QUT photographer, librarian save historic images from rubble

If not for a QUT photographer, 300 images and books from photographer Robert Augustus Henry L’Estrange could have wound up in the rubble of a demolished block at Queensland University of Technology.

QUT digital collections librarian Jill Rogers has now curated the images by L’Estrange, who captured events such as Queen Victoria’s last visit to Dublin in 1900, steam engines in the United States, and Brisbane’s Customs House when the use of horses and carriages was common.

The photographs – as well as L’Estrange’s lantern slides, books and glass plates, donated by his relatives – will be displayed at QUT’s Kelvin Grove campus and online from May 10 to 15.

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