English: Sydney Ferry KUMMULLA in Mosman Bay ca. 1905

Museum of Applied Arts & Sciences. Glass plate negative depicting Mosman Bay. Museum of Applied Arts & Sciences, Australia. Retrieved on 23 March 2020.

This image from a glass plate negative produced around 1905 shows Mosman Bay, Sydney, with the ferry 'Kummulla' (1902-1935) heading toward Mosman Bay Wharf. The homes of the well to do are spreading around the foreshores of the bay and the number of boatsheds is increasing. The footbridge has become an official public structure instead of a rickety framework of branches and planks and Mosman is going ahead. Electric trams now meet the ferry service and the ornate ferry wharf building, newly built, will last until well into the 1960s. In the left foreground the convict built part of the 1830s whaling station now has a second storey which appears also to offer rooms to rent. Two well-dressed men are half way across the footbridge and no doubt the ferry will not leave until they have taken up their usual seats. Near the right side of the footbridge is a small dark-coloured boatshed. This became the home of the Third Mosman Bay Sea Scouts from the 1920s until the early 1950s when it was replaced by the present building. Graeme Andrews OAM, Museum of Applied Arts and Sciences volunteer under the supervision of Margaret Simpson, Curator, February 2016