Samuel Wood, wholesale stationer, printer and bookseller : postcard and related photographic collect...
Samuel Wood, wholesale stationer, printer and bookseller : postcard and related photographic collection, 1907-1956
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Author / Creator
Date
1907-1956
Call Numbers
PXA 1058 , PXE 939 , ON 275
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Physical Description
Contents
Photographs - 9.2 x 14.2 cm. or smaller - 386 postcards
Photographs - 30 x 38 cm. or smaller - 932 mainly silver gelatin photoprints
Photographs - 12 x 16.3 cm. or smaller - 617 mainly glass photonegatives
Photographs - 262 digital photographs (copies of nitrate photonegatives, chiefly 9 x 15 cm.)
Textual Records - 2 exercise books
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Level of description
Fonds
Arrangement
This collection comprises 138 record series. You may navigate to a more detailed description of each series from this collection record.¶Material was sorted into geographical groupings according to the titles on the individual items or boxes. Glass negatives were chiefly unidentified and these were sorted, titled and arranged by the cataloguer. Note there may be misidentifications of glass negatives. -- Aug 2005
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Samuel Wood, wholesale stationer, printer and bookseller : postcard and related photographic collection, 1907-1956
Authors, Artists and Contributors
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Author / Artists
Notes
General note
Collection dated from the earliest date on a Samuel Wood postcard (1907), to the year before his death (1956), as he worked in the business with one of his sons almost until his death. Samuel started the book and stationery business in 1905 and some of the photographs are pre-1907. -- R.Woodley, cataloguer
For details of Samuel Wood's postcard b...
Contextual Information
Source
Presented Dec 2004
Administrative / Biographical history
Samuel Wood was possibly the oldest remaining wholesale bookseller and stationer in Sydney at his death, according to W.G. Smart, Hodder's Sydney representative.
He was born in Hackney, London in 1876 and started work in a newsagency and bookshop aged 10, having lost both parents. By the age of 20, he was managing the F. & E. Stoneham bookshop i...
Identifiers
Primary Identifiers
Call Numbers
PXA 1058 , PXE 939 , ON 275
Record Identifier
9arqazKn
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/9arqazKn
Other Identifiers
Reference code
446625
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