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61011
  • Title
    [Views of Kiama and Army Camp]
  • Creator
  • Call number
    ON 165/557-571
  • Level of description
    item
  • Date

    1916-1920
  • Type of material
  • Reference code
    61011
  • Issue Copy
    Digitised
  • Physical Description
    Photographs - 15 glass photonegatives - 12 x 16.5 cm.-16.5 x 12 cm.
  • Scope and Content
    1. Kiama : Big Blowhole blowing, looking east to sea, probably 1916 or early 1920 - ON 165/557
    2. Kiama : South West from Blowhole Point across Storm Bay showing rectangular Army tents of the camp of the Signals Training School in the showground. Kiama Surf Beach beyond. Mount Saddleback on horizon. Taken 1916, when Rex Hazelwood was in camp there - ON 165/558
    3. Kiama : South West from high up on Blowhole Point across Storm Bay to the tents of Signals Training School camp in showground. Beyond is Manning Street ( Old Princess Highway ) and eastern side of Mount Saddleback. 1916 (camp) - ON 165/559
    4. Kiama : South East view from high ground showing small, fenced paddock to railway cutting end of Manning Street (Old Princess Highway). Beyond, main part of large Army training camp with tents and marquees. Kendall home "Barroul" just visible through surrounding trees in its' garden. 1916, when Rex Hazelwood was in camp at showground - ON 165/560
    5. Kiama : South from high up on Blowhole Point across Storm Bay to showground with Signals Training School. Beyond can be seen Kiama Surf Beach, Manning Street and the large Army camp stretching down towards Kendalls Beach from Kendall - ON 165/561
    6. Kiama - 16. Sentinels - "Kenwood/ Photo/New Town" block-lettered in black ink by Rex Hazelwood, lower RH. "5" scratched in reverse RH margin - ON 165/562
    7. Kiama : from South edge Blowhole Point, three children in foreground, across Storm Bay (in which three men waist deep) to showground showing pavillion of Army tests (rectangular and conical) and marquees of Signal Training School camp. "12" scratched in LH margin, reverse. 1916 - ON 165/563
    8. Kiama : from up above first steep ascent of Saddleback road north across town, including Signals Training School in showground. Hartley House just showing on RH edge. Railway trestle bridge at Farmer Street centre midground. Taken 1916 - ON 165/564
    9. Kiama - 39 : looking down easterly across North part of town. Shows small weatherboard terrace houses just to the north of town war memorial. "Kenwood/Photo/New Town" block lettered by Hazelwood in photo-opaque red ink. Probably taken first half 1920 ; in Kenwood numbered series - ON 165/565
    10. Kiama : looking north across town, showing Kiama surf beach. Showground with numerous rectangular tents of Signals Training School is prominent. 1916 - ON 165/566
    11. Kiama : from Chapmans Point, across Kiama Surf Beach bay with heavy seas to showground with tents of Signals Training School. Blowhole Point and lighthouse beyond. 1916. - ON 165/567
    12. Kiama : from North East to the Kendall family home "Barroul" (partly obscured by garden trees) across to the larger of two Kiama Army camps. 1916 ON 165/568
    13. Kiama : north-east view showing soldiers massed around a hollow centre on edge of Kendalls Beach(?). Several sulkies and bystanders in road beside parade end to one side of the soldiers. Taken early morning - shadow on water of soldier on far small pool. Taken 1916 - ON 165/569
    14. Kiama, 1916 : parade of soldiers in fatigues at Signals Training School, showground, looking South across bay to Chapmans Point - ON 165/570
    15. Flanders 1918 : shows soldiers with partly devastated large civic building in background. Far left , "[B]apaume Road" sign visible. Pencilled reverse top margin overlaid by sratched "ca.1983" - ON 165/571

    A preliminary listing compiled by Mr Laurance Hazlewood is available in the Mitchell Library Original Materials Reading Room at ON 165
  • Access Conditions

    Access via appointment
  • Copying Conditions
    Out of copyright
  • Signatures / Inscriptions

    Some photonegatives are titled
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