Frederic Charles Hall Decorated interior of a parlour in a corrugated iron cottage in North Queensland [NQ ID 585]. [Image] (Unpublished)
- Item Type
- Image
- Collection
- Reverend Frederic Charles Hall Photographic Collection
- Subjects
- architecture; Australian outback; buildings; bungalows; cane furniture; chairs; corrugated iron; cottages; decorations; domestic architecture; drawing rooms; drawing-rooms; dwellings; early 1900s; family life; furniture; Gulf Country; homesteads; house keeping; household management; housekeeping; house-keeping; houses; lace; lacework; lounge rooms; North Queensland history; ornamentation; ornaments; parlors; parlours; photo; photographs; photos; rattan furniture; shelters; sitting rooms; sitting-rooms; timber and iron houses; verandahs; wicker furniture; wood furniture
Summary
This photograph depicts the decorated interior of a parlour or sitting room in a house constructed with an exposed timber frame and corrugated iron walls. Corrugated iron cottages were generally the most common type of housing constructed in mining towns in the early 1900s. This structure appears to be a two room iron cottage, which typically have verandahs on two opposing sides, so the room may have been converted from an exposed verandah. While the ornate wicker chairs are not identical, they appear to be similar in style. The level of ornamentation was unusual for the time, when many North Queensland homes were kept rather austere.
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
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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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