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SS BATSFORD
SS BATSFORD

SS BATSFORD

Photographer (Australian, 1899 - 1953)
Date1914-1918
Object number00020201
NameNitrate negative
MediumEmulsion on nitrate film.
ClassificationsPhotographs
Credit LineANMM Collection
DescriptionImage of SS BATSFORD docked at Pyrmont Wharf.HistoryBATSFORD of the Century Shipping Company was built in 1914 and sold to the Canadian Pacific Ocean Services in 1918. The 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.