File 1: [Hilda Jones photograph album, New South Wales, 1920s]

PXA 7184/Box 1

file

[1920s]

Graphic Materials, Photographs

9622802

121 photographs (in one album) - gelatin silver - chiefly 11.4 x 7.1 cm

One Kodak photograph album, 'Plateau' no. 3, containing 121 black & white, gelatin silver photographs. The photographs are of Hilda Reid and her beau George Jones on their travels around New South Wales and at home in Sydney with friends and family including Hilda's sister Olive. They were taken mostly by Hilda with her Kodak Box Brownie. Places featured include the Blue Mountains and Jenolan Caves, Narrow Neck, Katoomba and the Royal Hotel, Wentworth Falls, Leura, Mt York, the Hawkesbury region, the South Coast, Cataract Dam, Prospect Reservoir, Kiama, Bulli, Campsie, North Sydney, Bondi, Tuggerah, Royal National Park, and aboard HMS Hood during its visit to Sydney in 1924. Also includes photographs of significant buildings in Sydney illuminated in 1920 such as the Town Hall, Customs House, Central Railway Station, Farmers and the Herald office. Also features their touring cars, a Mercedes Benz (possibly a double phaeton body) and an Alfa Romeo RL.

Out of copyright: Created before 1955
Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales

Dates provided by cataloguer based on fashion and cars.

Locations and subjects are inscribed beneath the photographs.