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SS ATTILA in Port Jackson, Sydney
SS ATTILA in Port Jackson, Sydney

SS ATTILA in Port Jackson, Sydney

Photographer (Australian, 1899 - 1953)
Date1897-1914
Object number00020375
NameNitrate negative
MediumEmulsion on nitrate film.
ClassificationsPhotographs
Credit LineANMM Collection
DescriptionSS ATTILA in Port Jackson, Sydney.HistoryHungarian Levant Steamship Company Ltd's SS ATTILA was built in 1891 in Newcastle, England. It traded under the name SS ATTILA from 1897 and sailed to various ports in Australia including Sydney and Adelaide, with a cargo of wool bound for Europe. In 1914, the ship was seized in Kirkwall, Orkney Islands en route from Port Talbot, Wales to Bergen, Norway. 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 AustraliaSignificance.