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(31 pictures)
Picture relating to Mount Isa - titled 'Main street in Mount Isa with Smiths Hotel on the left, ca. 1936'
Picture relating to Mount Isa - titled 'Band rotunda at the Mount Isa Mines, ca. 1936'
Picture relating to Mount Isa - titled 'Young boy with a goat cart on a Mount Isa street, ca. 1936'
Picture relating to Mount Isa - titled 'Leichhardt River in flood at Mount Isa, ca. 1936'
Picture relating to Mount Isa - titled 'Mount Isa Hospital, ca. 1936'
Picture relating to Mount Isa - titled 'Members of the Mount Isa Bowling Club, ca. 1936'
Picture relating to Mount Isa - titled 'Bowling Club Green at Mount Isa, ca. 1936'
Picture relating to Mount Isa - titled 'Club house for the tennis courts at Mount Isa Mines, ca. 1936'
Picture relating to Mount Isa - titled 'Tennis courts at Mount Isa Mines, ca. 1936'
Picture relating to Mount Isa - titled 'Bank and Community Store, Mount Isa, ca. 1936'
Picture relating to Bundaberg - titled 'Dead fish floating in the river after the distillery fire, Bundaberg, 1936'
Picture relating to Mount Isa - titled 'Mess building beside the Mount Isa Mines manager's house, Mount Isa, ca. 1936'
Picture relating to Bundaberg - titled 'Reflections in the river from the fire at the distillery, Bundaberg, 1936'
Picture relating to Mount Isa - titled 'View of the Lalor air shaft with cottages against the Selwyn Ranges, Mount Isa, ca. 1936'
Picture relating to Mount Isa - titled 'Locomotive used at the smelters at Mount Isa Mines, ca. 1936'
Picture relating to Bundaberg - titled 'Onlookers row their boats up the river to view the fire damage at the Millaquin Distillery, Bundaberg, 1936'

Main street in Mount Isa with Smiths Hotel on the left, ca. 1936

contributed by QldPics, taken in 1936
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Mount Isa streetscene with cars and trucks passing in front of the Pioneer Store, and the butcher's shop. Caption under the photograph reads, ' Smith's Hotel on the corner. Beer, 1/- a mug, Lager, 3/- a bottle. Costs a lot of money to get merry in this town.' (Description supplied with photograph.) Mount Isa is situated next to the Selwyn Ranges on the Leichhardt River. Mount Isa owes its prosperity to the huge Mount Isa Mine, the world’s largest single producer of copper, silver, lead and zinc. In 1923 John Campbell Miles found a silver-lead ore outcrop and made a claim for two mining leases. Mount Isa Mines took over operations in 1924. This rich deposit is still producing high volumes of ore and is classed as one of the world's great mines. (Information taken from Queensland Holidays website, 2006, retrieved 5 April 2006, from

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