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Samuel John Hood, aka Sam Hood
Posted on 28th November 2023By Lyn Collingwood, Bulletin 10/2023, December Commercial photographer and photojournalist Sam Hood lived at various addresses in Glebe and the suburb featured in many of his iconic images of everyday life. Although photography moved from wet to dry plate to film, and illumination from sunlight to flash powder to flashlight bulbs during his long career, […]
Robert Fitzgerald Nichols (aka George Robert Nichols)
Posted on 14th September 2021During the 1860s, Robert Fitzgerald Nichols, lived on Glebe Point Rd. Although from a respectable family and well-educated, he was in trouble with the law from an early age and was later convicted and hanged for murder.
