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KHYBER of Liverpool
KHYBER of Liverpool

KHYBER of Liverpool

Photographer (1901-1975)
Date3 November 1923
Object number00042160
NameGlass plate negative
MediumEmulsion on glass
Dimensions83 x 108 x 2 mm
ClassificationsPhotographs
Credit LineAustralian National Maritime Museum collection
DescriptionFrederick Wilkinson took this photograph of the KHYBER alongside the Fort Macquarie Tram Depot at the P&O Wharf East Circular Quay, Sydney on Saturday afternoon 3 March 1923. The KHYBER departed Sydney for London on Wednesday 7 November 1923, and then undertook trade with China from London.SignificanceThis photograph is part of the F G Wilkinson Photograph Collection, comprising more than 700 glass plate negatives of ships in Sydney Harbour between 1919 and 1936. The collection provides an extensive and well-documented coverage of the changing styles of shipping in the port of Sydney before the gradual decline of the coastal trade, and in a period which was probably the peak reached by commercial shipping in Australia. The backgrounds also reveal the changing face of the city and harbour foreshores.

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