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A group of race patrons at Burrandowan in 1967 from the front cover of a new photo book that records almost 40 years of work by Kingaroy photographer Arthur Hansen<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

September 27, 2018<\/strong><\/p>\n

A two-year effort to sift through 100,000 historic photos of the South Burnett and produce a book from them finally came to an end on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

The photos were shot by Arthur Hansen, who ran a sewing machine and photography shop in Kingaroy from 1954 until shortly before his death in 1990.<\/p>\n

Arthur, who was born in Wondai, had been a keen photographer since childhood.<\/p>\n

From the 1950s through to the late 1980s, he meticulously numbered, described and filed every photograph he took.<\/p>\n

His subjects were everyday scenes and special events in the region – anything from the opening of Kingaroy Town Hall and Barambah Bridge through to a Burrandowan Picnic Race meeting in 1967, the construction of Boondooma Dam in 1983 and a Peanut Festival parade in 1988.<\/p>\n

He also photographed sports meetings, streetscapes, shop fronts, social occasions and ordinary people going about their lives.<\/p>\n

Arthur’s collection of photographs and negatives was gifted to the Kingaroy Photographic Club two years ago by his daughter Marie Shaw.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The club also received a $3000 community grant from the South Burnett Regional Council to digitise the collection to preserve it for posterity, and produce a book of the best photos from it.<\/p>\n

On Wednesday, club members gave two copies of the new book – ‘A Selection Of Photos From The Arthur Hansen Photograph & Negative Collection’ – to the Kingaroy Library.<\/p>\n

They also gave another copy to Arthur’s granddaughter, Cr Danita Potter, to pass on to her mother Marie.<\/p>\n

Steve Clampit, from the photography club, said processing the photos and negatives had been a daunting task.<\/strong><\/p>\n

But once they’d done this, it was even harder to select the photos to be used in the book.<\/p>\n

In the end, club members chose photos covering the period from 1950 to 1988 that showcased the full gamut of Arthur’s work.<\/p>\n

Then they engaged a specialist printing company to run off two copies for the library, one for Marie Shaw and a fourth for the club’s archives.<\/p>\n

Mr Clampit said that thanks to digital printing, extra copies of the book could be printed in future if there was a demand for them.<\/p>\n

Mayor Keith Campbell, who accepted the books on Council’s behalf, said he was very impressed with the club’s work.<\/p>\n

He was sure the book would be of interest to many of the region’s residents.<\/p>\n

He also particularly enjoyed finding a photo of his younger self on one of the pages (“I had much darker hair then”), along with another of a cousin that had been taken at Kumbia in the 1950s.<\/p>\n

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Wendy Turner and Steve Clampit, from the Kingaroy Photographic Club, presented a copy of the book to Cr Danita Potter to pass on to her mother Marie Shaw, who was unable to attend the book’s launch<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Members of the Kingaroy Photography Club are pleased – and also a little bit relieved – that their mammoth photography project has come to an end<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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