Aerial view of ships docked at the South Brisbane Coal Wharves, circa 1889

In the foreground there is a small sailing ship with the sails hoisted. Small coal carts can be seen on the rail lines on the wharf area and several pulley systems are spread out along the dock. There are barges moored next to the sailing ship. A steamer called Iceberg is docked in the centre foreground, while a three-masted sail boat is laying at anchor behind the 'Iceberg. Larger ships in the background from left to right are "Leichhardt", ??, Tom Fisher Schooner (small white sails), ?? can be seen in the background.

Albert Lomer (Professional photographer and colourist of Brisbane, Sydney and Queensland who worked throughout the mid to late 19th century. A one-time partner of Andrew Chandler, Lomer's later clients included the painter Samuel Elyard. professional photographer, worked in Melbourne before 1865 when he opened a studio at Sydney in partnership with Andrew Chandler . They advertised as being from W. Davies & Co. of Melbourne, where both had presumably trained. Their studio, The London Photographic Company, was at 419 George Street, next door to Lassetter’s ironmongery store. By February 1867 Lomer was continuing alone but promising that 'the business will be conducted in the same efficient manner and under the same liberal principles as hitherto’. He had reduced the old price for cartes-de-visite to two for 5s or 15s a dozen and sold cabinet and other portrait photographs 'beautifully coloured (on the premises) in oil or water’. Lomer appears to have been his own colourist, regularly advertising as both 'artist and photographer’ (which this normally signified). In 1872-73 Lomer was working at 57 Bourke Street, Melbourne. He then established a very successful Brisbane studio at 158 Queen Street which lasted from 1874 until 1905, although he apparently no longer ran it after 1880. Branch studios were opened in various parts of the colony: the Lomer studio at Mackay in 1887 (managed by J.P. Kemp), a studio at Toowoomba (1893-96) and one at Ipswich (1898-99). Lomer was again in Sydney in 1880-95. In April 1881 Albert Lomer’s Parlour Studios at 805 George Street opposite the railway terminus,'The Really Popular (and Cheap) Photographer’, was selling cartes-de-visite for 7s 6d a dozen. He claimed that he was 'Especially esteemed for his portraits of Babies and Children’. (Design and Art Australia Online)