Notes: "It took 11 years before construction began on a fine sandstone building to encase Hunt’s unadorned ‘art barn’. This was erected to designs by government architect Walter Liberty Vernon, who had replaced James Barnet in 1890. Vernon was under instruction to make his building ‘as strictly classical as possible’.
Vernon’s designs were approved on 2 December 1895 and building works commenced on 13 April 1896.
On 20 February 1909 the entire facade of the gallery was completed. A circular loggia at the end of the north-west wing differentiated it slightly from the one completed in 1897."
Format: dry plate, glass negative 8 ¼” x 6 ½” (210mm x 163mm) by Horace Hodgkinson
Date Range: c1905
Location: workshop on the site, Art Gallery Rd, Central Sydney
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Part of Local Studies Collection: HO 7888 Box 1
Provenance: Horace Edward Hodgkinson (1862-1937), Charles Edward Hodgkinson (1890-1979), Shayne Cullen (née Hodgkinson)
Links:
www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/about-us/history/our-gallery-hi...
Notes: the base of the stiffleg derrick on left
Format: dry plate, glass negative 8 ¼” x 6 ½” (210mm x 165mm) Horace Hodgkinson
Date Range: c1905
Location: believed to be Sydney University
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Repository: Blue Mountains Library library.bmcc.nsw.gov.au
Part of Local Studies Collection: HO 1.0015 Box 1
Provenance: Horace Edward Hodgkinson (1862-1937), Charles Edward Hodgkinson (1890-1979), Shayne Cullen (née Hodgkinson)
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Notes: this is a steam powered derrick crane for moving stone blocks and materials on the site.
The timbers in the support structure are individually labelled to allow for easy dismantling are re-erection.
Identified as a stiffleg or Scotch derrick with a single rigid stiffleg and boom.
Format: dry plate, glass negative 8 ¼” x 6 ½” (210mm x 165mm) Horace Hodgkinson
Date Range: c1905
Location: identified as somewhere in Sydney University, possible the School of Medicine, looking SW to RPA Hospital and St Andrew's College, thanks to our correspondent below
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Repository: Blue Mountains Library library.bmcc.nsw.gov.au
Part of Local Studies Collection: HO 1.0016 Box 1
Provenance: Horace Edward Hodgkinson (1862-1937), Charles Edward Hodgkinson (1890-1979), Shayne Cullen (née Hodgkinson)
Links:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derrick
Notes: the gallery façade with timber scaffolding still in place.
The original name of National Art Gallery was not changed until the 1958 Art Gallery of New South Wales Act modified how the Art Gallery was governed and changed its official name after nearly 60 years, dropping ‘National’ and giving the institution a greater state-wide focus.
Format: dry plate, glass negative 8 ¼” x 6 ½” (210mm x 165mm) Horace Hodgkinson
Date Range: c1905
Location: Art Gallery Rd, Central Sydney
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Terms of use: please acknowledge - Blue Mountains Library, Local Studies Collection
Repository: Blue Mountains Library library.bmcc.nsw.gov.au
Part of Local Studies Collection: HO 1.0001 Box 1
Provenance: Horace Edward Hodgkinson (1862-1937), Charles Edward Hodgkinson (1890-1979), Shayne Cullen (née Hodgkinson)
Links:
www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/about-us/history/our-gallery-hi...
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Notes: SS Aorangi was a passenger and refrigerated cargo ship built by John Elder & Co. of Govan, Glasgow for the New Zealand Shipping Company and launched in 1883. She was chartered by the Royal Australian Navy (RAN) between April 1914 until 1915. In 1915, she was sunk as a blockship at Scapa Flow. In 1920, she was raised but re-sank in Kirk Bay.
Format: dry plate, glass negative 8 ¼” x 6 ½” (210mm x 165mm) Horace Hodgkinson
Date Range: April 1914
Location: not Woolwich Dock or Mort's Dock in Balmain. Identified as Sutherland Dock at Cockatoo Island, by our correspondent, see comment below.
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Part of Local Studies Collection: HO 7893 Box 1
Provenance: Horace Edward Hodgkinson (1862-1937), Charles Edward Hodgkinson (1890-1979), Shayne Cullen (née Hodgkinson)
Links:
SS Aorangi - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_Aorangi_(1883)
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