On board

Group on board ship, originally uploaded by Powerhouse Museum Collection.

This image was taken by photographer Tom Lennon on board a ship on the 2nd March 1934. There was an inscription on the box that this negative was located in that reads ‘Mr Grant [indecipherable] Zealand / D.B.N. 2/3/34′. The magazine that the man in the centre is holding is a copy of the monthly industry magazine, “The Australian Music Maker and Dance Band News”. This was published in Sydney by the Australian Dance Band News Ltd from 1932 and its editors were Eric J. Sheldon 1932-36 and George Hart 1936-40.

There are a few images from the Tom Lennon photographic archive that I have been loading to the Commons on Flickr recently that were taken around the ship and wharf, including this image Group [farewelling Eric Sheldon and band?] on wharf and possibly this one taken on the ship, Eric Sheldon’s bass drum.

Photography by Tom Lennon
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