Sam Hood : photographic collection, 1916-ca.1955
Sam Hood : photographic collection, 1916-ca.1955
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Full title
Author / Creator
Date
1916-ca.1955
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Formats
Pictures and Manuscripts
Physical Description
Contents
Approximately 44,800 negatives
7,309 photographic prints
3 boxes of textual material
6 film reels
Other Descriptions
Level of description
Fonds
Access and use
Copying Conditions
Copyright restrictions may apply : Photographs in this collection created before 1955 are all out of copyright. Photographs created after 1955 are in copyright for the life of creator plus 70 years.
Please acknowledge : Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales and Courtesy copyright holder
Subjects
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Scope and Contents
Contents
Collection 01
Hood Collection part I : Sydney streets, buildings, people, activities and events, ca. 1925-1955
Purchased from Gladys Hood, 1972
Collection 02
Hood Collection part II : Negatives, photographic prints, registers, appointment diaries and family motion pictures, 1916-ca.1955
Alternative Titles
Full title
Sam Hood : photographic collection, 1916-ca.1955
Authors, Artists and Contributors
Author / Creator
Notes
Object History
The Library first purchased a large collection of negatives from Gladys Hood in 1972. This collection (which included nitrate negatives which have subsequently been copied) at DG 0N4 & NCY 28-61 was transferred to a videodisc in 1991 and each image indexed individually. Ted Hood assisted with the indexing; images were also identified using survivin...
Contextual Information
Administrative / Biographical history
Samuel J. Hood's (1872-1953) claimed to have been born 1870, but the South Australian Birth Index gives date as 20 August 1872. His career as a photographer began in the 1880s.
He ran a successful business in ships portraits (these negatives are now held by the Australian National Maritime Museum, Sydney) and portraits of people in the late ni...
Identifiers
Primary Identifiers
Record Identifier
1Ljm56g9
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/1Ljm56g9
Other Identifiers
Reference code
395018
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