1. Brisbane 1919
1 A Voyage with the Mails: Australia and Great Britain: A Memento by an Amateur Photographer with 111 Original Photographs, 4th ed. (London: London Stereoscopic Company, 1920), p. 48.
2 Queensland Year Book, 1939, p. 51.
3 Brisbane Council, Souvenir of the Visit of H.R.H. The Prince of Wales and the Laying of the Foundation Stone of the new Town Hall : also a Short History of the Rise and Development of the City (Brisbane: Simpson, Halligan & Co, 1921), p. 12.
4 George Essex Evans, The Secret Key and Other Verses (Sydney: Angus & Robertson, 1906).
5 Mathew J. Fox, History of Queensland: its People and Industries, Volume 1 (Brisbane: States Publishing Company, 1919), p. 10.
6 F.W. Thiel, Brisbane Illustrated: Business and Pleasure (Brisbane: F.W. Thiel, 1922), p. 1.
7 The Brisbane Centenary Official Historical Souvenir (Brisbane: Watson, Feguson & Co, 1924), p. v.
2. Brisbane at Work
1 Raymond Evans, A History of Queensland (Melbourne: Cambridge Univ Press, 2007), p. 29.
2 ibid., p. 165.
3 Kathleen Ussher, The Cities of Australia (London: J.M. Dent & Sons, 1928), p. 34.
4 W.A. Jolly, Greater Brisbane 1929 (Brisbane: Watson, Ferguson & Co, 1929), p. ix.
5 Queensland Year Book, 1939, p. 126.
6 Census of the Commonwealth of Australia, 1933, Volume 1, pp. 312-13.
7 Graeme Snooks, 'Manufacturing' in Australian Historical Statistics, pp. 290-95.
8 ibid., 27.
9 ABC of Queensland Statistics, 1929, p. 111.
10 Queensland Year Book, 1939, p. 152.
3. Brisbane Growth
1 Kathleen Ussher, The Cities of Australia (London: J.M. Dent & Sons, 1928), p. 41.
2 Charles H. Holmes, We Find Australia (London: Hutchinson, 1933), p. 238.
3 Frank Clune, Free and Easy Land (Sydney: Angus & Robertson, 1938), p. 14; C.B. Christesen, Queensland Journey (Brisbane: P.A. Meehan, 1937), p. 22.
4 The Queensland Year Book, 1939, p. 51.
5 W.A. Jolly, Greater Brisbane 1929 (Brisbane: Watson & Co, 1929), p. 35.
6 ibid., p. 33.
7 ibid., p. 31.
8 ibid., p. x.
9 Quoted in Christesen, Queensland Journey, p. 14.
10 F.W. Thiel, Brisbane Illustrated: Business and Pleasure (Brisbane: F.W. Thiel, 1922), p. 1.
11 The Queen State (Brisbane: John Mills Himself, 1933), p. 87.
12 The ABC of Queensland Statistics, 1929, p. 110.
13 Holmes, We find Australia, 238.
14 ibid.
15 The Queen State, p. 87.
16 Christesen, Queensland Journey, p. 21.
4. Governing Brisbane
1 W.A. Jolly, Greater Brisbane 1929 (Brisbane: Watson, Ferguson & Co, 1929), p. 33.
2 G.F. de Gruchy, 'A Study of Change in the Built Environment with Special Reference to Urban and Architectural Design in Brisbane's Central Business Core and Core Periphery', PhD Thesis, UQ, 1977, pp. 119-23. Gordon Greenwood (ed), Brisbane 1859-1959: A History of Local Government (Brisbane: Council of the City of Brisbane, 1959), p. 410. Catalogue of the Second Australian Town Planning Conference and Exhibition, Brisbane, 30 July-6 August 1918.
3 Jolly, Greater Brisbane 1929, p. 5.
4 Jolly, Greater Brisbane 1929, p. 29.
5 The Queen State (Brisbane: John Mills Himself, 1933), p. 87.
6 Jolly, Greater Brisbane 1929, p. 8.
7 Jolly, Greater Brisbane 1929, p. 33.
8 Jolly, Greater Brisbane 1929, pp. 23-28.
9 Frank Clune, Free and Easy Land (Sydney: Angus & Robertson, 1938), p. 14.
5. Home, Brisbane Style
1 Kathleen Ussher, The Cities of Australia (London: J.M. Dent & Sons, 1928), p. 39.
2 Judy Gale Rechner, Brisbane House Styles 1880 to 1940: A Guide to the Affordable House (Brisbane: Brisbane History Group Inc, 1998), p. 2.
3 ibid., p. 3.
4 Balwant Saini & Ray Joyce, The Australian House: Homes of the Tropical North (Sydney: Lansdowne, 1982), pp. 16-20.
5 ibid., p. 1.
6 Quoted in C.B. Christensen, Queensland Journey (Brisbane: P.A. Meehan, 1937), p. 15.
7 State Advances Corporation, Designs of Dwellings, January 1935.
6. Divided Brisbane
1 Quoted in Raymond Evans, 'Convict Floggings', in Raymond Evans & Carole Ferrier (eds), Radical Brisbane: an Unruly History (Melbourne: The Vulgar Press, 2004), p. 32.
2 Quoted in Michael Aird, Brisbane Blacks (Southport: Keeaira Pess, 2001), p. 12.
3 ibid., p. 19.
4 Census of the Commonwealth of Australia, 1933, Volume 1, pp. 292 & 296.
5 Raymond Evans, The Red Flag Riots: A Study of Intolerance (Brisbane: Univ of Queensland Press, 1988).
6 Queensland Post Office Directory, 1938, p.p. 1331-2.
7 A Voyage with the Mails: Australia and Great Britian: A Memento by an Amateur Photographer with 111 Original Photographs, 4th ed. (London: London Stereoscopic Company, 1920), p. 48.
8 Balwant Saini & Ray Joyce, The Australian House: Homes of the Tropical North (Sydney: Lansdowne Press, 1982), p. 14.
7. Depression Brisbane

1 Stuart Macintyre, A Concise History of Australia (Melbourne: Cambridge Univ Press, 2004), p. 178.
2 Raymond Evans, A History of Queensland (Melbourne: Cambridge Univ Press, 2007), p. 180.
3 Quoted in ibid., p. 181.
4 of the Department of Labour and Industry, Queensland Parliamentary Debates, Vol 1, 1934, p. 12.
5 Joanne Scott, 'Unemployed Camps' in Radical Brisbane: An Unruly History (Melbourne: The Vulgar Press, 2004), pp. 181-86.
6 Quoted in Brian Costar, 'Labor, Politics and Unemployment: Queensland During the Great Depression', PhD Thesis, University of Queensland, 1981, p. 213.
7 ibid., pp. 223-24.
8 Gordon Greenwood (ed), Brisbane 1859-1959: A History of Local Government (Brisbane: Council of the City of Brisbane, 1959), p. 503.
9 ibid., p. 506.
10 Gerald Stone, 1932: A Hell of a Year (Sydney: Macmillan, 2005), p. 50.
11 Judy Gale Rechner, Brisbane House Styles 1880 to 1940: A Guide to the Affordable House (Brisbane: Brisbane History Group, 1988), p. 4.
12 Queensland Year Book, 1939, p. 318.
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