• Title
  Hood Collection part II : [Accidents, bushfires, fires; motor, tram & railway accidents; first aid; storms & floods]
• Creator
  Sam Hood, 1872-1953
• Call number
  PXE 789 (v.2)
  
• Level of description
  item
• Date
  
  ca. 1925-ca. 1939
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Photographs
• Reference code
  153372
• Issue Copy
  Partly Digitised : 22 images only selected for digitisation
  
• Physical Description
  Photographs - 15 x 20 cm. or smaller - 67 photoprints
  
• Scope and Content
  BUSHFIRES
  1. [Women and ruins of house]
  2. [Man burning eucalypts]
  3-6. [Houses in ruins with brick chimneys]
  7-9. [Residents and volunteers armed with green branches]
  10-19. [Houses in ruins]
  20. [Man and dog with house]
  21. [Men and women with dog]
  22. [Bushfire]
  
  BEACH DAMAGE
  23-24. [Storm damage to beach retaining wall]
  25. [Damage to a beach pier]
  
  NSW FIRE BRIGARDE AND CITY FIRES
  26. [Brigade firefighters and Coad's terrazzo factory fire, St. Peters]
  27. The big crane at Ellis [timber yard] was expected to crash [fire damage]
  28. Ellis timber yard fire at Rhodes
  29. Saturday night's fire at St. Peters, Coads Terrazzo
  30. [Fire at Norco office]
  31-32. [Timber yard fire]
  33. [Fire-damaged house]
  34. "Fire on Friday night in the Little Theatre, Rowe Street, was checked only after the rear portion of the building we occupy in 124 Pitt St. was destroyed. I think I had a very lucky escape. This is what we saw when we came to work this morning, out of our back door" [Hood]
  35. [Corrugated iron in fire damage]
  36. [Factory fire]
  37. [Smoke and factory fire]
  38. [Corrugated iron and brick chimney after fire]
  39. [Fire Brigade hosing down destroyed corrugated iron building]
  40. [Fire damage]
  41. [Fire Brigade rescue trapped office workers]
  42-48. "Chief Officer Lance (in dungarees) of the Sydney Fire Brigade demonstrating the new appliance for making Foamite to the S.A. Fire Chiefs at Matraville" [and foam used to extinguish fire]
  
  ROAD ACCIDENTS
  49-55. [Car crashes (no. 51 is a Rolls Royce with numberplate beginning with "DC")]
  56. [Truck crashes at Auburn Electoral Office ?]
  57. ["Don't depend on luck. This driver did." Wrecked car used for NRMA advertisement]
  58. [Tram conductor and fallen overhead wire]
  
  FIRST AID
  59. [Ambulance men carry a man on a stretcher]
  60. Bobbie Foster [Fisher ?] being put into ambulance on bridge
  61. ... ambulance men attending to the injured from the Rodney disaster in Sydney Harbour, Feb. 13
  62. [Men treating a patient]
  63. [Police help a woman onto a boat]
  64. [Hands opening a mouth]
  
  MISCELLANEOUS
  65. [Damaged roof on a house]
  66. [Steam engine hangs over a cliff: on 4 Apr 1901, no. 2542, then 246 of the B205 class, was heading a goods down the 1 in 42 grade between Clarence and Top Points on the Great Zig Zag above Lithgow when it got out of control, burst through a rocky parapet and stopped 65 m. up]
  67. [Road subsidence]
  68. [Men move desk]
• Copying Conditions
  Out of copyright:
  Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
• General note
  
  For air accidents, see v.6 Aviation
  No. 66: for another photograph of this accident, see The Roundhouse, Oct 1974 v.XII no.3, p.14
  Digital order no:Album ID : 823740
• Signatures / Inscriptions
  
  Chiefly untitled, a few with pencilled captions
• Name
  National Roads and Motorists' Association (Australia)
  New South Wales. Fire Brigade
  Rodney (ferry)
  St John Ambulance Brigade
  
• Topic
  bushfires
  corrugated iron
  fire damage
  firefighters
  firefighting equipment
  fires
  first aid
  locomotives
  road accidents
  shipping accidents
  smoke
  storm damage
  theatres & cinemas
  timber yards
  
• Place
  Matraville (N.S.W.)
  Rhodes (N.S.W.)
  Rowe Street (Sydney, N.S.W.)
  St. Peters (N.S.W.)
  
• Exhibited in
  
  Impact: a changing land
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE1096494

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