Photographs of The Kowanyama Collection

Frank Macarthur Bowman of Rutland Plains fatally speared by Jimmy Inkerman near Trubanamen Mission in 1910. Frank Bowman and his brother Archie took up Rutland Plains Holding in the late 1800’s. Photographed by a Croydon Photographer Source State Library of Queensland

Norman Junior and Frances George playing with reed toy spears at Puyul.

Photograph by R.L. Sharp 1933-34

Cumjam at Mentana captured by Jack Alford at Lochnigar after the fatal spearing of Ferguson and a stockman at Mentana Station and taken by Police to Croydon for arraignment to Normanton for trial. Outcome unknown

Photographer unknown 1894

The first aircraft lands on the new strip in 1939 after Alex McLeod in Mission diaries records assistance from the Hughes from Koolatah and the Campbells of Rutland with design and clearing of the new strip in 1937.

FROM OUR KOWANYAMA COLLECTION PHOTOGRAPHIC ARCHIVE

Some of these images will be featured in the planned installations in the new Kowanyama Airport Terminal that will include historic photographs and cultural objects.

American bomber crash lands at Umbaladey Gilgai plain 1944

Kowanyama Wartime Airstrip 1943

Rev R H Matthews Wedding at Trubanamen 27th October 1915