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| Keywords: StateLibQld 2 134837 August Lee - baker, confectioner and fancy biscuit maker, Brisbane Road, Beenleigh, 1872.jpg en August Lee - baker confectioner and fancy biscuit maker Brisbane Road Beenleigh 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 By the early 1870s Beenleigh was growing from a small close-knit farming community to a flourishing rural centre that required more than a small bush hotel a general store and an unofficial post-office The Queensland National Bank quickly opened a branch in a former hotel 'beautified with festoons of creeping plants' and blacksmiths drapers and bakeries sprang up to cater for the more sophisticated demands of the district's planters builders and labourers The stores and other buildings were described as having 'a prosperous natty appearance owing possibly to the prevalence of sawn timber in their construction and to a liberal employment of the paint brush ' August Lee's pastry shop was located next door to the Beenleigh Hotel erected by Michael Tansey in 1872 1872 handle 10462/deriv/9427 Item is held by John Oxley Library State Library of Queensland Boag William 1838 -1878 PD-Australia StateLibQld-License Vernacular architecture of Australia Horse-drawn carts in Australia Black and white photographs Children of Queensland Bakeries in Queensland Awnings in Australia 1872 in Queensland | ||||
