Dignitaries at Cockatoo Dockyard, Sydney

Photographer Samuel J Hood Studio (Australian, 1899 - 1953)

Datec 1940

Object number00020109

NameNitrate negative

MediumEmulsion on nitrate film.

ClassificationsPhotographs

Credit LineANMM Collection

Terms

DescriptionDignitaries at the launch of a boom defence vessel, either HMAS KANGAROO, KARANGI or KOALA at Cockatoo Island Dockyards during the Second World War. The unidentified woman in the middle holding the flowers may have launched the vessel.HistoryThe 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.