Orient Liner - Departure from Sydney
Maker
Orient Line
(1878 - 1966)
Photographer
Frederick Garner Wilkinson
(1901-1975)
Date1917-1952
Object number00042343
NamePostcard
MediumInk on paper
Dimensions88 x 140 mm
ClassificationsPosters and postcards
Credit LineAustralian National Maritime Museum collection
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.
P&O - Orient Lines
1961 - 1997
