Summary

This photograph depicts a young man posing astride a horse with what appear to be cattle yards in the background of a North Queensland property. This photograph was taken in North Queensland but the exact location is unknown. The clean-shaven man wears a felt hat, light-coloured long-sleeved shirt buttoned up to the collar, trousers that are perhaps moleskins, and boots. He also carries a whip. Between the man and the post-and-rail fences of the yards stands an open structure made of thick timber poles and a well-constructed corrugated-iron roof.

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.