Summary

This photograph depicts two small, wooden sailboats pulled up to the bank of a wide river, with four men and a boy in boat in foreground. This photograph was taken in North Queensland but the exact location is unknown. While the man to left has his back to the camera as he works on something, the other three men and the boy strike nonchalant poses. The boat they occupy also holds a suitcase or two, boxes, a large drawstring bag, and perhaps a duffel bag. While the five all wear long-sleeved shirts and trousers, one man wears a waistcoat and a pith helmet, another wears a jacket and has a safari hat beside him, and the other two men and the boy wear felt hats.

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.