Frederic Charles Hall Couple having tea in the sitting room of a North Queensland house [NQ ID 577]. [Image] (Unpublished)
- Item Type
- Image
- Collection
- Reverend Frederic Charles Hall Photographic Collection
- Subjects
- architecture; attire; Australian outback; buildings; bungalows; cane furniture; chairs; chamferboard cladding; chamferboard siding; chamferboards; clothing; cottages; decorations; domestic architecture; drawing rooms; drawing-rooms; dress; dresses; dwellings; early 1900s; family life; food; formal attire; formal clothing; formal dress; furniture; Gulf Country; homesteads; house keeping; household management; housekeeping; house-keeping; houses; lace; lacework; leisure; lounge rooms; lunches; meals; North Queensland history; ornamentation; ornaments; parlors; parlours; photo; photographs; photos; rattan furniture; shelters; sitting rooms; sitting-rooms; tea; teas; timber houses; tongue-and-groove panelling; tongue-and-groove siding; wicker furniture; wood furniture
Summary
This photograph depicts a man and a woman sitting in wicker chairs in the parlour having tea. The man appears to be wearing a lightweight linen suit with dark stockings and light-coloured laced shoes. The woman is wearing a simple lightweight dress with a lace long-sleeved blouse and dark stockings and shoes. A silver tea service can be seen sitting on a tray between them. The table between them is covered in an embroidered tablecloth with lace edging. Striped lace curtains have been hung behind the man's chair, perhaps to cover a door. The walls have been panelled with wood, vertically on the wall behind the man and horizontally on the wall behind the woman. A small dark wooden cabinet, a Japanese-style wall hanging, a framed landscape artwork and 2 small cameo portraits have been hung on the wall behind the woman.
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.
Additional Information
Special Collection items may be used on the Library premises by visiting the appropriate Reading Rooms during opening hours. Digital copies of selected items from the special collections will be made available through the repository as copyright or other restrictions allow.
Email specialcollections@jcu.edu.au for more information.
James Cook University gratefully acknowledges Kenwyn Arthur Hall (grandson of the photographer) for his support of the NQHeritage Pilot Project.
Copyright Information
© Kenwyn Arthur Hall. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License, which permits the redistribution of the work in its current form for non-commercial purposes, provided the original author and source are credited. (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/)
References
Bell, Peter (1979) Vernacular Domestic Architecture in North Queensland Mining Towns. Townsville, Qld.: James Cook University.
Bell, Peter (1980) Houses in North Queensland mining towns, 1864-1914. In K.H. Kennedy (ed.), Readings in North Queensland Mining History: Vol 1. Townsville, Qld.: James Cook University. pp. 299-328.
Bell, Peter (1984) Timber and Iron: houses in North Queensland mining settlements, 1861-1920. St Lucia, Qld.: University of Queensland Press.
Lawrence, Dianne (2012) Genteel Women: empire and domestic material culture, 1840-1910. Manchester, UK: Manchester University Press.
Waterson, Duncan and French, Maurice (1987) From the frontier: a pictorial history of Queensland to 1920. St Lucia, Qld.: University of Queensland Press.
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