Charles H Handley b. 1847

  • Artist (Photographer)
professional photographer from England active in Cairns and North Queensland 1887-1900, in partnership with Alfred Atkinson from 1891. Known for his documentation of the region and Aboriginal people as well as as a collector for the British Museum.

Citations

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

  • 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

  • Thorp, Justine Margaret (2005) The development of the tourism cultural landscape of the Cairns Region, 1890- 1970. PhD thesis, James Cook University.