
1865 x 2415; 1024; 512

[858] 1 Nov 1942
Brisbane: King George Square
2180 x 1856; 1024; 512

[859]
Brisbane: Story Bridge
2112 x 1816; 1024; 512

[860] 1 Nov 1942
Brisbane: Story Bridge
2284 x 1784; 1024; 512

[878] April 1927
Brisbane: reception by Duke and Duchess of York
2172 x 1844; 1024; 512

[879] April 1927
University: reception by Duke and Duchess of York
2204 x 1844; 1024; 512

[880] April 1927
University: departure of Duke and Duchess of York
2204 x 1864; 1024; 512

[912]
Brisbane River, Newstead
2124 x 1828; 1024; 512

[949] 11 Mar 1946
UQ freshers enrol
2120 x 1776; 1024; 512

[953]
Duke of Gloucester, V Day, Brisbane
2464 x 1660; 1024; 512
[969]
13 Jan 1947 Breakfast Creek, Brisbane
2228 x 1792; 1024; 512

[1004] 22 Aug 1947
Newstead House
2236 x 1868; 1024; 512

[1005] 22 Aug 1947.
Lady Macgregor’s tree / University tree
1915 x 2470; 1024; 512
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