Earlier today I tooted the following doodle by Charles Collinson Rawson

Charles Collinson Rawson was a migrant from England who settled in Port Mackay, now simply Mackay, in Queensland in 1867.

As well as being a grazier, a Justice of the Peace, a minor artist Rawson was diarist who frequently illustrated his journal with doodles. I first came across him during the pandemic when his 1877 sketch of vaccination day in Port Mackay was widely reposted.

He also doodled about the 1877 election and appears to have been against blackbirding, the process of inducing Kanaka labourers to come and work in the canefields as indentured labourers and virtually enslaving them

His diaries are lodged in the State Library of Queensland in Brisbane, which is where most of these images come from.

All in all he seems to have been an engaging character, and unafraid to make fun of himself