Frederic Charles Hall Woman sitting on the verandah of a high-set house [NQ ID 698]. [Image] (Unpublished)
- Item Type
- Image
- Collection
- Reverend Frederic Charles Hall Photographic Collection
- Subjects
- architecture; buildings; chamferboard cladding; chamferboard siding; chamferboards; corrugated iron; cottages; decorations; domestic architecture; dwellings; early 1900s; family life; gardens; Gulf Country; high-set houses; homesteads; houses; leisure; North Queensland history; ornamentation; ornaments; photo; photographs; photos; shelters; timber and iron houses; timber houses; tongue-and-groove panelling; tongue-and-groove siding; verandahs; yards
Summary
This photograph depicts a woman sitting on the verandah of a high-set house with a gabled roof and a brick chimney. The roof and striped trim appear to be made of corrugated iron. The lattice-work and balustrading is common to North Queensland houses from 1860s-1890s. The house is timber with chamferboards but the lower level is enclosed with brick, which is very unusual for North Queensland houses from the time. It is unclear where this photograph was taken.
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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