MANCHESTER EXCHANGE of Manchester

Photographer Frederick Garner Wilkinson (1901-1975)

Date27 May 1924

Object number00042249

NameGlass plate negative

MediumEmulsion on glass

Dimensions83 x 108 x 2 mm

ClassificationsPhotographs

Credit LineAustralian National Maritime Museum collection

Terms

DescriptionFrederick Wilkinson took this photograph of the British steamer MANCHESTER EXCHANGE discharging a cargo of rice from Bassein, Burma at No 23 wharf Jones Bay, Sydney on Tuesday 27 May 1924. Wilkinson took the photo aboard a ferry from Stephen Street, Balmain to Erskine Street, Darling Harbour.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.