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Columbus Statue in front of Union Station, Washington, D.C. (LOC)

from The Library of Congress

22-footers WONGA and VUNA on Sydney Harbour

from Australian National Maritime Museum on The Commons

  • 6 older comments, and then…
  • beachcomber australia said:
    We have met WONGA before - built in 1896. She seems to have a slightly different rig in this photo.
  • Australian National Maritime Museum on The Commons said:
    beachcomber australia We are loving the sailor acting as figurehead :) Our yachting specialist commented: 'Excellent spotting! He is clearing a tangle in the lines, suggesting that setting this ‘new-fangled’ spinnaker is still on a learning curve for them'....
  • beachcomber australia said:
    Australian National Maritime Museum on The Commons All due to the large-size images. I wonder if Mr Hall noticed the 'figurehead' when looking into his camera upside-down with a black cloth over his head. Which makes me think - do we know what sort of camera he was using? Getting these action shots on water in the open air in the 1890s was really an achievement.
  • beachcomber australia said:
    There's a wonderful contemporary (if not earlier) Henry King photo of ERA which shows another photographer in the foreground, possibly Mr Hall! This is how I imagine his camera equipment, tripod, and glass negative case. PhM link (mega-zoomable) - from.ph/30868
  • Australian National Maritime Museum on The Commons said:
    beachcomber australia Hi BC, a good question re the equipment. The book 'Sydney Harbour of Yesteryear' by Jeff Toghill is on Hall's photography and has a section describing the glass plate negative equipment of the time. He concludes that Hall was using the early hand held 'detective' cameras on board his launch, supported by the fact that many of the action shots are taken on the smaller half-plate negatives used by these kinds of cameras, rather than the full-plates used in the studio. In 1888 William F Hall submitted an application for an invention of a self-levelling stand for cameras. In 1913 there is a Police Gazette record for W J Hall for equipment that 'have been in use for some time' and were stolen including; "a Geortz Anshutz camera, a snapshot camera, plate magazine, and a Circuit camera...' Interesting!

Former HMVS NELSON moored off Pyrmont, Sydney

from Australian National Maritime Museum on The Commons