Title

A Travelling Photographer in Colonial Queensland. The Work of William Boag.

Author

Byrne, Dianne.

Details

Brisbane : State Library of Queensland, 1994

Publication date

1994

Physical description

pages: ix, 118; illustrations: b&w, portraits, maps; format: 30 cm.

ISBN

0724258833

Type

Book

Language

English

Country of context

Australia

Subject category

Australia, Art period: Colonial, Queensland

Abstract

In 1984, a collection of over 300 glass platen egatives produced by the travelling 19th century photographer, william Boag, were discovered amongst material in the photographic studio of the Haig Brothers, in the town of Warwick, Queensland. This collection constituted a record of many of the people, places and principal settlements established in south-east Queensland in the early 1870s. [publishers blurb].