Gertrude Mathieson and Captain Mathieson posing on board ANTIOPE

Photographer Samuel J Hood Studio (Australian, 1899 - 1953)

Date1899-1953

Object number00036918

NameNitrate Negative

MediumNitrate Negative

ClassificationsPhotographs

Credit LineANMM Collection.

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DescriptionThis photograph depicts husband and wife, Gertrude Mathieson (née Gowlland) and Captain Peter John Riber Mathieson in the saloon on board the three-masted barque ANTIOPE.SignificanceThe Samuel J Hood photographic collection records an extensive range of maritime activity on Sydney Harbour, including sail and steam ships, crew portraits, crews at work, ship interiors, stevedores loading and unloading cargo, port scenes, pleasure boats and harbourside social activities from the 1890s through to the 1950s. They are also highly competent artistic studies and views - Hood was regarded as an important figure in early Australian photojournalism. Hood’s maritime photographs are one of the most significant collections of such work in Australia.