Portrait of Robert Long, South Sea Island Mission, Nambour, 1906

Portrait of Robert Long, South Sea Island Mission, Nambour, 1906

Description

This posed black-and-white photograph is a head-and-shoulders portrait of Robert Long, a leader of the South Sea Island Mission at Nambour in Queensland. Long is shown resting his arms on an unseen surface at chest height and holding what appears to be a Bible. The photograph is in an oval frame and is one of a series of portraits that appeared on a page in The Queenslander newspaper.

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