This detail above and the Harbeck Rare Books catalogue description of the piece below:
Frederic Charles URQUHART (1858–1935)
1) Albumen photograph of F C Urquhart with three Native
Police black trackers, ca. 1885. 12 x 16.5 cm.
Slightly age-toned, a few creases.
A rare and early image of Urquhart and three unidentified
Aboriginal police men, of the so-called Native Police. These
men were often called black trackers. Urquhart is wearing a
tropical helmet, an ammunition belt around his chest and is
holding a rifle. The Aboriginal men are wearing dark uniforms
and caps and are unarmed.
Urquhart had joined the Queensland Native Mounted Police
Force on 27 April 1882 as a cadet and was installed as
sub-inspector in charge of the Gulf, Cape York and Torres
Strait districts. He transferred in 1889 to the general
police. In 1917 he became Queenslands fourth Police
Commissioner.
$650
with another original photograph below:
3 Albumen photograph on card of F C Urquhart, ca. 1917.
15.5 x 11 cm. A few spots of foxing, very good.
This photograph shows Urquhart in his Police Commissioners
uniform.
$295
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