Front cover from The Queenslander, November 8, 1934 showing an illustration of racehorses with the caption: Melbourne Cup number.

Image number 702692-19341108-s001b was chosen as Picture of the Week beginning 31 October 2011 to coincide with the running of the Melbourne Cup on Tuesday 1st November.

Julie Christofis selling buttons to a sailor on the Greek Day of Independence, 1941. She wears traditional national dress.

Image number 101795 was chosen as Picture of the Week beginning 24 October 2011.

Bronco branding, Birdsville Racecourse, Great Australian Cattle Drive, May 2002.

Image number 190320 was chosen as Picture of the Week beginning 17 October 2011. 

Inside the Regent Theatre Milk Bar, Brisbane, ca.1936. A woman sitting at the counter inside the Regent Theatre Milk Bar is having a milkshake from a glass. The shop assistant behind the counter is preparing another order for a waiting customer.

Image number 65247 was chosen as Picture of the Week beginning 10 October 2011.

Illustrated front cover from The Queenslander, January 31, 1929. Back to school for the sleepy boy who wakes to see his school port beckoning him to get up. The boy's summer of carefree fun is depicted by a picture, on a wall, of a boy running on the beach.

Image number 702692-19290131-s001b was chosen as Picture of the Week beginning 3 October 2011 to coincide with the end of the school holidays. 

Promotional vehicle advertising Life Saver lollies, ca. 1930. This truck was customised to look like a packet of Life Savers. The tyres of the truck also resemble a Life Saver.

Image number 6370-0001-0002 was chosen as Picture of the Week beginning 26 September 2011.  

Child driving a toy car. The child is wearing sunglasses, hat and white lace ruffle around the neck. The car has the word 'Empire' on the bonnet.

Image number 10259 was chosen as Picture of the Week beginning 19 September 2011. 

Chestnut horse drinking from a bottle of beer in front of the Burke and Wills Roadhouse between Cloncurry and Normanton, in the Gulf of Carpentaria, 1989.

Image number 908-01-12 was chosen as Picture of the Week beginning 12 September 2011. 

Photographic study that appeared in The Queenslander by Ada Driver, featuring a father home from the war with his wife and young daughter who asks "Are you really and truly going to stay with us always now, Daddy?" The caption underneath reads: The Homecoming. The illustration appeared in The Queenslander, 6 December 1919.

Image number 702692-19191206-s002b was chosen as Picture of the Week beginning 5 September 2011 to celebrate Father's Day.

Illustrated front cover from The Queenslander, December 1, 1932, showing the Edward Street entrance to the Brisbane Botanic Gardens, with jacaranda in bloom.

Image number 702692-19321201-s001b was chosen as Picture of the Week beginning 29 August 2011 to celebrate the beginning of Spring. 

Strapless floral dress being modelled on a young woman for an advertisement for T. C. Beirne at North Quay, Brisbane, ca. 1951.

Image number 181588 was chosen as Picture of the Week beginning 22 August 2011 to coincide with the Mercedes-Benz Fashion Festival in Brisbane running from 20 - 26 August, 2011. 

Critic and artist Sir Herbert Read and Miss Margaret Olley, looking at Miss Olley's prize-winning painting 'Susan with flowers', which Sir Herbert announced as the winner of the Finneys' Centenary Art Prize of 300 guineas. Margaret Olley passed away on 26 July 2011 aged 88.

Image number 195940 was chosen as Picture of the Week beginning 1 August 2011.

The royal bedroom for H.R.H. The Duke of Gloucester. A charming composition in the period, Louis XV, designed and built by Ed Rosenstengel in Fortitude Valley, Brisbane, 1934. From an original watercolour drawing by Wilfred Morden. The furniture includes carved wooden pieces: a wardrobe, bed, mirrored dressing table and stool, occasional chairs and a highboy.

Image number 56925 was chosen as Picture of the Week beginning 25 July 2011.