Identity area
Reference code
AU AU-MTC 043-8
Title
Glass lantern slides
Date(s)
- 1920-1944 (Creation)
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Extent and medium
17 glass lantern slides
Context area
Name of creator
(1870-1946)
Biographical history
Robert Brodribb Stewart Hammond (b. 1870 d. 1946) was ordained Deacon in 1894 and Priest in 1896, and worked until 1918 as Curate in several Sydney parishes. From 1918-1943 Hammond was Rector of St. Barnabas', Broadway, and was Canon of St. Andrew's Cathedral, Sydney, from 1931-1944. In 1907 Hammond founded GRIT, a weekly Temperance journal, and from 1918-1943 he was President of the Australian Prohibition Alliance. Amongst other activities, Hammond founded homes for the unemployed and in 1932, began the Hammondville Settlement for the destitute. This work was recognized by the bestowal of an O.B.E. in 1937.
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- Confirmation at St Alban's, Bishop Furse
- RBS Hammond with Dean AE Talbot and others in the Hammondville garden
- RBS Hammond and family
- RBS Hammond with 3 men, looking at a table
- RBS Hammond and 2 men outside the Hammondville Post Office
- Family outside home in Hammondville
- Family on verandah of home in Hammondville
- RBS Hammond with two children, helping to lay bricks at Hammondville
- Tree being felled at Hammondville
- The Sun newspaper feature on Hammondville, 28th October 1932
- Brasnett Memorial Hall - exterior with group of children
- RBS Hammond with group of men in front of Guild Cottage, Hammondville
- Road and gardens at Hammondville
- Group of residents at Hammondville
- Children on steps of cabin at Hammondville
- Women and children at chicken coops, Hammondville
- Three men and two women in Hammondville garden
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Unrestricted
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Name access points
- HammondCare (Subject)
- Talbot, Albert Edward (Subject)