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Billy Hughes as Minister of the Navy greeting USN Officers : Visit of the United States Pacific Fleet to Sydney 20 - 21 March 1941
Billy Hughes as Minister of the Navy greeting USN Officers : Visit of the United States Pacific Fleet to Sydney 20 - 21 March 1941

Billy Hughes as Minister of the Navy greeting USN Officers : Visit of the United States Pacific Fleet to Sydney 20 - 21 March 1941

Photographer (Australian, 1899 - 1953)
Date1941
Object number00023683
NameNitrate negative
MediumEmulsion on nitrate film.
ClassificationsPhotographs
Credit LineANMM Collection
DescriptionThis photograph depicts three men standing with William 'Billy' Morris Hughes, the seventh Prime Minister of Australia. The officer second from the right is a United States Navy Lieutenant Commander.SignificanceThe Samuel J Hood photographic collection records an extensive range of maritime activity on Sydney Harbour, including sail and steam ships, crew portraits, crews at work, ship interiors, stevedores loading and unloading cargo, port scenes, pleasure boats and harbourside social activities from the 1890s through to the 1950s. They are also highly competent artistic studies and views - Hood was regarded as an important figure in early Australian photojournalism. Hood’s maritime photographs are one of the most significant collections of such work in Australia.