Summary

This photograph depicts three men and a boy, with ten cows and calves, carrying out milking at a station in North Queensland. The station may be at Junction Creek, twelve kilometers from Mt Surprise, near Einasleigh River. Two of the men are carrying milk pails and the boy holds an enamel jug. The third man, seated on a short log with rope handle attached, is milking a cow and smoking a pipe. One cow wears a bell around its neck. A white chicken is on left of photograph. The three men are wearing hats, trousers, boots, and two are wearing short-sleeved shirts while the other has long sleeves rolled up. The boy is barefoot with a long-sleeved shirt and below-the-knee shorts.

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.