• Title
  Hood Collection part II : [Factories, factory & manual workers, factory construction and heavy industry]
• Creator
  Sam Hood, 1872-1953
• Call number
  PXE 789 (v.16)
  
• Level of description
  item
• Date
  
  ca.1920-ca.1950
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Photographs
• Reference code
  153437
• Issue Copy
  Partly Digitised : 48 images only selected for digitisation
  
• Physical Description
  Photographs - 103 photoprints - 15 x 20 cm. or smaller
  
• Scope and Content
  1. [Building labourer on a stone being hoisted up to building]
  2. [Cook and large mixing machines on a ship]
  3-4. [Cutter and seamstresses in a clothing factory]
  5. Re-roofing of a shop, Botany Road and Rawson Street, Mascot, ca. 1935
  6. [Men on drilling rig in the water]
  7-9. [C.S.I.R. Canning Research laboratory investigates rabbit lactose ?]
  10-11. [Demonstration of the "Plus" Rapid adding machine] / no. 10 by Logan (Birmingham) Ltd.
  12-13. [Unidentified engineering works with large engine on an A.Pittman of Rozelle low-loader]
  14. [Semi-trailer at same works as nos. 12-13]
  15. [Working on the keel of a ferry (?) at a shipbuilders]
  16. [Circus worker prepares to hoist the "big top"]
  17. [Road maintenance on the tramway outside Leo Byron's smallgoods, Waverley]
  18. [Workers manufacture steel frames in an engineering works]
  19. [Mobile crane hoisting speedboat through the front door of a department store]
  20. [Flying fox at Woronora Dam being filled with concrete from hopper hoisted by crane]
  
  21-23. [Mobile workshop and crane with foldout weather flaps and a lighting system]
  24. [Young men (bridgebuilders ?) in suits on the unpaved deck of the Harbour Bridge]
  25. [Assembling electric wool shears]
  26. [Blacksmith or metal worker with hammer and anvil]
  27. [Using an electric hoist derrick to move crate of drinks in a hotel bar]
  28-29. [Hat factories]
  30-31. [Building a large cabin cruiser]
  32. [Making steel-framed seats for buses or trains]
  33. [Executives inspect women working in electronics factory]
  34. [Workshop]
  35. [Operating Union machine]
  36. [Workshop]
  37-38. [Chemist in chemical laboratory]
  39. [Chemist in laboratory with crocodile skins]
  40. [Executives or politicians watch factory workers with radio tubes, AWA]
  41. [Storemen and parts store]
  42. [Building demolishers with scrap metal fireplaces, etc.]
  43. [Sheltered workshop with looms, basket-making, leatherwork]
  44. [Metalworkers with molten metal in a smithy]
  45. [Columbia Graphophone Co. warehouse]
  46. [Carpentry workshop]
  47. [Bridge crane carrying forging at Malleable Castings]
  48. [Diesel engine in A-frame metal room]
  49. [Electrical installation]
  50. [Steel rods]
  51-53. [Crane lifting steel equipment from deck of ship]
  54. [Air ducts]
  55. [Gas heater]
  56. [Factory with metalwork machinery]
  57. [Distillery or brewery]
  58. Raffan's Mill, 1890
  59. [Sacks of hay in a produce store]
  60. [Metals workshop]
  61. [Bridge crane block-and-tackle]
  62. [Industrial saw ?]
  63-64. [Workshop with new vented machinery]
  65. [Workshop with lathes]
  66. [Drainpipes]
  67. [Workshop making wooden frames for railway carriages]
  68. [Bridge crane block-and-tackle]
  69. [Distillery]
  70. [Sawing concrete blocks at a factory]
  71. [Factory with railway siding]
  72. [Wharf labourers and unidentified sheets]
  73. [Building the steel frame of a factory or warehouse]
  74. Centennial Skating Rink
  75-76. [Steel frame clerestory roof], Cyclone Fence & Gate Co. (no. 75: frame no. 8840, Home & away videodisc)
  77. [Replacing the roof on a factory]
  78. [Timber mill with rail siding]
  79. [Sagging corrugated iron factory roof]
  80-82. [Building the Sydney Harbour Bridge]
  83-84. [Construction site, Sydney CBD, surrounded by Georgian terrace building]
  85. [Union Line Building under construction]
  86. [Craft Constructions builds a prestige block of flats]
  87-88. [Woronora Dam under construction]
  89. Burrinjuck Dam [i.e. Nepean Dam]
  90. [Redevelopment site with terrace house demolition, Sydney Harbour Bridge background]
  91. [Harbour with heavy industry]
  92. [Sydney Showground]
  93. [Building site next to Liddy's Shoe Store at 596 George Street]
  94. [Roof off factory]
  95. [Boys in swimsuits on a railway bridge]
  96-97. [Coal mine and rail sidings]
  98. [Factory]
  99. [Primary school]
  100. Pearson Glass Works
  101. [Produce store and siding (see also no. 59)]
  102-103. [Architectural model of General Military Hospital, Concord]
• Copying Conditions
  Copyright restrictions may apply:
  Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales and Courtesy copyright holder
• Description source
  
  Photo 5 identified as Re-roofing of a shop, Botany Road and Rawson Street, Mascot, ca. 1935 by reader, 6/10/2022.
• General note
  
  Digital order no:Album ID : 823846
• Signatures / Inscriptions
  
  Chiefly untitled, a few with captions
• Creator/Author/Artist
  Logan (Birmingham) Ltd.
  
• Name
  Bell Punch Company
  Bushells Tea
  CSIRO
  A. Pittman Pty. Ltd.
  Plus (adding machine)
  Robur Tea
  Union Line Ltd.
  
• Subject
  Adult Females
  Adult Males
  
• Place
  Amalgamated Wireless (Australasia) (Ashfield, N.S.W.)
  Centennial Skating Rink (N.S.W.)
  Columbia Graphophone (Australia) Ltd (2 Parramatta Road, Homebush, N.S.W.)
  Cyclone Fence & Gate Co. (Rosebery, N.S.W.)
  George Street (Sydney, N.S.W.)
  Homebush (N.S.W.)
  Leo Byron, smallgoods (47 Leichhardt Street, Waverley, N.S.W.)
  Nepean Dam (N.S.W.)
  Pearson Glass Works (N.S.W.)
  Raffan's Mill (N.S.W.)
  
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