Brisbane Supreme Court ruins after the 1968 fire / Sergeant Alwyn Higgs and Constable Robert Burns.

[1968

60034

Courthouses -- Queensland.

Arson investigation -- Queensland.

Interior and exterior photographs of the original Brisbane Supreme Court building in ruins after the 1968 fire, taken by police photographers as part of the arson investigation. Includes images of the desk blotter on which "judge not lest you be judged sinner" was written by the arsonist.

Title supplied by cataloguer.

Material includes a photocopy of the November 1998 Police Journal in which some of the photographs were published, and a letter from Inspector RJ Burns dated 12 December 2007 describing the provenance of the photographs.

A high quality image file is available upon request. Apply at desk.

Brisbane Supreme Court (original) built 1897, destroyed by fire 1968.

Supreme Court Library Queensland. Legal heritage collection. Queensland courthouses photograph collection.

Supreme Court Library Queensland. Legal heritage collection. Digital image collection.

7 photographs : b&w ; 21 x 21 cm + 2 photographs : b&w ; 21 x 22 cm + 1 photograph : b&w ; 21 x 26 cm + 8 photographs : b&w ; 21 x 28 cm