Ada Driver
Australian photographer (1868–1954)
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Ada Annie Driver (12 November 1868 – 22 February 1956) was an Australian photographer in Brisbane during the early twentieth century. She ran a photography studio on Queen Street in Brisbane between 1906 and 1919.
Ada Annie Driver | |
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| Born | 12 November 1868 Queensland, Australia |
| Died | 22 February 1956 (aged 87) Queensland, Australia |
| Years active | 1906–1919 |
| Known for | Portrait photography |
| Spouse |
William Ellis Evans (m. 1913) |
| Parents |
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Early life
Career
Driver trained with Danish-born photographer Poul C. Poulson who set up a photographic studio at 7 Queen street in Brisbane, in 1882.[1]
In 1906, Driver opened her own photographic studio, Ada Driver's Studio, at 51 Queen street in Brisbane.[1][2] She specialised in high-class portraiture, children's portraits, artistic colouring, postcards, and illustrative works.[1] She advertised in The Brisbane Courier that her studio's rooms are the largest in Brisbane, neatly furnished, and use the newest Appliances.[3]
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Driver's business was successful, allowing her to employ studio assistants who were mostly women, including Lucy, her sister who took over the Ada Driver studios in Fortitude Valley,[1] as well as photographer Elsie Lambton.[1][4]
Driver also created magic lantern slides and stereoscopic photographs, some of which have been bequeathed to the State Library of Queensland.[1] The Ada Driver studio shut down in 1919.[1]
