Public Works photographs: an unsung treasure

The amazing quality and variety of the photographs taken by the Public Works Department is a testament to the photographers - Joseph Bischoff, John Degotadi Junior and Robert Bowden among them.

Primarily taken to record the work of the Department in building, repairing and resuming properties, many of the images also record the humanity of these places. This webinar explores these images in depth.

Photography

Our beautiful homes, N.S.W. Series 2.

House photo albums

These specially produced photograph albums (some in published form and others consisting of photographs pasted into an album) comprise images of one or more domestic dwellings and depict exteriors, interiors and gardens in NSW mostly from the late 19th to the early 20th centuries

Drawing room and entry hall, Fenton, Edgecliff, 1976

Richard Stringer’s architectural photographs, 1968–2003

This portfolio contains 55 photo prints taken by architectural photographer Richard Stringer, dating from 1968 to 2003, documenting significant Australian domestic buildings

286-288 Queen Street, Campbelltown, January 1954 / Barry Wollaston

Barry Wollaston: historic buildings in the county of Cumberland (NSW), 1954

This collection consists of 232 photo negatives by architect and photographer Barry Wollaston of buildings in the Sydney region considered by the Royal Australian Institute of Architects in the early 1950s to be of architectural and historical value

Pictorial guide to identifying Australian architecture collection : style chart and photographs used as illustrations for 'Pictorial guide...' by Richard Apperly, Robert Irving and Peter Reynolds, first published by Angus & Robertson, Sydney, in 1989

A pictorial guide to identifying Australian architecture – photo collection

This collection of over 700 black and white photo prints was used to illustrate the book 'A pictorial guide to identifying Australian architecture' by Richard Apperly, Robert Irving and Peter Reynolds, first published in Sydney in 1989