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SS SYDNEY, Melbourne Steamship Company Limited, in Darling Harbour
SS SYDNEY, Melbourne Steamship Company Limited, in Darling Harbour

SS SYDNEY, Melbourne Steamship Company Limited, in Darling Harbour

Photographer (Australian, 1899 - 1953)
Date1902-1917
Object number00021781
NameNitrate negative
MediumEmulsion on nitrate film.
DimensionsOverall: 80 x 138 mm
ClassificationsPhotographs
Credit LineANMM Collection
HistorySS SYDNEY built in 1902 for the Melbourne Steamship Company, sold to Burns Philp & Co. in 1917 and renamed MELUSIA. Sold to a Chinese shipping line in 1927.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.