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MEDWAY - view from bowsprit
MEDWAY - view from bowsprit

MEDWAY - view from bowsprit

Photographer (Australian, 1899 - 1953)
Date1910-1918
Object number00021957
NameNitrate negative
MediumCellulose nitrate negative, black & white
ClassificationsPhotographs
Credit LineANMM Collection
DescriptionThis image depicts the four-masted barque MEDWAY. Built in 1902, it was sold to Devitt and Moore's Ocean Training Ships Limited in 1910. In 1918, it was sold to Anglo-Saxon Petroleum Company Limited.SignificanceThe 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.