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Sir Donald Charles Cameron, KCMG, DSO, VD (19 November 1879 – 19 November 1960) was an Australian politician and soldier. He was a member of the Australian House of Representatives as the Nationalist Party of Australia member for Brisbane from 1919 to 1931 and as the United Australia Party member for Lilley from 1934 to 1937 Born in Brisbane, the son of a grazier, he was educated at Toowoomba Grammar School and Brisbane Grammar School. He served with the Queensland Imperial Bushmen in the Second Boer War and with American forces in China during the Boxer Rebellion. He managed the family property, Kensington Downs, along with his brothers between 1902 and 1914, when he enlisted in World War I. He was shot through the liver and lung at the Battle of Gallipoli, and finished the First World War as a lieutenant colonel in command of the 5th Light Horse Regiment. He was mentioned in despatches, received the Order of the Nile, and was appointed a Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George for his war service.[1][2] In 1919 he won the seat of Brisbane for the Nationalist Party of Australia, holding it until he was defeated by the Australian Labor Party in 1931. In 1934 he won the nearby seat of Lilley, but retired in 1937. In 1932 he was made a Knight Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George.[2 During World War II, Cameron was chairman of the New South Wales recruiting committee for the Royal Australian Air Force. He died on 19 November 1960 and was cremated; his ashes were buried in the family cemetery on Home Creek Station. Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Charles_Cameron_(politician)

The Australasian Supplement published a long report from a ‘Special Correspondent’ on the Universal Exhibition in Vienna. From the perspective of Vienna, and through Daintree’s ‘charming coloured photographs’, they were able to see Queensland as a whole: They are so pretty and so instructive, without seeming to be so, that few people can pass them by without going steadily through them. They are of high interest to the geologist, while at the same time the person who is not a geologist will be just as much interested; for in addition to the regular sequence of views, commencing with the alluvial districts and the sugar plantations, and working up to the gold formations, there is so much life introduced into them that one feels that one is looking at Queensland through a camera.55 Richard Daintree was not only a frontier photographer, and he was not only a metropolitan photographer – his work was the product of both spaces as they interacted within the new space of modern spectacle. The images were exposed right at the outer edge of imperial expansion, but they were produced into meaning right at its center, integrating the very latest in display technologies within the most sophisticated of scientific systems. In many ways, therefore, they anticipate the future role of ‘the photograph’ over the 150 years that followed when, within the increasingly sophisticated exhibition, publication, and, eventually, online digital spaces, photographs increasingly became retrievable polysemic units within a mobile dataset, and they were increasingly experienced as retinal events aggregated together into a synthetic optical field. Source: Frontier and Metropole, Science and Colonisation: The Systematic Exhibitions of Richard Daintree Martyn Jolly, published online 2020 doi.org/10.1080/03087298.2020.1788233

I'd be lost!

Which one goes where? ;-)

I wonder if they ever were all labelled, or whether you were just supposed to know?

Hello Just thought I'd let you know that one of our associate curators, Rebecca Smith, has selected this photograph as his February Flickr Favourite on our blog. - Emma

Massive complexity.