Photo of the Day

A new photo from the Powerhouse Museum every day

Sydney Harbour

May 17th, 2010 by

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With teen solo sailor Jessica Watson having sailed back into Sydney Harbour after her round the world voyage I thought this image was appropriate for the blog. The circa 1910 photograph depicts a Sydney Harbour scene of eighteen footers racing in choppy water with Fort Denison in the background. The scene will be vastly different as the 16yr old Jessica sails through in the coming weeks.

Post by Erika Dicker, Assistant Curator

Photography by [Arthur Phillips], Phillips Collection
No known copyright restrictions

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About Photo of the Day

The Powerhouse Museum's Photo of the Day blog features a new image each day, chosen from the Powerhouse Photo Library.

The majority of these images have been taken by Museum photographers for a variety of purposes such as for exhibitions, of objects in our collection, events, behind-the-scenes and location shots. We also feature many images taken by our Flickr community and from our visitors. We hope you enjoy the photographs and stories.

The licensing of each image varies however we are trying to release as many as possible under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 2.1 license.

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