Wide, unpaved street in Dalby showing the Post Office with its clock tower.The old Plough Inn after its conversion to a convent and school in the late 1800s. (During the 1860s, a visit to the Plough Inn was an essential part of the Dalby Race Day festivities.)
The Dalby Races, 1859
Looking west along Cunningham Street Dalby 1907.Timber hotel building in Dalby.Jubilee Sanitorium in Dalby.Old time blade shearer, Dalby, 1898.Windmill blades and other goods at a mixed business in Dalby.J. Clarke’s general store in Dalby 1897.Premises of the Dalby Herald Newspaper.
Darling Downs Gazette and General Advertiser (Toowoomba, Qld.: 1858 – 1880), Thursday 11 August 1859, page 3
The Ipswich Observer and West Moreton Advocate (Qld.: 1870-1879), Saturday 10 June 1876, page 2. Festivities in Dalby.
All images are from the digital collection of the State Library of Queensland and are out of copyright. AI colourisation by Copilot.
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