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| Keywords: SLNSW 20850 Centenary of North Sydney opened by Mr Hughes.jpg en Centenary of North Sydney opened by Mr Hughes 1938-10-16 http //www acmssearch sl nsw gov au/search/itemDetailPaged cgi itemID 20850 item <br/>http //www acmssearch sl nsw gov au/search/itemDetailPaged cgi itemID 37473 album <br/>http //www acmssearch sl nsw gov au/search/itemDetailPaged cgi itemID 395018 collection Creator Sam Hood This image may be used freely without requesting permission The State Library of New South Wales http //www acmssearch sl nsw gov au/search/itemPopLarger cgi itemID 20850 requests acknowledgement that the image is from the collections of the State Library of NSW Photographs 32812 images copied from glass and cellulose nitrate photonegatives The Library first purchased a large collection of negatives from Gladys Hood in 1972 This collection which included nitrate negatives which have subsequently been copied at DG 0N4 NCY 28-61 was transferred to a videodisc in 1991 and each image indexed individually Ted Hood assisted with the indexing; images were also identified using surviving studio registers The videodisc known as the Home Away disc or simply the Hood collection was digitised in 1996 and mounted on the Internet with upgraded index records via the online catalogue in December 1998 Purchased from Gladys Hood 1972 Copyright restrictions may apply - Photographs in this collection created before 1955 are all out of copyright Photographs created after 1955 are in copyright for the life of creator plus 70 years ; Please acknowledge - Mitchell Library State Library of New South Wales and Courtesy copyright holder 395018 Sam Hood photographic collection 1916-ca 1955 Approximately 44 800 negatives ; 7 309 photographic prints ; 3 boxes of textual material ; 6 film reels The Library first purchased a large collection of negatives from Gladys Hood in 1972 This collection which included nitrate negatives which have subsequently been copied at DG 0N4 NCY 28-61 was transferred to a videodisc in 1991 and each image indexed individually Ted Hood assisted with the indexing; images were also identified using surviving studio registers The videodisc known as the Home Away disc or simply the Hood collection was digitised in 1996 and mounted on the Internet with upgraded index records via the online catalogue in December 1998 ; Another collection from Sam Hood's studio was purchased in 1993 from Gladys Hood's descendants This comprised 7300 photoprints PXE 789 and ca 12000 negatives ON 204 Digitisation of important photographs in PXE 789 began Mar 2002 but ON 204 has not been digitised and must be viewed at the Library Samuel J Hood's 1872-1953 claimed to have been born 1870 but the South Australian Birth Index gives date as 20 August 1872 His career as a photographer began in the 1880s ; He ran a successful business in ships portraits these negatives are now held by the Australian National Maritime Museum Sydney and portraits of people in the late nineteenth - early twentieth century The State Library has little representation of this period In 1918 he acquired the Dalny Studio at 124 Pitt Street and began to expand his business into press photography providing photographs for the Sydney Mail the Australasian the Daily Guardian the Daily Telegraph Pictorial the Labor Daily the Sun the Daily News and the Sydney Morning Herald Press photography increasingly came to dominate his business and in 1934 he joined the Labor Daily for a short time as a full-time photographer engaging other staff to look after his studio ; By the mid-1930s most newspapers employed their own photographers and Hood's commissions from the papers began to decline Hood sought other kinds of commissions and won a number of long term advertising and commercial contracts He contributed a number of photographs of Sydney buildings and streets to Building Construction and Australasian Engineer during the late 1930s and early 1940s Hood also had extensive contacts in the entertainment industry who called upon him to document celebrity events and stars as well as theatre advertising Throughout his career he worked at the stock-in-trade for commercial photographers portraits weddings and even funerals ; A number of photographers worked for Dalny Studio some of these include Ernie Bowen Gus Daley Jack Lazern Lethington Maitland as well as Sam's own children Gladys and Ted ; For detailed biographical information about photographer Sam Hood see Sydney exposures through the eyes of Sam Hood his Studio 1925-1950 / Alan Davies Sydney State Library of New South Wales 1991 Out of copyright - Created before 1955 Photographs ; Please acknowledge - Mitchell Library State Library of New South Wales advertising photography; commercial photography; photojournalism 395018 Original item no NCY39/150 yes no PD-Australia PD-1996 Australia Images from the State Library of NSW album 37473 SLNSW media uploaded by User 99of9 Photographs by Sam Hood | ||||
