MEDWAY - view from bowsprit

Photographer Samuel J Hood Studio (Australian, 1899 - 1953)

Date1910-1918

Object number00021957

NameNitrate negative

MediumCellulose nitrate negative, black & white

ClassificationsPhotographs

Credit LineANMM Collection

Terms

Sydney

DescriptionThis image depicts the four-masted barque MEDWAY. Built in 1902, it was sold to Devitt and Moore's Ocean Training Ships Limited in 1910. In 1918, it was sold to Anglo-Saxon Petroleum Company Limited.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.