Loading bales of hay

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

Datec 1930

Object number00021343

NamePhotograph

MediumSilver gelatin print

DimensionsOverall: 165 x 218 mm

ClassificationsPhotographs

Credit LineANMM Collection

Terms

DescriptionLoading bales of hay onto a cargo vessel from a truck and building shedding for livestock on top of the bulwarks on unidentified merchant vessel. The wharf is possibly at Woolloomooloo Bay in Sydney.HistoryThe 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.