Tag Archives: river

Wimble 3: Diamond Jubilee picnic day

Posted on November 26, 2011 by Paula Bray

95/223/1-24/23 Photographic print, black and white, on brown mount, group portrait of the staff of F.T. Wimble and Co Ltd at the company's Diamond ...

It’s 1928 and F T Wimble Co Ltd is throwing a picnic for staff and families at Lane Cove. The company is celebrating its sixtieth… More

Jinshui Qiao:then and now

Posted on July 11, 2011 by Paula Bray

Taihe Men and Jinshui He in the Forbidden City

Discharging wool at Bourke: river transport linked with rail

Posted on February 11, 2010 by Paula Bray

00g01998 85/1284-753 Glass negative, full plate, 'Discharging Wool at Bourke', Kerry and Co, Sydney, Australia, c. 1884-1917.

Silver gelatin dry ...

Paddle-steamers once worked their way up and down more than 6500km of the Murray, Darling and Murrumbidgee rivers. They carried wool, allowing settlements to expand… 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.