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IPSWICH, Queensland |
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Site created 29
March 1998/last updated 23 August 2008
© Marcel Safier, 2001-2008 |
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| Index of Photographers and Studios listed
on this site:
William T.
Bennett
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The Ipswich
area was first explored as a consequence of the penal settlement at Moreton
Bay. A second convict settlement was established in Ipswich in 1827 due
to the mineable limestone discovered there. In 1842 the area was opened
up for free settlement and rose to some degree of prosperity on the sheep's back
with the Bremer River being an important shipping waterway. Ipswich
was even considered for the capital town of the state of Queensland, eventually
losing out to Brisbane, however in the early 1860s the area had a population
not much less than Brisbane's. Following a slump in the late 1860s the
real period of economic and population growth took place in the 1870s helped
along by coal mining.
The daguerreotype was first introduced to Ipswich in 1855, when Silvester Diggles, a musician and travelling piano tuner offered them to the local citizens. The following year local schoolteacher Alfred Hazelton and chemist George Challinor also produced daguerreotypes as a side line to their usual occupations. Edwin T. Brissenden was the first experienced photographer to open a studio in Ipswich in 1858 but his stay was short and he sold out to his assistant Thomas Bowdich, who had closed the business by the beginning of the following year. None of the daguerreotypes taken by Ipswich's pioneer photographers is known to have survived. The ambrotype was the next photograph type to gain popularity and these were offered by Brissenden along with several travelling photographers who visited Ipswich between 1857 and 1860. The opening in 1861 of a carte de visite photograph studio in Ipswich by Joseph Wilder introduced an affordable form of photography for the masses. Wilder moved north the following year but was replaced not long after in 1863 by John Ness and Biggingee Pochee. While Ness also ventured north after a year in business in Ipswich, Pochee, a Parsee Indian remained and became one of the towns two more long term resident photographers, operating for some fourteen years. Pochee produced the standard carte de visite photographs and full plate landscape views. In contrast to his competitors his portrait work used very basic studio settings, usually devoid of fancy painted backdrops and elaborate props typical of the time. Pochee photographed the visited of Prince Alfred to the Ipswich Grammar School in 1868 and he also produced the second earliest known photographic panorama of Ipswich around 1871. An earlier one from the 1860s is known but the photographer is unidentified. Robert Irwin opened a studio in opposition to Pochee in 1866 but it did not remain for long. Robert Watson also opened in 1866 and remained in business for some twelve years although judging by remaining photographs his output was nowhere near as prolific as Pochee's. George Tissington took over Pochee's studio when he left to travel north in 1878 and Tissington ran the only studio in Ipswich until 1882 when William Deazeley from Brisbane opened one in Brisbane St. Francis Whitehead trained
under Tissington then took over the studio in 1883 and he eventually took
over Deazeley's studio in Brisbane St as well in 1888. Benjamin Taylor and his IXL Studio opened in 1893 and remained in business for 15 years,
posing the only major competition for Whitehead's. Taylor took
many streetscape and landscape views, including a series of the 1893 floods
and he found a profitable sideline in producing printed postcards of the
Ipswich region. Local Ipswich coach maker and amateur photographer A.
E. Roberts also produced many views of the Ipswich area. Whitehead's remained the photographer's name most closely associated with Ipswich, eventually encompassing four generations of the family who have worked in the business that continues until this day although recently sold from the family's possession. Although the original single story studio in Brisbane Street was replaced by a two story building in 1902, the studio at the rear of the second level still retains the original skylight windows although they have been long since covered over. Turn of the century silky oak posing chairs, a table and a large wooden studio camera also remain. Fortunately a significant number of Whitehead's, Taylor's and Robert's glass negative have survived to enable their wonderful glimpses into Victorian and Edwardian Ipswich to remain available for wider scrutiny.
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| EARLY PHOTOGRAPHERS/STUDIOS | |||
| PHOTOGRAPHERS NAME | ADDRESS OF OPERATION | DATES ACTIVE | NOTES incl. types of photographs produced |
| Silvester Diggles (c.1817-) |
? | Aug 1855 | Diggles hailed from
Liverpool initially arriving in Sydney aboard the Willem Ernst in 1853. He worked in Brisbane Feb- Jul 1855
and had many talents being an accomplished musician., piano tuner, artist and naturalist. daguerreotypes |
| Alfred Hazelton
(1816-1884) |
Nicholas St | Nov 1855-May 1856 | Teacher at the Anglican Church
school who operated a studio at the back of the schoolhouse. Taught
Thomas Mathewson as a student in 1854 who later became one of Queensland's
greatest photographers (see entry below).
Hazelton brought a "Cosmorama Exhibition" featuring the Great Exhibition
of London to Ipswich in May 1855 - this was the first place in the colony
to host it. This was presumably a magic lantern show.
daguerreotypes |
| George Miles Challinor
(-1888) |
Nicholas St | 1856-1864 | Challinor arrived in Brisbane
aboard the "Fortitude" in 1849. He was the dispensing chemist for
his cousin and Ipswich surgeon Dr. Henry Challinor and he operated a studio
at the rear of his cousin's surgery. Challinor took photos of notable
citizens and of local aborigines (in May 1858). He set up a studio
in George St, Brisbane during 1861. Later he farmed cotton at Warrill Creek
and became clerk for the Esk Shire Council
daguerreotypes, ambrotypes, tintypes |
| James Elsbee | travelling photographer | Jun- Sep 1857 | Elsbee was an itinerant photographer
who spent four months in Ipswich before advertising he was heading for
Drayton, Warwick and Dalby.
probably ambrotypes |
| Brissenden's Photographic Gallery
Edwin Torrens Brissenden (-1907) |
Opposite Clare Castle Hotel | Mar-Jul 1858 | Brissenden trained in the studio
of Thomas Glaister in Sydney. He set up his own studio in Brisbane
in November 1857 and later set up in Ipswich for several months.
Brissenden then travelled to various stations on the Darling Downs and
Warwick before departing for Melbourne. His ambrotypes were marked with his name
stamped into the lower left corner of the case matte. Brissenden's Ipswich studio was taken over
by his assistant Thomas Bowdich (North Australian 30 Mar 1858) (see
below)
daguerreotypes, calotypes, ambrotypes, |
| Thomas Bowdich | Nicholas St | 1858-Jan 1859 | Bowdich took over the studio of
Edwin Brissenden. He died in an accident in Toowoomba during May
1859
ambrotypes |
| William True Bennett | travelling photographer | 1859 | A native of Michigan, USA, Bennett
worked in Brisbane from 1857 with visits to the Darling Downs, Ipswich
and the north for 20 months taking some portraits but mostly landscapes
for the Illustrated London Times and the London International Exhibition.
He was the first person to offer melainotypes (tintypes) in Queensland.
Bennett ran a studio in Queen St, Brisbane and also the American Photographic
Company in Maryborough. He formed partnership with Daniel Metcalfe after
the death of Metcalfe's other partner, his half-brother Thomas Skelton
Glaister.
probably ambrotypes, tintypes |
| Robert McClelland (c.1829-1872) |
travelling photographer | 1860 | Robert McClelland was c.1829
in Kirkinner, Scotland. He emigrated to Australia from Liverpool in.1852
aboard the Bloomer and worked
in Melbourne as photographer. He later travelled to Armidale in 1859,
then on to Tenterfield, Warwick and Drayton before going to Sydney.
He returned to Brisbane in September 1859 and stayed into 1860, then went
to Ipswich. McClelland set up a studio in Newtown, Sydney from 1862-64.
He travelled through Queensland in 1869 eventually settling in Maryborough
where he died in 1872. Robert was the father of photographer George
S. McClelland (see below).
probably ambrotypes, albumin prints |
| Lawson Insley | travelling photographer | 1860 | Probably the same Insley who worked
in New Zealand, photographing some of the Maori chiefs there. Insley
set up firstly in Sydney where he took daguerreotypes, later travelling
through New South Wales, then Queensland. He operated in Brisbane, Ipswich
and then moved north to Maryborough and Rockhampton in 1862. His fate after
this is unknown.
ambrotypes |
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Joseph Warren Wilder (1823-1892) |
Nicholas St | 1861-1862 | Wilder entered 4 views of Ipswich
in the 1862 Queensland Exhibition. He moved to Rockhampton in 1862
where he continued to work until 1882. Towards the latter time Wilder formed
a partnership with Jens Hansen Lundager, and eventually sold his negatives
to Lundager. Reprints from Wilder's negatives were offered by Lundager
Rockhampton and Tissington's Ipswich branches of the Frisco Photo Co (see
below), He died in 1892.
cartes de visite |
| John Ness
(-1870) |
West St
Brisbane St |
Dec 1864
1864-1865 |
Originally in partnership with Julian
M. Avarne in Bendigo in the 1850s, Ness opened his own studio in Bull St,
Bendigo in 1859, then Pall Mall, Bendigo in 1862. He moved to Ipswich
the following year where he appears to have remained for 2 years before
moving on to Little Quay St, Rockhampton in 1865 where he remained until
his death in 1870.
cartes de visite, sennotypes |
| Biggingee Sorabjee Pochee/
Poochee |
?
Cnr. Bell & Union Sts Brisbane St |
1863
Sep-Nov 1863 1864-1877 |
Originally from Bombay, India. Pochee,
a carpenter by trade set up a studio in Ipswich in 1863. This first studio
was short lived, and Pochee opened improved premises at the corner of Bell
and Union Sts on 14 Sep 1863 (Queensland Times 11 Sep 1863) but
closed these only to open a studio in Queen St, Brisbane on 23 January
1864 (Moreton Bay Courier Jan 23, 1864). Pochee returned to Ipswich
late in 1864 to new rooms in Brisbane St and he remained there for 13 years.
Pochee was the first person to operate a sugar crushing mill in the
Ipswich region. He travelled to Dalby in 1877 then on to Maryborough in
1878. Pochee left Maryborough to work in Gayndah for a short period
and eventually he relocated to Townsville in 1881. Pochee later moved to
Parramatta in 1894 to where his son Sorabjee had opened his own studio.
cartes de visite, sennotype |
| Robert Watson | Bell St | 1866-1878 | Watson operated from his residence
in Bell St. In 1879 he changed his residence to Wharf St, but he continued
to work from Bell St, being there a total of for some 12 years Watson does
not appear to have pursued photography after closing his studio.
cartes de visite |
| Robert Irwin | Ellenborough St | 1866-1867 | cartes de visite |
| Thomas Mathewson
(1842-1934) |
travelling photographer
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1868
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Not long arrived from Scotland
Thomas Mathewson was orphaned at a young age and was raised by the Cribb
family in Ipswich. He worked in Cribb and Foote stores in his teens.
Thomas learnt photography in Ipswich from Alfred Hazleton and having apprenticed
as a cabinet maker he built his first camera. Mathewson became a travelling
photographer, visiting many far flung parts of Queensland, travelling periodically
to Sydney for re-supplies. He visited Ipswich during his travels in 1868.
Later he set up a studio in Brisbane with his brother Peter in the long
running firm of Mathewson & Co in Queen St. Thomas opened a branch
studio in Ipswich in 1887 which operated Wednesdays and Saturdays. He parted company
with Peter in 1889 and continued to operate in Queen St eventually changing
the studio name to Regent Studios. Thomas Mathewson has been described
as Queensland's greatest photographer.
cartes de visite |
| George S. McClelland | travelling photographer | ? | McClelland moved to Maryborough
in 1876 and operated there in partnership with Clowes in 1877-78 and returned
to Maryborough in 1894 and simultaneously operated a studio in Gympie.
He also ran a studio in partnership with Goode in Rockhampton from 1885-1891.
Son of photographer Robert McClelland (see above).
cartes de visite |
| Andrew Cunningham | travelling photographer | Although predominantly based
in Armidale where he first set up in 1867 Cunningham also travelled throughout
northern NSW and southern Queensland including visits to Ipswich.
cartes de visite |
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| Andrew Chandler
(1835-1917) |
travelling photographer | c.1869-1870 | Chandler was brother-in-law to
photographer Albert Lomer (see below) and was in partnership
with him in Sydney. He spent periods as a travelling photographer
and later opened studios in Uralla and Armidale.
cartes de visite |
| Frisco Photo Co
(George Anthony Tissington) |
Brisbane St &
Ellenborough St |
Mar 1878-1882 | Tisiington previously worked
in various NSW towns such as Goulburn, Mudgee and Carcoar. He was
living in Townsville in 1877 then became manager of the Frisco Photo
Co in Brisbane in that year and then did the same in Brisbane St, Ipswich
taking over the premises of Poochee in March 1878. J. H. Lundager
operated another branch of the Frisco Photo Co in Rockhampton and
advertised reprints from the negatives of his former partner J. W. Wilder
(see above). Tissington's photograph mounts advertised "Photographs
copied and reduced to fit the smallest locket, or enlarged up to life size."
He eventually moved into Ellenborough St where he employed Francis Whitehead
who took over the studio in 1882/1883. Tissington opened a studio
in Toowoomba in 1880 before moving to Maryborough in 1882. A Tissington
Frisco Photo Co photograph mount that does not give a studio location offered
reprints from J. W. Wilder's negatives, that may have included those he
made in Ipswich (see above).
cartes de visite |
| William John Deazeley
(1860-1932) |
Brisbane St | 1882-1888 | Deazeley also operated a studio
in South Brisbane. He was the son of photographer John Deazeley of Brisbane
and Ipswich (see below). His photograph
mount advertised that he was a portrait and landscape photographer.
Deazeley's Ipswich studio was taken over by F. A. Whitehead in August 1888.
He returned to Ipswich in 1900 (see below).
cartes de visite |
| John Deazeley
(1831-1890) |
89 Brisbane St | 1883 | John Deazeley opened studio in
Queen St, Brisbane in 1873. He appears to have worked with his son
William (see above) in Ipswich during the
shifting of his studio location in Brisbane where he worked until 1886.
cartes de visite |
| Francis Whitehead
(1864-1943) |
Ellenborough St
Brisbane St |
1883-1888
1888-1943 |
Whitehead was born
in Ipswich and educated at Ipswich Grammar School. Sorabjee Pochee, who
followed his own father in to photography was a classmate there. At age
19 Whitehead was manager of Tissington's studio in Ellenborough, then he
opened his own studio there before taking over the operation of William
Deazeley (q.v). in Brisbane St in August 1888. The bungalow
premises were eventually replaced by a more substantial two storey building
in 1902. Whitehead's business was continued by his two sons and now his
grandson and it is the longest continuously family owned studio in Australia
(the longest running is Freeman's studio in Sydney although it is no longer
owned by the Freeman family).
cartes de visite, cabinet photos |
| Taylor & Mouland (Horace or Benjamin Taylor and Albert Henry Mouland) |
1886-1888 |
Mouland
worked in Kent Town, SA from 1884, then set up in Ipswich in partnership with
Horace or Benjamin Taylor in 1886 (see below).
After leaving Ipswich in 1888 he opened the Rembrandt Photo Studio in partnership
with Friedricks in Toowoomba. Mouland had his own studio their named Elite
Co. there in 1890. He married Jeannie Bain, daughter of photographer
cartes de visite |
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| Ipswich Portrait Rooms - Mathewson & Co (Thomas and Peter Mathewson) |
? | 1887 | Branch studio of Mathewson & Co's Brisbane studio that opened on Wednesdays and Saturdays, possibly only opened a short time. (see above) |
| Thomas Mills | Brisbane St | 1889-1893 | Previously an employee of Lomer &
Co in Brisbane, Mills opened his own studio in Ipswich and later moved
to Dugandan in 1893 and then Boonah where he remained until 1897.
cartes de visite, cabinet photos |
| IXL Studios
IXL Photo Co (Benjamin Hurst Taylor) (1857-1916) |
Nicholas St
Nicholas St Laidley |
1893-19??
1905-1908 1912-1916 |
Benjamin Taylor was
a grocer at Warwick before becoming a travelling photographer. He or perhaps his
brother Horace was in partnership with Albert Mouland in a studio in
Ipswich from 1886 for two years before Mouland moved to Toowoomba (see
above). Five years passed before Benjamin established a studio under his own
name in Ipswich, and he was the main competitor to Frank Whitehead
(q.v.). Taylor's wife Laura assisted him in the studio as a colourist
and photographer. Taylor took a series of views of the 1893 floods
as well as many other landscapes, some of which were published in
pictorial view books. He also was not averse to photographing people in
their own backyards, often draping a blanket as a makeshift backdrop and he
established a part time studio in Laidley in 1912.
His brother Horace Arthur Taylor had studios in Toowoomba and Roma. cabinet photos, postcards |
| Mrs. Laura Jane Taylor | Nicholas St | 1902-1908 | Benjamin Taylor's wife had a separate entry in contemporary trade directories for several years, although it is believed they always worked in the same studio together. Mrs. Taylor was an accomplished photographer in her own right. |
| Edward's Studio
(David Farquhar Edward (1867-1896) |
Brisbane St | 1894-1896 |
David Edward, born in 1867 in Perth, Scotland and was the son of James Edward and
Mary Ann Farquhar. He is probably the
same person who offered architectural
drawings in the Queensland National Association exhibition in 1883. He married
Helen Amelia Reed and they had three children.
Edward made an application for letters patent in 1894 (Queenslander, Saturday, November 24, 1894 p.1002). It
is likely it was his wife who ran the studio after his premature death in 1896
in partnership with her new husband Halbert Galt whom she
married n 1898.
cabinet photos |
| Edward's & Galt (Helen Amelia Edward 1872-1944 and Halbert Galt 1875-1960) |
Brisbane St | 1897-1899 | |
| Herbert Morris Ingram (1876-) |
Brisbane St | 1894-1898 | Ingram was educated at Ipswich Grammar
School. His father Rev. John Ingram, a baptist minister, served as
librarian at the School of Arts in Ipswich for 25 years.
cabinet photos |
| Lomer & Co
(Gustav Collin) (1842-1915) |
Brisbane St | 1898-1899 | A branch of Lomer & Co's studio
in Queen St, Brisbane was established for a short time in Ipswich. Gustav
Collin had been an operator for Albert Lomer and then in partnership with
fellow employee Francis Keogh he bought out the Brisbane studio c.1894
and Keogh left to set up on his own in 1896. It is not known whether
Collin himself or a manager actually operated the Ipswich branch studio.
cabinet photos |
| William John Deazeley (1860-1932) |
Brisbane St | 1900-1902 | Son of John Deazeley. (see above). WJD moved to Toowoomba in 1903 and set up in partnership with Schaefer there in 1905. He then ran his own studio in Toowoomba from 1906. |
| Percy Shelton (1881-1917) |
1909-1910 | Percy and Alfred
Shelton were the sons of William Shelton and Lucy Ann Hunt. Percy was listed a a photographer from
1903 but doesn't appear to have had his own studio until 1909. He worked for a
time in partnership with his older brother Alfred who died in 1910. It is
unclear if he merely continued the studio name Shelton Bros beyond this or
whether another brother became involved in the business. postcard photos, mounted silver gelatin prints |
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| Shelton Bros (Percy 1881-1917 & Alfred Shelton 1871-1910) |
1910-1913+ | ||
| New Bijou Studio
Harry Oakhill Williams |
1912-1923 | Previously worked as a monumental mason in
Ipswich. postcard photos, mounted silver gelatin prints |
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| V. Wicks | c. 1916 | postcard photos (WWI soldier portraits) | |
| Walter Eustace Perroux | 19?? | ||
| EARLY POST CARD PUBLISHERS | |||
| PUBLISHER/SERIES | DATES PRODUCED | NOTES | |
| Coloured Shell Series | c.1904-1915 | Produced view postcards covering the all major towns of Queensland. They appear to have licensed negatives also used by other publishers. Their range included over 150 different views. Indexing project for this series currently underway by Reg Stonard of the Queensland Card Collector's Society Inc. | |
| E.D. & Co. later EDCO
(Edwards Dunlop & Company) |
c1905-1915 | Published numerous view postcards initially real photographs usually taken by Crown Studios of Sydney later moving into printed postcards. Most cards feature an identifying serial number and they cover both the major and many smaller towns of Queensland. | |
| Queensland Intelligence and Tourism Bureau | 1905-1910 | Series of government produced printed view postcards many taken by the departmental photographer Henry William Mobsby | |
| Taylor IXL | Series of black and white printed cards covering south-east
Queensland published by Ipswich photographer Benjamin Taylor
List of titles: Girls Grammar School |
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| Roslyn Series | Series of black and white printed cards covering most of Queensland, similar in appearance to those of Taylor, possibly originating from the same printer. | ||
| Notes:
Some of the year ranges stated may not be complete as the information is limited to what has appeared in trade directories and newspapers and what was written on photos. It is always difficult to determine those travelling/itinerant photographers who may have visited the region as they often visited for very short periods. Usually they would announce their arrival in a local newspaper. Anyone with further information about the above photographers or with names of and information about other photographers not listed is welcome to send me an e-mail. I am particularly interested in making contact with the descendants and relations of photographers. |
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| Sources:
private photograph
collection of site author
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| Thankyou to Jack Mathewson & Nancy Bennett (grandchildren of Thomas Mathewson), Nancy Foote (Cribb & Foote family historian, deceased), Viva Cribb (Cribb & Foote family historian and member Ipswich Historical Society), John Whitehead (grandson of Francis Whitehead), Jackie Sheridan (descendant of B. Pochee), Cameron McKee (archivist Ipswich Grammar School), Angela Geertsma (great grand-daughter of Ben Taylor), Helene Hughes (great grand-daughter of J. H. Lundager), John Rossiter (Ipswich historian), Tim Lynch (Ipswich City Council), Bill Main (author & photo historian Wellington, NZ) and Alan Davies (curator picture collection Mitchell Library, Sydney and author) | |||
| GUIDE TO PHOTOGRAPH TYPES | |
| Daguerreotype | Invented by Louis Daguerre in 1837 and introduced to the world in 1839. The daguerreotype was produced on highly buffed silver coated on to a brass plate and cannot be easily viewed unless turned at the right angle. The image was mounted under a brass mat and glass and placed in a leather bound folding case (imported from the USA, France or England) or sometimes framed. Ninth, sixth, quarter and half plate sizes were the most popular - the former two being those most commonly found. |
| Calotype | A paper print made from a paper negative. Pioneered by Fox Talbot, the calotype was introduced at the same time of the daguerreotype but never caught on in popularity |
| Ambrotype
(Collodiotype) |
Underexposed and sometimes bleached photographic negative on glass backed by black paper, dark velvet or black paint directly on the plate to make the negative appear positive. This was then mounted in a brass frame and placed in a papier-mâché or leather bound folding case or sometimes framed. Ninth, sixth and quarter plate sizes were all popular - half and full plate images are sometimes seen. |
| Carte de Visite | Paper photograph from glass plate negative mounted on card board mount 2 1/2" x 4" - popular from 1861-c.1895 |
| Cabinet Photo | Paper photograph from glass plate negative mounted on card board mount 4 1/4" x 6 1/2" - popular from mid 1870s-c.1905 |
| Tintype | Photograph on metallic tin, akin to an ambrotype. Produced in many sizes, the most popular being a small postage stamp sized tintype (gem tintype) which could be mounted in carte de visite sized cardboard frame (carte de visite tintype) or an unmounted carte de visite size (2½" x 3½"plate - so called sixth plate). Introduced to Australia in 1858 but popular 1879-1885. |
| Opalotype | Photograph on white opaque "milk" or "opal" glass. Commonly 12" x 14" and framed. Poplar from mid 1880s until 1920s. |
| Postcard Photo | Photograph on paper with printed post card back, so that it could be mailed if desired taking advantage of the penny post. This paper was used by professionals (where it was mainly used for studio portraiture or for views specifically for the postcard market) and by amateurs alike. Size 5" x 3 1/2" |
| Ipswich and district historical organisations/libraries/museums and internet links: | |
| Ipswich Historical Society
PO Box 295 Ipswich QLD 4305 |
(new headquarters at Blacksoil undergoing refurbishment)
Meetings: Old Ipswich Courthouse on the first Sat. of every month at 10:00am. Contact: Ian Wilson (President) (07) 3281 8109 |
| Rosewood Scrub Historical Society Inc. | The Rosewood Scrub region encompasses the towns of Minden, Lowood, Marburg, Haigslea, Prenzlau and Tallegalla and extends to Rosewood. Display Centre open every 1st and 3rd Sundays of the month 1:30-4:00 pm, Edmund Street, Marburg |
| Ipswich Genealogical Society
Bremer Institute of TAFE Cnr. Ellenborough & Limestone Sts P.O. Box 323 Ipswich QLD 4305 www.connectqld.org.au/ipsgen |
The Ipswich Genealogical Society is a non-profit organisation run by volunteers catering for Family History Research for members and other researchers. A wide range of resources including Microform, Books and Computer Software cater for Local and Worldwide research. See their website for further information |
| Ipswich Library
South St Ipswich QLD http://library.ipswich.qld.gov.au/lh |
Ipswich Council library. Holds books relating to Ipswich local history, indexes of vital and other records and microfilms of the Queensland Times. Other resource material relating to Ipswich history such as photographs, newspapers and manuscript material is held in the John Oxley Library of Queensland History in the State Library of Queensland in South Brisbane. |
| Ipswich Global-Links
http://infoservice.gil.com.au/ |
A major artistic and cultural endeavour by the Ipswich City Council. The Art Gallery holds a number of portraits of the early mayors and councillors of Ipswich taken by Francis Whitehead as well as a lithograph published in 1872 based on Pochee's photographic panorama of the town.. |
| A History of The Queensland Times
http://www.qt.com.au/histo.html |
Ipswich's longest running newspaper. Early issues available on microfilm in Ipswich Council Library and microfilm section, State Library of Queensland. |
| Ipswich Grammar School | Established 1863 - Queensland's oldest private school |
| Ipswich Photographers Directory | Guide to current photographers active in the Ipswich region |
| Queensland State Archives
PO Box 1397 Sunnybank Hills QLD 4109 Phone: (07) 3875 8755 |
Repository for all State Government department records relating to Ipswich including land transactions, probate and court records and local rate books. |
| Wanted
I am always after photographs for my reference collection and I welcome offers of any old photographs, postcards and albums (not just from Queensland but anywhere in Australia). I also seek glass plate negatives and early wood and brass camera gear. |