Title: Motor launch MISS PHYLLIS docking next to a larger launch, Sydney Harbour
Creator: William James Hall
Date: c 1931
Location: Sydney
Type: Nitrate negative
Significance: The Hall collection provides an important pictorial record of recreational boating in Sydney Harbour, from the 1890s to the 1930s – from large racing and cruising yachts, to the many and varied skiffs jostling on the harbour, to the new phenomenon of motor boating in the early twentieth century . The collection also includes images of the many spectators and crowds who followed the sailing races.