Photographs of wharves and steveodoring at James Patrick & Co., Walsh Bay, Sydney, 1947-1950

PXA 936/1-26

fonds

ca. 1947-1950

Graphic Materials, Photographs

153489

Photographs - 21 x 26 cm. or smaller - Some of the photos have been modified with correcting fluid which has been used to paint superimposed borders over the images, probably for publication purposes - 26 silver gelatin photoprints

Exterior and interior shots of Wharves 4 & 5, Walsh Bay, including stevedoring activities and related work processes of James Patrick & Co. Also includes some large group portraits of workers and scenes of a ship launch
1. Company's Wharf (4), Walsh Bay. 1948
2. Front of [Wharf] 5, Walsh Bay, 1948
3-4. Front of [Wharves] 4 & 5, Walsh Bay, 1947
5. [Wharf] 4, Walsh Bay
6-8. [Wharf] 5, Walsh Bay
9. [Wharf] 5, Walsh Bay, 1949
10. Loading timber at [Wharf] 5, Walsh Bay, looking at [Wharf] 6
11. End of [Wharf] No. 4, Walsh Bay. N.B. Culcairn in background at wharf
12. [Workers transferring bags of onions]
13. Looking from top deck gantry [at a load being transferred, Wharf] 5, Walsh Bay, 1949
14. Looking from [Wharf] 4, Walsh Bay [showing conveyer belt transferring crates]. 1950
15. Upper level of [Wharf] 5, Walsh Bay, [showing travelling cranes], 1949
16. Stacking bulk tea [with fork lift, Wharf] 5, Walsh Bay, 1949
17. [Engineering workshops]. R.P. Reed in hat. 1949
18. Carpenters Shop, 1949-50.
19. [A corner of the Gear Store], 1948
20. [Workshop], 1949
21-22. Upper level of [Wharves] 4 & 5, Walsh Bay, 1949
23. [Sydney Permanent Wharf Staff assembled outside] entrance to [Wharf] 4, Walsh Bay, 1950
24. [Some members of the Sydney Wharf Maintenance Staff, Wharf] 5, Walsh Bay, 1950
25. Looking down on the launching of a ship
26. Launching a ship by Dorothy Radford, Fred Radford, Ken Patrick & Ron Patrick (probably M.V. Culcairn)

Reference source: Shipping Agency and Stevedoring Services in Australia: a record of achievement / James Patrick & Co. Pty. Ltd. Australia. Sydney: Harbour Press, 1949?
Some images appeared in the above publication
Not all images are dated on reverse but they appear to be in the same date range
Sydney Philharmonia Choirs occupied Wharves 4 & 5, Walsh Bay, after James Patrick & Co., and some of the photos are annotated on reverse with details of what the old sections were converted into for the Choirs

"Phil Ward Studios, 296 Pitt Street, Sydney" -- stamped on reverse of most images
"Lennon, 64 Victoria Road, Drummoyne" -- stamped on reverse of some images
"The Telegraph Features Service, Brisbane. All rights reserved" -- stamped on reverse (12)