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Frank Corley (born Francis Huia Miller Corley, 15 January 1913-19 October 1995) was a New Zealand-born commercial photographer who worked in South East Queensland, and primarily Brisbane in Australia. Corley was one of a number of commercial house photographers who worked in Brisbane from the late 1950s onwards, selling photographs of suburban homes to their owners, often in the form of calendars. .

Corley's business was called the Pan American Home Photographic Co., and comprised a team of employees involved in photography, sales and printing. Corley was married to Eunice Reid Corley (1913-1988), who worked closely with him in the enterprise, developing the film.

While produced for commerical purposes, today, Corley's photographs represent an important and unparalleled survey of suburban Brisbane during postwar decades, capturing the city during an important moment of transition and expansion.

Frank and Eunice Corley House Photographs Collection
In 1995 Corley donated a large collection of his photographs to the John Oxley Library, at the State Library of Queensland. The library holds more that 60,000 of Corley's black and white photographs of single detached houses. The collection comprises unsold photographs, which were retained, largely, for taxation purposes. As of August 2018, more that 50,000 of these have been digitised. Since 2014 the Annerley-Stephens History Group has been working to identify the houses in the collection. The project has been co-ordinated by historian Dennis Peel, and more than 200 volunteers have been involved.

The work of Frank and Eunice Corley will feature in an exhibition titled 'Home: A Suburban Obsession' at the State Library of Queensland opening in December 2018.