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Title
Hood Collection part II : [City streets and scenes: including streetscapes, labour processions, military parades and memorials, statues and Cenotaph]
Creator
Sam Hood, 1872-1953
Call number
PXE 789 (v.14)
Level of description
item
Date

ca. 1905-ca. 1955
Type of material
Graphic Materials, Photographs
Reference code
153431
Issue Copy
Partly Digitised : 41 images only selected for digitisation
Physical Description
Photographs - 61 photoprints - 15 x 20 cm. or smaller
Scope and Content
City Streets (mainly Sydney) and buildings
1. [Looking west along Hunter Street to O'Connell and Pitt Streets, ca. 1915]
2. [Building Coogee Pier, with Wylie's Baths in the background]
3. [Hallam Ltd., Richard Hunt, W. Abbey & Co., Freeman Photographic Studio and Silvester Bros. shops, George Street]
4. [Unidentified powerhouse]
5-6. [Roadworks in a street with Dick Bath's hotel, the Lawson Hotel and a building with "Strand" sign]
7-8. [City hotel (corner Pitt & Alfred Streets) decorated for the visit of the Great White Fleet, 1908 or anniversary of the Mayflower, 1920 ?]
9. [Looking from the North Shore towards Sydney]
10-11. [Looking east along Bridge Street (with horsedrawn trafffic) from George Street]
12. [Bank of New South Wales, Windsor]
13. [Looking south across Watsons Bay from Cliff Street]
14. [Looking north along George Street (with tram, car and hansom cab) from Union Line Building (incorporating the Bjelke-Petersen School of Physical culture), corner Jamieson Street]
15. [Bank of Australasia, corner Martin Place & George Street]
16. [Sandstone and iron park entrance gates damaged by motor crash]
17. [AWA Tower]
18. [Coogee Pier]
19. [Sydney from the air, looking south from the Domain to Central Railway]
20. [Construction of concrete arch bridge to replace existing suspension bridge, Northbridge]
21. [Gordon Public School]
22-23. [Queen's Square at sunset]
24. [Sign to post Christmas mail to UK by 9 November, GPO, Martin Place]
25. [Motor traffic and pedestrian traffic lights]
26. [Slums, corner Liverpool and Woods Lanes, East Sydney]
27. [Large American car in wet Angel Place]
28. [Demolition of buildings to join Martin Place to Macquarie Street, 1933]
29. [Ponds in the Botanic Gardens with the British Medical Association Building and the Astor flats on the skyline]
30. [Reporters and photographers outside the City Coroner's Court]
31. [Hotel and terrace houses, corner Moore Park Road and Anzac Parade]
32. [Suburban street with palm trees]
33. [Car with registration 18-255 on darkened country road lit by headlights]
34. [City street lit only by car lights]
35. [Sydney University and Parramatta Road from Grace Bros. tower]
36. [Looking east down Grosvenor Street, at night, with no. 4 Bridge street and the Union Line Building lit up]
37. "To the kinship of the Mayflower" [Customs House decorated for the 300th Anniversary of the Mayflower landing at Plymouth Rock ?]
38. [Looking across the rooftops from Potts Point to the Harbour Bridge]
39. [West along St. Neot Avenue with city skyline in the background]
40. [Horsedrawn lawnmower in front of the Art Gallery of New South Wales]
Labour processions
41. [Bullock team haul a log, Eight Hour Procession]
42. 6 (?) Hour Procession, 2 October 1939
Military parades, monuments & memorials, Cenotaph
43-44. [Unveiling Lawson (?) statue]
45. [Statue of Thomas Sutcliffe Mort, Macquarie Place]
46. [Opening No. 1 Division Police-Citizens Boys' Club]
47. [Freemasons at Cenotaph]
48. [Soldiers marching, George Street, 1915]
49. [Unveiling the Roll of Honour, Eastwood, 1919 ?]
50. [Italian Fascist ex-servicemen give Fascist salute, Cenotaph, ca. 1935 (?)] (same image at Home & away - 14490)
51. [Group of Italian Fascists in uniform at the Italian Embassy (?), (frame no. 7963, Home & away videodisc)]
52. [Artillery fire the salute at the opening of the Harbour Bridge]
53. [Soldiers march up Park/William Streets], May 12th, 1915
54. [Admiral Budge speaks at official function, launching ?]
55. [Laying wreaths at the Cenotaph]
56. [Women planting crosses in the remembrance garden, St. Andrew's Cathedral]
57. [Boy and girl in kilts at the Cenotaph]
58. [Group at the Cenotaph]
59. [Unidentified dignitary lays an official wreath on the Cenotaph]
60-61. [Unveiling the memorial to commemorate the crossing of the Blue Mountains in 1813]
Copying Conditions
Copyright restrictions may apply:
Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales and Courtesy copyright holder
General note

Digital order no:Album ID : 823844
Signatures / Inscriptions

Chiefly untitled, some with pencilled or ink captions
Name
Australia. Army
Birt & Co.
Budge, Sir Harry Sinclair Campbell, 1873-1945
Labour Day
Lawson, Henry, 1867-1922
Richard Hunt & Co.
Silvester Bros. Ltd.
W. Abbey & Co.
Subject
Mort, Thomas Sutcliffe, 1816-1878.
Adult Females
Adult Males
children
Topic
banks
courthouses
decorations (festive)
Fascists
harbours
historic buildings
hotels & taverns
military parades
monuments & memorials
official events
police boys' clubs
power & telegraph poles
power stations
processions
slums
statues
streetscapes
suburbs
city & town streets
city & town views
town halls
trade unionists
traffic signals
trams
war memorials
Place
Amalgamated Wireless (Australasia) Building (Clarence Street, Sydney, N.S.W.)
Angel Place (Sydney, N.S.W.)
Bank of New South Wales (Windsor, N.S.W.)
Bridge Street (Sydney, N.S.W.)
Cenotaph (Martin Place, Sydney, N.S.W.)
City Coroner's Court (102 George Street North, Sydney, N.S.W.)
Coogee Beach (N.S.W.)
Customs House (Alfred Street, Sydney, N.S.W.)
Eastwood (N.S.W.)
Elizabeth Street (Sydney, N.S.W.)
General Post Office (Sydney, N.S.W.)
George Street (Sydney, N.S.W.)
Gordon Public School (Gordon, N.S.W.)
Hunter Street (Sydney, N.S.W.)
Liverpool Lane (East Sydney, N.S.W.)
Macquarie Place (Sydney, N.S.W.)

Millers Point (N.S.W.)
National Bank of Australasia (corner Martin Place and George Street, Sydney, N.S.W.)
Northbridge Suspension Bridge (Sydney, N.S.W.)
Parramatta Road (Forest Lodge, N.S.W.)
Potts Point (N.S.W.)
Queens Square (Sydney, N.S.W.)
Royal Botanic Gardens (Sydney, N.S.W.)
St. Neot Avenue (Potts Point, N.S.W.)
Sydney (N.S.W.)
Union Steam Ship Co of New Zealand Ltd (Union House, 247 George Street, Sydney, N.S.W.)
University of New South Wales
Watsons Bay (N.S.W.)
Coogee Ocean Pier (Coogee Beach, N.S.W.)
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