CITY OF MANDALAY of Glasgow

Photographer Frederick Garner Wilkinson (1901-1975)

Date27 December 1931

Object number00042313

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 CITY OF MANDALAY in Athol Bight (near Bradleys Head), Sydney on Sunday afternoon 27 December 1931 aboard the 3:40pm ferry from Circular Quay to Clifton via Taronga Park.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.