George Thomas Jones b.

  • Artist (Photographer)
Nineteenth century professional photographer, surveyor and engineer, he produced photographs of 'the sunburnt countenances' of goldrush diggers after migrating to Victoria in 1853.
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professional photographer, surveyor and engineer, was born in Hull, Yorkshire, and came to Victoria in 1853, presumably to join the gold rush. He subsequently turned to photography. The Gippsland Guardian of 11 January 1861 reported that 'Mr. G.T. Jones has been following his avocation as photographer at Lucknow, where he has been successfully engaged in copying the sunburnt countenances of the diggers who have come down from the hills for recreation during the Christmas holdiays’, and that he then intended going to Port Albert and Tarraville. Soon afterwards Jones was employed as a surveyor and appears to have abandoned photography. He was surveyor on Angus McMillan’s alpine track-cutting expedition in 1864. Afterwards he lived at Sale, working as a surveyor, then was appointed shire engineer of Rosedale and, four years later, shire engineer at Maffra.

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Date written:
1992
Last updated:
2011

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