Monthly Archives: March 2012

Earth Hour: switch off your lights

Posted on March 31, 2012 by Paula Bray

Today we celebrate Earth Hour, ‘one of the world’s largest environmental events in history’ where around 135 countries worldwide switch off their lights. This very… More

Student Fashion 2012

Posted on March 30, 2012 by Kathy Hackett

The names and symbols of famous female historic figures are featured in Madalaine Blyth’s graduate collection, Gloriana. Madalaine explains that her collection speaks of: fated… More

Trainspotting highlight

Posted on March 29, 2012 by Paula Bray

This photograph is one of the highly commended images featured in our Trainspotting 2011 competition/exhibition. This was taken by photographer Giemza Dominik and is captioned… More

Settling the slimes – Mount Boppy Gold Mine

Posted on March 28, 2012 by Lynne McNairn

This image is one of series of gold mining and processing at Mount Boppy Gold Mine in 1905. The original caption says ‘Slime Pits’. The… More

Park rules #2 – Reserved for Ladies

Posted on March 27, 2012 by Kathy Hackett

85/1284-1823 Glass negative, full plate, 'St Mary's Cathedral from Hyde Park', Kerry and Co, Sydney, Australia, c. 1884-1917

Zooming in on this detail of the Tyrrell Collection photograph below reveals that some of the benches in Sydney’s Hyde Park were once marked ‘Reserved… More

Sydney’s two Redfern railway stations

Posted on March 26, 2012 by Geoff Barker

Redfern Railway Station,(detail), published by Kerry & Co., 1884-1906

If you were standing on the corner of George Street and Broadway and looked back towards the station you would be in a similar position… More

Underwater

Posted on March 25, 2012 by Kathy Hackett

Peter Nivic, Enfield pool staff, Swimming in Enfield pool (designed by architects Rudder and Grout)

Powerhouse Museum photographer, Jean-François Lanzarone, captured this beautiful underwater image whilst working on location at North Sydney Olympic Pool gathering images for the Modern Times:… More

To unite on the sand #2

Posted on March 24, 2012 by Kathy Hackett

96/44/1-5/4/153/4 Neg4244As used in book on pages 140-141 Image was taken at a northern beach carnival.

This photograph of lifesavers racing across the sand during a surf carnival at Manly was created by David Mist for his 1969 publication, Sydney: a… More

Shaking out gold – Mount Boppy Gold Mine

Posted on March 23, 2012 by Lynne McNairn

This image is one of series of gold mining and processing at Mount Boppy Gold Mine in 1905. The original caption for this image says… More

The sky below

Posted on March 22, 2012 by Kathy Hackett

Reflection in the water of North Sydney pool (designed by architects Rudder and Grout)

This intriguing image was captured by Powerhouse Museum photographer, Jean-François Lanzarone, whilst working on location at North Sydney Olympic Pool gathering images for the Modern… 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.