Frederic Charles Hall Woman riding side-saddle in front of a timber and bark hut in a North Queensland bush setting [NQ ID 1211]. [Image] (Unpublished)
- Item Type
- Image
- Collection
- Reverend Frederic Charles Hall Photographic Collection
- Subjects
- architecture; attire; Australian outback; bark huts; brush shelters; buildings; bungalows; cane furniture; canvas dwellings; chairs; children; clothing; cottages; decorations; dogs; domestic architecture; dress; dresses; dwellings; early 1900s; family life; formal attire; formal clothing; formal dress; furniture; gardens; Gulf Country; hats; homesteads; horses; house keeping; household management; housekeeping; house-keeping; houses; lace; lacework; North Queensland history; ornamentation; ornaments; photo; photographs; photos; rattan furniture; shelters; slab huts; timber houses; travel; wicker furniture; wood furniture; yards
Summary
This photograph depicts a woman riding a horse in the side-saddle position outside a rough timber and bark hut. The woman appears to be wearing semi-formal attire suitable for travelling, including a flat brimmed straw hat and a fitted dark dress accented with a jabot around her neck. A young girl, wearing a pinafore over her dress, and two small dogs can be seen standing in the semi-enclosed entrance-way. This area, partially enclosed by bark or canvas, may have served as a kitchen and laundry area. A pole chair also sits near the entrance. The house is a slab hut with a rough bark roof and external framing. The windows are covered by simple wooden shutters, probably made from the sides of a crate.
The photographs in this collection were taken by the Reverend Frederic Charles Hall (1878-1926) during the period 1902-1909 when he was the Anglican Curate appointed to Georgetown in North Queensland. Hall's foremost hobby was photography. He used both a half-plate camera with tripod made by J. Lancaster & Son, Birmingham and a quarter-plate Austral No. 3 made by the Australian company, Baker & Rouse. Glass negatives from Ilford and Austral were used; developing was done by the photographer himself and printing by exposure to sunlight.
Additional Information
Special Collection items may be used on the Library premises by visiting the appropriate Reading Rooms during opening hours. Digital copies of selected items from the special collections will be made available through the repository as copyright or other restrictions allow.
Email specialcollections@jcu.edu.au for more information.
James Cook University gratefully acknowledges Kenwyn Arthur Hall (grandson of the photographer) for his support of the NQHeritage Pilot Project.
Copyright Information
© Kenwyn Arthur Hall. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License, which permits the redistribution of the work in its current form for non-commercial purposes, provided the original author and source are credited. (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/)
References
Bell, Peter (1979) Vernacular Domestic Architecture in North Queensland Mining Towns. Townsville, Qld.: James Cook University.
Bell, Peter (1980) Houses in North Queensland mining towns, 1864-1914. In K.H. Kennedy (ed.), Readings in North Queensland Mining History: Vol 1. Townsville, Qld.: James Cook University. pp. 299-328.
Bell, Peter (1984) Timber and Iron: houses in North Queensland mining settlements, 1861-1920. St Lucia, Qld.: University of Queensland Press.
Bolton, G.C. (1963) A Thousand Miles Away: a history of North Queensland to 1920. Brisbane: Australian National University Press.
Lawrence, Dianne (2012) Genteel Women: empire and domestic material culture, 1840-1910. Manchester, UK: Manchester University Press.
Waterson, Duncan and French, Maurice (1987) From the frontier: a pictorial history of Queensland to 1920. St Lucia, Qld.: University of Queensland Press.
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