Views in and Around Thursday Island, and…

Very rare colonial engraving of Australian pearling showing helmeted divers at work from pearl lugggers..

1. A Lonely Grave-Tomb of Captain Banner, finder of the Torres Straits pearling Ground, on Too Too Island.
2. Pearl fishers at Work
3. Port Kennedy, the Settlement on Thursday Island.
4. Pearl diver Preparing to Descend
5. Gathering beche de mer on the Coast.

From the original edition of the Town and Country Journal.

Collections:
National Library Australia: Bib ID 41861
State Library New South Wales: 1870-1919 TN83A
State Library Victoria: RARENSL N.S.W. 1870-1919