A blue leather bound album with a weak spine, containing 28 prints glued in, each measuring 203mm x 152mm with captions. Also a letterpress introduction is pasted to the front free end paper. The album contains images of The Walsh Island Dockyard & Engineering Works, Newcastle. The following ship portraits are also included in the album: Birubi (1927),a pilot steamer, Dilga (1920), a cargo steamer, and the passenger ferry's Koompartoo (1922) and Kooroongaba (1921). According to Wikipedia, The dockyard was eventually abandoned in 1933 after the great depression and was dismantled and relocated to the new State Dockyard at Dyke End, Carrington, which in turn closed in 1987.

Letterpress introduction
1. “View of Works from Hunter River”
2. “Machine Shop”
3. “Brass & Aluminium Foundry”
4. “General Foundry with Vertical Pipe Plant in Distance”
5. “Joiners Shop” showing five workbenches and other items in the background.
6. “Building Slips – Three Vessels for Comm. Govt. Line – double slip at present occupied by portion of Floating Dock 1928”
7. “S S ‘Dilga’ Built for Commonwealth Govt.” Starboard bow.
8. ”Vehicular Ferry ‘Kooroongaba’ for Sydney Ferries Ltd. 3.9.28”. Port quarter. The ferry is in service, crossing to a shore, laden with cars of the period.
9. “Passenger Ferry ‘Kuttabul’ for Sydney Ferries Ltd.”. Port quarter. At a quayside, but not a boarding point for passengers. Five people are on board, two being on top of the wheelhouse.
10. “Passenger Ferry ‘Koompartoo’ for Sydney Ferries Ltd.”. At a quayside, port ahead of beam, no sign of passengers. A launch is alongside.
11. “Launch of Pilot Steamer ‘Birubi’”. Bow-on. The vessel is already afloat, with the debris of the launching tackle in the foreground. It carries a number of flags and is being nudged by the tug ‘Moruya’
12. “Pilot Steamer ‘Birubi’ Newcastle Pilot Service”. Port ahead of beam, some way from the shore. A large church in the background.
13. “Floating Dock – laying bottom plates”.
14. “Floating Dock – erection of pontoon bulkheads”.
15. “Floating Dock – plating pontoon deck”
16. “Floating Dock – erecting side walls – framing complete”.
17. “Floating Dock – erecting deck houses”.
18. “Floating Dock – ready for launching”.
19. “Floating Dock – Launch of dock”. It has just reached the bottom of the slipway, with a large number of men on it and more watching from the slipway.
20. “Floating Dock – entering the water”. From the river, to one side of the dock.
21. “Floating Dock – dock afloat”. With its complement.
22. “Shipment of M.S. Pipes”. A large number of them on the quayside.
23. “Automatic Electric Welding Machine”. Looking like a small buggy, inside a pipe.
24. “Semi-automatic electric welding machine”. Welding in progress, with a welder.
25. “Steel carriages – erection of bogies”.
26. “Steel carriages – interior”. 1st class carriage no. 4407.
27. “Steel carriages – parcel van ready for delivery”. No. C3901.
28. “Steel carriages for NSW Govt. Railway. Average production one carriage per day – one week’s delivery”. Showing about 7 carriages.