Monthly Archive for September, 2008

Do you have a story about swimming at this rock pool at Bronte Baths? We would love you to post a comment about your story or any information you have about the history of the pool. This image is from the Tyrrell photographic collection that has been posted to the Commons project on Flickr. It has not been fully catalogued so there is not a lot of information to go on. If you go to the all sizes page on Flickr you can see a group of men at the end of the pool with one of them standing on a make shift diving board. Check this image ‘Overflowing beauty’ from our Tyrrell Today group by tomhide showing the pool as it looks today.

Photography by Henry King, Sydney, Australia, c. 1880-1900
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This image of the Sydney Harbour Bridge was taken from the inside of the entry to North Sydney pool at Milsons Point. This entry foyer area still has the original tiles and windows from when the pool was constructed and there is an amazing view of the harbour from these beautiful windows. You can just see a hint of these in the reflection on the glass in this shot. It was designed by the architects Rudder and Grout and opened in 1936.

This was taken for a photographic immersive featured in our exhibition on modernism in Australia.

Photography by Jean-Francois Lanzarone
License: Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 2.0

This image is a reproduction from a glass plate negative from the Tyrrell photographic collection showing workers on the Hawkesbury River railway bridge that was built by the Union Bridge Company of New York. According to Sydney’s Hawkesbury Gateway the bridge opened with the first train crossing in May 1889. It took two years to construct but in 1937 some cracks had appeared in some of the piers and it had become unsafe. A new bridge was constructed and opened by 1946 that was located 60 metres away from the original one.

Henry King who became sole proprietor of a photographic studio in George Street in 1880 took this image. Henry King’s studio closed around 1900 and Charles Kerry acquired some of his negatives.

Photography by Henry King
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This was taken in the area known as the Living Desert, which is 2400 ha, located north of Broken Hill. This is a flora and fauna sanctuary in a 6km predator-proof fenced area that was established in 1992 by the Broken Hill City Council. A team member from Image Services went to Broken Hill to scan the Albert Morris Glass plate negative collection for the touring exhibition: Greening the Silver city: seeds of bush regeneration.

Within the Living Desert is a sculpture symposium that is situated on a hilltop at the centre of the reserve. International artists completed 12 sandstone sculptures in 1993 directed by artist and organizer Lawrence Beck.

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Photography by Ryan Hernandez
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This image was photographed by Craig Jewell, one of the members in our Modern times group on Flickr. Craig has been very prolific in our account adding many images that represent modernism in Australia from a contemporary perspective.

This great image was taken from a window in a Sydney hotel room one night. The vibrant colours of the office block and the fact that you couldn’t see this perspective and colour from ground level attracted Craig to document this shot. You can see more of this photographer’s work at Craig Jewell’s photostream on Flickr.

Photography by Craig Jewell
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