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 Australian gold rushes attracted many skilled tradesmen to Australia. Some of them had been active in the Chartist movement in Britain, and subsequently became prominent in the campaign for better working conditions in the Australian colonies. Workers began winning an eight-hour day in various companies and industries in the 1850s.
Format: dry plate, glass negative 8 ¼” x 6 ½” (210mm x 165mm) Horace Hodgkinson
Date Range: 6 October 1890
Location: Sussex and Erskine Streets, Sydney
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Part of Local Studies Collection: HO 8073 Box 16
Provenance: Horace Edward Hodgkinson (1862-1937), Charles Edward Hodgkinson (1890-1979), Shayne Cullen (née Hodgkinson)
Links:
TRADES MOVEMENTS. (1888, March 27). The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), p. 5. Retrieved July 1, 2024, from nla.gov.au/nla.news-article13672818
Australia and New Zealand en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eight-hour_day#Australia_and_New_Ze...
Notes: Horace Hodgkinson standing right, the station opened 1866.
Format: dry plate, glass negative 4 ¼” x 3 ¼” ” (108 mm x 82 mm) Horace Hodgkinson
Date Range: c1905
Location: Gatton
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Part of Local Studies Collection: HO 10.0116 Box 10
Provenance: Horace Edward Hodgkinson (1862-1937), Charles Edward Hodgkinson (1890-1979), Shayne Cullen (née Hodgkinson)
Links:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gatton,_Queensland
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gatton_railway_station
Tags: Australian Railway Stations
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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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: Popes Glen is within the eastern end of Popes Glen Creek, Blackheath. A walking track through Popes Glen extends from Dell Street to the junction of Pulpit Rock Track and Govetts Walk. John Pope, a general manager of a large retail firm in Sydney, purchased Portion 62, l0 acres on 30 April 1880 and the adjoining Portion 63, 12 acres on the 28 March 1881. The southern boundary extends along Govetts Leap Road and the northern boundary abuts Popes Glen Creek. This combined parcel of land was transferred to his son Parke William Pope (1868-1955) on the 19 June 1912. Parke Pope's house Karaweera, now known as Parklands, was originally laid out in the grand manner of an English country estate. Ref: Land Titles Vol. 502; Fol. 5 & Vol. 535; Fol. 104. The Mountaineer, 18 June 1897, p. 4. K 498 761. (Blue Mountains Geographical Encyclopaedia)
Format: dry plate, glass negative 4 ¼” x 3 ¼” (108 mm x 82 mm) Charles Hodgkinson
Date Range:
Location: Blackheath, on Popes Glen Creek (approx.)
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Part of Local Studies Collection: HO 35.8529 Box 35
Provenance: Horace Edward Hodgkinson (1862-1937), Charles Edward Hodgkinson (1890-1979), Shayne Cullen (née Hodgkinson)
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