TREBARTHA of St Ives
Photographer
Frederick Garner Wilkinson
(1901-1975)
Date2 December 1923
Object number00042196
NameGlass plate negative
MediumEmulsion on glass
DimensionsOverall: 83 x 108 x 2 mm
ClassificationsPhotographs
Credit LineAustralian National Maritime Museum collection
DescriptionFrederick Wilkinson took this photograph from Dawes Point of the TREBARTHA in Sydney Harbour having arrived from Port Pirie, South Australia on Sunday morning 2 December 1923. Two small sailing craft are in the foreground.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.
