Hood Collection part II : [Social functions, miscellaneous: dinners, balls, drinks parties, picnics, meetings, Christenings, presentations, ceremonies, etc.]

Sam Hood : photographic collection, 1916-ca.1955

Dinners
1. Oyster farmers David Corstorphine of Tuncurry, aged 78 and Fred Selmon of Georges River, aged 70, enjoy oysters at Dolls Point
2-6. [Theatre managers (?), incuding Bill Szarka, in chef's hats with their names, at a dinner to celebrate a film of (?) Emden, City Tattersall's Club] 
7. [Lunch or dinner in a large hall with women sitting near the camera and men in the background]
8. [Cardinal and priest at a function in a hall (with poster for theatrical production of "The maid of Orleans")]
9. Lunch or dinner in the dining room of a city hotel with Asian men and Australian men and women
10. Men's dinner with lobster buffet, Australia Hotel
11. [Coffee and cigarettes after a meal at the State Restaurant and Coffee Lounge]
12. Men (ex-servicemen or war workers ?) served a meal (in a hall decorated by  bunting and flags) by waitresses
13-18. [Men at lunches or dinners, no.15 at Sydney Town Hall]
19. [Upper class couples at a tea]
Balls
20. Liberal Youth Club Ball, Grace Auditorium, 21 October 1948 (Home & away videodisc frame no. 25378)
21. Staff Ball, Grace Bros. Auditorium, 7 September 1946 (Home & away videodisc frame no. 24763)
22. [Women in fancy dress with trays of drinks to promote Penfold's Wines], Radio Ball (?), 3 July 1937 (Home & away videodisc frame no. 8445)
23-27. [STC staff and table at Radio Ball, (no.27 at David Jones)]
28. Eastern Suburbs [Masonic] Ball, September 1934, Paddington Town Hall (Home & away videodisc frame no. 4536)
29. [Macquarie Network 2UE table at Radio Ball (?), David Jones]
30. [Duly & Hansford Ball, Blaxland Gallery, 30 July 1937 (Home & away videodisc frame no. 8527)]
31. Movie Ball
32. [Gladys Moncrieff and party]
33. [Philco table at a Radio Ball ?]
34-46. [Unidentified balls and ballrooms]
47. [Philips Lamps table at a ball]
48. [Entrants in evening dress for a beauty contest ?]
Drinks parties
49. [Drinking in a (gay ?) hotel, 1930's]
50. [Patrons at a nightclub while gypsy violinist, band and singer entertain]
51-52. [Unidentified drinks functions]
53-54. [Wine tasters]
55. [Drinking punch in a rustic gazebo (see also PXE 789 v.33 no.65)]
56-62. [Wine and meals at Ye Olde Crusty Tavern (no. 56 is frame no. 7454 Home & away videodisc)]
Meetings
63-64. [CWA meeting, Sydney Town Hall]
65-73. [Unidentified meetings, lectures, conferences, etc.]
74. [Leading doctors listen to Dr Hutchinson deliver the "oration" on the "constitution" at Sydney Hospital]
Miscellaneous
75. [Inez (Iney) Louisa Marden, benefactress in the Zulu, Sudan, Boer and First World Wars, presented with a citation by General Northcott (?), 7 November or December 1950]
76-82. [Inez (Iney) Louisa Marden, fundraiser for the troops during the Zulu, Sudan, Boer and First World Wars honoured by War Widows or nurses ?]
83-84. [Opening ceremony, Sydney Harbour Bridge]
85. [Christening]
86. [Wheeling the winner of a rifle shoot in a wheelbarrow ?]
87. [Woman standing in her tropical garden front yard]
88. [Family members stand around the memorial to Blaxland, Lawson and Wentworth on Blaxland's farm]
89. [Santa Claus in a chariot, driven by a man dressed as a sheik, at a children's Christmas party]
90. [Union or Sunday school picnic]
91. [Women washing clothes in 44 gallon drums cut in half to form basins]
92. [Passengers on a ferry]
93. [Inez (Iney) Louisa Marden with War Widows or nurses (see also nos. 75-82)]
94. [Douglas Grant, Nurses and ex-servicemen around a World War I war memorial in the shape of the Harbour Bridge opened by Governor Game at Concord, 1931 ?]
95. [Family get-together]
96. [Asian crew on the deck of a ship]
97. [Two men and a woman]
98. [Men, women and two boys at a lookout or grandstand]
99. [Mixed choir singing in the 2CH studio]
100-101. [Women with dolls]
102. [Men in suits on the Harbour Bridge ?]
103. [Arriving for a film premier ?]
104. [Men in evening dress at a ball or dinner shake hands]
105. [Presentation of a clock at work]
106. Cash Orders (Amalgamated) Ltd. Annual Amalco Day picnic
107. [Group in full evening dress with Asian couple]
108. [Woman presented with keys to Ford V8 licence plate 24-786 at Buckingham's Department Store]
109. [Group with painting]
110. [Visiting Dutch (?) admiral and governor ?]
111. [Nazi group in evening dress at the German Consulate, Sydney, 1930's]
112. [Five women in Hyde Park]
113. [Gladys Moncrieff with floral tribute, and group in evening dress, with 2UW microphone]
114-115. [Group of adult men and women]
116. [Woman with ex-servicemen wearing triangular regimental badge]
117. [Meeting of men in Sydney Town Hall]

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