Comments on: Vintage photography from China and Australia

Vintage photography from China and Australia

madamjujujive — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 09:22:52 -0800

Two historic photography collections from Sydney's Powerhouse Museum: The Tyrell Collection - glass plate negatives from the Sydney studios of Charles Kerry and Henry King from 1884-1917 depicting a local record of the times; and the Hedda Morrison Collection - photographs from China, 1933-1946. The collection also includes personal papers and objects, such as Chinese papercuts, belt toggles, and photos from a 1930s-era folk festival in Germany.

By: Nelson

Nelson — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 09:35:42 -0800

The Powerhouse museum has all sorts of cool things. They have a fantastically massive Watt Steam Engine; the oldest rotative engine in the world, built in 1785. It's in working condition now, they fire it up regularly. They have a fine collection of different operating steam engines, actually. And when I was there they had on loan William Stanley Jevons' Logic Piano, an 1869 mechanical calculator for simple inferential logic. Early computing!

By: LeeJay

LeeJay — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 13:52:06 -0800

This is fantastic stuff. Thank you!

By: hadjiboy

hadjiboy — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 23:10:55 -0800

Description: Dress accessory, toggle in the shape of two young boys playing :) Thank you for this, very nice!

By: Smedleyman

Smedleyman — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 07:42:47 -0800

More glass plate negative than glass plate negative. Nifty. (That Lotus and crane papercut is going right onto my desktop background)