Electricity Commission photos
The digitised images in this State Archives Collection series (NRS-20347) include black-and-white photographs as well as colour negatives and transparencies produced by the Electricity Commission of NSW from 1950 to 1994. There are 9,000+ photos in this series.
The images were created to record the power generation and transmission assets of the organisation and to document the working conditions and social events of its employees. Each image is part of a project or group.
Family and local history interest
Because the images often include employees, they may be of interest to the families of people who were employed by the Electricity Commission during the period. The series can also be useful for local history research, as the images often capture areas of towns that were not usually photographed for tourism purposes or as part of family occasions.
A selection from the collection
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Burrinjuck Dam - A tourist's playground
A promotional film produced c.1950s/1960s by the Electricity Commission of New South Wales
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