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This pictorial material is part of the Sir Ernest Thomas Fisk file, 20 May 1920 - 13 November 1924, relating to the establishment of the first wireless link between Australia and the United Kingdom, at MLMSS 3768.

The album contains:

10 black and white photographic prints
- Factory grounds and garden
- Sir George Barstow (KCB), Lady Barstow, Sir Ernest Fisk (KC), Mr L.O.M. Barstow, Mrs Best, and Mr G.J.M. Best
- Interior of factory
- Interior of factory with employees at work in foreground
- Sir George Barstow (KCB), Lady Barstow, Sir Ernest Fisk (KC), Mr L.O.M. Barstow, Mrs Best, and Mr G.J.M. Best
- Interior of factory at employees at work
- Interior of factory at employees at work
- Exterior of AWA Tower on 47 York Street, Sydney
- Interior of employee dining room

Paper booklet 'Australian Wireless Achievements'
Subheadings include:
Wireless Development; Beam Wireless; beam Wireless picturegram Service; Coastal Radio Service; Pacific Islands Wireless Services; Marine Wireless Communication; Sydney Transmitting Centre; Sydney Receiving Centre; Melbourne Transmitting Centre; Worldwide Broadcasting Service; Aeronautical Radio; Wireless Transport Services; Wireless Manufacture; Research Laboratory; Employment of Australians; Products Manufactured by AWA.

Plastic sleeve:

- Photo reproduction of an illustration of the AWA Tower at 47 York Street, Sydney
- Newspaper clipping featuring the AWA Tower at York Street, declaring it the highest point in the city. No date.

Memento album of a visit to the AWA Radio Electric Works, Sydney, 31 May 1939

1-2. [Radio telegraphist sends and receives messages]
3-4. [Ship's radio room]
5-6. [Radio broadcasting equipment]
7. JCW stars at D.J.'s radio exhibition, March 1937
8. [Radio console models]
9-10. [Radio studio on board a ship]
11. [Cat sitting on a radio]
12. [Portable Rola public address system]
13. [C. & W. Australian Biograph motion picture projector]
14. [C. & W. motion picture projector in the bio-box of a cinema]
15. [C. & W. recording equipment in studio]
16. [Motion picture equipment in a van]
17. [Speech broadcast on Radio 2KA]
18. [John Dunn, Val Heslop and Albert Lenertz sign a contract on behalf of Aeroplane Jelly, Universal Pictures and 2SM (frame no. 7146 Home & away videodisc)]
19. [2GB broadcasts from a theatre foyer during a movie premier]
20. [Premier Stevens in evening dress speaks on 2UE in a theatre foyer ?]
21. [Man and woman with 2UW microphone]
22. Shirley Ann Richards [at the premiere of "Tall timbers"]
23. [Two American sailors and group around a 2UW microphone]
24-25. [Art deco interior of 2UW radio studio]
26-30. Fidelity Radio general office, reception desk, audition room, manager's office, entrance to packing room (frame nos. 8542-8546 Home & away videodisc)
31. [2UW transmission room and equipment]
32. [2CH woman annnouncer or actress]
33-36. [Slavic string group with singer in 2CH studio - Willa Hokin, mezzo, Francois Stempinski, violin, possibly the Vagabond Gypsies]
37-38. [Women win prizes of canteens of cutlery on 2CH]
39. [Choir singing in 2CH radio studio]
40-41. [Three men in "black face" and dinner suits broadcast at 2CH]
42-43. Lady Haig at 2CH with Mr Fisk and Mr Spencer, February 1937 (frame nos 14886-14887 Home & away videodisc)
44-45. [AWA dinner speeches, including Arthur Calwell]
46. [AWA men having a drink]
47. [AWA men having a celebration at AWA, Ashfield]
48. [AWA radio valve display and advertisement]
49. [AWA Radiola console radio in the shop window of Otto Sandel, founder of 2UW]
50. [Fisk shakes hands]
51. [Man tunes in an AWA radio]
52-53. [Executives watch women AWA factory workers making radio valves, 1936]
54. [Women work in World War I (?) factory]
55. [Men at a dinner or lunch, 1938]
56. [Women open large pile of letters]
57-58. [Fisk and party in white tie and tails at radio exhibition, Town Hall, March 1937]
59. [Fisk speaks at a lunch]
60. [Fisk and party at radio exhibition]
61. [Santa Claus and AWA microphone at Christmas party]
62. [Women view Fisk Radiola receivers at the radio exhibition, 1937]
63. [AWA men have a drink in the yard of the factory]
64. [Fisk and party of men and women]
65-66. [Governor Wakehurst and Fisk at a state dinner]
67. [Fisk and ocean liner officer on deck]
68-69. [Group at Government House and Sydney University]
70. [Lord and Lady Wakehurst, Premier Stevens and Fisk at a state function]
71-72. [Fisk and Justice Street inspect AWA factory]
73. AWA Christmas party 18 December 1937
74. AWA conference 26 March 1935;  l to r: C.Nichols (Singleton), L.J.Harrison (Parkes), A.W. Clarke (Trundle)
75. Fisk shows Sir George, Sir Oliver and the Ladies Barstow over the AWA works, Ashfield
76. [Coat of arms with kangaroo crest, shield with lightening flashes and motto "Mens sana in corpore sano"]
77. Mr McDonald, AWA
78. [Group of men look at the amplifier of a radio at the radio exhibition, 1937]
79. [David Jones' entry of a radio float in a procession]
80. [2CH Jolly Boat ?] 
81. [Group with a dog in radio studio]
82. [Girl speaking over a microphone]
83. [Stuart F. Doyle speaking to the microphone at the gala opening of the Australian Broadcasting Company, 17 July 1929, with (l to r): Postmaster General Harry Percy Brown, music publisher Frank Albert and theatre impresario Sir Benjamin Fuller]
84. [Amy Johnson, aviator, being shown a recording as she sits in front of a microphone]
85. [Prizes presented to children belonging to Red Cross;  the stage has a microphone]
86. [Demonstrating a field radio to boys]
87. [Radio performer in the studio while control man looks through the glass]
88. [Woman from 2CH Australian Women's League speaks in the Trocadero, 1937]
89-90. [Group of high school boys in 2CH (?) studio]
91. [Group of radio producers in a studio planning a show ?]
92. [Man speaking at a lunch or dinner at the Trocadero]

2. Radio telegraphist

3. Ship's radio room

6. Radio broadcasting equipment

Hood Collection part II : [Radio stations and broadcasting, including equipment, radio studios and Amalgamated Wireless (AWA), also some motion picture equipment and use of microphones]

30 Sep. 1937;  Presentation album: The Commercial Development of Radio-Telegraphy, Telephony & Broadcasting by J. W. Ormsby, F.R.G.S., F.R.S.A, Director of the Pacific Radio Telegraph Co. Ltd, including 39  copy photoprints mainly of notable figures in the history of wireless and two booklets, Australian Wireless Achievements, date unknown, and Radio on board the R.M.S.  "Queen Mary", published by International Marine Radio Co. Ltd, 1936, to commemorate the ship's maiden voyage (Call No.: MLMSS 6275/43/1)
May 1939;  Presentation album: Memento of a Visit to the A.W.A Radio-Electric Works Sydney May 31st. 1939, including 10 photoprints of, among others, Sir Ernest Fisk and Sir George Barstow (Call No.: MLMSS 6275/43/2)
1939;  Leather-bound presentation album with Sir Ernest Fisk's coat of arms in gold tooling on front cover: A Record, compiled by F. W. Larkins, Publicity Manager  of Amalgamated Wireless (Australasia) Ltd, Sydney, being an outline of Fisk's career, with 24 photoprints mainly of AWA installations and radio transmitting stations  (Call No.: MLMSS 6275/43/3)
1915-1944;  Photoprints, 1915-1943, being formerly from a family album, mainly of Sir Ernest Fisk and family at home in Belvedere Street (Vaucluse, N.S.W.) and at recreation;  and other photoprints of Sir Alfred Clark, Chairman of EMI Industries, June 1944;  Sir Ernest Fisk at the Boomerang (Services) Club (London, Great Britain), Sep. 1943;  AWA staff luncheon at the Waldorf Hotel (London, Great Britain), 2 Jan. 1926, with autograph menu;  Sir Ernest Fisk and Sir Robert Menzies [and the Economic Cabinet], ca. 1940;  cartoon by Poy: 'Come to my arms  my Beam-ish boys!', with inscription by ? , Governor ?, Cable & Wireless, Oct.  1935;  and of the ships, R.M.S. Otranto, Virginian and Lucania, (Call No.: MLMSS 6275/44X)
193--1949;  Cartoons (5): 'Artist Geo. Finey, assisted by himself, builds Mr. E.T. Fisk round a radio valve' by George Finey, date unknown;  'E.T. Fisk. Esq. / Drawn in all wave lengths.', signed: 'Will May after Finney', date unknown;  'Voice of His Masters Voice' signed by unidentified artist, date unknown;  cartoon concerning Waterside Workers' Union, H. V. (Herbert Vere) Evatt and East Indies trade by John Frith, 1949;  caricature of Sir Ernest Fisk's face shaped as a radio valve by Will May, 1937;   (Call No.: MLMSS 6275/44X)
Date unknown;  Crayon drawing of Sir Ernest Fisk, signed by Roy Dalgarno ? (Call No.: MLMSS 6275/44X)

Sir Ernest Fisk - pictorial material, 1915-1949

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