Views taken at Cockatoo Island Dockyard, ca. 1913-1934 / Cockatoo Island Dockyard
Views taken at Cockatoo Island Dockyard, ca. 1913-1934 / Cockatoo Island Dockyard
About this item
Full title
Author / Creator
Date
ca. 1913-1934
Call Numbers
ON 138
Record Identifier
Reference Code
Formats
Pictures and Photographs
Physical Description
Contents
58 negatives (13 whole-plate and 45 half-plate) - glass
Other Descriptions
Level of description
Fonds
Access and use
Issue Copy
Copy print : PXA 558
Finding aids
Contents list available in the Mitchell Library Reading Room -
Subjects
More information
Scope and Contents
Contents
The collection includes views of ships under construction and in dock, plans of ships, and unidentified model aeroplanes.
Alternative Titles
Full title
Views taken at Cockatoo Island Dockyard, ca. 1913-1934 / Cockatoo Island Dockyard
Authors, Artists and Contributors
Author / Creator
Notes
General note
A Contents list is filed with the glass negatives (ON 138) with the contact prints (PXA 558).
The photographs are assumed to have been commissioned by the Dockyard (based on information provided by the donor). Several are dated between 1913 and 1916 and some include identifying captions or text. Further notes on attribution, dating, and iden...
Description source
Information transferred from Pictures Card Catalogue as part of the eRecords Project, 2008-2009
Contextual Information
Source
Presented, 1981.
Pic.Acc.5258
Administrative / Biographical history
In 1908, a shipbuilding yard and engineering workshops were developed at Cockatoo Island by the New South Wales Government. In 1913 the Island was transferred to the Australian Government, which used it as a naval dockyard until 1921. In 1921, Cockatoo Island Dockyard, together with Garden Island Naval Dockyard, was the subject of a Royal Commissio...
Identifiers
Primary Identifiers
Call Numbers
ON 138
Record Identifier
YzOgl6D9
Permalink
https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/YzOgl6D9
Other Identifiers
Reference code
836471
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