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Collection of drawings of industrial sites and workers in New South Wales

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    Collection of drawings of industrial sites and workers in New South Wales

    Call numbers

    PXD 603

    Record identifier

    YK5ejv0n

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    https://collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/YK5ejv0n

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    Collection of drawings of industrial sites and workers in New South Wales

    Full title

    Collection of drawings of industrial sites and workers in New South Wales

    Author / Creator

    Curtis, Robert Emerson, 1898-1996

    Date

    1932 - 1990

    Call Numbers

    PXD 603

    Record Identifier

    YK5ejv0n

    Formats

    Pictures and Drawings

    — Physical Description

    Contents

    Drawings - Various sizes - Pencil, col. pencil, crayon, ink, some heightened with white
    — Other Descriptions

    Level of description

    Fonds

    Access and use

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    Subjects

    Subjects and topics

    Bogan Gate (N.S.W.) Maritime Services Board Building (Circular Quay, Sydney, N.S.W.) Newcastle (N.S.W.) North Coast Steam Navigation Company Port Kembla (N.S.W.) Sydney (N.S.W.) Sydney Opera House (N.S.W.) Taree (N.S.W.) interiors artillery blast furnaces boatbuilding building construction commercial motor vehicles construction & demolition workers crops dam construction dams & reservoirs defence force bases girders harbours harvesters harvesting iron & steel industry iron & steel works locomotives logs machine shops manufacturing industry milk cans oil tankers (road vehicles) paper mills power stations radio factories railway buildings road construction & maintenance sawmillers sawmills shearers shearing sheds tugboats valves (electronics) vessels (watercraft) war workers wars water transportation weirs women wool presses & balers Adult Females Adult Males Lamb, Elijah World War (1939-1945)

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    — SCOPE AND CONTENTS

    Contents

    The collection includes views of the North Head gun emplacement, 1932, Burrinjuck Dam and Hume Weir, 1933, 1935 and 1946, road construction at Bungaroo, St. Ives, 1933, BHP's steelworks at Newcastle and Port Kembla, 1933, 1934 and 1955, shearing sheds and sawmills at Bogan Gate, 1934, 1936 and 1938, Bunnerong and Pyrmont Power Houses, 1935, a Sydn...

    — ALTERNATIVE TITLES

    Full title

    Collection of drawings of industrial sites and workers in New South Wales

    — AUTHORS, ARTISTS AND CONTRIBUTORS

    Author / Creator

    — NOTES

    Signature / Inscriptions

    All are signed. Most are dated between 1932 and 1990. Most are titled either on face or on reverse.
    The artist has inscribed many with additional signatures, dates and titles on reverse.

    — CONTEXTUAL INFORMATION

    Source

    Purchased, 1991
    Pic.Acc.7179

    Identifiers

    — PRIMARY IDENTIFIERS

    Call Numbers

    PXD 603

    Record Identifier

    YK5ejv0n

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    https://collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/YK5ejv0n

    — OTHER IDENTIFIERS

    Reference code

    52072

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