BARON ELCHO of Ardrossan

Photographer Frederick Garner Wilkinson (1901-1975)

Date19 April 1924

Object number00042252

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 BARON ELCHO berthed at No 23 wharf Jones Bay, Sydney on Saturday afternoon 19 April 1924. Wilkinson took this photo aboard a ferry from Erskine Street, Darling Harbour to Bald Rock, Balmain.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.