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MOUNT STEWART at No 4 Wharf Woolloomooloo from Liverpool after 120 days voyage, Friday 7 December 1923, cargo rock salt
MOUNT STEWART at No 4 Wharf Woolloomooloo from Liverpool after 120 days voyage, Friday 7 December 1923, cargo rock salt

MOUNT STEWART at No 4 Wharf Woolloomooloo from Liverpool after 120 days voyage, Friday 7 December 1923, cargo rock salt

Photographer (1901-1975)
Date7 December 1923
Object number00041558
NameGlass plate negative
MediumEmulsion on glass
Dimensions83 x 108 x 2 mm
ClassificationsPhotographs
Credit LineAustralian National Maritime Museum collection
DescriptionSV MOUNT STEWART was photographed at wharf No 4 Woolloomooloo travelling from Liverpool on Friday 7 December 1923 and carrying a cargo of rock salt.SignificanceThis photograph is part of the F G Wilkinson Photograph Collection, comprising more than 700 glass plate negatives of ships in Sydney Harbour between 1919 and 1936. The collection provides an extensive and well-documented coverage of the changing styles of shipping in the port of Sydney before the gradual decline of the coastal trade, and in a period which was probably the peak reached by commercial shipping in Australia. The backgrounds also reveal the changing face of the city and harbour foreshores.