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Richard Daintree

 

The Museum of Australia's (Canberra)
Daintree's glass photographic plates of Queensland scenes

 

#01: Miners working in a gully, thought to be New Zealand Gully on the Cawarral goldfield near Rockhampton, in Queensland.
 
#02: Miners using pans and cradles, believed to have been taken in the Rockhampton district about 1869. The Museum’s collection includes two glass plates which depict this scene, which suggests Daintree was experimenting with exposure times or chemical solution.
 
#03:  Group of miners selling gold-washing cradles outside a tent.
Daintree labelled this image Fair Exchange – No Robbery! An Indigenous woman and child appear at the right of the tent.
 
#04: Group of Islander workers on a mission property, most likely Towns & Co’s boiling down works in Townsville.
 
#05: Mining camp, probably New Zealand Gully on the Cawarral goldfield near Rockhampton.
 
#06:  Men outside a hut, probably taken at Gympie about 1870. Daintree called this image Sunday Afternoon at Home.
 
#07:  This image of a bullock team appears to have been one of Daintree’s favourites.  It was useful for showing the nature of Queensland agriculture to prospective immigrants.   Daintree used it repeatedly in exhibitions and publications and it also appears in his Queensland album, held by the National Library of Australia
 

 

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