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133501
  • Title
    Photographs and scrapbooks of Cockatoo Island Dockyard, 1935-1943 / compiled by Norman Frazer
  • Creator
  • Call number
    PXE 776
  • Level of description
    fonds
  • Date

    1935-1943
  • Type of material
  • Reference code
    133501
  • Physical Description
    5 albums (70 silver gelatin photoprints) - gelatin silver
    43 silver gelatin photoprints - gelatin silver
    1 drawing - pencil sketch - 25 x 20 cm.
    4 scrapbooks (newscuttings)
    28 clippings
  • ADMINISTRATIVE/ BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY

    Norman Frazer was the managing director of Cockatoo Island Dockyard, 1930s-1950s
  • Scope and Content
    Vol 1. H.M.A.S. "Koala" launched at Cockatoo Dockyard 4 Nov 1939
    Vol 2. H.M.A.S. "Kangaroo" Boom Defence Vessel launched at Cockatoo Island by Mrs. M. W. S. Boucher, 4 May 1940 / photographed by Alan Evans
    Vol 3. Launch Sat 30 Nov 1940 / Photographed by Alan Evans and The Sydney Morning Herald
    Vol 4. Launching of S.S. River Clarence by Mrs. W. J. McKell, Saturday, 2 Jan 1943 / Photographed by Alan Evans Cockatoo Dockyard Engineering Co. Pty. Ltd. Sydney
    Vol 5/1-8. [Launching of H.M.A.S. Yarra 29 Mar 1935]
    Vol 5/9-12. Launching H.M.A.S. Bendigo Saturday 1 Mar 1941 / Photographed by Alan Evans
    Vol 5/13-32. Laying of Keel by Rt. Hon. R. G. Menzies, Tuesday 29 Jul 1941
    Vol 5/33. Launching H.M.A.S. Wollongong, Saturday 5 Jul, 1941
    Vol 5/34-41. Launching of H.M.A.S. Cessnock, Friday 17 Oct 1941 / Photographed by Alan Evans, Sydney
    Vol 5/42. [Launch of unidentified tug boat]
    Vol 5/43. [Unidentified launch] Saturday 29 Oct 1938 / Photographed by Alan Evans
    Vol 5/44. His new love [caricature of Norman Frazer]
    Vols 6-10. [Newscuttings related to Cockatoo Island Dockyard] 1935-1941
    Vol. 11. "H.M.A.S. Parramatta" launched at Cockatoo Island Dockyard, Sydney, by Mrs G.A. Street. 10th June, 1939
  • System of arrangement
    chiefly chronological
  • Copying Conditions
    Reproduction Restricted
  • General note

    Most albums titled, others identified by comparison to the newscuttings.
    Vol. 3 - photographs were rehinged, original order could not be kept as they were loose in album
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