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Photographic postcard of an elderly couple in formal dress

Photographic postcard of an elderly couple in formal dress

This photo is part of the Australian National Maritime Museum’s Samuel J. Hood Studio collection. Sam Hood (1872-1953) was a Sydney photographer with a passion for ships. His 60-year career spanned the romantic... More

Photographic postcard of a man and a woman seated at a partners desk

Photographic postcard of a man and a woman seated at a partners desk

This photo is part of the Australian National Maritime Museum’s Samuel J. Hood Studio collection. Sam Hood (1872-1953) was a Sydney photographer with a passion for ships. His 60-year career spanned the romantic... More

Image of a troopship possibly HMAT A7 MEDIC departing for war

Image of a troopship possibly HMAT A7 MEDIC departing for war

This photograph possibly depicts the troopship HMAT A7 MEDIC. It is possible that it depicts MEDIC after it was requisitioned as a troopship for the Second Boer War (1899-1902)...This photo is part of the Austr... More

Skiffs on Sydney Harbour, 1890-1953

Skiffs on Sydney Harbour, 1890-1953

This photo is part of the Australian National Maritime Museum’s Samuel J. Hood Studio collection. Sam Hood (1872-1953) was a Sydney photographer with a passion for ships. His 60-year career spanned the romantic... More

Baby and a dog on a sailing ship

Baby and a dog on a sailing ship

Between 1900 and the 1950s, Sydney photographer Sam Hood took hundreds of photographs of ships and their crew for souvenirs of their visit or to send home to families. This photograph depicts a baby and a dog s... More

Portrait of two women and a baby possibly on board SS ORMISTON, 1927-1939

Portrait of two women and a baby possibly on board SS ORMISTON, 1927-1...

This photo is part of the Australian National Maritime Museum’s Samuel J. Hood Studio collection. Sam Hood (1872-1953) was a Sydney photographer with a passion for ships. His 60-year career spanned the romantic... More

Portrait of a man and woman possibly on board SS ORMISTON, 1927-1939

Portrait of a man and woman possibly on board SS ORMISTON, 1927-1939

This photo is part of the Australian National Maritime Museum’s Samuel J. Hood Studio collection. Sam Hood (1872-1953) was a Sydney photographer with a passion for ships. His 60-year career spanned the romantic... More

Three children playing a board game possibly on SS ORMISTON, 1927-1939

Three children playing a board game possibly on SS ORMISTON, 1927-1939

This photo is part of the Australian National Maritime Museum’s Samuel J. Hood Studio collection. Sam Hood (1872-1953) was a Sydney photographer with a passion for ships. His 60-year career spanned the romantic... More

NSWGR porters load mail onto mail van, n.d., by Sam Hood

NSWGR porters load mail onto mail van, n.d., by Sam Hood

NSWGR = New South Wales Government Railway..Format: Photograph. .Notes: Find more detailed information about this photographic collection: 153459 ( http://153459 ) ..Search for more great images in the State Li... More

Two women seated on deck chairs on board SS ORMISTON, 1927-1939

Two women seated on deck chairs on board SS ORMISTON, 1927-1939

This photo is part of the Australian National Maritime Museum’s Samuel J. Hood Studio collection. Sam Hood (1872-1953) was a Sydney photographer with a passion for ships. His 60-year career spanned the romantic... More

Portrait of a man and woman in front of a lifeboat possibly on board SS ORMISTON, 1927-1939

Portrait of a man and woman in front of a lifeboat possibly on board S...

This photo is part of the Australian National Maritime Museum’s Samuel J. Hood Studio collection. Sam Hood (1872-1953) was a Sydney photographer with a passion for ships. His 60-year career spanned the romantic... More

Three females on board SS ORMISTON, 1927-1939

Three females on board SS ORMISTON, 1927-1939

This photo is part of the Australian National Maritime Museum’s Samuel J. Hood Studio collection. Sam Hood (1872-1953) was a Sydney photographer with a passion for ships. His 60-year career spanned the romantic... More

Man and woman reading to children possibly on board SS ORMISTON, 1927-1939

Man and woman reading to children possibly on board SS ORMISTON, 1927-...

This photo is part of the Australian National Maritime Museum’s Samuel J. Hood Studio collection. Sam Hood (1872-1953) was a Sydney photographer with a passion for ships. His 60-year career spanned the romantic... More

Passengers possibly on the deck of SS ORMISTON, 1927-1939

Passengers possibly on the deck of SS ORMISTON, 1927-1939

This photo is part of the Australian National Maritime Museum’s Samuel J. Hood Studio collection. Sam Hood (1872-1953) was a Sydney photographer with a passion for ships. His 60-year career spanned the romantic... More

View of unfinished Sydney Harbour Bridge aboard HMAS ANZAC

View of unfinished Sydney Harbour Bridge aboard HMAS ANZAC

This photograph was taken aboard HMAS ANZAC probably as it was returning to port after the scuttling of HMAS TORRENS I. In the background, Fort Denison is visible and the Sydney Harbour Bridge appears unfinishe... More

Group of tram conductors and drivers, n.d., by Sam Hood

Group of tram conductors and drivers, n.d., by Sam Hood

Format: Photograph. .Notes: Find more detailed information about this photographic collection: 153459 ( http://153459 ) ..Search for more great images in the State Library's collections: ( http:// ) . .From th... More

Cadet cleaning paint work on board MERSEY

Cadet cleaning paint work on board MERSEY

The White Star Line three-masted training ship MERSEY had the capacity to train 60 cadets. Between 1908 and 1915 MERSEY made six trips to Australia. ..This photo is part of the Australian National Maritime Muse... More

Crew and cadets of MERSEY at ferry wharf in Sydney

Crew and cadets of MERSEY at ferry wharf in Sydney

The White Star Line three-masted training ship MERSEY had the capacity to train 60 cadets. Between 1908 and 1915 MERSEY made six trips to Australia. ..This photo is part of the Australian National Maritime Muse... More

Three-masted training ship MERSEY viewed on the bow starboard quarter, 1908-1915

Three-masted training ship MERSEY viewed on the bow starboard quarter,...

This photo is part of the Australian National Maritime Museum’s Samuel J. Hood Studio collection. Sam Hood (1872-1953) was a Sydney photographer with a passion for ships. His 60-year career spanned the romantic... More

Bow view of three-masted training ship MERSEY, 1908-1915

Bow view of three-masted training ship MERSEY, 1908-1915

This photo is part of the Australian National Maritime Museum’s Samuel J. Hood Studio collection. Sam Hood (1872-1953) was a Sydney photographer with a passion for ships. His 60-year career spanned the romantic... More

Three-masted ship MERSEY at sea

Three-masted ship MERSEY at sea

The White Star Line three-masted training ship MERSEY had the capacity to train 60 cadets. Between 1908 and 1915 MERSEY made six trips to Australia. ..This photo is part of the Australian National Maritime Muse... More

The captain of MERSEY possibly seated with his wife

The captain of MERSEY possibly seated with his wife

The White Star Line three-masted training ship MERSEY had the capacity to train 60 cadets. Between 1908 and 1915 MERSEY made six trips to Australia. This photograph depicts the ship's captain, possibly Captain ... More

Five crew with rigging on board MERSEY

Five crew with rigging on board MERSEY

The White Star Line three-masted training ship MERSEY had the capacity to train 60 cadets. Between 1908 and 1915 MERSEY made six trips to Australia. ..This photo is part of the Australian National Maritime Muse... More

Three cadets on board the three-masted training ship MERSEY, 1908-1915

Three cadets on board the three-masted training ship MERSEY, 1908-1915

The White Star Line three-masted training ship MERSEY had the capacity to train 60 cadets. Between 1908 and 1915 MERSEY made six trips to Australia. ..This photo is part of the Australian National Maritime Muse... More

MERSEY at sea during World War I

MERSEY at sea during World War I

The White Star Line three-masted training ship MERSEY had the capacity to train 60 cadets. Between 1908 and 1915 MERSEY made six trips to Australia. ..This photo is part of the Australian National Maritime Muse... More

Cadets of the training ship MERSEY on shore leave

Cadets of the training ship MERSEY on shore leave

The White Star Line three-masted training ship MERSEY had the capacity to train 60 cadets. Between 1908 and 1915 MERSEY made six trips to Australia. ..This photo is part of the Australian National Maritime Muse... More

Cadets scrambling under nets on board MERSEY

Cadets scrambling under nets on board MERSEY

The White Star Line three-masted training ship MERSEY had the capacity to train 60 cadets. Between 1908 and 1915 MERSEY made six trips to Australia. ..This photo is part of the Australian National Maritime Muse... More

On board MERSEY with cadets and ladies at stern rail

On board MERSEY with cadets and ladies at stern rail

The White Star Line three-masted training ship MERSEY had the capacity to train 60 cadets. Between 1908 and 1915 MERSEY made six trips to Australia. ..This photo is part of the Australian National Maritime Muse... More

Crew attending to sails on board the training ship MERSEY

Crew attending to sails on board the training ship MERSEY

The White Star Line three-masted training ship MERSEY had the capacity to train 60 cadets. Between 1908 and 1915 MERSEY made six trips to Australia. ..This photo is part of the Australian National Maritime Muse... More

Three-masted training ship MERSEY at Neutral Bay, Sydney

Three-masted training ship MERSEY at Neutral Bay, Sydney

The White Star Line three-masted training ship MERSEY had the capacity to train 60 cadets. Between 1908 and 1915 MERSEY made six trips to Australia. ..This photo is part of the Australian National Maritime Muse... More

Three-masted ship MERSEY in Sydney Harbour

Three-masted ship MERSEY in Sydney Harbour

The White Star Line three-masted training ship MERSEY had the capacity to train 60 cadets. Between 1908 and 1915 MERSEY made six trips to Australia. ..This photo is part of the Australian National Maritime Muse... More

Three cadets on board MERSEY posing near mast

Three cadets on board MERSEY posing near mast

The White Star Line three-masted training ship MERSEY had the capacity to train 60 cadets. Between 1908 and 1915 MERSEY made six trips to Australia. ..This photo is part of the Australian National Maritime Muse... More

HMAT BORDA berthing at Millers Point

HMAT BORDA berthing at Millers Point

This glass plate negative depicts the portside bow view of HMAT BORDA beside wharf 10 at Millers Point, Sydney. Its hull and funnel are painted in dazzle camouflage. BORDA was requisitioned from the P&O Steam N... More

Two men pulling on ropes on deck of SS RUNIC, 1920s

Two men pulling on ropes on deck of SS RUNIC, 1920s

This photo is part of the Australian National Maritime Museum’s Samuel J. Hood Studio collection. Sam Hood (1872-1953) was a Sydney photographer with a passion for ships. His 60-year career spanned the romantic... More

Portrait of elderly man with large moustache on board SS RUNIC, 1920s

Portrait of elderly man with large moustache on board SS RUNIC, 1920s

This photo is part of the Australian National Maritime Museum’s Samuel J. Hood Studio collection. Sam Hood (1872-1953) was a Sydney photographer with a passion for ships. His 60-year career spanned the romantic... More

Captain and male passenger on deck of SS RUNIC, 1920s

Captain and male passenger on deck of SS RUNIC, 1920s

This photo is part of the Australian National Maritime Museum’s Samuel J. Hood Studio collection. Sam Hood (1872-1953) was a Sydney photographer with a passion for ships. His 60-year career spanned the romantic... More

Cook, Hohn Winter, on board SEETEUFEL with a civilian man

Cook, Hohn Winter, on board SEETEUFEL with a civilian man

This photograph depicts the cook of the two-masted schooner SEETEUFEL, Hohn Winter, opening what appears to be a can of food, with an unidentified man seated next to him. According to the secret files kept on t... More

Portrait of a man and a woman on board SS RUNIC, 1920s

Portrait of a man and a woman on board SS RUNIC, 1920s

This photo is part of the Australian National Maritime Museum’s Samuel J. Hood Studio collection. Sam Hood (1872-1953) was a Sydney photographer with a passion for ships. His 60-year career spanned the romantic... More

18-footer racing on Sydney Harbour possibly near Clark Island, 1920-1939

18-footer racing on Sydney Harbour possibly near Clark Island, 1920-19...

This photo is part of the Australian National Maritime Museum’s Samuel J. Hood Studio collection. Sam Hood (1872-1953) was a Sydney photographer with a passion for ships. His 60-year career spanned the romantic... More

Captain and two passengers on deck of SS RUNIC, 1920s

Captain and two passengers on deck of SS RUNIC, 1920s

This photo is part of the Australian National Maritime Museum’s Samuel J. Hood Studio collection. Sam Hood (1872-1953) was a Sydney photographer with a passion for ships. His 60-year career spanned the romantic... More

Eleven young crew members leaning over side of SS RUNIC, 1920s

Eleven young crew members leaning over side of SS RUNIC, 1920s

This photo is part of the Australian National Maritime Museum’s Samuel J. Hood Studio collection. Sam Hood (1872-1953) was a Sydney photographer with a passion for ships. His 60-year career spanned the romantic... More

Portrait of elderly man with large moustache on board SS RUNIC, 1920s

Portrait of elderly man with large moustache on board SS RUNIC, 1920s

This photo is part of the Australian National Maritime Museum’s Samuel J. Hood Studio collection. Sam Hood (1872-1953) was a Sydney photographer with a passion for ships. His 60-year career spanned the romantic... More

Portrait of male passenger on deck of SS RUNIC, 1920s

Portrait of male passenger on deck of SS RUNIC, 1920s

This photo is part of the Australian National Maritime Museum’s Samuel J. Hood Studio collection. Sam Hood (1872-1953) was a Sydney photographer with a passion for ships. His 60-year career spanned the romantic... More

Two-masted yawl TRIXIE in Sydney Harbour, 1920-1939

Two-masted yawl TRIXIE in Sydney Harbour, 1920-1939

This photo is part of the Australian National Maritime Museum’s Samuel J. Hood Studio collection. Sam Hood (1872-1953) was a Sydney photographer with a passion for ships. His 60-year career spanned the romantic... More

Chocolate wheel, United Charities Fund Street Fair, Pitt Street, Sydney, 1920s, by Sam Hood

Chocolate wheel, United Charities Fund Street Fair, Pitt Street, Sydne...

Format: Photograph..Find more detailed information about this photograph: 7552 ( http://7552 ) ..Search for more great images in the State Library's collections: ( http:// ) ..From the collection of the State ... More

Captain and male passenger on deck of SS RUNIC, 1920s

Captain and male passenger on deck of SS RUNIC, 1920s

This photo is part of the Australian National Maritime Museum’s Samuel J. Hood Studio collection. Sam Hood (1872-1953) was a Sydney photographer with a passion for ships. His 60-year career spanned the romantic... More

Portrait of male passenger on deck of SS RUNIC, 1920s

Portrait of male passenger on deck of SS RUNIC, 1920s

This photo is part of the Australian National Maritime Museum’s Samuel J. Hood Studio collection. Sam Hood (1872-1953) was a Sydney photographer with a passion for ships. His 60-year career spanned the romantic... More

Group of seven male passengers on deck of SS RUNIC, 1920s

Group of seven male passengers on deck of SS RUNIC, 1920s

This photo is part of the Australian National Maritime Museum’s Samuel J. Hood Studio collection. Sam Hood (1872-1953) was a Sydney photographer with a passion for ships. His 60-year career spanned the romantic... More

Group portrait with eight men on board RMS ORSOVA, including Stanley Bruce and Lord Stonehaven

Group portrait with eight men on board RMS ORSOVA, including Stanley B...

This image depicts eight men on the deck of RMS ORSOVA at the Anniversary Day Regatta which was held on Sydney Harbour on 26 January 1929. From left to right: possibly Colonel Alfred Spain, chairman of the Anni... More

Two United States sailors with children around a maypole possibly at the Vice-Regal Garden Party

Two United States sailors with children around a maypole possibly at t...

On 23 July 1925, Sydney hosted eight of the US Navy Battle Fleet's largest ships. On 28 July, Governor Dudley de Chair and Lady Enid de Chair hosted the Vice-Regal Garden Party in their honour at Government Hou... More

Two men possibly on board SS ORMISTON, 1927-1939

Two men possibly on board SS ORMISTON, 1927-1939

This photo is part of the Australian National Maritime Museum’s Samuel J. Hood Studio collection. Sam Hood (1872-1953) was a Sydney photographer with a passion for ships. His 60-year career spanned the romantic... More

Three-masted barque CHILLICOTHE under tow in Sydney Harbour

Three-masted barque CHILLICOTHE under tow in Sydney Harbour

On 3 August 1927, 'The Sydney Morning Herald' reported that the American ship, CHILLICOTHE, had encountered problems at sea. The CHILLICOTHE had a cargo of lumber and the report details that the crew members co... More

The Duke of York, in captain's uniform, meets decorated officer of the Flying Corps, Geoffrey F. Hughes, Government House, Sydney, 1927 / Sam Hood

The Duke of York, in captain's uniform, meets decorated officer of the...

Format: Glass negative..Find more detailed information about this photographic collection: 7519 ( http://7519 ) ..Search for more great images in the State Library's collections: ( http:// ) ..From the collect... More

Two men, including Stanley S Crick, shaking hands at a Movietone event

Two men, including Stanley S Crick, shaking hands at a Movietone event

This photograph depicts two men shaking hands. The photograph was taken in August 1929 at Circular Quay during the welcoming and celebrations of the arrival of Australia's first Movietone News truck. The man to... More

Saint Patrick's Day parade, c. 1930s by Sam Hood

Saint Patrick's Day parade, c. 1930s by Sam Hood

Format: Photograph..Find more detailed information about this photograph: 35558 ( http://35558 ) ..Search for more great images in the State Library's collections: ( http:// ) ..From the collection of the Stat... More

Billboard advertising Saunders' malt extract, Sydney, ca. 1930 / photographer Sam Hood

Billboard advertising Saunders' malt extract, Sydney, ca. 1930 / photo...

Format: Negative..Find more detailed information about this photographic collection: 53705 ( http://53705 ) ..From the collection of the State Library of New South Wales ( )

Officer and a civilian on board a ship's deck

Officer and a civilian on board a ship's deck

This photo is part of the Australian National Maritime Museum’s Samuel J. Hood Studio collection. Sam Hood (1872-1953) was a Sydney photographer with a passion for ships. His 60-year career spanned the romantic... More

MAGDALENE VINNEN awaiting cargo in Sydney Harbour

MAGDALENE VINNEN awaiting cargo in Sydney Harbour

This photo is part of the Australian National Maritime Museum’s Samuel J. Hood Studio collection. Sam Hood (1872-1953) was a Sydney photographer with a passion for ships. His 60-year career spanned the romantic... More

Regatta on Sydney Harbour, Sydney, Australia, 1940s

Regatta on Sydney Harbour, Sydney, Australia, 1940s

This photo is part of the Australian National Maritime Museum’s Samuel J. Hood Studio collection. Sam Hood (1872-1953) was a Sydney photographer with a passion for ships. His 60-year career spanned the romantic... More

Restricted 21-foot class yacht near Royal Sydney Yacht Squadron in Kirribilli

Restricted 21-foot class yacht near Royal Sydney Yacht Squadron in Kir...

This photo is part of the Australian National Maritime Museum’s Samuel J. Hood Studio collection. Sam Hood (1872-1953) was a Sydney photographer with a passion for ships. His 60-year career spanned the romantic... More

Three sloops racing near a ferry in Sydney Harbour

Three sloops racing near a ferry in Sydney Harbour

This photo is part of the Australian National Maritime Museum’s Samuel J. Hood Studio collection. Sam Hood (1872-1953) was a Sydney photographer with a passion for ships. His 60-year career spanned the romantic... More

Some VIPs sign the visitors' book before going up to the lookout. Two pylon hostesses in picture, c. 1930s, by Sam Hood

Some VIPs sign the visitors' book before going up to the lookout. Two ...

Format: Photograph. .Notes: Find more detailed information about this photograph: 50650 ( http://50650 ) ..Search for more great images in the State Library's collections: ( http:// ) ..From the collection of ... More

Three officers on the deck of a ship

Three officers on the deck of a ship

This photo is part of the Australian National Maritime Museum’s Samuel J. Hood Studio collection. Sam Hood (1872-1953) was a Sydney photographer with a passion for ships. His 60-year career spanned the romantic... More

Cadet dinghies sailing out of Prince Edward Yacht Club in Point Piper, Sydney

Cadet dinghies sailing out of Prince Edward Yacht Club in Point Piper,...

This photograph depicts cadet dinghies sailing out of Prince Edward Yacht Club in Point Piper, Sydney. The number 21 is PIXIE II...This photo is part of the Australian National Maritime Museum’s Samuel J. Hood ... More

View of unfinished Sydney Harbour Bridge aboard HMAS ANZAC

View of unfinished Sydney Harbour Bridge aboard HMAS ANZAC

This photograph was taken aboard HMAS ANZAC probably as it was returning to port after the scuttling of HMAS TORRENS I. In the background, the Sydney Harbour Bridge appears unfinished...This photo is part of th... More

Women's dressing room, Theatre Royal, Sydney, 1930's / Sam Hood

Women's dressing room, Theatre Royal, Sydney, 1930's / Sam Hood

Format: Silver gelatin photograph..Notes: Unable to verify if these women are from one of the three Ballets Russes tours, or a JC Williamson musical..From the collections of the Mitchell Library, State Library ... More

Amy Johnson motorcade in Sydney, 1930 / photographed by Sam Hood

Amy Johnson motorcade in Sydney, 1930 / photographed by Sam Hood

Format: Black & white photoprint..Notes: First female pilot to fly solo from Britain to Australia..From the collections of the Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales ( ) ..Information about photog... More

Close-up of grape pickers at work, 1930s, by Sam Hood

Close-up of grape pickers at work, 1930s, by Sam Hood

Format: Glass photonegative. .Notes: Find more detailed information about this photograph: 7974 ( http://7974 ) ..Search for more great images in the State Library's collections: ( http:// ) . .From the collec... More

Young man, possibly Ted Hood on board MAGDALENE VINNEN

Young man, possibly Ted Hood on board MAGDALENE VINNEN

This photograph possibly depicts Samuel J Hood's son Ted Hood on board MAGDALENE VINNEN. The vessel sailed into Sydney Harbour on 27 February 1933, under the command of Captain Lorenz Peters. The barque was loa... More

MAGDALENE VINNEN in port in Woolloomooloo, Sydney

MAGDALENE VINNEN in port in Woolloomooloo, Sydney

The four-masted steel barque MAGDALENE VINNEN sailed into Sydney Harbour on 27 February 1933, under the command of Captain Lorenz Peters. The barque was loaded with almost 16,000 bales of wool, the fourth large... More

Launching of HMAS WARREGO II at Cockatoo Island Dockyard

Launching of HMAS WARREGO II at Cockatoo Island Dockyard

Photograph of shipwrights celebrating the launch of HMAS WARREGO at Cockatoo Island Dockyard. It shows the custom whereby the shipwrights who had 'railed up' or readied the vessel for launch on the slipway were... More

Captain Lorenz Peters addressing his officers on board MAGDALENE VINNEN

Captain Lorenz Peters addressing his officers on board MAGDALENE VINNE...

This image depicts officers on board MAGDALENE VINNEN. The man in white is Captain Lorenz Peters. The vessel sailed into Sydney Harbour on 27 February 1933, under the command of Captain Peters. The barque was l... More

Count Felix Graf von Luckner and an unidentified man holding a life belt on SEETEUFEL

Count Felix Graf von Luckner and an unidentified man holding a life be...

This photograph depicts Count Felix Graf von Luckner with an unidentified man holding a life belt on board the two-masted schooner SEETEUFEL...For more information on Count von Luckner's visit see our blog post... More

Captain Mathieson, Gertrude Mathieson, a steward and two guests on board ANTIOPE

Captain Mathieson, Gertrude Mathieson, a steward and two guests on boa...

This photo is part of the Australian National Maritime Museum’s Samuel J. Hood Studio collection. Sam Hood (1872-1953) was a Sydney photographer with a passion for ships. His 60-year career spanned the romantic... More

Yachts moored at a wharf with a ferry in the background

Yachts moored at a wharf with a ferry in the background

This photo is part of the Australian National Maritime Museum’s Samuel J. Hood Studio collection. Sam Hood (1872-1953) was a Sydney photographer with a passion for ships. His 60-year career spanned the romantic... More

Group around a bar, c. 1930s, by Sam Hood

Group around a bar, c. 1930s, by Sam Hood

Format: Photograph. .Notes: Find more detailed information about this photograph: 389410 ( http://389410 ) ..Search for more great images in the State Library's collections: ( http:// ) ..From the collection o... More

Six-metre class yachts racing on a harbour

Six-metre class yachts racing on a harbour

This photo is part of the Australian National Maritime Museum’s Samuel J. Hood Studio collection. Sam Hood (1872-1953) was a Sydney photographer with a passion for ships. His 60-year career spanned the romantic... More

Two portraits of a man, Australian National Maritime Museum

Two portraits of a man, Australian National Maritime Museum

This photo is part of the Australian National Maritime Museum’s Samuel J. Hood Studio collection. Sam Hood (1872-1953) was a Sydney photographer with a passion for ships. His 60-year career spanned the romantic... More

MAGDALENE VINNEN under partial sail 10 miles off Sydney

MAGDALENE VINNEN under partial sail 10 miles off Sydney

This photo is part of the Australian National Maritime Museum’s Samuel J. Hood Studio collection. Sam Hood (1872-1953) was a Sydney photographer with a passion for ships. His 60-year career spanned the romantic... More

8-metre class yacht, possibly NORN, on Sydney Harbour

8-metre class yacht, possibly NORN, on Sydney Harbour

This photo is part of the Australian National Maritime Museum’s Samuel J. Hood Studio collection. Sam Hood (1872-1953) was a Sydney photographer with a passion for ships. His 60-year career spanned the romantic... More

Three sloops and a cargo ship near Clifton Gardens, Sydney

Three sloops and a cargo ship near Clifton Gardens, Sydney

This photo is part of the Australian National Maritime Museum’s Samuel J. Hood Studio collection. Sam Hood (1872-1953) was a Sydney photographer with a passion for ships. His 60-year career spanned the romantic... More

Gangs of men on relief work during the depression, 1930s, by Sam Hood

Gangs of men on relief work during the depression, 1930s, by Sam Hood

Format: Glass photonegative. .Notes: Find more detailed information about this photograph: 51188 ( http://51188 ) ..Search for more great images in the State Library's collections: ( http:// ) . .From the coll... More

Captain Mathieson and his wife Gertrude Mathieson on board ANTIOPE

Captain Mathieson and his wife Gertrude Mathieson on board ANTIOPE

This photograph depicts Captain Peter John Riber Mathieson and his wife Gertrude Mathieson (née Gowlland) at the stern rail of the three-masted barque ANTIOPE...This photo is part of the Australian National Mar... More

Sailboats on Pittwater, Sydney, Australia, 1940s

Sailboats on Pittwater, Sydney, Australia, 1940s

This photograph depicts sailboats on Pittwater, Sydney with the yacht BOOMERANG in the background to the right with flags...This photo is part of the Australian National Maritime Museum’s Samuel J. Hood Studio ... More

Yacht racing near a ferry in Sydney Harbour

Yacht racing near a ferry in Sydney Harbour

This photo is part of the Australian National Maritime Museum’s Samuel J. Hood Studio collection. Sam Hood (1872-1953) was a Sydney photographer with a passion for ships. His 60-year career spanned the romantic... More

First Officer Paul Kause on board the SEETEUFEL.

First Officer Paul Kause on board the SEETEUFEL.

This photograph depicts First Officer Paul Kause on board the two-masted schooner SEETEUFEL. According to the secret files kept on the von Luckners by the Commonwealth Investigation Branch (CIB), Kause was desc... More

Unidentified crew member cleaning brass on board SEETEUFEL

Unidentified crew member cleaning brass on board SEETEUFEL

This photograph depicts an unidentified crew member cleaning brass on board the two-masted schooner SEETEUFEL...For more information on Count von Luckner's visit see our blog post 'Espionage and paranoia: The S... More

Count Felix Graf von Luckner holding a life belt on SEETEUFEL

Count Felix Graf von Luckner holding a life belt on SEETEUFEL

This photograph depicts Count Felix Graf von Luckner holding a life belt on board the two-masted schooner SEETEUFEL...For more information on Count von Luckner's visit see our blog post 'Espionage and paranoia:... More

Captain Lorenz Peters addressing his officers on board MAGDALENE VINNEN

Captain Lorenz Peters addressing his officers on board MAGDALENE VINNE...

This image depicts officers on board MAGDALENE VINNEN. The man in white is Captain Lorenz Peters. The vessel sailed into Sydney Harbour on 27 February 1933, under the command of Captain Peters. The barque was l... More

Group of radio producers in a studio, c. 1930s, by Sam Hood

Group of radio producers in a studio, c. 1930s, by Sam Hood

Format: Photograph. .Notes: Find more detailed information about this photographic collection: 153570 ( http://153570 ) ..Search for more great images in the State Library's collections: ( http:// ) . .From th... More

Circus worker prepares to hoist the "big top", n.d., by Sam Hood

Circus worker prepares to hoist the "big top", n.d., by Sam Hood

Format: Photograph. .Notes: Find more detailed information about this photographic collection: 153437 ( http://153437 ) ..Search for more great images in the State Library's collections: ( http:// ) . .From th... More

Count Felix Graf von Luckner with wife Countess Ingeborg von Luckner on board SEETEUFEL

Count Felix Graf von Luckner with wife Countess Ingeborg von Luckner o...

This photograph depicts Count Felix Graf von Luckner with wife Countess Ingeborg von Luckner (née Engeström) on board their two-masted schooner SEETEUFEL. A similar photograph was published in 'The Sydney Morni... More

Count Felix Graf and Countess Ingeborg von Luckner with Karl Muller on board SEETEUFEL

Count Felix Graf and Countess Ingeborg von Luckner with Karl Muller on...

This photograph depicts Count Felix Graf von Luckner with wife Countess Ingeborg von Luckner (née Engeström) and boatswain Karl Muller, on board the two-masted schooner SEETEUFEL. It was probably taken on 20 Ma... More

Single mast yacht near Neutral Bay, Sydney

Single mast yacht near Neutral Bay, Sydney

This photo is part of the Australian National Maritime Museum’s Samuel J. Hood Studio collection. Sam Hood (1872-1953) was a Sydney photographer with a passion for ships. His 60-year career spanned the romantic... More

A United Charities worker selling a Rose Day button to a man, c. 1930s, by Sam Hood

A United Charities worker selling a Rose Day button to a man, c. 1930s...

Format: Photograph..Find more detailed information about this photograph: 42875 ( http://42875 ) ..Search for more great images in the State Library's collections: ( http:// ) ..From the collection of the Stat... More

Captain Mathieson, Gertrude Mathieson and two guests on board ANTIOPE

Captain Mathieson, Gertrude Mathieson and two guests on board ANTIOPE

This photo is part of the Australian National Maritime Museum’s Samuel J. Hood Studio collection. Sam Hood (1872-1953) was a Sydney photographer with a passion for ships. His 60-year career spanned the romantic... More

Count Felix Graf von Luckner at the wheel of SEETEUFEL

Count Felix Graf von Luckner at the wheel of SEETEUFEL

This photograph depicts Count Felix Graf von Luckner at the wheel on board his two-masted schooner SEETEUFEL. The image was probably taken on 20 May 1938...For more information on Count von Luckner's visit see ... More

Boatswain Karl Muller smoking a pipe and hosing the deck of SEETEUFEL

Boatswain Karl Muller smoking a pipe and hosing the deck of SEETEUFEL

This photograph depicts the boatswain of SEETEUFEL, Karl Muller, smoking a pipe and hosing the vessel's deck, during Count Felix Graf von Luckner's visit to Sydney in May 1938. According to the secret files kep... More

Two-masted schooner SEETEUFEL in Sydney Harbour

Two-masted schooner SEETEUFEL in Sydney Harbour

For more information on Count von Luckner's visit see our blog post 'Espionage and paranoia: The Sea Devil tours Australia' ( http://anmm.wordpress.com/2013/10/25/the-sea-devil/ ) ...This photo is part of the A... More

Miss J Thompson on the diving board, ca. 1930 / photographer Sam Hood

Miss J Thompson on the diving board, ca. 1930 / photographer Sam Hood

Format: Photograph..Find more detailed information about this photograph.7772 ( http://7772 ) ..From the collection of the State Library of New South Wales ( )

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