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SS SOPHOCLES at the Aberdeen Line Wharf, Millers Point, on Saturday afternoon 10 November 1923.
SS SOPHOCLES at the Aberdeen Line Wharf, Millers Point, on Saturday afternoon 10 November 1923.

SS SOPHOCLES at the Aberdeen Line Wharf, Millers Point, on Saturday afternoon 10 November 1923.

Photographer (1901-1975)
Date1923
Object number00042209
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 Darling Street, Balmain East of the SOPHOCLES at the Aberdeen Wharf at Millers Point, Sydney on Saturday afternoon 10 November 1923.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.