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106967
  • Title
    Robert Smock Conrow photographs of Commonwealth Rolling Mills, Port Kembla, N.S.W., 1939-1940
  • Creator
  • Call number
    PXA 862
  • Level of description
    fonds
  • Date

    1939-1940
  • Type of material
  • Reference code
    106967
  • Physical Description
    5 photographs - gelatin silver
    Textual Records - 2 typescript
    Objects - 2 plaques
  • ADMINISTRATIVE/ BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY

    R. S. Conrow was managing director of the Commonwealth Rolling Mills in 1939
  • Scope and Content
    GROUP PORTRAITS & MANUSCRIPT (PXA 862)

    1. 'Official opening ceremony, April 24 1939 (From left: H.G. Darling, H.R. Lysaght, E.A. Emerson, Hon. W.M. Hughes, Wm. Stringham, R.S. Conrow, Hon. E.S. Spooner, R. Parry Okeden, T.M. Wilson, A.J. Wenham, Essington Lewis) (Photographic print)

    2. [Official opening ceremony, April 24 1939?] (Photographic print)

    3. [Group portrait], 17 December 1940 (Photographic print, postcard format)

    4. [Group portrait], 5th December 1939 (General Anderson, A.J. Wenham, R.S. Conrow, Governor-General Lord Gowrie, H.R. Lysaght) (Photographic print)

    Poem written by Capt. T. W. Shortridge, Australian National Airways [before he and crew went missing in their aircraft 'Southern Cloud' on 21 March, 1931] (Typescript)

    5. [Group portrait of] H.R. Lysaght, W.R. Lysaght, S.R. Lysaght (Photographic print) (Transferred from ML 1217)

    6. The Directors of Commonwealth Rolling Mills have pleasure in inviting R. S. Conrow to the Official Opening...(plaque printed in stainless steel). Accompanied by typescript note from R.S. Conrow (Transferred from ML 1216)

    FRAMED ITEM (ML 1215)
    7. Section of first sheet rolled by the Commonwealth Rolling Mills, January 16th 1939. Presented to Mr R.S. Conrow (Managing Director) by his friend Sam Jones, as a souvenir of "a dream come true" (ML 1215)
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    Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
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