ORFORD of Barrow

Photographer Frederick Garner Wilkinson (1901-1975)

Date19 March 1932

Object number00041665

NameGlass plate negative

MediumEmulsion on glass

Dimensions83 x 108 x 2 mm

ClassificationsPhotographs

Credit LineAustralian National Maritime Museum collection

Terms

DescriptionFrederick Wilkinson took this photograph of the ORFORD at No 1 wharf East Circular Quay, Sydney on 19 March 1932 aboard the 4:15pm ferry from Cremorne to Circular Quay. The ORFORD was the second official vessel to pass under the Sydney Harbour Bridge on its opening day.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.