1/291970 - A bikini-clad beach girl getting a spray tan on Surfers Paradise Beach.
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2/291971 - Radio and Television personality Bernard King.
3/291974 - UK Motors workshop workers sweeping out water and mud from inside the building. Picture: Ted Holliday
4/291975 - National Socialist Party of Australia demonstration in Elizabeth Street, Brisbane. Mr Ross May dressed in Nazi brownshirt costume (left) and James Saleam (right). Picture: Bob Barnes
5/291970 - Princess Anne at a Queensland garden party. Picture: Jim Fenwick
6/291970 - Queensland ‘s Parliament House in Brisbane.
7/291971 - Mervyn Wigg, 12, of Tara prepares for a great Aussie tradition of beach cricket. Picture: Ted Holliday.
8/291974 - Northey Street, Windsor, during the Brisbane floods. Picture: Noel Pascoe
9/291978 - Party time for the Regent Theatre which was 49 years old. Picture: Jim Fenwick
10/291970 - Pastor Don Brady leads about 60 people in a silent march along College Road, Spring Hill, to remember Aboriginal dead. Picture: Noel Pascoe
11/291977 - Rugby league player John Barber in action. Picture: Geoff McLachlan.
12/291972 - The Australian swimming team’s costumes for the Olympic Games in Munich.
13/291972 - Houses in Spring Hill. Picture: Ted Holliday.
14/291977 - Crowded sideshow alley at the Brisbane Exhibition. Picture: Gerry Jasiulek.
15/291970 - Aerial photograph of the inner city of Brisbane. Picture: Ted Holliday.
16/291970 - Miss Queensland 1970 Suzanne Postle. Picture: Jim Fenwick.
17/291970 - Nursing Sister June Beattie helping the Flying Doctor Dr. David Cooke. Picture: Ted Holliday.
18/291979 - Noosa Beach. Picture: Geoff McLachlan
19/291976 - Michelle O’Gorman of Woody Point was restained by Airport Officials after she got too close to the Bay City Rollers.
20/291974 - The Bellevue Hotel in George Street which was demolished in 1979.
21/291976 - State secondary athletics at Lang Park.
22/291975 - Queensland’s rugby league win over New South Wales at Lang Park had State coach Barry Muir out of his seat at the final hooter. Picture: Jim Fenwick
23/291971 - The best view of the Grand Parade was from chairlift at the Ekka. Picture: Jim Fenwick.
24/291975 - The fountain in King George Square lured many of the thousands who crowded there for a New Year’s Eve concert. Picture: Barry Pascoe
25/291970 - St Columbas School Dalby with triplets Debbie, Helen and Karen Tansky, twins Michelle and Marc Dwyer, twins Martin and Sarah McGahan and twins Gregory and Malcolm Scott. Picture: Bob Barnes.
26/291975 - The official opening of the new $20 million Parliamentary Annex Building.
27/291975 - The Kianga Mine disaster. Picture: Jim Fenwick
28/291975 - Grade 1, Brisbane Central State School.
29/291975 - Georgina Reeve rides sidecar with Keith Fraser at the Tivoli race circuit. Picture: Mike Moores
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