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travel photographs by Ruth Hollick
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| Picnic scene New Zealand |
These photographs cover a range of travel photographs. They feature a trip into New South Wales to Sydney and up as far as Armidale (a long way in a late 1920s car), to New Zealand (possibly in the 1930s), and then in 1950 they went to the UK.
This is a selection of the images available about their car journeys and travels. Most were downloaded from the State Library of Victoria web site - and some were digitally cleaned up.
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New South Wales
Ruth Hollick and Dorothy Izard (and possibly others) made several car journeys through Victoria into New South Wales. Sometimes this was to do commercial photography and also included visit(s) to Mildura where Dorothy Izard's family lived.
Looking at the photographs, it is apparent that one journey was through southern New South Wales, to Sydney and also to the New England area - being north west of Sydney in New South Wales.
Quite the jouney by car for the late 1920s - early 1930s!
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Murray River Bridge at Mildura.
Mildura is on the Murray river on the border with Victoria and was where Dorothy Izard first lived when her family moved to Australia from the UK. |
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| Dropped log constuction at Mildura |
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| St John the Evangelist Church, Wentworth (near Mildura New South wales) |
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| Perrot homestead in Albury |
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| Crossing flooded river at Albury. |
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Courtyard of Chippenham homestead near Deniliquin. Possibly later 1920s.
Chippenham Park is still there and its buildings are used for events - such as weddings. Chippenham is about 6 kilometres west of Deniliquin. |
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| Interior of Chippenham homestead near Deniliquin |
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| Chippenham homestead near Deniliquin |
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| Landscape near Deniliquin, New South Wales. |
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| Landscape view with clouds. |
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| Mountain road through bushland landscape. |
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| Berrima Old Jail, south of Sydney. (Woman standing in doorway) |
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| Farm building in landscape. |
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| Unidentified stone church. |
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| Lennox Bridge, Parramatta (western Sydney) |
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| Circular Quay Sydney |
The next selection of photos by Ruth Hollick are of the building of the Sydney Harbour Bridge. They were taken possibly in1929, with the bridge being opened March 1932.
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| The building of the Sydney Harbour Bridge |
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| The building of the Sydney Harbour Bridge |
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The building of the Sydney Harbour Bridge
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| The building of the Sydney Harbour Bridge |
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| St Peters Anglican Church Old South Head Road, South Head, Sydney |
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| St Aubins House in Scone (now heading north west from Sydney) |
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| St Andrews church, Walcha (south of Armidale) |
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Booloominbah Armidale
A heritage mansion in the New England region of New South Wales - north west of Sydney. |
New Zealand
In the achive of the State Library of Victoria there are eighty eight New Zealand photographs by Ruth Hollick. The presentation below presents a small selection of the personal travel photos and a small number of views/ landscape images. Having looked through all the available New Zealand photographs by Hollick, they are very typical of someone's holiday snaps. This holiday trip to New Zealand from Melbourne, most likely on board the cargo ship in the first photo, was made probably in the 1930s.
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| Cargo ship Bundaleer docked Taranaki, New Zealand. Possibly the ship that Ruth and friends sailed on between Melbourne and New Zealand. |
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| Camping scene, New Zealand |
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| Picnic scene New Zealand |
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| Parked by a lake |
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| Landscape view - two women walkers |
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| Landscape view with car in middle ground |
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| Landscape - with car parked on mountain road |
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| Woman taking in landscape view |
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| Hermitage Hotel in Mount Cook National Park |
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The Union Bank of Australia (
The Union Bank of Australia, established in 1837, was the first bank to operate in New Zealand, opening in 1840 in Petone. It merged with the Bank of Australasia in 1951 to form the ANZ Bank, which is considered New Zealand's oldest bank. |
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| Landscape with view of farm and rocky mountain peak |
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| View of landscape with bridge |
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| Snow covered mountains |
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| Landscape over water with island |
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| Mountain landscape and river |
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| Rocky landscape with lone tree |
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| Lyttelton Harbour |
The 1950 trip to the UK
There are 10 images on the State Library website that pop up when searching for Ruth Hollick's UK photographs.
Some of these are double images.
All seemed to be reproductions of other photos and of postcards of Whittlesford, a town south of Cambridge UK.
Did Ruth Hollick not take a camera to the UK and instead collected some photos that she later re-photographed?
Here's a sample...
If there's another source of UK photos by Ruth Hollick - please make contact
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