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60565
  • Title
    [Views of Wyong and Lithgow steelworks]
  • Creator
  • Call number
    ON 165/231-247
  • Level of description
    item
  • Date

    ca. 1911-1929
  • Type of material
  • Reference code
    60565
  • Issue Copy
    Digitised
  • Physical Description
    Photographs - 12 x 16.5 cm.-16.5 x 12 cm. - 17 glass photonegatives
  • Scope and Content
    1. Railway Street - Wyong - ON 165/231
    2. Literary Institute Wyong - ON 165/232
    3. Grand Hotel - Wyong, Tow horses with dray at side; very old time tourer car with hood up at front; two women amongst bystanders have skirts to their ankles - ON 165/233
    4. Presbyterian Church - Wyong - ON 165/234
    5. Anglican Church - Wyong - ON 165/235
    6. Shop : Wilkinson Brothers, general merchants, established 1894, 'building materials at Sydney prices'. Similarly old tourer car to that in 233 - ON 165/236
    7. Large shop, similarly early car, Chapman & Sons, general merchants - ON 165/237
    8. Two-storey building with 'Hadley's Building 1919 (?)' on top - ON 165/238
    9. Large shed with double doors at end, Jack Johnson training poster with boxing figure on one side, poster for the Romany Bio scope Specialty Company on other side - ON 165/239
    10. Flag - bedecked ferry with 'Restless (?) / Meadowbank' on lifebouy - ON 165/240
    11. Hoskins' (?) steelworks at Lithgow; confirmed by A. Davies - ON 165/241
    12. Hoskins' (?) steelworks at Lithgow; confirmed by A. Davies - ON 165/242
    13. Hoskins' (?) steelworks at Lithgow; confirmed by A. Davies - ON 165/243
    14. Small, fenced graveyard, on ridge side looking down. Of two gravestones visible, one is a semi-truncated 4-sided pyramid on a 4-sided plinth, all in dressed stone - ON 165/244
    15. Processional scene, likely a World War I Victory March, including a line of early cars with a placard 'Sportsmans Battalion/Answer the Call' and a weatherboard house with sign 'J. Dawe, blacksmith, wheelwright and undertaker', Alison Road, Wyong - ON 165/245
    16. Participant in a processional scene, likely a World War I Victory March, Alison Road, Wyong - ON 165/246
    17. Participants in a processional scene, likely a World War I Victory March, Alison Road, Wyong - ON 165/247

    A preliminary listing compiled by Mr Laurance Hazlewood is available in the Mitchell Library Original Materials Reading Room at ON 165
  • Access Conditions

    Access via appointment
  • Copying Conditions
    Out of copyright
  • General note

    Items 15-17 titles altered from 'Three processional scenes, one including a line of early cars with a placard 'Sportsmans Battalion / Answer the Call' and a weatherboard house with sign 'J. Dawe, blacksmith, wheelwright and undertaker' on suggestion of reader, September 2022
  • Signatures / Inscriptions

    Some photonegatives titled
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  • Place
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