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Print
52721
  • Title
    Ted Hood collection (portraits)
  • Creator
  • Call number
    PXA 584/1-68
  • Level of description
    series
  • Date

    ca. 1913-1957
  • Type of material
  • Reference code
    52721
  • Issue Copy
    Digitised
  • Physical Description
    Photographs - 68 silver gelatin photoprints
  • Scope and Content
    1-4. Jonathon King as a baby by Ted Hood, 1951
    5-14. Children in Sydney slums, mainly Surry Hills, Woolloomooloo, Redfern, 1949 by Ted Hood [no.9 Hills Reserve, aka Frog Hollow, Surry Hills; nos 6 & 13 Noel and Alan Masters, Surry Hills; no. 13 Little Riley Street, north from Foveaux Street]
    15-16. [African American boxer and world heavyweight champion, Jack Johnson]
    17. Two giant beefeaters
    18-19. Jack Turner press photographer [1913]
    20. Don Bradman and Stan McCabe
    21-22. Betty Cuthbert
    23. Marjory Jackson
    24. Keith Miller meets H.R.H. Prince Philip
    25. Count and Countess Von Luckner ... on their yacht ...
    26. Ted Hood photographing journalist Leo Basser D/T 1937
    27-35. Gladys Moncrieff
    36. Fred Atkins wrestler
    37. George Formby
    38. Bob Hope and Mel Lawton (Manager Prince Edward Theatre)
    39. Old funny face back home Cecil Kellaway
    40. Baritone singer Sir Peter Dawson singing at ANZAC Service in Martin Place
    41. Captain John Collins
    42. U.S. wurlitzer organist Fred Scholl, Sydney Capitol Theatre
    43. Clark Gable and Tilly Shelton-Smith, Sydney journalist of the Daily Telegraph
    44. Horrie Dargie and his boys
    45. Rod [Gurr?] and Ron Randell
    46. Audience at auditorium, Fox Movietone, circa 1932 (Claude Carter, Ray Vaughan, Tony Grieves)
    47. Centre Kurt Hekmanns bidding for Lohmans circa 1934
    48. Stuart Erwin, Eugene Pallette, Clive Brook, Kay Francis, Garry Cooper [i.e. Gary Cooper, film star], Jack Oakie, "Skeets" Gallagher, William Boyde, Richard Arlen, Carole Lombard, Wynne Gibson, Rosetta Moreno, Norman Foster, Sylvia Sidney, Lilyan Tashman, Mitzie Greene, Jackie Searl
    49. "Driver" of Pyrmont Opening Bridge
    50. Capitol Theatre circa 1932. 5th from left, Rika Williams. 6th from left, Queenie Royal
    51. The Royal visit of H.R.H. Prince of Wales 1921 [i.e. 1920]. Sam Hood production
    52. Sam Hood outside 124 Pitt Street, Dalny Studios
    53. S.J. Hood authority card of Australian Military Forces, Victoria Barracks
    54. Captain E. Sterling's two daughters. Helen (at the piano) and Ethel (in the saloon) of their father's six masted barquentine, the "E. R. Sterling" circa 1914
    55. ACTU Conference
    56. Roy Rene's son ... van der Sluice
    57. Roslyn [i.e. Rosaleen] Norton was taken by Ted Hood at an art studio in George Street, North, run by Hal Missingham. The two young men were newspaper artists.
    58. Ben Buckler fishermen's paradise 1938
    59. At sea. Some of the crew of the "E. R. Sterling". The chinese cook has his arm around eight years old Ted Hood
    60. Ted Hood ca. 1936
    61. Young Sam Hood with Dr. Huber
    62. Sam Hood with former Prime Minister Billy Hughes, photographed in Canberra about 1940 by Gerry Riley of the Melbourne Herald
    63-64. Sailors on the "E. R. Sterling" mending sails
    65-66. [sailors]
    67. [baby]
    68. [female motor cyclist]
  • Copying Conditions
    Out of copyright: Created before 1955
  • Published Information
    Nos 18-19: the portrait of Jack Turner, Sun newspaper photographer, with his camera, was published in Harrington's Photographic Journal, 21 February 1914
  • General note

    Some photoprints have negatives available at: ON 145 (v.2). See contents list with items
    No. 9 published in: Sydney : a celebration in pictures (Millenium special, Sunday Telegraph, 14 Nov 1999)
    No. 9 published in: Troy Lennon "Peaceful retreat hid life on a razor's edge", History, Daily Telegraph, Fri 23 Feb 2007 (p.63)
    Digital order no:Album ID : 888082
  • Signatures / Inscriptions

    Some photoprints are annotated on reverse
  • Attributions / conjectures

    Nos 6 & 13 Noel and Alan Masters identified by Mavis Stevens, February 2010 (Alan with darker hair)
    No. 13 identified as Little Riley Street, north of Foveaux Street by a viewer of the Library's Flickr photostream, January 2014
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  • Subject
  • Topic
  • Place
  • Exhibited in

    Sydney Eccentrics: A Celebration of Individuals in Society - State Library of New South Wales (22 April - 29 August, 1999). Applies to: No. 57
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