Copy photographs of Sam Hood and Hood family members, ca. 1884-1953

PXA 7209

fonds

1987 [copies of originals dated ca. 1884-1953]

Graphic Materials, Photographs

9640752

8 photographic prints - gelatin silver

1. [Sam Hood outside his photographic studio, 1953]
(Negative availavble at FM1/3206)

2. Sam Hood making an enlargement with his old fashioned enlarger in his darkroom, 1953
(Negative availavble at FM1/3203)

3. 1953 / Sam Hood / Vic Johnston.
(Negative availavble at FM1/3206)

4. Sam and Ted Hood walking up Pitt St from Martin Place, ca. 1936.
(Negative availavble at FM1/3205)

5. Sam Hood (12) and Dr Ulrich Hubbe (80), ca. 1884

6-9. Not located, August 2019.

10. Sam Hood shakes hands with former Prime Minister Billy Hughes, the 'Little Digger'. Melbourne Herald photographer Jerry (Deafy) Riley took this picture in Canberra about 1943. Sam took one of Jerry trying to make himself heard as he spoke to Billy Hughes. It made a real 'funny' with the two deafies with hands to ears both yelling at each other and then Billy screaming out 'Don't bloody well shout, I'm NOT deaf!'.
(Negative availavble at FM1/3204)

11. A caricature of Sam Hood sitting on his camera bag at the tennis at White City with telephoto lens on his 5x4 Graflex. It was drawn by another press photographer, Alf Chambers. Alf was an accomplished B&W and watercolour artist. As a soldier in WWI, a signalman, he did many caricatures of his fellow soldiers and always signed them 'Tockemma' with the year underneath.
(Negative availavble at FM1/3205)

12. Coming up from below deck of HMAS 'Bataan' during that Corvette's trials off the coast of Australia during the War years. Sam Hood covered many such assignments for the Department of News & information.
(Negative availavble at FM1/3203)

13. Not located, August 2019.

Out of copyright: Created before 1955
Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales

Nos. 1-3.
Were some of a series taken at Sam Hood's studio at 124 Pitt Street, Sydney for a story on 'Sam Hood, the doyen of photographers' for 'People' Magazine. The photographs were taken by the late Vic Johnston. The galley proofs of the story were printed and whilst being further sub-edited, Sam Hood collapsed and died at Central Railway Station on his way home to Glenbrook in the Blue Mountains. The story was withdrawn on the grounds that 'People' was a magazine about live people. The studio picture shows him with his hand holding the bulb ready to release the shutter as he photographs a 'sitter'. No. 2 shows him making an enlargement with his old fashioned horizontal enlarger in his darkroom. No. 3 shows him waiting to be picked up to go on an assignment, at the Pitt Street entrance to his studio. The showcases of photographs were very popular with passers-by as one side was always filled with current news pictures.

No. 5
Sam Hood at the age of twelve beside his maternal grandfather, Bavarian born lawyer Dr. Ulrich Hubbe, who was then blind. Dr Hubbe was the draughtsman who drew up the 'Torrens Land Act' for Parliamentarian Lord Torrens which passed through the legislature and became known as the 'Torrens Title' for all land transfer and land transactions in South Australia. The Act was later adopted by all the Australian States and has also been adopted in many countries overseas. The actual manuscripts were hand-written jointly by twelve years old Sam and his cousin Isabel Hubbe, a young school teacher, dictated by the blind doctor.

Reference:
Library correspondence file