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English: The Richard Daintree collection held in the John Oxley Library has many unidentified images. If you are able to assist with identification, please let us know.

Richard Daintree, geologist and photographer, was born in 1832 in Huntingdonshire, England. He matriculated at Christ's College, Cambridge in 1851 and in 1852 joined the gold rush to Victoria. On a visit to England he became interested in photography and when he rejoined the Geological Survey in 1859 he pioneered the use of photography in field-work. In 1864 he became a resident partner with William Hann in pastoral properties in the Burdekin country of North Queensland. There he was able to indulge his passions for both photography and prospecting.
Daintree advocated a geological survey of Queensland and when it began in 1868 he was geologist in charge of the northern division until 1870. In that year he made some of his finest photographic studies.
His photographs , taken under difficult conditions by the cumbersome wet-plate process, are superb specimens of the art and present a vivid picture of early settlement in Queensland.

View this image at the State Library of Queensland: http://hdl.handle.net/10462/deriv/9930

Information about State Library of Queensland’s collection: http://www.slq.qld.gov.au/resources/picture-queensland