Burnside Homes, Parramatta; ESSA Club; views of New South Wales & other states : lantern slides, ca. 1920-1940

SLIDES 118

fonds

ca. 1920-1940

Graphic Materials, Photographs

411655

Photographs - 8 x 8 cm. - 147 lantern slides, a few col.

1-19. Burnside Homes
20-31. Cricket, ESSA Club, [Queens Park]
32-33. Football [i.e. soccer], ESSA Club
34-62. ESSA picnic, Middle Harbour
63-64. Cricket, ESSA Club, [Queens Park]
65-69. ESSA Xmas tree and Santa Claus
70-81. Parramatta Scottish Sports - Parramatta Park Sports
82-83. [Highland gathering, Sydney Showground]
84-105. Port Jackson views [i.e. feeding the ducks and black swans, Botanic Gardens; the Gap; ferries Dee Why, Kuttabul (?) and Showboat Koondooloo; Bondi Beach; Como Rail Bridge; Cronulla surf carnival; the Spit Bridge under construction; Anzac Day (?), departure of Taroona; ferry Mirimar]
106-108. ESSA picnic, Middle Harbour
109-111. Cricket, ESSA Club, [Queens Park]
112-122. Travel - North Coast, South Coast [N.S.W. (coastal views and beaches, including Stanwell Park, Terrigal)]
123. Burnside Homes
124-126. Travel views - Brisbane [including Plume neon sign on a Brisbane bridge and travellers with their car]
127-141. Travel views - Hobart & Launceston, Tasmania; Vic., S.A., W.A.
142-146. [Five colour slides used in a cinema or slide show: (King George VI, advertisement for Mickey Mouse and Amuzu Carnival, Bondi, the words to the Lambeth Walk and an "End of session" slide).
147. [Troops at an Indian port organise porters, note the three ambulances]

Contents List taken from inscriptions on boxes. Slides had been placed in the wrong boxes, making them difficult to identify [Robert Woodley, cataloguer]
The donor had bought the slides and a large projector ca. 1970. Five colour slides were used in a cinema or slide show: (King George VI, advertisement for Mickey Mouse and Amuzu Carnival, Bondi, the words to the Lambeth Walk and an "End of session" slide).