Sam Hood - miscellaneous photographs, ca. 1900-1930

Sam Hood : photographic collection, 1916-ca.1955

1. Bales of wool on horse drawn drays, Millers Point (note the bandstand, background left and dome of the Observatory, background right), 1920s
2. Two women, Blue Mountains (?), approximately 1912
3. Matilda Street, Bondi, taken from Saunders' Removalists yard, approximately 1920
4. Miss Marcelle Boivin, daughter of Eugene Boivin, secretary of the French Consulate, on the veranda of Ewenton, Balmain (note the chatelaine on the mesh handbag), approximately 1912
5. Paving Hunter Street, Newcastle near the Hotel Rawson and premises of Dick Bath
6. Paving Newcomen Street, Newcastle near Hunter Street
7. Hood family (?) portrait, Balmain (note the father is a sergeant in AIF uniform with 'INF' badges on his epaulettes, he wears no colour patches), approximately 1915
8-9. Women and girls at a function, Vaucluse House, approximately 1920
10. Militia (one soldier has '33' badge on his forage cap and badge on the sleeve is 'Citizen Forces, 1812-1917' with a star in the map of Australia), approximately 1917
11. 30 class tank engine and schoolboy rail strike-breakers with Union Jack on the engine, August 1917
12-15. Crowds arriving, Taronga Park, approximately 1916
16-24. Visitors inspect animals in enclosures and pools, Taronga Zoo
25. Uniformed keeper with spotted animal, Taronga Zoo
26-27. Man has his photograph taken with an orang-outang, Taronga Zoo
28. Veterinarian operates on a leopard (?)
29-78. Film party in the bush and a motor launch on the water, in a bushfire and skiing on Hotel Kosciusko slopes (portraits and a C&W cinema camera) (possibly the film 'Joe', 1924, possibly E. S. Marks as one of the party wears a blazer with the Australian coat-of-arms), approximately 1925
79-80. Strike (?), Railway Institute and Central Court (note the cinecamera), approximately 1917
81-84. Great War recruitment office or schoolboy strike-breaker signing on, probably 1917
85. My brother Bill (i.e. Bill Hood) at 'Haxton', Balmain
86. Charlie Penfold, the Hood's Burmese cook, washing the floor at 'Haxton', Balmain

Sam Hood - miscellaneous photographs, ca. 1900-1930

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