Tag Archives: Circular Quay

Anniversary Day mystery solved

Posted on May 31, 2011 by Paula Bray

Due to some great investigative work by one of our Flickr members beachcomberaustralia the mystery of the image above has been solved. We originally posted… More

Circular Quay at night

Posted on September 25, 2010 by Paula Bray

96/44/1-5/4/177/2 Neg 4954 As used in book on page 164

This night shot was taken by David Mist and was published in his book ‘Sydney, A Book of Photographs’ back in 1969. This black and… More

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.