Vintage Photographs

For more information see our blog post on the Sterlings: bit.ly/OsqaFc ( http://bit.ly/OsqaFc ) ..This photo is part of the Australian National Maritime Museum’s Samuel J. Hood Studio collection. Sam Hood (1872 More

This image depicts the Hawkesbury Steam Navigation Company's ferry SS ERRINGHI possibly moored at Port Erringhi, NSW. ERRINGHI was purchased by the company in 1912 and traded on the Hawkesbury River up to the l More

This image depicts the Hawkesbury Steam Navigation Company's ferry SS ERRINGHI probably at Brooklyn NSW. ERRINGHI was purchased by the company in 1912 and traded on the Hawkesbury River up to the late 1940s. Th More

For more information see our blog post on the Sterlings: bit.ly/OsqaFc ( http://bit.ly/OsqaFc ) ..This photo is part of the Australian National Maritime Museum’s Samuel J. Hood Studio collection. Sam Hood (1872 More

This image depicts a group of women possibly on board the six-masted barquentine E R STERLING...For more information see our blog post on the Sterlings: bit.ly/OsqaFc ( http://bit.ly/OsqaFc ) ..This photo is pa More

This image depicts a group of men possibly on board the six-masted barquentine E R STERLING...For more information see our blog post on the Sterlings: bit.ly/OsqaFc ( http://bit.ly/OsqaFc ) ..This photo is part More

This image depicts a group of men possibly on board the six-masted barquentine E R STERLING...For more information see our blog post on the Sterlings: bit.ly/OsqaFc ( http://bit.ly/OsqaFc ) ..This photo is part More

This image depicts two images overlaid, with people sitting in a car and a woman at the edge of a stretch of water in Newcastle, New South Wales. The man depicted in the car second from the left is American shi More

For more information see our blog post on the Sterlings: bit.ly/OsqaFc ( http://bit.ly/OsqaFc ) ..This photo is part of the Australian National Maritime Museum’s Samuel J. Hood Studio collection. Sam Hood (1872 More

Ethel May Francis was born on 17 March 1894 in Hamilton, Newcastle NSW. On 17 October 1916, she married Ray Milton Sterling, the son of American shipowner Captain Edward Robert Sterling, at St Peters Church in More

This image depicts Ray Milton Sterling (standing right), the son of American shipowner Captain Edward Robert Sterling. He is standing next to Ethel May Francis with her family seated in front of them in the sal More

Ethel May Francis was born on 17 March 1894 in Hamilton, Newcastle NSW. On 17 December 1916, she married Ray Milton Sterling, the son of American shipowner Captain Edward Robert Sterling, at St Peters Church in More

Ray Milton Sterling was born on 20 December 1894 in his parents' native Halifax in Nova Scotia, Canada. On 5 July 1916, Ray Sterling arrived in Sydney with his father on board E R STERLING. At this point, he wa More

This image depicts American shipowner, Captain Edward Robert Sterling (third from left), with his son Captain Ray Milton Sterling to his right and daughter-in-law Ethel May Sterling (second from right) with thr More

This image depicts American shipowner, Captain Edward Robert Sterling (far right), standing next to his son Captain Ray Milton Sterling and daughter-in-law Ethel May Sterling and two unidentified individuals (f More

On 16 July 1928, Francis Birtles drove his 14 HP Bean racing car (the 'Sundowner') into the city of Sydney, with his travelling companion P E Stollery. Arriving to crowds, journalists and photographers outside More

For more information see our blog post on the Sterlings: bit.ly/OsqaFc ( http://bit.ly/OsqaFc ) ..This photo is part of the Australian National Maritime Museum’s Samuel J. Hood Studio collection. Sam Hood (1872 More

On 16 July 1928, Francis Birtles drove his 14 HP Bean racing car (the 'Sundowner') into the city of Sydney, with his travelling companion P E Stollery. Arriving to crowds, journalists and photographers outside More

This image depicts American shipowner, Captain Edward Robert Sterling (far left) seated in a car along with his son, Ray Milton Sterling, seated in the driver's seat...For more information see our blog post on More

On 16 July 1928, Francis Birtles drove his 14 HP Bean racing car (the 'Sundowner') into the city of Sydney, with his travelling companion P E Stollery. Arriving to crowds, journalists and photographers outside More

This photo is part of the Australian National Maritime Museum’s Samuel J. Hood Studio collection. Sam Hood (1872-1953) was a Sydney photographer with a passion for ships. His 60-year career spanned the romantic More

For more information see our blog post on the Sterlings: bit.ly/OsqaFc ( http://bit.ly/OsqaFc ) ..This photo is part of the Australian National Maritime Museum’s Samuel J. Hood Studio collection. Sam Hood (1872 More

For more information see our blog post on the Sterlings: bit.ly/OsqaFc ( http://bit.ly/OsqaFc ) ..This photo is part of the Australian National Maritime Museum’s Samuel J. Hood Studio collection. Sam Hood (1872 More

For more information see our blog post on the Sterlings: bit.ly/OsqaFc ( http://bit.ly/OsqaFc ) ..This photo is part of the Australian National Maritime Museum’s Samuel J. Hood Studio collection. Sam Hood (1872 More

For more information see our blog post on the Sterlings: bit.ly/OsqaFc ( http://bit.ly/OsqaFc ) ..This photo is part of the Australian National Maritime Museum’s Samuel J. Hood Studio collection. Sam Hood (1872 More

This image depicts two women standing next to what appears to be a 1910 Model T Ford. ..For more information see our blog post on the Sterlings: bit.ly/OsqaFc ( http://bit.ly/OsqaFc ) ..This photo is part of th More

This photograph possibly depicts American shipowner, Captain Edward Robert Sterling, with his family. The woman second from the left is possibly his wife, Helen B Sterling...For more information see our blog po More

On 16 July 1928, Francis Birtles drove his 14 HP Bean racing car (the 'Sundowner') into the city of Sydney, with his travelling companion P E Stollery. Arriving to crowds, journalists and photographers outside More

On 16 July 1928, Francis Birtles drove his 14 HP Bean racing car (the 'Sundowner') into the city of Sydney, with his travelling companion P E Stollery. Arriving to crowds, journalists and photographers outside More

For more information see our blog post on the Sterlings: bit.ly/OsqaFc ( http://bit.ly/OsqaFc ) ..This photo is part of the Australian National Maritime Museum’s Samuel J. Hood Studio collection. Sam Hood (1872 More

This photograph depicts American shipowner, Captain Edward Robert Sterling, possibly on board one of his vessels...For more information see our blog post on the Sterlings: bit.ly/OsqaFc ( http://bit.ly/OsqaFc ) More

This photo is part of the Australian National Maritime Museum’s Samuel J. Hood Studio collection. Sam Hood (1872-1953) was a Sydney photographer with a passion for ships. His 60-year career spanned the romantic More

For more information see our blog post on the Sterlings: bit.ly/OsqaFc ( http://bit.ly/OsqaFc ) ..This photo is part of the Australian National Maritime Museum’s Samuel J. Hood Studio collection. Sam Hood (1872 More

For more information see our blog post on the Sterlings: bit.ly/OsqaFc ( http://bit.ly/OsqaFc ) ..This photo is part of the Australian National Maritime Museum’s Samuel J. Hood Studio collection. Sam Hood (1872 More

This portrait depicts a man and woman, possibly a relation or passenger of American shipowner, Captain Edward Robert Sterling...For more information see our blog post on the Sterlings: bit.ly/OsqaFc ( http://bi More

For more information see our blog post on the Sterlings: bit.ly/OsqaFc ( http://bit.ly/OsqaFc ) ..This photo is part of the Australian National Maritime Museum’s Samuel J. Hood Studio collection. Sam Hood (1872 More

This portrait depicts a man and woman, possibly a relation or passenger of American shipowner, Captain Edward Robert Sterling...For more information see our blog post on the Sterlings: bit.ly/OsqaFc ( http://bi More

For more information see our blog post on the Sterlings: bit.ly/OsqaFc ( http://bit.ly/OsqaFc ) ..This photo is part of the Australian National Maritime Museum’s Samuel J. Hood Studio collection. Sam Hood (1872 More

This image depicts American shipowner, Captain Edward Robert Sterling in a group portrait. His son, Ray Milton Sterling, is far right...For more information see our blog post on the Sterlings: bit.ly/OsqaFc ( h More

This photograph depicts six people including American shipowner, Captain Edward Robert Sterling, centre and wearing a bowler hat. The woman wearing the large hat, second from the left is possibly his wife, Hele More

Southworth, a druggist, and Hawes, a carpenter and self-taught painter, operated a daguerreotype studio together in Boston that served the city’s elite. Masters of the aesthetic and technical aspects of the med More

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A successful timber merchant in the Hackney area of London and photographer, Alfred Rosling is known for several bodies of photographic work. His earliest photographs were made for a stereoscope establishment, More

Printed book with photogravure illustrations. Camera Work was a quarterly photographic journal published by Alfred Stieglitz from 1903 to 1917 Alfred Stieglitz was an American photographer and modern art promo More

Public domain reproduction of illuminated book page, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description Alfred Stieglitz was an American photographer and modern art promoter. He was born in Hobo More

Public domain image of a rural landscape, agriculture, farm animals, livestock, pasture, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description Alfred Stieglitz was an American photographer and modern art More

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This montage of France’s military and other leaders is a mosaic carte, a form invented by Disdéri, produced by cutting photographs of hundreds of figures away from their backgrounds, mounting the likenesses on More

Although best known for his development of the carte-de-visite photograph which immortalized many a Parisian, Disdéri's photographic career began around 1850 in a daguerrian studio in Brest. Beset with financi More

In 1843, Anna Atkins produced the first book illustrated with photographs. The book was the earliest use of photography in a scientific publication. An amateur botanist, Atkins overcame the difficulties of ma More

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Du Camp was the first photographer to depict the marvels of ancient Egypt. In 1849 a scholarly association commissioned the young writer to document Egyptian monuments and their hieroglyphics. He learned to pho More

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N. Baily carefully arranged a simple composition of two partridges hanging by a thin rope against a plain wood wall. Like many photographers in the 1850s and 1860s, he was interested in displaying the camera’s More

In the 1850s, Carleton Watkins took up landscape as a field photographer, providing clients with views they could use to settle property disputes. He made his first trip to Yosemite in 1861 and returned many t More

From the medium’s beginnings in the 1830s through the 1880s, most photographs were intimately scaled objects meant for the hand, the album, and the home. As the medium began being used to document landscapes an More

Although prolific in all types of commercial photography, Carleton Watkins was best known for his majestic images of Yosemite Valley. He first transported his mammoth-plate camera there in 1861 and returned man More

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In 1859, Charles L. Weed made the first photographs of the wild and breathtakingly beautiful Yosemite region in California. These pioneering photographs spoke of the area's splendors to future visitors and arti More

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Probably taken by one of two British photographic firms based in Ceylon (present-day Sri Lanka), this image was likely shot by a European and was definitely made for a European audience, not for the individuals More

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White was a pioneer of the American pictorialist vision. For more than 25 years, he helped shape the style and, by extension, the direction of 20th-century photography through his work as a practitioner, leader More

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In this complex composition, David B. Woodbury merged the documentation of an event with his desire to record an impressive landscape. The image depicts a precarious, yet essential military log bridge that trav More