professional photographer, claimed to have visited 'all the principal towns in Victoria’ before coming to Brisbane where in 1855 he was offering daguerreotypes and photographs taken by 'the Collodiotype process’ (ambrotypes). Early in 1857 he advertised that he was about to leave on a tour through Queensland, giving his itinerary as Ipswich (for four months), then brief stops of a fortnight or so at Drayton, Warwick and Dalby. He had, he said, been commissioned to provide a full-length daguerreotype of James Taylor JP to place over the Ipswich Courthouse bench. Whether Elsbee ever progressed beyond Ipswich is unknown. The North Australian noted that he had been kept there beyond his initial 'tolerably long successful sojourn’ because the 'numbers of persons who wished to have their portraits taken kept him fully employed’. He announced that while at Ipswich he was willing to take subjects of every description, including 'Home Stations, Landscapes, Horses and Stock’.
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- Writers:
- Fisher, Rod
- Date written:
- 1992
- Last updated:
- 2011
