SS SOMALI berthed at No 1 East Circular Quay on Monday 24 February 1919

Photographer Frederick Garner Wilkinson (1901-1975)

Date1919

Object number00042158

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 SOMALI berthed alongside the Fort Macquarie Tram Depot at No 1 wharf East Circular Quay, Sydney on Monday 24 February 1919. The SOMALI sailed for London two days later.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.