Summary

This photograph depicts four miners and a little boy setting up a bush camp in North Queensland. All four men are wearing light-coloured clothing, though the men on the right are dressed a bit more formally than the two men on the left. The little boy appears to be wearing a sailor suit, which was common attire for children in the region at the time, lace-up boots and a wide-brimmed hat with a fly-net. A long plank table has been placed in the centre of the camp. Timber racks can be seen around them, used to hang lanterns as well as cooking and prospecting equipment. Timber and canvas tents and shades have been set up in the background.

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.