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Cool Tools – Calculators for Environmental Conditions
Recently in my job I’ve had reason to be looking at storage environments for cold stores, cool stores and everything in between. This included the impact they have on records and in particular...
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Joseph Bischoff – The man behind the camera
Crowdsourced Research Prompted by comments from Gael Newton and Megan Martin, we are looking again at Joseph Philip Bischoff, the first recorded photographer for the Public Works Department. Megan and...
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A Degotardi album?
The name Degotardi is well known to those with an interest in photography. John Degotardi senior (1823-1882) photographed Sydney in the 1860s and 1870s, after arriving in Sydney in 1853. His interest...
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Old Gardens of New England [Photographic Exhibition]
This photographic exhibition has been developed by the Garden History Society Northern New South Wales Sub Branch at Armidale. The photographs vary from the grandest to the most unusual and come from...
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“Gone but not forgotten”
Empty beer bottles on Norfolk Island, 1 December 1942, presumably emptied by DMR employees During World War II the NSW Department of Main Roads built defence works for the Commonwealth government in...
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Scenic photos and ghosts in the archives – radio interview with State Records
Our Creative Producer, Susan Charlton, was interviewed recently on the ABC 702 Morning Show with Linda Mottram. She spoke about a series of photos in our collection that you’d be familiar with - NRS...
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