Powerhouse Museum

The Powerhouse Museum provides online access to images from the Tyrrell Collection through the web service of Picture Australia. The sample of approximately 300 images is a subset of the larger Tyrrell Collection stored at the Museum.

The Tyrrell Collection consists of 7903 glass plate negatives from the studios of Charles Kerry (1857-1928) and Henry King (1855-1923) that had two of Sydney's principal photographic studios in the late 1800s and early 1900s.

The Collection provides an important record of city and country life at the time with a number of broad themes: Sydney and suburbs; south coast; Blue Mountains; transport; rural New South Wales; shipping; caves; sports; Indigenous peoples of Australia and the South Pacific.

All images within the Tyrrell Collection have been scanned from contact prints taken from glass plate negatives originally created using the dry plate process. These are available for sale.

The Powerhouse Museum, Australia's largest and most popular museum is located in Darling Harbour. Its collection of 385,000 objects is unique and diverse spanning social history, music, science, technology, design, industry, decorative arts, and transport and space exploration. The Museum has an ever-changing program of exhibitions and houses 22 permanent exhibition spaces and five temporary exhibition spaces. These fascinating exhibits along with more than 250 interactives bring the Powerhouse Museum to life. For further information, online collections and special web-based projects; online bookings and education programmes and exhibition information please refer to the main website of the Museum.

The Museum also includes the historic Sydney Observatory. The two make up the Museum of Applied Arts and Sciences, a New South Wales Government cultural institution.

For more information regarding images from the Powerhouse Museum, contact:

Photographic Services
Powerhouse Museum
PO Box K346 Haymarket, SYDNEY NEW SOUTH WALES 1238
phone: +61 (0)2 9217 0561 | facsimile: +61 (0)2 9217 0333
email photolibrary@phm.gov.au
web http://www.phm.gov.au/

Glass negative, full plate,
'Australian Waratahs',
Kerry and Co,
Sydney, Australia,
c. 1884-1917
Powerhouse Museum