Frederic Charles Hall Four children standing outside a high-set house, North Queensland [NQ ID 778]. [Image] (Unpublished)
- Item Type
- Image
- Collection
- Reverend Frederic Charles Hall Photographic Collection
- Subjects
- architecture; attire; Australian outback; buildings; chamferboard cladding; chamferboard siding; chamferboards; children; clothing; corrugated iron; cottages; decorations; dogs; domestic architecture; dress; dresses; dwellings; early 1900s; family life; gardens; group photo; group photography; group photos; Gulf Country; high-set houses; homesteads; house keeping; household management; housekeeping; house-keeping; houses; North Queensland history; ornamentation; ornaments; outhouses; photo; photographs; photos; rain barrels; rain tanks; shelters; timber and iron houses; timber houses; yards
Summary
This photograph depicts three barefoot young boys, one shoe-clad young girl and a dog standing outside a high-set house. A woman, presumably their mother, can be seen in the background. The house is very high-set for the time. It features a gabled roof and corrugated iron siding on the upper floor and appears to have two verandahs, perhaps enclosed with lattice panels. The ground level appears to be enclosed with chamferboard cladding. The trim on the window shades on the downstairs windows are most likely hand cut. Two corrugated iron rain tanks can be seen, as well as a corrugated iron outhouse. A semi-enclosed space between the house and the outhouse most likely served as a laundry room, lavatory or kitchen.
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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