Summary

This photograph depicts a young woman seated in a formal pose outdoors. She is seated on a bentwood chair amidst foliage under a tree in front of an open timber and corrugated-iron building. A high chicken wire fence is between the woman and the building. Her hair is neatly and gracefully done and she wears a string of pearls and a small pendant on a fine chain, as well as a wedding ring, and a bracelet of some sort. She wears a lacy, light-coloured blouse with high neck and leg o'mutton sleeves, and a light-coloured long skirt with horizontal pleats at bottom. Creases in the skirt suggest it has been ironed. Partly buried in the grass, to lower right corner of photograph, is what looks like a gravy boat or cup.

This photograph was taken in North Queensland but the exact location is unknown. 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 kilometres) from Georgetown.

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.