VILLE DE METZ of Havre
Photographer
Frederick Garner Wilkinson
(1901-1975)
Date26 April 1924
Object number00042075
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 VILLE DE METZ anchored in Athol Bight (near Bradleys Head), Sydney on Saturday afternoon 26 April 1924 aboard a ferry from Circular Quay to Clifton via Taronga.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.
