Brisbane, Queen Street at the Edward Street Corner. view c1886  E-mail this product to a friend

Busy corner of Queen and Edward Streets in Brisbane, looking towards the Post Office, this lovely view shows the Old Courier Building opposite the A.M.P. Building which became ‘Macarthurs Chambers’ after being the World War II headquarters of General Macarthur. On the right is a theatre with iron lacework awning (now the NSW Government Travel Centre). 

Reproduction print from the hand-coloured wood engraving by Harley after the sketch by William Crothers Fitler (1857-1915), for the “Picturesque Atlas of Australasia” published in Sydney between 1886 and 1889 by the Honourable Andrew Garran, M.A., LL.D., M.L.C., to provide a graphic summary of Australia’s development and commemorate 100 years of settlement.

Image size approximately 180mm x 265mm (7 inches x 10.1/2 inches).