Series 201: Hunter Valley manufacturing industries

PXE 731/1999-2008

series

1950s

Graphic Materials, Photographs

412615

10 photographic prints - silver gelatin - 25 x 31 cm or smaller

Mostly interiors of workers operating machinery in various industrial plants in the Newcastle and Hunter Valley region.

1999. Hunter Valley. Masonite Corporation Australia Ltd. Factory south of Raymond Terrace, exterior view
2000. Operator at the finishing block of a wiredrawing machine. Newcastle
2001. Male workers put sheet metal through a corrugating roller
2002. Weaver at a wirenetting weaving loom
2003. Tube making
2004. Section of one of the main girders in the 410 ton crane
2005. Drilling
2006. BHP (Broken Hill Propriety Company Ltd). Preparation of moulds for casting of rolls
2007. A rack of bulbs is inspected at factory of Electric Lamp Manufacturers Australia Pty Ltd in Newcastle suburb of Hamilton
2008. Two metal machinists at work

Copyright restrictions may apply:
Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales and Courtesy copyright holder

Most photographs are titled or labelled on reverse or on accompanying mounts.

'Rayberne Studio, Thorn St., Newcastle' stamped on reverse at PXE 731/2000 and PXE 731/2002. 'Maltern Studio, Commercial photographers, The Arcade, Newcastle' stamped on reverse at PXE 731/2004 and PXE 731/2005. 'The Broken Hill Proprietary Co. Ltd. (Publications Dept.), 422 Little Collins Street, Melbourne' stamped on reverse at PXE 731/2006. 4 images have descriptive captions affixed to the bottom of the photo at PXE 731/2000, PXE 731/2003, PXE 731/2005 and at PXE 731/2006.