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| Keywords: StateLibQld 1 134897 Entrance to old Cumbooqueepa, the residence of Thomas Blacket Stephens, South Brisbane, ca. 1872.jpg en Entrance to old Cumbooqueepa the residence of Thomas Blacket Stephens South Brisbane ca 1872 The early part of William Boag's career was spent in Sydney where he was in partnership with portrait photographer Joseph Charles Milligan Images made by Boag are in the collection of the Campbelltown and Airds Historical Society Boag arrived in Queensland in November 1871 He travelled around the south-east along the foreshore of Moreton Bay and the township of Cleveland He then moved into the Logan and Albert area where he captured images of local crushing mills and sugar plantations While at Yatala he took on a partner John Henry Mills and by the end of 1872 both men were in Stanthorpe where they remained for several months producing views of the booming tin-mining settlement In July 1873 after stopping off in Warwick Boag and Mills extended their operations to Mackay where they remained until October 1875 During this time Boag made trips to St Lawrence and Cooktown however his movements after this are difficult to trace It is known that by mid 1876 he was at Copperfield and Clermont and in February 1878 he inserted a notice in the Peak Downs Telegram announcing that he was leaving for the west Then information ceases abruptly It is possible that Boag never reached his destination since his death certificate records that he died in 1878 at an unknown location T B Stepehens the owner of old Cumbooqueepa was a Member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly a former Mayor of Brisbane and for ten years proprietor of the Brisbane Courier newspaper He also owned fellmongeries and wool scourers at Cleveland and Ekibin and acquired extensive landholdings in the Nerang district in the 1870s His home was one of the grandest in the South Brisbane area and remained so until ca 1890 when it was demolished to make way for the South Coast railway line His elest son William Stephens then erected a larger house on a higher site nearby The original Cumbooqueepa with its decorative barge-boards brick chimneys and substantial outbuildings stood on 16 acres of land and had a large garden stocked with banana plants hoop-pine and prickly pear The man standing behind the front gate was probably the gardener circa 1872 handle 10462/deriv/9473 Item is held by John Oxley Library State Library of Queensland Boag William 1838 -1878 PD-Australia StateLibQld-License Gardens in Queensland Victorian architecture in Australia Fences in Queensland Chimneys in Queensland Black and white photographs Images from Brisbane Courier | ||||
