Photographs of battery substation, Hyde Park, battery factory, Stanmore, and snapshots of Sydney, Newcastle and Lake Macquarie, ca. 1900s-1930s / photographed by Milton Kent and other unidentified photographers

PXA 1247

fonds

ca. 1900s-1930s

Textual Records, Graphic Materials, Clippings, Photographs

889879

15 photographs - gelatin silver
1 item of textual material - typescript
1 clipping - printed

The collection was originally donated to the Queensland Museum by Miss H. E. Annand, the daughter of Colonel F. W. G. Annand [i.e. Frederick William Gadsby Annand (1872-1958)], the owner of the collection

1. Thomas Walker Convalescent Hospital, Concord, N.S.W., ca. 1900s
Photograph mounted on card; 7.4 x 10 cm (photo), 10.1 x 12.5 cm (mount)

2. “City Council’s Electrical Installation”, The Sydney Morning Herald, 10th January, 1907
1 clipping

3. [Photograph probably of Battery Substation at Hyde Park], November 1911
1 photograph mounted on paper (with Item 4); 20 x 15.3 cm (photo), 34.2 x 20.4 cm (paper). Inscribed in upper right corner "B 9318". Date typed underneath photograph

4. Testing Set, [ca. 1911?]
1 photograph mounted on paper (with Item 3); 8.7 x 13.7 cm (photo), 34.2 x 20.4 cm (paper). Title typed underneath photograph

5. [Photograph probably of Battery Substation at Hyde Park], 14th November 1911
1 photograph mounted on paper (with Item 6); 19.9 x 15.2 cm (photo) , 34.2 x 20.6 cm (paper). Inscribed in upper right corner "B 9315". Date typed underneath photograph

6. Proposed layout and wiring diagram for Battery Substation at Hyde Park, 1912 (copy of plans) / Municipal Council of City of Sydney, Electric Light Dept.
1 photograph mounted on paper (with Item 5); 11.9 x 16.5 cm (photo), 34.2 x 20.6 cm (paper). Title typed underneath photograph

7. Interior of Pyrmont Power House, 1913
1 photograph mounted on paper (with Item 8); 11.9 x 16.3 cm (photo), 34.2 x 19.5 cm (paper). Title typed underneath photograph with typed inscription "Old reciprocating set in foreground. Two only of the original five reciprocating sets are left; the other three have been sold"

8. Elevation and section of general arrangement of Coal and Ash Handling Plant, No. 2 Boiler House, 1910 (copy of plan) / Municipal Council of City of Sydney, Electric Light Dept.
1 photograph mounted on paper (with Item 7); 11.9 x 16.3 cm (photo), 34.2 x 19.5 cm (paper). Title typed underneath photograph

9. Letter from the Managing Director of U.S. Light & Heat Corporation (Aust.) Ltd., Stanmore to Mr F.W. Annand, Brisbane relating to four photographs accompanying the letter and the operations of the company, 15 May 1924
Typescript, 1 page

10. U.S. Light & Heat Corporation (Aust.) Ltd building, Stanmore, ca. 1924? / photographed by Milton Kent, Sydney
1 photograph; 7.6 x 10.5 cm. Inscribed by hand on reverse “Land on which building stands 240 x 120 ft”

11. Forming department, U.S. Light & Heat Corporation (Aust.) Ltd, Stanmore, ca. 1924? / photographed by Milton Kent, Sydney
1 photograph; 7.6 x 10.5 cm. Title printed on photograph

12. Plate casting department, U.S. Light & Heat Corporation (Aust.) Ltd, Stanmore, ca. 1924? / photographed by Milton Kent, Sydney
1 photograph; 7.6 x 10.5 cm. Title printed on photograph

13. Assembling department, U.S. Light & Heat Corporation (Aust.) Ltd, Stanmore, ca. 1924? / photographed by Milton Kent, Sydney
1 photograph; 7.6 x 10.5 cm. Title printed on photograph

14. On Lake Macquarie, [ca. 1930s]
1 photograph; 6.4 x 10.8 cm, titled in pencil on reverse

15. The Bogey Hole excavated by convicts 70 years ago, Newcastle, [ca. 1930s]
1 photograph; 6.4 x 10.5 cm, titled in pencil on reverse

16. [Sydney Harbour with Sydney Harbour Bridge in background, ca.1930s]
1 photograph; 7 x 11.4 cm

17. Newcastle Beach, [N.S.W., ca. 1930s]
1 photograph; 9.9 x 16.5 cm, titled in pencil on reverse

Out of copyright: Created before 1955 (applies to photographs only)

Some photographs dated by Curator of Photographs, Mitchell Library, 2010