Summary

This photograph depicts two women and a small boy sitting upon a large boulder under an even larger overhanging boulder. The rock face they are sitting on is most likely somewhere in the Newcastle Range, a 150km volcanics group that runs north-south roughly 50km east of Georgetown. As Reverend Hall was appointed as Curate (and later Curate-in-Charge) of the Georgetown parish, the Newcastle Range may have served as an excellent option for day trips as it is not an unreasonable distance to travel by carriage from the townships of Georgetown, Forsayth and Mount Surprise. Both women are holding bunches of fern. Both are also well dressed with hats, long heavy skirts and high-necked blouses. The woman on left has a knitted shawl over her shoulders and the blouse of the woman on right sports leg-o'-mutton sleeves. The young boy is wearing a type of sailor suit with short pants, wide-collar top, and shoes and socks.

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.