Summary

This photograph depicts a young woman in a fenced yard feeding a young kangaroo, or joey, from a chipped enamel cup. The woman wears a flat straw hat decorated with ribbon and secured to her head by two large hatpins. She wears a light-coloured short jacket, unbuttoned, over a simple long dress with large buttons up the front. Partly visible on right is a covered buggy or sulky. Beyond the fenced yards is heavily-treed bushland. This photograph was taken in North Queensland but the exact location is unknown.

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.