Photographer: Edmund Rawson, 1845-1911

Location: Mackay, Queensland, Australia

A description of this tree is contained in Finch-Hatton’s Advance Australia!: ‘In the middle of the garden, on a patch of smooth green turf, stands the most magnificent Poinciana tree I ever saw, about sixty feet high, with huge spreading boughs sweeping right down to the ground.’ Harold Finch-Hatton was visiting Charles Rawson at the time.

• Coverage: Mackay, Queensland; Lat/long: -21.142309,149.178711
  Date: ca. 1875
• Publisher: John Oxley Library, State Library of Queensland
• Is Part Of: Accession number: 2967
  Collection reference: 2967 Rawson Family Archive
  Online exhibition: The Rawson Archive – please view http://www.slq.qld.gov.au/whats-on/exhibit/online/rawson
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