Tag Archives: cattle

A wool team taking wool to market

Posted on August 15, 2010 by Paula Bray

A century ago the journey to market was often long, difficult and expensive. From Western NSW, it could take between three and nine months to… More

Making a road: creating infrastructure

Posted on March 4, 2010 by Paula Bray

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85/1285-230 Glass negative, full plate, 'Bullock Team', Henry King, Sydney, Australia, c. 1880-1900

A century or more ago, building roads was a time-consuming business. Bullock teams hauled stone road rollers one way, then the other, to compact the… 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.