Since Queensland has such a long and foundational connection to sports of all shapes and sizes, we thought we would highlight some of our favourite vintage sporting illustrations from the collection. These images and thousands more can be accessed through our collection here: LINK
Credit: Illustrated covers of The Queenslander newspaper, 1928, John Oxley Library, State Library of Queensland.
In NSW we bleed blue! Will always place Kakuzu on the NSW state of origin team. If only Kakuzu was real he would win every game for us...Nathan Cleary is probably the closest we will get to this beast of a man.
Sport has a cunning, yet magical way of bringing people together, no matter one’s race, creed or colour.
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