Sam Hood

Dog with backpack, 1939

 

Finish, Goulburn-Sydney Dunlop road race, Joseph St, Lidcombe, ca. 1936

 

Skiing and snowfields, ca. 1935

 

Sydney Boys' High School Team, ca. 1925-1940

 

The Syd Roy Lyricals dance band, Wentworth Hotel, Sydney, 1929

Sam Hood

Chorus rehearses, ca. 1930

 

Sideshow at Royal Easter Show [Tiny Trixie's Cab], Sydney, ca. 1935

 

Soldier's goodbye & Bobbie the cat, 1939-45

 

Theatre Royal chorus, Tamarama Beach, ca. 1938

 

Turner Twins, acrobats, 1937

Sam Hood

 6th Division boards the troopships, 9-10 January 1940

  

Carmen, Sydney Conservatorium of Music, 1941

  

 Child performers, ca. 1920s-30s

  

Chorus girls in "Rhonrad" wheels roll across Bondi Beach, ca. 1935

  

 Kangaroo & girls, ca. 1925-45

 

Source: State Library of New South Wales

Sam Hood

 "Let's face it for Australia" Camp Roosevelt Recreation Center "Big camp show" 

by 2nd Infantry Regiment; wartime show featuring Don Nicol and Rex Dawe, 1940s

  

Girl on a pier, Sydney area, 1930s

  

Girls jump over boys seated on a sportsground, ca. 1935

  

Helen Twelvetrees at Taronga Park Zoo, ca. 1935

[Helen Twelvetrees was an actress in the early days of sound films]

  

Women's jazz band, The Ingenues, on a ship, 1928

[The Ingenues were an all-female vaudeville band.
Here is a short film of them in action.]

 

Source: State Library of New South Wales

Samuel J. Hood Studio

Car on a wooded road

  

 Children drink soft drinks at a picnic, 1940's-1953

  

Chorus girls, 1920s

  

Cutter and seamstresses in a clothing factory

  

Film actor Helen Twelvetrees and her 1935 

Pontiac, Cinesound Studios, Sydney, 1936

Samuel J. Hood Studio

Salvation Army in the Domain, ca. 1930s

  

Salvation Army, Newtown, 15 March 1942

  

Skiing, 7 July 1934

  

Surfoplane riding at a Sydney beach, 1930s

  

Truck with caterpillar tread pulls skier through the snow, Kosciusko, 1930s

Samuel J. Hood Studio

 Baby ballet show, ca. 1935

  

 Child performers

  

 Chorus girls in swimsuits

  

 Hubert Opperman and woman, possibly 

Edna Sayers, on tandem bicycle, ca. 1936

  

Mug of milk, ca. 1930

Samuel J. Hood Studio

 A passenger vessel leaving Darling Harbour, Sydney, 1910s

  

 Group portrait in a ship's cabin, ca. 1916

  

 Man and woman kissing across two vessels

  

 Partial view of a passenger ship docked at a wharf possibly in Sydney, ca. 1925

  

 Portrait of Captain Edward Robert Sterling with three women, ca. 1913

  

 Portrait of two women and a baby possibly on board SS Ormiston, ca. 1934

  

 Professor Oscar Ulrich and Elsie Vonwiller next to Japanese 

Consul General and Madame K Inoue on board HNLMS Java, 1930

  

 Seaman with a cat and kitten, ca. 1910

  

 Ship's officer with pet dog, posed at ship's wheel, 1907-1928

  

 Spectators watching a naval vessel in the harbour, 

possibly the Japanese cruiser HIJMS Izumo, ca. 1905

  

 SS Ceramic departing the White Star Line wharf 

at Millers Point, with crowds and streamers, ca. 1925

  

Two women and ship's officer on the deck of SS Orungal

From the collection of the Australian National Maritime Museum

Samuel J. Hood Studio

Sam Hood was an Australian photographer. Much of his work had a maritime theme.

 Children's kindergarten, ca. 1930s

  

 Girls dancing, ca. 1930s

  

 Inspectors of Schools and Swimming watch Stewart House 

swimming exercises on the beach, South Curl, 10 January 1935

  

 Man and woman on a Malvern Star abreast tandem bicycle, ca. 1930s

  

 Men and boys swim and play in canoes in a beach rock pool

 

 Pitt Street in Sydney

  

 Start of a relay race showing five swimmers diving in, 

Colleges swimming at Drummoyne, 13 March 1935

  

 Swimming carnival, Roseville Baths, ca. 1930s

  

 Swimming class for girls, ca. 1930s

  

The Women Co. girls on Tamarama beach, 2 February 1939