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A glass plate by Richard Daintree.
Photo: Lannon Harley.
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Richard Daintree is a pioneering geologist who is also acknowledged as one of the most significant photographers working in Australia in the 1850s and 1860s.
The National Museum of Australia has a set of ten glass plate positives taken by Daintree in north Queensland between 1864 and 1870.
Senior curator Martha Sear is researching the history of the plates and the people and places they depict.
These snapshots capture images of miners and their families, Aboriginal people and Islander labourers, mining settlements and missions.
Learn about Daintree's work, nineteenth century photography and how Daintree's images were used to promote Queensland at the 1871 Exhibition of Art and Industry in London.
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