Frederic Charles Hall Townsville harbour and railway, Queensland [NQ ID 727]. [Image] (Unpublished)
- Item Type
- Image
- Collection
- Reverend Frederic Charles Hall Photographic Collection
- Subjects
- architecture; buildings; Cape York Peninsula; Castle Hill; dwellings; early 1900s; gold mining history; Gulf Country; harbors; harbours; North Queensland history; North Queensland mining towns history; photo; photographs; photos; Port of Townsville; ports; railway history; railways; Ross Creek; shelters; Townsville; train stations; trains; travel
Summary
This photograph depicts a view of Ross Creek, Townsville, Queensland. Castle Hill can be seen in the background. The harbour and railway with empty cars can also be seen. Townsville was one of the major ports for trade related to North Queensland's mining activities and townships, including Ravenswood, the Etheridge and Charters Towers. Townsville was also a major port for pastoral industries in the early 1900s.
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
Bolton, G.C. (1963) A Thousand Miles Away: a history of North Queensland to 1920. Brisbane: Australian National University Press.
Hooper, Colin (1993) Angor to Zillmanton: stories of North Queensland's deserted towns. Brisbane: ÆBIS Publishing.
Lewis, Glen (1973) A History of the Ports of Queensland: a study in economic nationalism. St. Lucia, Qld.: University of Queensland 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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