Frederic Charles Hall A group of elegantly attired people taking tea in a North Queensland forest setting [NQ ID 900]. [Image] (Unpublished)
- Item Type
- Image
- Collection
- Reverend Frederic Charles Hall Photographic Collection
- Subjects
- Anglican churches; attire; Australian outback; blouses; bush picnics; church groups; clothing; Croydon; decorations; Diocese of Carpentaria; dress; dresses; early 1900s; Etheridge; family life; felt hats; formal attire; formal clothing; formal dress; gardens; Georgetown; group photo; group photography; group photos; Gulf Country; hats; leisure; Normanton; North Queensland history; ornamentation; ornaments; photo; photographs; photos; picnics; religious services; Reverend Frederic Charles Hall; self-portraits; social gatherings; social groups; tea; teas; travel
Summary
This photograph depicts a group of elegantly attired people posed in a forest setting having tea. The six seated ladies provide a range of examples of formal attire in the region at the time. All the women appear to be dressed in elaborate wide brimmed straw hats accented with ribbons and flowers and either long skirts with lace or ruffled blouses or dresses with ruffles and ribbon accents. While social etiquette required arms, shoulders and legs to be covered, especially for women, the fabrics used would have been lightweight and durable, where possible, such as cotton and thin wool, in deference to the climate. The man standing furthest right in the back aside, the men are all wearing dark suits complete with collars, ties and vests. It is unclear where this photograph was taken. Reverend Hall was appointed Curate-in-Charge of the Georgetown parish, which included the Croydon, Normanton, Burketown and Golden Gate townships.
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
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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
Bayton, John (1965) Cross Over Carpentaria: being a history of the Church of England in Northern Australia from 1865-1965. Brisbane: W.R. Smith & Paterson.
Bolton, G.C. (1963) A Thousand Miles Away: a history of North Queensland to 1920. Brisbane: Australian National University Press.
Diocese of Carpentaria (2006) Records of Diocese of Carpentaria. Retrieved from http://www.anglicanarchives.org.au/HDMS-HTML/Carpentaria/provlist.htm.
Hooper, Colin (1993) Angor to Zillmanton: stories of North Queensland's deserted towns. Brisbane: ÆBIS Publishing.
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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