MARIPOSA of Los Angeles

Photographer Frederick Garner Wilkinson (1901-1975)

Date4 June 1932

Object number00041666

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 MARIPOSA departing Sydney for San Francisco at 2:28pm on Saturday 4 June 1932 from Fort Macquarie (Bennelong Point). Aboard the Matson Line MARIPOSA was the Australian Olympic team, who were travelling to Los Angeles for the 1932 Olympic Games.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.