Sam Hood - miscellaneous photographs, ca. 1900-1930

Sam Hood : photographic collection, 1916-ca.1955

1. Bales of wool on horsedrawn drays, Millers Point (note the bandstand, background left and dome of the Observatory, background right), 1920's
2. Two women, Blue Mountains (?), ca. 1912
3. Matilda Street, Bondi, ca. 1920, taken from Saunders' Removalists yard
4. Miss Marcelle Boivin, daughter of Eugene Boivin, secretary of the French Consulate, on the veranda of Ewenton, Balmain, ca. 1912 (note the chatelaine on the mesh handbag)
5-6. Paving Hunter Street, Newcastle near the Hotel Rawson and premises of Dick Bath
7. Hood family (?) portrait, Balmain, ca. 1915 (note the father is a sergeant in AIF uniform with "INF" badges on his epaulettes. He wears no colour patches)
8-9. Women and girls at a function, Vaucluse House, ca. 1920
10. Militia, ca. 1917 (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)
11. 30 class tank engine and schoolboy rail strikebreakers with Union Jack on the engine, August 1917
12-15. Crowds arriving, Taronga Park, ca. 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, ca. 1925 (original envelope marked "Mr Marks", portraits incl. 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]
79-80. Strike (?), Railway Institute and Central Court, ca. 1917 (note the cinecamera)
81-84. Great War recruitment office or schoolboy strikebreaker signing on, 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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