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Item 21: Milton Kent aerial views of Chullora, Granville and unidentified Department of Housing, bet...

Item 21: Milton Kent aerial views of Chullora, Granville and unidentified Department of Housing, bet...

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Item 21: Milton Kent aerial views of Chullora, Granville and unidentified Department of Housing, between 1935-1945

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Full title

Item 21: Milton Kent aerial views of Chullora, Granville and unidentified Department of Housing, between 1935-1945

Date

between 1935-1945

Call Numbers

ON 447/Box 022

Record Identifier

1l4drpN1

Reference Code

960060
Physical Description

Contents

12 negatives - approximately 12 x 16.5 cm - glass, gelatin silver

Other Descriptions

Level of description

Item

Arrangement

Alphabetical by place

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.

Copyright status : This collection has multiple rights owners

Rights and Restrictions Information : Collection includes commissioned works

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Physical Access Conditions

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Issue Copy

Digitised

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Scope and Contents

Contents

BOX 022

CHULLORA
1. Wartime secret manufacturing plant, Marlene Crescent, Chullora
2. Wartime secret manufacturing plant, Marlene Crescent, Chullora
3. Wartime secret manufacturing plant, Marlene Crescent, Chullora
4. Wartime secret manufacturing plant, Marlene Crescent, Chullora

GRANVILLE
5. Australian Aluminium Co. an...

Alternative Titles

Full title

Item 21: Milton Kent aerial views of Chullora, Granville and unidentified Department of Housing, between 1935-1945

Notes

Signature / Inscriptions

Original box label (see also Box 21):
Australian Aluminium Co. (latest)
... aircraft ... Chullora [partly unreadable]
Colgate Palmolive works
[Department ?] of Housing

Date note

Dated from World War II

Description source

Titled on original box - label partly faded and damaged

Contextual Information

Administrative / Biographical history

During World War II, Chullora was selected as the site for a major wartime manufacturing plant. The site once occupied several hundred acres of land surrounded by Rookwood Cemetery, Brunker Road, the Hume Highway and Centenary Drive. The site was said to have been the largest secret manufacturing plant in Australia which was used for the production...

Identifiers

Primary Identifiers

Call Numbers

ON 447/Box 022

Record Identifier

1l4drpN1

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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/1l4drpN1

Other Identifiers

Reference code

960060

How to access this item

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