Hood Collection part II : [Sports, Swimming (competitive and leisure), sunbathing and beach activiti...
Hood Collection part II : [Sports, Swimming (competitive and leisure), sunbathing and beach activities, surf carnivals]
About this item
Full title
Author / Creator
Date
ca. 1925-ca. 1950
Call Numbers
PXE 789 (v.53)
Record Identifier
Reference Code
Formats
Pictures and Photographs
Physical Description
Contents
Photographs - 20 x 32 cm. or smaller - 94 photoprints
Other Descriptions
Level of description
Item
Access and use
Issue Copy
Partly Digitised : 24 images only selected for digitisation
Subjects
More information
Scope and Contents
Contents
Swimmers, swimming teams and swimming carnivals
1. [NSW Amateur Swimming Association men's Team, North Sydney Pool]
2. Alan Higginson, Australian breastroke record holder on Empire Games Team
3. [Andrew "Boy" Charlton and Sam Herford, left, and other swimmers, Domain Baths (Home & away frame no. 1642)]
4. [Swimming carnival, Roseville B...
Alternative Titles
Full title
Hood Collection part II : [Sports, Swimming (competitive and leisure), sunbathing and beach activities, surf carnivals]
Authors, Artists and Contributors
Author / Creator
Notes
General note
Many of the beach leisure photographs were taken as human interest for newspapers like the Labor Daily
Digital order no:Album ID : 823966
Signature / Inscriptions
Chiefly untitled, a few with captions
Attributions / Conjectures
No. 15 is Valerie Hays from the cast of "Over she goes" being leapfrogged, 1937
No.18 is the Theatre Royal chorus, Tamarama, ca. 1938
Reference: Bondi Jitterbug exhibition
Identifiers
Primary Identifiers
Call Numbers
PXE 789 (v.53)
Record Identifier
9gk5d8X9
Permalink
https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/9gk5d8X9
Other Identifiers
Reference code
153765
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