Tag Archives: buildings

Signwriters at work

Posted on August 3, 2012 by Kathy Hackett

2002/105/1-2/74 Rousel Studios Photographic print

This photograph, from the Rousel archive, shows two signwriters from Rousel Studios standing on a suspended platform painting an advertising sign on a wall… More

View from the Bridge, 1969

Posted on July 8, 2012 by Kathy Hackett

Neg 3156 Not used in book Shows South Pylon of the Sydney Harbour Bridge taken from the Bridge.

This photograph by David Mist was taken whilst the photographer was gathering images for his 1969 publication, Sydney: a book of photographs. It’s unusual to… More

Temple of Heaven: then and now

Posted on August 4, 2011 by Paula Bray

Circular Quay

Posted on August 23, 2010 by Paula Bray

This image showing Circular Quay comes from the Tyrrell photographic collection and was taken sometime between 1880-1923. We’ve just added this to the Commons on… 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.