Monthly Archives: November 2010

Press the button

Posted on November 30, 2010 by Paula Bray

This was photographed by one of our former photographers Andrew Frolows to accompany this article explaining ‘push button for traffic signals’ In the early 1980s… More

Mr John and the Five Thousand Fingers of Dr T

Posted on November 29, 2010 by Kathy Hackett

This photograph is part of a set of prints from the studio of New York celebrity milliner, Mr John. It shows Mr John with actress… More

Benini: digital experience

Posted on November 28, 2010 by Paula Bray

Benini Exhibition views for design competition

This image shows the digital experience that is currently featured in our photography exhibition Creating the look: Benini and fashion photography. This is an experience… More

Wild weather: Flickr member highlight

Posted on November 27, 2010 by Paula Bray

This interesting image highlighting storm clouds taken over Woodbine in Sydney, New South Wales was photographed by one of our Flickr members who has shared… More

The Bessa 66 folding camera

Posted on November 26, 2010 by Paula Bray

2004/44/5-6 Bessa 66, folding Camera (Front)

I thought you might like us to start blogging about the old cameras we have in the collection starting with this one. It comes from… More

Enjoying the winter sunshine

Posted on November 25, 2010 by Paula Bray

This wonderful moment featuring a man and two children soaking up the winter sunshine was photographed by Hedda Morrison in Peking China between the years… More

There are 3 days left to enter Trainspotting

Posted on November 24, 2010 by Paula Bray

There are only three days left to enter our photographic competition Trainspotting. We will be judging all the entries on Monday the 29th to select… More

Beau stealer

Posted on November 23, 2010 by Kathy Hackett

This photograph is part of a set of prints from the studio of New York celebrity milliner, Mr John. Perhaps more of a scene stealer,… More

Remember the Sydney Harbour Bridge toll collectors?

Posted on November 22, 2010 by Paula Bray

96/44/1-5/4/70/1 Neg5709 As used in book on page 73.

This great shot showing one of the old Harbour Bridge toll collectors was photographed by David Mist and published in 1969 in ‘Sydney, A Book… More

Where does all the plastic go?

Posted on November 21, 2010 by Paula Bray

Well a very small part is recycled into art. This image shows some of the detail from a wall work called ‘Chasm’ made out of… 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.