Summary

This photograph depicts four miners and a little boy sharing a meal at their North Queensland camp. All four men are wearing light-coloured clothing, though the men on the right are dressed a bit more formally than the two men on the left. The little boy appears to be wearing a sailor suit, which was common attire for children in the region at the time, lace-up boots and a wide-brimmed hat with a fly-net. The table they are sitting at is constructed out of planks and the chairs appear to be crates covered in blankets. The dishes appear to be tin. A timber rack has been constructed behind them and used to hang lanterns as well as cooking and prospecting equipment. A very small box has been set on the ground upright in front of the man on the far right.

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.