Monthly Archives: September 2011

Fowler Pottery Exhibit at the All-Australian Exhibition, Melbourne 1934

Posted on September 30, 2011 by Iwona Hetherington

This is one of 64 photographs from the Museum collection related to the R. Fowler Ltd. Potteries established in 1837 by Irish immigrant Enoch Fowler… More

Loading overstuffed wool bales onto a ship

Posted on September 29, 2011 by Paula Bray

85/1284-1401 Glass negative, full plate, 'Shipping Wool, Circular Quay', Kerry and Co, Sydney, Australia, c. 1884-1917

In this photo, we see big fat wool bales being loaded onto a ship in Sydney. These bales have been formed in a hydraulic dumping… More

Tsunami 1.26

Posted on September 28, 2011 by Paula Bray

This is another image from the installation of Janet Echelman’s artwork Tsunami 1.26 that has been installed outside the Town Hall as part of our… More

Industrial art

Posted on September 27, 2011 by Paula Bray

This image was taken by Museum photographer Penny Clay during her documentation of the Pyrmont Incinerator and surrounds in the 1990s. Pyrmont at the time… More

Berry’s Bay Industrial Heritage

Posted on September 26, 2011 by Geoff Barker

This picturesque photograph of Berry’s Bay was taken by the Sydney based photographer Charles Kerry around the turn of the century. Looking across Sydney Harbour… More

Manchurian Ladies

Posted on September 25, 2011 by Paula Bray

This reproduction of a glass lantern slide was photographed in 1920 and comes with the caption “C1920 Manchurian Ladies Headgear Hungus Robed Man”. The original… More

Wool drays and the curious case of the missing bodies

Posted on September 24, 2011 by Paula Bray

At first glance, this photo shows horse-drawn drays laden with wool bales, standing in a Sydney street near the waterfront. But look more closely and… More

Government Printing Office

Posted on September 23, 2011 by Paula Bray

This photograph of the Government Printing Office was taken by Charles Bayliss in 1879. Bayliss was employed by the successful gold prospector Bernard Holtermann to… More

Installing Tsunami 1.26

Posted on September 22, 2011 by Paula Bray

This photograph was taken last night at the intersection of George Street in the city outside the Town Hall. This is Janet Echelman’s artwork Tsunami1.26… More

This is what was in the box

Posted on September 21, 2011 by Paula Bray

Last week a large box arrived in the Museum and this is what the contents were. It is the artwork of Janet Echelman featured in… 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.