• Title
  File 57: [Various Manly Beach, 1940s] / photographed by Max Dupain
• Call number
  ON 609/Box 26/nos. 1296-1302
  PXA 2164/Folder 77/Items 17-22
  
• Level of description
  file
• Date
  
  [1940s]
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Photographs, Textual Records
• Reference code
  9588774
• Physical Description
  7 negatives - black & white
  6 items of textual material - manuscript
  
• Scope and Content
  7 negatives of various scenes at Manly Beach including a lifesaver with rowing boat, lifesavers performing drills on the beach, a view looking down onto the beach from the shark tower, a view along the deck of the surf club to the shark tower, sunbakers under a sign for 'umbrellas & wigwams', a view towards the surf club and shark tower with people on the rocks in the foreground, and looking down the beach with the shark tower in the foreground.
• Access Conditions
  
  This material is held in cold storage and requires 3 working days notice to retrieve. Please submit your request through Ask a Librarian - Only applies to ON 609/Box 26/nos. 1296-1302
• Copying Conditions
  Out of copyright: Created before 1955
  Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
• Description source
  
  Titled by cataloguer.
• Signatures / Inscriptions
  
  Additional information on glassine bag housing negative at ON 609/Box 26/no. 1296 read, "Boat - lifesaver (foreground)" and "23". ON 609/Box 26/no. 1297 read, "Beaches" and "34". ON 609/Box 26/no. 1298 read, "40". ON 609/Box 26/no. 1299 read, "43". ON 609/Box 26/no. 1300 read, "Wigwams & Umbrellas" and "49". ON 609/Box 26/no. 1301 read, "77" and "Sunbaker on rocks". ON 609/Box 26/no. 1302 read, "98".
  Some negatives have technical information on glassine bags and notepaper located at PXA 2164/Folder 77/Items 17-22.
  Negative at ON 609/Box 26/no. 1296 is inscribed no. 23. ON 690/Box 26/no. 1297 is inscribed no. 34 and "S. 117". ON 609/Box 26/no. 1298 is inscribed no. 40. ON 609/Box 26/no. 1299 is inscribed no. 43. ON 609/Box 26/no. 1300 is inscribed no. 49. ON 609/Box 26/no. 1301 is inscribed no. 77. ON 609/Box 26/no. 1302 is inscribed no. 98.
• Date note
  
  No date. Date provided by cataloguer based on similar dated negatives in the collection.
• Topic
  beaches
  seascapes (views)
  surf-lifesavers
  surf clubs (places)
  observation towers
  sunbathers
  
• Place
  Manly Beach (N.S.W.)
  Club House, Manly Surf Club (South Steyne, N.S.W.)
  
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE19493646

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