Kodachrome slides of Sydney, Hill End and Sofala, 1961-1987 / photographed by Robert Danvers Power

SLIDES 99

fonds

1961-1987

Graphic Materials, Photographs

403408

Photographs - 292 Kodachrome slides, col. - 5 x 5 cm.

Robert ('Bob') Danvers Power was born 24 April 1907 in Drummoyne, NSW. His parents were Frederick D. Power and Muriel F. nee Blain. He was educated at Hawkesbury Agricultural College in the early 1920s and purchased land (30 acres) at North Richmond on the banks of the Hawkesbury River, called 'Waterford', later used in commercial and television shows. He was a farmer, conservationist, avid collector and adventurer. He travelled extensively within Australia and overseas and his interests included: photography, trains, bushwalking, local history. He collected artefacts, including the vertebra of a whale which gave Whale Beach its name. He died unmarried and without descendants on 27 June 1997 at North Richmond, bequething parts of his collection to the Powerhouse and Maritime Museums, as well as the local community through the Hawkesbury Museum and the Hawkesbury City Council Library -- information from file ML 36/00

Scenes of Sydney city streets, buildings and skyline. Includes landmarks and buildings such as Sydney Harbour Bridge, The Rocks, Queen Victoria Building, South Head signal station, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Royal Visit in 1963, Circular Quay, G.P.O., Sydney Hospital, The Mint, Mitchell Library, Sydney Showground, Sydney Observatory, Fort Denison, Observatory Hill, Sydney Town Hall, N.S.W. Parliament House, Sydney Opera House, Walsh Bay wharves, Dixon Street Chinatown, Centrepoint Tower, Sydney University. Also Burwood and the new Gladesville Bridge

Some photographs feature architectural detail of buildings (inc. escalators at Roselands).

Also includes night illuminations of the Sydney city skyline

Also views of Sofala, Turon River, Hill End, Tarana, Millthorpe, Blayney, Capertee, Wallerawang. Scenes of Bobbin Head, The Spit and old Customs House at Barrenjoey

Chronological by photographer's original numbering scheme

Copyright status:: Photographs in this collection created before 1955 are all out of copyright. Photographs created after 1955 are in copyright
Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales and Courtesy of the copyright holder

Photographer's numbering and date -- in pen on edge of mount