Beachobatics and jitterbug photographs, Bondi Beach, 1936-1941, 1943 / by George Caddy
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Beachobatics and jitterbug photographs, Bondi Beach, 1936-1941, 1943 / by George Caddy
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Beachobatics and jitterbug photographs, Bondi Beach, 1936-1941, 1943 / by George Caddy
Full title
Author / Creator
Date
July 1936-10 June 1941, 1943
Call Numbers
PXD 1038
Record Identifier
Formats
Pictures and Photographs
— Physical Description
Contents
60 photographs - digital, black & white, PSD file
60 photographic prints - image 40.6 x 40.6 cm, paper 50.5 x 50.5 cm, mount 64.2 x 52.2 cm - digitally printed on Somerset Photo Satin 100% cotton rag
— Other Descriptions
Level of description
Fonds
Arrangement
Date and photographer's original negative number
Access and use
Copying Conditions
Out of copyright
Restricted : These prints are only available to order as Digital Archival Prints from the State Library of New South Wales, Library Shop. All other copying requests require prior written approval from Paul Caddy.
Access Conditions
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Issue Copy
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Subjects
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— SCOPE AND CONTENTS
Contents
1. Two women enter Town Hall Station near Murdoch's Department Store, July 1936 (N53)
2. Road works, Pitt Street, July 1936 (N54)
3. Long Bay toastrack tram, Eddy Avenue, July 1936 (N58)
4. J.Prentiss (?) and another gymnast in the air, Bondi Beach, 4 October 1936 (N144)
5. Roya Geale, Alf Stanbrough and unidentified woman, Bondi Beach,...
— ALTERNATIVE TITLES
Full title
Beachobatics and jitterbug photographs, Bondi Beach, 1936-1941, 1943 / by George Caddy
Variant title
Captioned from Curator of Photographs' notes on the Library correspondence file
— AUTHORS, ARTISTS AND CONTRIBUTORS
Author / Creator
— NOTES
General note
Reference:
Sydney Morning Herald, 22 February 1937 (no.8)
Digital order no:Album ID : 845993
Attributions / Conjectures
For a discussion of whether the portrait at no. 41 is Hope Holmes, see: Pix 19 Nov 1938
For a portrait of Pat McRae (no. 47), see: Truth 4 Feb 1940, p.13
For portraits of Cherry Wheatley, see: Truth 3 Mar 1940 (at the Trocadero) and Health & Physical Culture 1 Oct 1941 (at the Tivoli)
Date note
Digital scans, 2008, of original negatives, 1936-1943
Alphanumeric designations
Photographer's original negative numbers in parentheses in Contents
Published information
Exhibition catalog: Bondi jitterbug : George Caddy and his camera. Sydney : State Library of New South Wales, 2008.
A selection of photographs published in: Steve Meacham. "Muscle beach party", Sydney Morning Herald, November 29-30, 2008, Spectrum p.13, and SMH online.
No. 13 published in the Wal Balmus article "Our youth can save Australia"...
— CONTEXTUAL INFORMATION
Source
Purchased from Paul Caddy, March 2008
Exhibited in
Bondi jitterbug : George Caddy and his camera
Administrative / Biographical history
George Caddy (1914-1983) was a gifted amateur photographer who recorded his friends and acquaintances on Bondi Beach from 1936-1941. (There is one photograph of his fiancee Betty York taken in 1943). A rare modernist, he used a medium format film camera to make images of beach culture and dance. He took the only known images of the popular entertai...
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— PRIMARY IDENTIFIERS
Call Numbers
PXD 1038
Record Identifier
9NaAWojY
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