Frederic Charles Hall Reverend Frederic Charles Hall on horseback in a North Queensland bush setting [NQ ID 1170]. [Image] (Unpublished)
- Item Type
- Image
- Collection
- Reverend Frederic Charles Hall Photographic Collection
- Subjects
- Anglican churches; attire; Australian outback; church groups; churches; clothing; Croydon; Diocese of Carpentaria; dress; early 1900s; Etheridge; felt hats; Georgetown; gold fields; goldfields; Gulf Country; hats; horsemen; horses; leisure; mining camps; Normanton; North Queensland history; photo; photographs; photos; religious services; Reverend Frederic Charles Hall; self-portraits; travel
Summary
This photograph depicts Reverend Frederic Charles Hall on horseback in a bush setting. Reverend Hall appears to be wearing a felt hat and a loose lightweight suit that would be comfortable for travelling. A house can be seen in the background. It is unclear where this photograph was taken. Reverend Hall was appointed Curate-in-Charge of the Georgetown parish, which included the Croydon, Normanton, Burketown and Golden Gate townships. He would have had to keep his horse perfectly still for the entire exposure to achieve this self-portrait.
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
Bayton, John (1965) Cross Over Carpentaria: being a history of the Church of England in Northern Australia from 1865-1965. Brisbane: W.R. Smith & Paterson.
Bolton, G.C. (1963) A Thousand Miles Away: a history of North Queensland to 1920. Brisbane: Australian National University Press.
Diocese of Carpentaria (2006) Records of Diocese of Carpentaria. Retrieved from http://www.anglicanarchives.org.au/HDMS-HTML/Carpentaria/provlist.htm.
Hooper, Colin (1993) Angor to Zillmanton: stories of North Queensland's deserted towns. Brisbane: ÆBIS Publishing.
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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