• Title
  Hood Collection part II : [Sports, Swimming (competitive and leisure), sunbathing and beach activities, surf carnivals]
• Creator
  Sam Hood, 1872-1953
• Call number
  PXE 789 (v.53)
  
• Level of description
  item
• Date
  ca. 1925-ca. 1950
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Photographs
• Reference code
  153765
• Issue Copy
  Partly Digitised : 24 images only selected for digitisation
  
• Physical Description
  Photographs - 94 photoprints - 20 x 32 cm. or smaller
  
• Scope and Content
  Swimmers, swimming teams and swimming carnivals
  1. [NSW Amateur Swimming Association men's Team, North Sydney Pool]
  2. Alan Higginson, Australian breastroke record holder on Empire Games Team
  3. [Andrew "Boy" Charlton and Sam Herford, left, and other swimmers, Domain Baths (Home & away frame no. 1642)]
  4. [Swimming carnival, Roseville Baths]
  5. [Women's balletic swimming group perform for spectators]
  6-7. [Boy swimmer and swimming team]
  8. [Men's swimming carnival at an indoor pool]
  Swimming, sunbathing and leisure at the beach
  9-23. [Portraits of women, children and one man taken on the beach for newspapers]
  24. Miss Flo Price of Bondi
  25-26. Inez Bonnett, Bondi [and friend in no.26]
  27-29. [Oak Park rock pool ca.1950]
  30-38. [Sunbathing and beach scenes (no.30 Home & away frame no.1388)]
  39-43. [Surfboard and surfoplane riders]
  44. [Children's sandcastle washed away by a wave]
  45-46. David Cant aged 3 at Nielsen Park [in his rubber floating ring (no.45 is Home & away - 29701)]
  47-48. [Men and boys swim and play in canoes in a beach rock pool]
  49. [Boy swimming]
  50. [Boy and girl fishing on the edge of the water]
  51-54. [Women acrobats at the beach (no. 51 is frame no. 14039 Home & away videodisc)]
  Chorus girls at the beach
  55. [Capitol Theatre Pony Ballet]
  56-64. [Chorus girls and ballet dancers]
  65-67. [Women in Areo steel wheels race on the sand, Bondi (sport was called "Rhonrad" in Germany 1930-1950]
  68. [Tin can used as a floatation device in learn-to-swim class, Domain Baths]
  69-72. [Races at union picnics, Clifton Gardens]
  Surf lifesavers and surf carnivals
  73. [Bondi surf lifesavers]
  74. [Lifesavers on the belt carry a rescued swimmer from the surf]
  75-76. [Surf carnival, Bondi, 1938 ? (no.76 is Maroubra team)]
  77-78. [Pillow fight on the beam (to unbalance the opponent]
  79-80. [Duke of Gloucester at surf carnival, Manly]
  81. [Champion Queensland marchpast team, Manly, 1938]
  82-84. [New Zealand team, Manly, 1938]
  85. Queensland [i.e. Queenscliff ?] team at Bondi [marchpast], 28 February 1938
  86. [Western Australian team in march past, 1938]
  87. [Bronte team in march past, Bondi]
  88. [Narrabeen (?) team in march past]
  89-91. [North Bondi team march past]
  92. [Line-up of club flag bearers, Bondi, 28 February 1938]
  93. [Coogee and Queenscliff teams in march past]
  94. [Swimmers relax in front of New Manly Surf Club]
• Copying Conditions
  Copyright restrictions may apply:
  Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales and Courtesy copyright holder
• General note
  Many of the beach leisure photographs were taken as human interest for newspapers like the Labor Daily
  Digital order no:Album ID : 823966
• Signatures / Inscriptions
  Chiefly untitled, a few with captions
• Attributions / conjectures
  No. 15 is Valerie Hays from the cast of "Over she goes" being leapfrogged, 1937
  
  No.18 is the Theatre Royal chorus, Tamarama, ca. 1938
  
  Reference: Bondi Jitterbug exhibition
• Name
  Bonnett, Inez
  Bronte Surf Life Saving Club (N.S.W.)
  Cant, David
  Charlton, Andrew "Boy"
  Henry, Duke of Gloucester, 1900-1974
  Herford, Sam
  Higginson, Alan
  Maroubra Surf Life Saving Club (N.S.W.)
  Narrabeen Surf Life Saving Club (N.S.W.)
  New South Wales Amateur Swimming Association
  New Zealand Surf Life-Saving Association
  North Bondi Surf Life Saving Club (N.S.W.)
  Price, Flo
  Queenscliff Surf Life Saving Association (N.S.W.)
  Surf Life Saving Association of Australia. Queensland State Centre
  Surf Life Saving Association of Australia. Western Australian State Centre
  Theatre Royal (Sydney, N.S.W.)
  
• Subject
  Adult Females
  Adult Males
  girls
  boys
  
• Topic
  interiors
  beaches
  chorus girls
  record-breakers
  sunbaking
  surf carnivals
  surfboards
  surfoplanes
  swimmers
  swimming carnivals
  swimming pools
  swimming teams
  swimsuits
  union picnics
  
• Place
  
  Clifton Gardens (N.S.W.)
  Manly Beach (N.S.W.)
  North Sydney Olympic Pool (Milson's Point, N.S.W.)
  Oak Park (N.S.W.)
  Roseville Baths (Roseville, N.S.W.)
  Woolloomooloo Municipal Baths (N.S.W.)
  Tamarama Beach (N.S.W.)
  
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE1101091

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