| Ada Annie Driver | |
| Birth Date: | 12 November 1868 |
| Birth Place: | Queensland, Australia |
| Death Place: | Queensland, Australia |
| Years Active: | 1906–1919 |
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}Ada Annie Driver (12 November 1868 – 31 December 1954) was an Australian photographer in Brisbane during the early twentieth century. She ran a photography studio on Queen street in Brisbane between 1906 to 1919.
One of eight children, Driver was born on 12 November 1868 to Charles Driver and Harriett Howe in Queensland, Australia.[1] [2] Driver’s father Charles was first a cane cutter, before opening a shop.
Driver trained with Danish-born photographer Poul C. Poulson who set up a photographic studio at 7 Queen street in Brisbane, in 1882.
In 1906, Driver opened her own photographic studio, Ada Driver’s Studio, at 51 Queen street in Brisbane. She specialised in high-class portraiture, children’s portraits, artistic colouring, postcards, and illustrative works. She advertised in The Brisbane Courier that her studio's rooms are the largest in Brisbane, neatly furnished, and use the newest Appliances.[3]
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, as well as photographer Elsie Lambton.[4]
Driver also created magic lantern slides and stereoscopic photographs, some of which have been bequeathed to the State Library of Queensland.The Ada Driver studio shut down in 1919.
In 1913, Driver married William Ellis Evans, who managed the Queensland branch of Kodak.Driver died on 31 December 1954.