Powerhouse Museum

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Located in Sydney, Powerhouse Museum is the largest museum group in Australia. Powerhouse sits at the intersection of the arts, design, science and technology and plays a critical role in engaging communities with contemporary ideas and issues.

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By the Sad Sea Waves

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  • 5 older comments, and then…
  • BobMeade said:
    I believe that this photograph was taken on what is today called Queenscliff beach. North Head reserve, Manly is the promontary at right background with a glimpse of the South Head of Sydney Harbour to the left of and behind North Head.
  • carlosbezz said:
    Congratulations!
    This is a wonderful shot!
    You are invited to post it to:


    artland
  • Cassiopée2010 said:
    excellent !
  • Rebeka R said:
    OoOh How SwEet thiS iS!
  • beachcomber australia said:
    BobMeade I reckon it is Coogee! Field trip and beachcomb to both locations required!

    I think the title is WRONG too. Using the excellent new Zoom at the Persistent URL, I get this:

    " 'BY THE SALT SEAWATER No.'2' . 3 [?] H.KING, PHOTr. SYDNEY. "

    Sea also PhM blog for reference to a popular song - www.powerhousemuseum.com/imageservices/index.php/2010/04/...

General Post Office from Moore Street, Sydney

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  • beachcomber australia said:
    Photo c. 1914 ?
  • uminarampart said:
    CBA started construction in 1911.
  • Philip Cohen said:
    CBA started construction 1915; completed 1916; so, indeed, the vacant block is likely late 1914, early 1915 …
  • covid convict said:
    Building on SE cnr Pitt/Moore Sts demolished in ?April/May 1913... trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/15419883
  • covid convict said:
    I suspect the date is somewhere in the range late 1913-early 1914...the period when construction work on the new Commonwealth Bank building was in abeyance...

    Kensington Chambers, the building that occupied the SE cnr of Pitt/Moore Sts was demolished in ca. April-June 1913...it appears to have been mostly demolished at the time of the foundation stone laying ceremony for the new Commonwealth Bank building, which took place on 14th May, 1913. Some excavation work for the new Commonwealth Bank building was completed by October 1913...but due to delays in the tendering process, the building contract wasn't awarded until November 1913 (to Phippard Bros)...the building work proper began in ca. February 1914...the new Commonwealth Bank building was more or less complete by mid 1916...the official opening took place on 22nd August, 1916...

    See comments/links here
    www.flickr.com/photos/193158484@N02/53698777267/

Drafting Sheep

from Powerhouse Museum

  • Spooky Adjustment said:
    A judas sheep on a lead, being used to get the flock into the slaughter house or shearing sheds.?
  • beachcomber australia said:
    1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5 - 6 - 7 - 8 - 9 - 10 - 11 - 12 - 13 - 14 - zzzz - 15 - 16 - zzzz ..........
  • covid convict said:
    trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/165000525 - the Sydney Mail, 25th October, 1905...this Sydney Mail pic looks to have been taken a few minutes later...

    The Sydney Mail's caption: 'Wethers moving quietly into the shearing shed. The mob is led by a pet sheep, which is used as a decoy.'

    On p. 1058 the Sydney Mail states that most of the pics that appeared in its 'Harvesting the Golden Fleece' pictorial were taken at Belltrees station, near Scone, in the Upper Hunter Valley, in NSW...so that might be the location...

    These other Kerry & Co pics appeared in the Sydney Mail 'Harvesting the Golden Fleece' pictorial
    www.flickr.com/photos/powerhouse_museum/4903870088/
    www.flickr.com/photos/powerhouse_museum/4903869872/
  • covid convict said:
    17-18-19-20-zzz

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