Showing posts with label Australia. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Australia. Show all posts

Monday, 10 July 2017

Melvin Vaniman

Melvin Vaniman (1866-1912), an American adventurer, singer, aeronaut and photographer, had a passion for taking photographs from unusual vantage points such as ship's masts and balloons. Vaniman arrived in Sydney in February 1903 and left Australia in August 1904. During that time he travelled extensively throughout the country.

 Bennelong Point, Circular Quay and Dawes Point, 1904
 
Circular Quay from a ship's mast, 1903
  
Blue Mountains scenery at Leura, 1903
 
Harvesting wheat on Brundah Station, Grenfell, 1903
 
Harvesting wheat, Narramine Station, Narromine, 1903

Friday, 30 June 2017

Sam Hood

Dog with backpack, 1939
 
Finish, Goulburn-Sydney Dunlop road race, Joseph St, Lidcombe, ca. 1936
 
Skiing and snowfields, ca. 1935
 
Sydney Boys' High School Team, ca. 1925-1940
 
The Syd Roy Lyricals dance band, Wentworth Hotel, Sydney, 1929

Thursday, 15 June 2017

Australian Panoramas

Bondi Beach, Sydney, 1922 (photographed by R. P. Moore)
  
McNaughts, ca. 1921
 
Mitchell Library in course of construction, March 1907
 
Weemala, Ryde, ca. 1921
 
Weemala, Ryde, ca. 1921
 
Welwyn, Point Clare, ca. 1921
 

Friday, 19 May 2017

Vintage Australia

A modern shearer
  
Backstage, Mark Foys fashion parade, Sydney, ca. 1947
 
De Basil Covent Garden Russian Ballet Company on the 
SS Maloja during their Australian tour, September 1938
  
Group of newly arrived immigrants taken 
in Palace Grounds, Sydney, March 1908
 
Stanwell Park showing scrub; bush picnic, 1916

Monday, 10 April 2017

Sam Hood

Chorus rehearses, ca. 1930
 
Sideshow at Royal Easter Show [Tiny Trixie's Cab], Sydney, ca. 1935
 
Soldier's goodbye & Bobbie the cat, 1939-45
 
Theatre Royal chorus, Tamarama Beach, ca. 1938
 
Turner Twins, acrobats, 1937

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