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Richard Daintree
Geologist and Photographer 1832–1878

Hand Coloured Photographs of Queensland
in the collection of the Queensland Museum

A collection of overpainted Queensland photographs was presented at the London International Exhibition from May to August 1871. Daintree, having lost his original collection in a shipwreck on the way to England, used his saved glass-plate negatives to create new prints. These were enlarged and hand-coloured in London, often using the carbon printing process.

Due to the success of the 1871 exhibition, he continued to display these coloured photographs in exhibitions throughout the UK and internationally throughout the 1870s, including the 1872 International Exhibition of Art and Industry at South Kensington.
The photographs were designed to be "systematic exhibitions," combining large-scale hand-coloured images with mineral samples to promote emigration and investment in Queensland.

The selection below has been taken from the online collection of the Queensland Museum. The hand coloured photographs are in various condition from reasonable condition to those with serious damaged. In the selection (taken from the 200 plus online) we have not reproduced the more seriously damaged images. Slight digital enhancements have been made to some to override the ageing discolouration. The titles are taken from the museum website - but numbering below is ours.

A photograph of the Queensland annex at the UK exhibition with the photographs featured on the side walls.

#QM-001: Bush Campsite Daintree

#QM-002:   Morning Going to Work

#QM-004:   Creek cutting through marble, Diggers Creek Kennedy District

#QM-005: Section Coal Measures

#QM-006: Mining scene

#QM-007:   Scene near Brisbane

#QM-008: Tin mining sluicing Stanthorpe

#QM-009: Alluvial gold mining creek sluicing

#QM-010:   Quartz mining Gympie

#QM-011: Mining scene

#QM-012: Miner's bush hut Sunday afternoon; miners relaxing in front of slab and bark hut

# QM-014: Mary River ferry, Maryborough

#QM-015: Peak Down copper mine

#QM-016: Bullock teams delivering wool

#QM 017: Gympie diggings carboniferous quartz mining

#QM 018: Gympie quartz mining

#QM 019: Alluvial gold mining sluicing

#QM 020: Scott and Rogers Peak Peak Range

#QM-021: McGregor copper mine

#QM-022: Laundy Creek granite district

#QM 023: Prairie country western Queensland

#QM 024: Ravine mining or gully raking near Rockhampton

#QM 026: Mt. Larcombe

#QM 027: view of Mary River

#QM 028: Sugar plantation Mary River

#QM 029: Lynd copper mine Copperfield River

#QM 030: Volcanic country view from Lolworth Station, north Kennedy District

#QM 031: Grant Creek Gilbert district

#QM 032: Scrub with ferns

#QM 033: Forest country

#QM 034: Peak Downs copper mine

#QM 035: Wolfgang Peak, Peak Downs

#QM 036: Mount Coonowrin, Glasshouse Mountains

#QM 037: Breakfast Creek near Brisbane

#QM 038: Volcanic rocks Alligators Pool, Copperfield River

#QM 039: Quartz claim Gympie

#QM 040: Woolshed

#QM 041: Cave Creek, Gilbert-District

#QM 042: View from the top of Black Mountain

#QM 043: Basalt Dyke

#QM 044: Forest Landscape

#QM 045: Mount Wheeler

#QM 046: Structure of Diorite bed of Gilbert River

#QM 047: View on Maryvale Creek

#QM 049: Homestead with carriage

#QM 050: Maryvale Creek

#QM 051: Township of Gilberton from Gold Commissioners residence

# QM 052: Cretaceous strata on Flinders River

#QM 053: Junction of Gilbert and Robertson Rivers, North Queensland

#QM 054: Corporation Quarry, Rockhampton

#QM 055: Boiling down plant for tallow, Maryvale Creek, Clarke River

#QM 056: Coal seam on Pelican Creek

#QM 057: View Maryvale Creek

#QM 058: Sugar plantation, Mackay

#QM 059: Sandstone pillars, Cave Creek, Gilbert District

#QM 060: Weathered intrusive rock (diorite), exposed in stream bed

#QM 061: Betts Creek

#QM 062: Near Basalt River, North Queensland

#QM 063: Tableland camp

#QM 064: Volcanic country

#QM 066: Colonial wool wagon

#QM 067: Fluted granite

#QM 068: Overlander Reef, Ravenswood, North Queensland

#QM 069: Shearing shed on th Darling Downs

#QM 070: Locality of Queensland limestone, marble and slates

#QM 071: Quartz claim, Gympie

#QM 072: Gold mining, near Rockhampton

#QM 074: Cave in desert sandstone

#QM 075: Creek sluicing

#QM 076: Men at work, gully raking

# QM 077: Bush country in granite tracts

#QM 078: Alluvial creek working Californian pump

#QM 079: McKenzies copper mines

# QM 080: Chinese miner starting for work

#QM 081: Early settlement, Mount Nation, North Queensland

#QM 082 Chinese digger taking it easy

#QM 083: Bullocks turned out

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