• Title
  Hood Collection part II, Box 079, nos. 001-022 : Gloucester at Royal Agricutural Society show; Niagara arrivals; Coronation procession; Nossiters cruise; Angler; Edward VII statue; Public telephone calls sign; Fay Compton; Dollman family; Emu hunt; Printed sheet 'Key to success'
• Call number
  ON 204/Box 79/nos. 1-22
  
• Level of description
  file
• Date
  
  1934-October 1939
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Photographs
• Reference code
  402572
• Physical Description
  6 negatives - 8 x 11 cm - glass
  16 negatives - 8 x 11 cm - film
  
• ADMINISTRATIVE/ BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY
  
  Ruth Dollman married John Hood, Sam Hood's father. Sam Hood married Emily Heesch in 1895 and Ruby Ramplin in 1910 (ON 204/Box 79/no. 19).
• Scope and Content
  1-3. Duke of Gloucester at the Royal Agricultural Society showground (with massed children's display of map of Australia), 1934
  4. Arrivals aboard the liner Niagara (three men and two women from group including Captain McKenzie, Miss Bedford and friend, Lord and Lady Trent, Lady Victoria, Colonel Braithwaite, Hon. Mary Booth?), March 1936
  5-8. Governor Lord Wakehurst reviews the Coronation parade from the Town Hall and tanks in Martin Place, 13 May 1937
  9-11. Return of the Nossiters in their yacht Sirius, 21 May 1937
  12. Rock fisherman, La Perouse, 15 August 1937
  13. Equestrian statue of Edward VII and streetlight, August 1937
  14. Man reads sign saying that after 6PM public telephone calls could be made from Hyde Park opposite Bathurst Street and at Museum Station, August 1937
  15-18. Arrival of Fay Compton from Melbourne (for JCW), January-March 1938
  19. Copy photograph of UK born Walter Dollman senior and his three boys (the eldest later becoming Colonel Walter Dollman junior, of 27th Battalion, Gallipoli and France; Frank Dollman, who became an American and one other son), copy of 1880s photograph made October 1939
  20-21. Emu hunters with truck and emus running along property fence
  22. Photograph of printed sheet 'The key to success'
• Access Conditions
  
  Access via appointment - Applies to ON 204/Box 79/nos. 1-3, 20-22
  This material is held in cold storage and requires 3 working days notice to retrieve. Please submit your request through Ask a Librarian - Applies to ON 204/Box 79/nos. 4-19
• Copying Conditions
  Out of copyright:
  Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
• Description source
  
  Titles, dates and contents lists in this series based on the Hood register with additional notes by Ted Hood
• Alphanumeric designations
  
  Original Hood box nos. 284, 352, 357, 394, 478 and unnumbered (quarter plate)
• Name
  Compton, Fay
  Coronation (1937: George VI)
  Dollman family
  Henry, Duke of Gloucester, 1900-1974
  J.C. Williamson (Firm)
  Nossiter family
  Sirius (yacht)
  
• Subject
  Martin Place (Sydney, N.S.W.)
  Sydney Showground (N.S.W.)
  Sydney Town Hall (Sydney, N.S.W.)
  Adult Females
  Adult Males
  
• Topic
  interiors
  anglers
  documents
  emus
  exhibits
  families
  game hunters
  passengers
  performers
  processions
  royal visits
  showgrounds
  signs
  statues
  streetlights
  yachts
  yachtsmen
  
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE20769489

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