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Title
Stephan Taylor's Waterfront Collection oral history interviews
Creator
Stephan Taylor
Call number
MLOH 698
Level of description
fonds
Date

approximately 1983
Type of material
Nonmusical Sound Recordings, Oral Histories
Reference code
1055024
Issue Copy
Digitised
Physical Description
17 audiocassettes (14 hr., 34 min.) - 10 × 7 cm, 4 mm tape
ADMINISTRATIVE/ BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY

The collection consists of material collected with a view to making a radio programme regarding the depression years and the history of the eighteen footers on Sydney Harbour, Botany Bay and Pittwater. The audio recordings were made by Stephan Taylor, a former ABC journalist.
Scope and Content
Series 1: Greycliffe Ferry Disaster
Series 2: Oral history interviews regarding the waterfront in the 20th century
Series 3: Oral history interviews about small boat building
Series 4: Oral history interviews about sailing during the Depression years
Language
English
Copying Conditions
In copyright:
Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales and Courtesy copyright holder
Description source

The description of this material has been supplied from the Oral History Digitisation Program, undertaken 2014 to 2017 of the Library's oral history collections.
Name
Greycliffe (ferry)
Subject
Yachting--New South Wales--Sydney.
Australia--Economic conditions--1929-1939.
Ferries--New South Wales--Sydney.
Place
Sydney Harbour (N.S.W.)
Botany Bay (N.S.W.)
Pittwater (N.S.W.)
Mort's Dock (Woolwich, N.S.W.)

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