CITY OF CORINTH of Liverpool
Photographer
Frederick Garner Wilkinson
(1901-1975)
Date25 October 1924
Object number00041725
NameGlass plate negative
MediumEmulsion on glass
Dimensions83 x 108 x 2 mm
ClassificationsPhotographs
Credit LineAustralian National Maritime Museum collection
DescriptionFrederick Wilkinson took this photograph of the CITY OF CORINTH at No 23 wharf Jones Bay, Sydney on Saturday afternoon 25 October 1924 aboard a ferry from Bald Rock, Balmain to Circular Quay.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.
