RARANGA of Southampton
Photographer
Frederick Garner Wilkinson
(1901-1975)
Date1919
Object number00042208
NameGlass plate negative
MediumEmulsion on glass
Dimensions83 x 108 x 2 mm
ClassificationsPhotographs
Credit LineAustralian National Maritime Museum collection
DescriptionFrederick Wilkinson took this photograph aboard a ferry from Yeend Street wharf, Birchgrove of the RARANGA at the White Star wharf at Millers Point, Sydney.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.
Frederick Garner Wilkinson
1923
Frederick Garner Wilkinson
3 November 1923