Page from Snowy Mountains photo scapbook

This page of photos is from a personal scrapbook compiled by Miss Dorothy Palmer of her weekend rail and coach trip to see the Snowy Mountains Hydro-Electric Scheme in 1959.

These photos were probably taken with a Box Brownie camera and sent away to the chemist to be developed in black and white. Dorothy probably waited at least a week for her photos to be returned, hoping that as many as possible would turn out well.

The photos are mounted in the exercise book using ‘corners’. It was a fiddly job mounting photos and getting them straight. Dorothy has done a nice job, placing the three images and carefully hand writing the labels.

Although photography is now almost completely digital and probably published on Facebook, the purpose for the majority of people remains the same – to make a personal record of where they went and what they did on holidays and to remember outings and special occasions.

Post by Lynne McNairn

Photography: Dorothy Palmer, 1959
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Tags: black and white, Box Brownie Camera, scrapbooks, Snowy Mountains Australia, Snowy Mountains Hydro-Electric Scheme

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.

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