Hoskins Iron & Steel Co. Ltd. photo album of NSW Works and loose photographs of the Port Kembla Work...
Hoskins Iron & Steel Co. Ltd. photo album of NSW Works and loose photographs of the Port Kembla Works, ca. 1920-1948
About this item
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Date
ca. 1920-1948
Call Numbers
PXA 1645
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Formats
Physical Description
Contents
1 album (60 photographs, 1 map) - 24 x 31 cm - brown leather cover
17 photographs - 24 x 29 cm or smaller - black & white
Other Descriptions
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Fonds
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Scope and Contents
Contents
1 album containing 60 photographs by Milton Kent with captions and a hand-drawn map of New South Wales indicating Hoskins works locations.
Album contains photos of;
Main Office at Margaret Street, Sydney
Wongawilli coal and coke Works
Excelsior Limestone Quarries
Various machinery at the Lithgow Works
Pipe Works at Rhodes
Alternative Titles
Full title
Hoskins Iron & Steel Co. Ltd. photo album of NSW Works and loose photographs of the Port Kembla Works, ca. 1920-1948
Authors, Artists and Contributors
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Notes
General note
Pic.Acc. Upgrade Project - Information transferred from Pic.Acc.6691 as part of the eRecords Project 2012-13
Conservation note
Pages detached in album, 2 loose photographs, torn along fold
Contextual Information
Source
Donated by Professor Ian Jack, March 1989
Pic.Acc.6691
Administrative / Biographical history
Father and son Charles Henry Hoskins (1851-1926), and Sir Cecil Harold Hoskins (1889-1971), iron and steel manufacturers, established G. & C. Hoskins Ltd in 1889, consisting of a foundry, pipe-works and boiler shop. They achieved a breakthrough when they secured the contract to lay and join the main for the Sydney water-supply. In December 1907, Ch...
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Primary Identifiers
Call Numbers
PXA 1645
Record Identifier
16AJJgDn
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/16AJJgDn
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Reference code
902673
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