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SS DURHAM, Federal Steam Navigation Company
SS DURHAM, Federal Steam Navigation Company

SS DURHAM, Federal Steam Navigation Company

Photographer (1901-1975)
Date1924
Object number00042179
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 DURHAM at the F&S buoy in Neutral Bay, Sydney on Saturday afternoon 15 March 1924 aboard a ferry from Cremorne to Sydney.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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