Frank and Eunice Corley House Photographs
Collection
The photographs are black and white front-on shots of individual houses, printed about postcard size, and taken in most suburbs of Brisbane and in surrounding areas of Ipswich, Redcliffe, Toowoomba, Stanthorpe, Bundaberg, Maryborough, Gympie, Hervey Bay, Kingaroy, Nambour, Caboolture, Landsborough and nearby environs.
Frank Corley was a professional photographer who moved to Brisbane from New South Wales with his wife Eunice and lived in Annerley from at least 1972 to 1980. Frank and Eunice were married at Burwood, Sydney in New South Wales in 1949 Frank and Eunice are thought to have been the owners and operators of Pan American Home Photographic Co., which records indicate was the photographic division of F. & E. Corley Interstate Enterprises and Co. Frank was not well known in the professional photography circles in Brisbane and also owned and managed a transport business, caravan parks and a lolly shop. The couple amassed a significant collection of photographs featuring houses across Queensland as they travelled in their pink Cadillac, with Frank taking the photographs and Eunice developing the reels of film. Eunice passed away in 1988 and Frank Corley died on 19 Oct 1995. (Some information obtained in regards to Frank has come from an obituary written by Doug Spowart who met him once in 1985. Doug Spowart, formerly of Images Gallery- West End, published the obituary in a magazine 'Photography', (Vol. 6, Xmas Issue, 1995), for which he was editor.)
In copyright.