James Elsbee

  • Artist (Photographer)
A professional photographer who claimed to have visited all the principal towns in Victoria before coming to Brisbane. He toured Queensland and was willing to take subjects of every description, including 'Home Stations, Landscapes, Horses and Stock'.

Citations

  • Fisher, R. (1985), 'Aspects of early photography in the Moreton Bay region’, Brisbane History Group Paper 3, Brisbane, Qld.

  • (1986), '“Through a glass, darkly”: Photographers and their role in the Moreton Bay region before 1860’, Journal of the Royal Historical Society of Queensland 12/3.

Initial data sources

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