KARAMEA of Southampton
Photographer
Frederick Garner Wilkinson
(1901-1975)
Date28 April 1931
Object number00042229
NameGlass plate negative
MediumEmulsion on glass
Dimensions83 x 108 x 2 mm
ClassificationsPhotographs
Credit LineAustralian National Maritime Museum collection
DescriptionFrederick Wilkinson took this photograph from Darling Street Wharf, Balmain East of the KARAMEA departing No 23 wharf Jones Bay, Sydney for London at 3:00pm on Tuesday 28 April 1931.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.
