Summary

This photograph depicts two women, a young girl and a boy posing while setting up for a wedding in the North Queensland outback. The wedding is taking place in a rough lean-to constructed from timber and canvas. The bride, whose hair is pinned up but otherwise unadorned, is wearing a formal white dress, probably made from fabrics heavier than the lightweight fabrics used in everyday clothing. The seated woman appears to be wearing a dark formal dress and has her hair tied tightly in a bun. The boy wears a dark suit with light-coloured shirt and a scarf tied around his neck. The young girl has her hair pulled back off her faces and tied with a ribbon above loose hair at the back. She is wearing a light-coloured dress with long, cuffed sleeves, handkerchief-style collar and a sash around her waist.

This might be a wedding in the Walkley family out of Fossilbrook. 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.