Alfred Atkinson b. 19 January 1867

  • Artist (Photographer)
Queensland photographer whose work depicts the Aboriginal communities of the Palmer district. Examples of his work are held by the Cairns Historical Society and the Institute of Aboriginal Studies in Canberra.

Citations

  • Richards, Matthew Daniel McCormack (2010) Race around Cairns: representations, perceptions and realities of race in the Trinity Bay district 1876-1908. PhD thesis, James Cook University

    http://eprints.jcu.edu.au/19031

  • Interview with Beatrice Wiles, Cairns Historical Society Bulletin, no.358, June 1990, Cairns Historical Society, D 1475

  • Alfred Atkinson: born 19 January 1867, died 6 November 1950. Document Number 14011, Cairns Historical Society

  • Brown, Julie , 1984, Versions of Reality’: the production and function of photographs in colonial Queensland, 1880 – 1900, PhD Thesis, Department of History. University of Queensland, Brisbane

  • Searle. Ross, 1993, Artists in Tropical Queensland: historical surveyor artists in Norh Queensland, Master of Letters in Museum Studies thesis. James Cook Universily, Townsville

Initial data sources

  • Legacy data. Source 'unknown'