Monthly Archives: August 2010

Wild weather: Flickr group highlight

Posted on August 31, 2010 by Paula Bray

This incredible photograph of a wall of dark clouds has been shot by one of the members in our Wild weather group on Flickr. This… More

Cambridge Street

Posted on August 30, 2010 by Paula Bray

This reproduction of one of the images from the Tyrrell collection shows two small houses on Cambridge Street in the Rocks, Sydney. The larger building… More

What’s in the workshop #15

Posted on August 29, 2010 by Paula Bray

This photo was taken at our Castle Hill stores as the object was too big to come into our Ultimo workshop. The object is a… More

Woman and child in sulky

Posted on August 28, 2010 by Kathy Hackett

This photograph of a woman and child seated in a sulky is from the Wong Ah Sat archive. The Wong family ran a general store… More

Trainspotting

Posted on August 27, 2010 by Paula Bray

This wonderful image was photographed by one of the Flickr members in our Trainspotting photo competition on Flickr. This was added to the infrastructure category… More

Kings Cross 1969

Posted on August 26, 2010 by Kathy Hackett

96/44/1-5/4/49/1 Neg 4948 used in book on p55. Street artists in Kings Cross

This image of Sydney’s Kings Cross was created by David Mist for his 1969 publication, Sydney: a book of photographs. At the time that this… More

Preparing for the Sydney to Hobart Yacht Race

Posted on August 25, 2010 by Paula Bray

This image comes from the David Mist archive collection and was published in 1969 in the book ‘Sydney, a book of photographs’ This image appears… More

Modern red: Flickr group highlight

Posted on August 24, 2010 by Paula Bray

Whilst searching through one of our groups on Flickr, Modern Times, I came across this image shot by one of our members of a rather… More

Circular Quay

Posted on August 23, 2010 by Paula Bray

This image showing Circular Quay comes from the Tyrrell photographic collection and was taken sometime between 1880-1923. We’ve just added this to the Commons on… More

Spot the signwriters

Posted on August 22, 2010 by Paula Bray

This image from the Rousel Studios archive collection, taken somtime in the 1920s, caught my eye whilst I was looking through the set on our… More

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.