Summary

This photograph depicts the Reverend Frederic Charles Hall posing for a portrait dressed in what is believed to be a Queensland Police country uniform, consisting of a slouch hat, button-up serge jacket with a standing collar, epaulettes, buttoned pockets, and lightweight trousers. Seated on a stool fashioned from a wooden crate, Reverend Hall sits in front of post-and-rail fencing, perhaps a livestock run, over the sides of which blankets have been draped and a canvas has been stretched across as a roof.

Reverend Frederic Charles Hall was appointed Curate of the Georgetown parish in 1904, and later Curate-in-charge from 1906 to 1909. His parish included Georgetown, Croydon, Golden Gate and Normanton. He also ministered in Burketown, which is 345 miles (560 kilometers) from Georgetown. His means of transport was by horseback, push-bike, coach or by steam train between Croydon and Normanton.

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.