SS AGE II loading coal
Photographer
Samuel J Hood Studio
(Australian, 1899 - 1953)
Date1923-1934
Object number00020370
NameNitrate negative
MediumEmulsion on nitrate film.
ClassificationsPhotographs
Credit LineANMM Collection
DescriptionSS AGE II loading coal possibly near Pyrmont in Sydney.HistoryAustralian Steamships Ltd's SS AGE II was built in 1923 and sold to the Government of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and renamed KAZAN in 1934.
The 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.
