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Man and woman kissing across two vessels
Samuel J Hood Studio1920s
Australian National Maritime Museum
Sydney, Australia
This photograph depicts a man and a woman kissing, with the woman possibly on board the tug CHAMPION. The CHAMPION was built for J & A Brown of Newcastle, New South Wales in 1895 and has been described as Australia's foremost tug of its time. It was used for difficult and deep sea towing and salvage jobs. It went as far afield as New Zealand, Fiji, and New Caledonia in its career from 1895 to 1954.
Details
- Title: Man and woman kissing across two vessels
- Creator: Samuel J Hood Studio
- Date: 1920s
- Location: Sydney
- Type: Photograph
- Significance: The Samuel J Hood photographic collection records an extensive range of maritime activity on Sydney Harbour, including sail and steam ships, crew portraits, crews at work, ship interiors, stevedores loading and unloading cargo, port scenes, pleasure boats and harbourside social activities from the 1890s through to the 1950s. They are also highly competent artistic studies and views - Hood was regarded as an important figure in early Australian photojournalism. Hood’s maritime photographs are one of the most significant collections of such work in Australia.
- See institution's online collections: http://www.anmm.gov.au/collections
- Medium: Glass plate negative
- Credit line: ANMM Collection
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