Brisbane flood of 1893: Market St Nowra The scientific illustrations are extraordinarily

The scientific illustrations are extraordinarily fine

Creator John Sands

rhapsodising in his ‘Journal of Tours in New South Wales’ how ‘After feasting our eyes on the view from the summit’ he descended into rainforest ‘with the largest and finest trees ever seen in the colony’

and much of the foreshores have been restored to landscaped public recreation reserves

Brisbane flood of 1893: Market St Nowra The scientific illustrations are extraordinarilyCreator Poul C. Poulson (1857 1925) Date 1893 Following a week of rain, including a fall of one metre in 24 hours, the Great Flood of 1893 cost 35 lives and swept away the Victoria Bridge. Poulson's photos capture the event with a surreal immediacy. The scene looks picturesquely venetian with Brisbane's beautiful 19th century architecture, boats penetrating the city's flooded streets, people crowded onto balconies and or wading between city blocks