Heavy Industry series: the BHP steelworks at Port Kembla and Newcastle, 1989 / George Gittoes
Heavy Industry series: the BHP steelworks at Port Kembla and Newcastle, 1989 / George Gittoes
About this item
Full title
Author / Creator
Date
1989
Call Numbers
SLIDES 214/Boxes 1-2
Record Identifier
Reference Code
Formats
Pictures and Photographs
Physical Description
Contents
Approx. 1285 slides - 35 mm - ektachrome film, colour
Other Descriptions
Level of description
Fonds
Access and use
Copying Conditions
Copyright status : In copyright - Life of creator plus 70 years
Subjects
More information
Scope and Contents
Contents
SLIDES 214/Box 1
'Heavy industry', Newcastle, 1989
Includes blast furnace, treadwells, napthalene plant, portraits of Tom the napthalene (moth balls) plant worker, coke ovens, coke ovens lidsmen, tar plant, industrial exteriors, industrial landscapes.
SLIDES 214/Box 2
'Heavy industry', Port Kembla, 1989
Includes coke ovens, coke...
Alternative Titles
Full title
Heavy Industry series: the BHP steelworks at Port Kembla and Newcastle, 1989 / George Gittoes
Authors, Artists and Contributors
Author / Creator
Notes
General note
Locations of Wollongong and Port Kembla used interchangeably.
Pic.Acc. Upgrade Project - Information transferred from Pic.Acc.7027 as part of the eRecords Project 2012-13
Signature / Inscriptions
Labels showing photographer's name, place and date are on each box
Conservation note
Good condition
Contextual Information
Source
Purchased from George Gittoes, August 1990
Pic.Acc.7027
Administrative / Biographical history
George Gittoes is a painter, draughtsman, printmaker, film maker and performance artist. He was one of the artists involved in Sydney's Yellow House before creating a creative hub at Bundeena, south of Sydney.
These slides of BHP's Newcastle and Port Kembla steelworks were taken by George Gittoes while he was artist-in-residence at Wollongon...
Identifiers
Primary Identifiers
Call Numbers
SLIDES 214/Boxes 1-2
Record Identifier
Y0KDDVV1
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/Y0KDDVV1
Other Identifiers
Reference code
904068
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