Sydney Smith - photographs mainly concerning cricket, 1921-1953

PXD 971
PXX 106

series

1910-1953

Graphic Materials, Photographs, Watercolours, Architectural and Technical Drawings, Prints

447044

Partly Digitised : Items 1-12 ; 14. See individual item records for details.

Approximately 140 photographs - gelatin silver - 54 x 58 cm or smaller
4 architectural drawings - 49 x 81 cm or smaller
11 albums - 27 x 37 cm or smaller
Prints - 44 printed items, chiefly photographic plates - 19 x 26 cm or smaller

The collection includes Australian outback locations where Smith worked during his time in the Public Service with the Local Lands Board. 1922-1942 and the Australian cricket team in Australia and overseas, 1921-1956

FILE 01 (PXD 971/Box 1)
With the Australian XI, 1926 / Sydney Smith, Chatswood

FILE 02 (PXD 971/Box 2)
Australian Eleven, 1921 / Sydney Smith

FILE 03 (PXD 971/Box 3)
Outback scenes mostly in South Australia, including New South Wales and Queensland/ Sydney Smith

FILE 04 (PXD 971/Box 4)
Outback scenes in New South Wales / Sydney Smith

FILE 05 (PXD 971/Box 5)
Outback scenes in New South Wales, including borders with Queensland and South Australia / Sydney Smith

FILE 06 (PXD 971/Box 6)
Tour of the Western Division by a Parliamentary Party, 1933 ; and by Lord & Lady Wakehurst, 1937 & 1938 / Sydney Smith

FILE 07 (PXD 971/Box 7)
Australian Cricket Team Tour of England, 1926 / Sydney Smith

FILE 08 (PXD 971/Box 8)
[Cricket scenes in South Australia, Western Australia, England, Switzerland and Egypt, 1920-1930; 1947] / Sydney Smith

FILE 09 (PXD 971/Box 9)
[Scenes of travel, cricketers and cricket matches in Australia, Italy, Switzerland, France, England, Egypt, Canada & the USA, 1921-1946] / Sydney Smith

FILE 10 (PXD 971/Box 10)
Outback scenes New South Wales / Sydney Smith

FILE 11 (PXD 971/Box 10)
Snapshots of the fifteenth Australian Eleven's visit to England and South Africa, 1921, taken by W. Ferguson, Scorer

FILE 12 (PXD 971/Box 11)
Outback scenes, cricketers and cricket matches, 1921-1952

FILE 13 (PXD 971/Box 12)
(Loose photographs)
1. Test match at Leeds, 1926
2. [Sydney Smith &] Nuffield, 1937
3. Placing wreath on tomb at Arc de Triomphe, Paris 1926
4-5. [Visiting Roman ruins, 1926?]
6. [King George V]

FILE 14 (PXD 971/Box 13)
SCG scoreboard, Australia XI v. India (tour match, 1947) ; portraits of cricketers

FILE 15 (PXD 971/Box 14)
(Mounted photographs):
1. Petersham DCC annual dinner, Apr. 22 1910
2. Country v. Metropolis, Easter 1911
3. Country v. Metropolis, Easter 1912
4. Petersham District CC II Team, 1914-15
5. Australian Board of Control for International Cricket annual meeting - Sydney 24/9/20
6. Australian Cricketers at Bournville, 3rd June 1926
7. Australian XI v An English XI, Carlisle - Sept '26
8. [Sydney Smith] 1926
9. [Sydney Smith with unidentified male]
10. Lodge Kuring-gai v. Lodge Roseville, Chatswood Oval
11. Stock Department
12. Petersham DCC Committee
13. Hawkesbury Agricultural College Annual Dinner
14-16. [Sydney Smith with unidentified cricket teams, undated]

FILE 16 (PXD 971/Box 15)
(Mounted photographs):
1. New South Wales v. Tasmania, Hobart, 25th & 26th February 1910
2. NSW C[ricket] A[ustralia] Executive, 1914 & 1915
3. Government House Sydney 15th Oct 1920 [group portrait]
4. 1921 Australian Team, April 28th 1921 [sponsor's poster]
5. Australian and Gloucestershire cricketers at Carsons' Chocolate Factory, near Bristol, June 9th 1921
6-7. Wellbeck June 26th 1921 [group portrait]
8. Durham v. Australians at Sunderland, July 1921
9. Natal Team vs Australia at Durban, Oct 29,31 & Nov 1, 1921
10. NSW C[ricket] A[ustralia] Executive, 1919-20, 1920-21
11. Members of the Australian Team, taken at the Hotel Cecil London, June 1st, 1926 [sponsor's poster]
12. Australian Cricket Team welcome luncheon, Westchester-Biltmore Country Club, USA, October 10, 1926
13. Mr S. Smith's big jump 1926 [cartoon]
14. New South Wales v. Victoria, SCG, January 28th-February 1st, 1956, 100th year anniversary match
15. East Mole[?]ey Cricket Ground, founded 1695 [print]
16. 23 yr Queen St WC
17. [Sydney Smith]
18. [Sydney Smith on unidentified ship]
19. [Unidentified English cricket ground, possibly near Eastbourne?]
20-21. [Unidentified cricket teams]
22. Rowntries, York [male portrait group]
23. [Unidentified male portrait group]

FILE 17 (PXD 971/Box 15)
41 printed photographic plates, with manuscript annotations, 1 drawing and 2 printed excerpts from Sydney Smith's book The History of the Tests, published 1946

FILE 18 (PXX 106)
Outsize pictorial & architectural plans (1 folder):
1. Australian Board of Control for International Cricket, Melbourne, 13th October 1911
2. [Illuminated address to] Sydney smith Esq. Junr, Petersham, 24th July 1911, on the eve of completion of ten years service as Honorary Secretary of the Petersham District Cricket Club
3. Marylbone CC Team, 1911-12
4. Scotland v. Australia, Edinburgh, 1921 [panorama]
5. Preliminary sketch plans of proposed new concrete stand at the SCG, Sept 1938 (deck plan & mezzanine floor plan)
6. Elevation to Showground/Elevation to oval
7. Proposed new grandstand at the SCG, alternative section showing upper deck [blueprint]
8. Diagram of SCG locality, City of Sydney

By format then size

Out of copyright: Created before 1955

Pic.Acc.2526
Some albums titled on inside front covers
Most album images identified and dated in margins
Most loose photographs identified and dated on reverse
Most group portraits have individuals identified beneath and some have signatures
PXX 106 transferred from PXD 971/17, 21 November 2023

Binding loose (PXD 971/11)