Orient Line SS OMAR leaving for London on Tuesday 20 November 1923 at noon

Photographer Frederick Garner Wilkinson (1901-1975)

Date20 November 1923

Object number00041703

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 OMAR departing Sydney for London at midday on Tuesday 20 November 1923 from Fort Macquarie (Bennelong Point).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.