Summary

This photograph depicts two horses leading a bullock team yoked to an empty dray. A man holding a stick stands before the dray. A barefoot boy holds the bridle of a horse at the head of the team. Behind the team are post-and-rail cattle yards and at rear of team is a small structure, perhaps of wattle-and-dab, with log door and leafy branches on roof. The man wears a felt hat, long-sleeved shirt, trousers, and boots. The boy wears a felt hat, long-sleeved shirt, and below-the-knee shorts. This photograph was taken in North Queensland but the exact location is unknown.

Reverend Frederic Charles Hall was appointed Curate of the Georgetown parish in 1904, and later Curate-in-charge from 1906 to 1909. His parish included Georgetown, Croydon, Golden Gate and Normanton. He also ministered in Burketown, which is 345 miles (560 kilometres) from Georgetown. His means of transport was by horseback, push-bike, coach or by steam train between Croydon and Normanton.

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.