Algernon Hall

Also known as Alzerno Hall, A. Hall
  • Artist (Photographer)
Professional photographer, worked in Victoria and Queensland taking portraits and views of towns and districts. He photographed the bushranger Daniel 'Mad Dog' Morgan lying dead in a woolshed at Peechelba Station in 1865.

Citations

  • Davies, Alan & Stanbury, Peter (1985), 'The Mechanical Eye in Australia: Photography 1841-1900’, Melbourne, Vic.: Oxford University Press.

  • Barrie, S. (1988), 'Queenslanders behind the Camera 3’, Morningside, Qld.

  • (1866), Beechworth Directory.

  • Ashley, R., 'Index to Australian photographic artists’, manuscript.

  • 'Minute Books 1866-67’, Beechworth Borough Council, Beechworth, Vic.

  • Information sourced from Thomson, J.

  • (1875), Copperfield Miner, 07-24.

Initial data sources

  • The Dictionary of Australian Artists: painters, sketchers, photographers and engravers to 1870