Sydney's Powerhouse Museum maintains a generous Flickr stream collection of historical photographs. Over time this collection seems to have been steadily growing.
Preparing for a quick demonstration of ThingLink, I remembered that it is possible to work directly with images from Flickr, process them in ThingLink and embed them in Blogger.
Looking for something very typical of late 19th or early 20th century Australia I just happened to stumble over this striking image. Puzzling was the only word that came to mind. My first impression was that the image had been shot in a studio as many other in the collection have. With a little simple research it became apparent that it had been shot in Freeman Brothers Studios, on a glass plate, and was given to the Museum in 1969.
The State Library of NSW has an interesting history of the business which began with the arrival of William Freeman in 1853 followed by his brother James, the following year. This marked the beginning of Australia's oldest continuously operating photographic studio. The Freeman Studio is now in Shorter House at 193-195 Clarence St. Digital works have been produced from 2003 onwards.
If you read this far you'll realise that the photo at the top of the post has its own very special story.
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