446726
- TitleHood Collection part II : Miscellaneous photographs
- Creator
- Call numbera002809 Online
- Level of descriptionfile
- Date
approximately 1900-1930 - Type of material
- Reference code446726
- Issue CopyDigitised
- Physical Description86 photographs - digital images (copies of nitrate photonegatives) - 8 x 14 cm., 9 x 11 cm
- Scope and Content1. Bales of wool on horse drawn drays, Millers Point (note the bandstand, background left and dome of the Observatory, background right), 1920s
2. Two women, Blue Mountains (?), approximately 1912
3. Matilda Street, Bondi, taken from Saunders' Removalists yard, approximately 1920
4. Miss Marcelle Boivin, daughter of Eugene Boivin, secretary of the French Consulate, on the veranda of Ewenton, Balmain (note the chatelaine on the mesh handbag), approximately 1912
5. Paving Hunter Street, Newcastle near the Hotel Rawson and premises of Dick Bath
6. Paving Newcomen Street, Newcastle near Hunter Street
7. Hood family (?) portrait, Balmain (note the father is a sergeant in AIF uniform with 'INF' badges on his epaulettes, he wears no colour patches), approximately 1915
8-9. Women and girls at a function, Vaucluse House, approximately 1920
10. Militia (one soldier has '33' badge on his forage cap and badge on the sleeve is 'Citizen Forces, 1812-1917' with a star in the map of Australia), approximately 1917
11. 30 class tank engine and schoolboy rail strike-breakers with Union Jack on the engine, August 1917
12-15. Crowds arriving, Taronga Park, approximately 1916
16-24. Visitors inspect animals in enclosures and pools, Taronga Zoo
25. Uniformed keeper with spotted animal, Taronga Zoo
26-27. Man has his photograph taken with an orang-outang, Taronga Zoo
28. Veterinarian operates on a leopard (?)
29-78. Film party in the bush and a motor launch on the water, in a bushfire and skiing on Hotel Kosciusko slopes (portraits and a C&W cinema camera) (possibly the film 'Joe', 1924, possibly E. S. Marks as one of the party wears a blazer with the Australian coat-of-arms), approximately 1925
79-80. Strike (?), Railway Institute and Central Court (note the cinecamera), approximately 1917
81-84. Great War recruitment office or schoolboy strike-breaker signing on, probably 1917
85. My brother Bill (i.e. Bill Hood) at 'Haxton', Balmain
86. Charlie Penfold, the Hood's Burmese cook, washing the floor at 'Haxton', Balmain - Appraisal NoteOriginal nitrate negatives destroyed after copying, May 2010
- Copying ConditionsOut of copyright:
Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales - Description source
Contents list titles devised by cataloguer from Sam and Ted Hood's notes on the original envelopes. - General note
Digital order no:Album ID : 897135
Digital images only held. Original nitrate negatives digitally copied and disposed of
Negative no. 4 identified as Marcelle Boivin, daughter of Eugene Boivin, secretary of the French Consulate by Julie Dyson, September 2016. Previously titled 'Miss Marcelle Boivin, daughter of the head chef at the Paris House, on the veranda of Ewenton, Balmain'
Postcard size negatives (8 x 14 cm.) probably taken on 122 size film on a Kodak 3A Folding Pocket Camera (A. Davies, Curator of Photographs) - Signatures / Inscriptions
'Mr Marks' on original envelope housing negatives nos. 29-78 - Date note
Copies of approximately 1900-1930 nitrate photonegatives made 2005 - Name
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