The mainstay of Lundager's work as a photographer in Mt Morgan were the commissions for Mount Morgan Gold Mining Company to photograph the mine, and to take individual and group portraits of mine owners and managers and company guests, as well as domestic group portraits of professional and managerial staff and their families. Lundager also photographed groups of mine workers as well as town panoramas and various activities and events within the town itself.
Photographs of Aboriginal and Islander people are rarely seen and it is thought that only a handful of images have survived including a rare cdv of an aboriginal mother and child photographed in central Queensland in the late 1880s or early 1890s (see below blog Friday, 13 May, 2011). It is possible there were other photographs depicting Aboriginal people but they have been lost when Lundager's Rockhampton studio was destroyed by fire. The above image is from Mt Morgan.
He was commissioned in 1885 to create a photographic album for the Indian and Colonial Exhibition by order of the Queensland Government. Within this album held by Gladstone Art Gallery and Museum is an image from the deck of the Blackbirding ship 'Lizzie' with 120 labourers from the New Hebrides photographed in Cleveland Bay, Townsville in 1883.
He was commissioned in 1885 to create a photographic album for the Indian and Colonial Exhibition by order of the Queensland Government. Within this album held by Gladstone Art Gallery and Museum is an image from the deck of the Blackbirding ship 'Lizzie' with 120 labourers from the New Hebrides photographed in Cleveland Bay, Townsville in 1883.
