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
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
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
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
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 / 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 ( )
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 ( )
A schoolgirl exhibitor with her dog, c. 1930, by Sam Hood
Format: Photograph..Find more detailed information about this photograph: 50748 ( http://50748 ) ..From the collection of the State Library of New South Wales ( )
Elderly women with their show bags, Royal Easter Show, Sydney, 1930s /...
Format: Photograph. .Notes: Find more detailed information about this photograph: 153585 ( http://153585 ) ..Search for more great images in the State Library's collections: ( http:// ) ..From the collection o... More
On the ship "Mongolia": Chuck Arnold and "Jockey" (dog), ca. 1930's / ...
Format: Photograph. .Notes: Find more detailed information about this photographic collection: acms.sl.nsw.gov.au/staff/item/itemDetailPaged.aspx?itemID... ( 35625 ) ..Search for more great images in the State ... More
Visitors watch girl operating filament winding machine in a lamp facto...
Format: Photograph. .Notes: Find more detailed information about this photograph: 43982 ( http://43982 ) ..Search for more great images in the State Library's collections: ( http:// ) . .From the collection of... More
Joyce Smith, of Undercliffe, and Jacqueline Farrar, of Marrickville, p...
Format: Glass negative..Find more detailed information about this photographic collection: 43186 ( http://43186 ) ..Search for more great images in the State Library's collections: ( http:// ) ..From the colle... More
Dandre-Levitoff Ballet Company, starring Olga Spessivtzeva, in the foy...
Format: Negative..Find more detailed information about this photographic collection: 402262 ( http://402262 ) ..Search for more great images in the State Library's collections: ..From the collection of the Stat... More
Olga Spessiva, prima ballerina, and the Dandre-Levitoff Company, Sydne...
Spessivtzeva was billed as Spessiva for "phonic simplicity" in Australia, despite being the greatest ballerina of her time. During her tour she showed the first real signs of her later mental illness...Format: ... More
May Bradford and designer Jack Jones work on tailplane of a monoplane ...
Format: Glass photonegative. .Notes: Find more detailed information about this photograph: 6507 ( http://6507 ) ..Search for more great images in the State Library's collections: ( http:// ) . .From the collec... More
Olga Spessiva, prima ballerina, and the Dandre-Levitoff Company, Sydne...
Spessivtzeva was billed as Spessiva for "phonic simplicity" in Australia, despite being the greatest ballerina of her time. During her tour she showed the first real signs of her later mental illness...Format: ... More
Olga Spessiva, ballerina, Central Station, Sydney, 1934 / photographer...
Spessivtzeva was billed as Spessiva for "phonic simplicity" in Australia, despite being the greatest ballerina of her time. During her tour she showed the first real signs of her later mental illness...Format: ... More
Women's shoes, ca. 1935 / photographer Sam Hood
Format: Photograph. .Notes: Find more detailed information about this photographic collection: 37274 ( http://37274 ) ..Search for more great images in the State Library's collections: ( http:// ) . .From the... More
Unemployed carpenters in Phillip Street wait to hear succesful applica...
Format: Photograph. .Notes: Find more detailed information about this photograph: 28165 ( http://28165 ) ..Search for more great images in the State Library's collections: ( http:// ) . .From the collection of... More
Men and women fence at Swords Club, 1936 / photogapher Sam Hood
Format: Photograph..Find more detailed information about this photographic collection: 153749&... ( http://153749&itemID=823962 ) ..From the collection of the State Library of New South Wales ( )
Paul Petrov of the Ballet Russe, backstage at the JC Williamson New Ye...
Format: Negative..From the collections of the Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales 15667 ( http://15667 )
Western Suburbs and St.George ice hockey at Glaciarium, Sydney, June 1...
Format: Photograph..Find more detailed information about this photographic collection: 153737 ( http://153737 ) ..Search for more great images in the State Library's collections: ( http:// ) ..From the collect... More
Finalists in bathing beauties competition, Luna Park, Sydney, 1937 by ...
Another photograph from the series reproduced The Labor Daily, 3/5/1937. .Sydney Exposures exhibition caption: Bathing beauties, Milsons Point, 1 May 1937 : Some of the finalists in the 1937 Sydney's Bathing Be... More
Colonel de Basil ballet dancers Elizabeth Souvorova (Betty Scorer), Al...
' ... When that troupe sailed to New Zealand from Australia in March 1937 “a new member of the company went with them”, reported the Adelaide newspaper, The Mail. ..“He is, without a doubt, the most popular mem... More
Russian Ballet rehearsal at Theatre Royal (taken for J.C. Williamson L...
Format: Negative..Find more detailed information about this photographic collection: 20590 ( http://20590 ) ..From the collection of the State Library of New South Wales : / ( / )
Adelaide Boys' Band arriving at Central Railway, Sydney, 14 January 19...
Format: Negative..Find more detailed information about this photographic collection: 15800 ( http://15800 ) ..From the collection of the State Library of New South Wales : / ( / )
Coronation decorations; illuminations of Sydney, 12/5/1937, Sam Hood
Format: Film photonegative..Find more detailed information about this photograph: 19283 ( http://19283 ) ..From the collection of the State Library of New South Wales ( )
Adelaide Boys' Band arriving at Central Railway, 14 January 1937, by S...
Format: Photograph. .Notes: Find more detailed information about this photograph: 15797 ( http://15797 ) ..Search for more great images in the State Library's collections: ( http:// ) ..From the collection of ... More
Pole vaulter Du Plessis, Empire Games, Sydney, 1938 / photographer Sam...
Format: Photograph. .Notes: Find more detailed information about this photographic collection: 153436 ( http://153436 ) ..Search for more great images in the State Library's collections: ( http:// ) . .From t... More
Patent golf machine (taken for Conimatti), 2 April 1938, by Sam Hood
Format: Negative..Find more detailed information about this photograph: 21891 ( http://21891 ) ..From the collection of the State Library of New South Wales ( )
Australians John Bromwich and Adrian Quist with the Davis Cup, Pratten...
Australians John Bromwich and Adrian Quist won the final of the Davis Cup at the Merion Cricket Club in Haverford, PA, United States on 2-5 September 1939, against a team of four Americans. To 2011, the United... More
"The Women" company: arrival in Sydney from Melbourne, January 1939 / ...
Clare Booth Luce's all female play was daring for its day and was cast in Sydney with a Broadway star, Irene Purcell. The cult movie starring Norma Shearer and Joan Crawford was made in the same year...Format: ... More
Colonel de Basil's "Original Ballet Russe" (Russian Ballet) season, Th...
Find more detailed information about this photographic collection: 395095 ( http://395095 ) ..Search for more great images in the State Library's collections: ( http:// ) ..From the collection of the State Lib... More
Interior of the Glaciarium Ice Rink, Sydney, May 1940 / photographer S...
Format: Negative..Find more detailed information about this photographic collection: 12460 ( http://12460 ) ..Search for more great images in the State Library's collections: ( http:// ) ..From the collection ... More
Women volunteer workers doing up clothing parcels at the ACF rooms (ta...
Format: Photograph..Notes: Find more detailed information about this photograph: 13199 ( http://13199 ) . .From the collection of the State Library of New South Wales ( )
Women volunteer workers doing up clothing parcels at the ACF rooms (ta...
Format: Photograph..Notes: Find more detailed information about this photograph: 13194 ( http://13194 ) . .From the collection of the State Library of New South Wales ( )
Chemists at work, Bayer Pharma Laboratory, Darlington, 13 June 1945, ...
Format: Photograph. .Notes: Find more detailed information about this photograph: 13505 ( http://13505 ) ..Search for more great images in the State Library's collections: ( http:// ) . .From the collection of... More
C.S.I.R. Canning Research laboratory investigates rabbit lactose, 1946...
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
Helena Rubinstein and her husband Prince Gurielli-Tchkonia in Sydney, ...
"With seventeen trunks full of clothes ... Princess Gurielli-Tchkonia, better known as Madame Helena Rubinstein, arrived in Sydney by the Monterey yesterday. ... Madame Rubinstein was wearing a smart black Schi... More
Sam Hood outside his Dalny Studios, 124 Pitt Street, Sydney, 1953 - ph...
Taken just three weeks before his death Format: Photograph Notes: Find more detailed information about this photograph: 52721 Search for more great images in the State Library's collections: From the c... More
Donald Bradman Sam Hood 1932, New South Wales
Don Bradman with his "Don Bradman" brand Sykes bat, ca. 1932, Sam Hood, glass negative, State Library of New South Wales Home and Away - 2389
Sam Hood self portrait ca. 1935
Samuel J Hood, self portrait, ca. 1935, copy from original nitrate negative, State Library of New South Wales Home and Away - 32988
Portrait of Sam Hood, June 1953, Taken for People Magazine. - Flickr -...
Sam Hood was born in Adelaide in 1872 and moved to Sydney when he was a child. As a teenager, he followed in the footsteps of his photographer father and began working in the industry. In 1899 Hood set up his ... More