Growing up she was trained in the Melbourne studios of Henry Johnstone and Miss O'Shaughnessy.

[2] She married Tom Humphreys and established her life in the city of Melbourne, Australia.

Alice began her photography career in 1900 with her husband Tom Humphreys, setting up at some stage between 1900 and 1907 her own studio in her name on Collins Street.

[5] Albumen prints were the main ones over the period mentioned where the binder was egg white.

With her exhibition of Women's Work, Alice Mill's studio portraits and press photographs of young men from war were mounted in a separate special display.