Electricity Commission
The digitised images in this State Archives Collection series (NRS-20347) include black-and-white and colour negatives and transparencies produced by the Electricity Commission of NSW from 1950 to 1994. There are 9,000+ photos in this series.
The series was developed to document the organisation’s power generation and transmission assets, as well as the working conditions and social events of its employees. Each image belongs to a specific project or group and each assigned a unique numerical reference number.
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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A promotional film produced c.1950s/1960s by the Electricity Commission of New South Wales
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House photo albums
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Richard Stringer’s architectural photographs, 1968–2003
This portfolio contains 55 photo prints taken by architectural photographer Richard Stringer, dating from 1968 to 2003, documenting significant Australian domestic buildings
Barry Wollaston: historic buildings in the county of Cumberland (NSW), 1954
This collection consists of 232 photo negatives by architect and photographer Barry Wollaston of buildings in the Sydney region considered by the Royal Australian Institute of Architects in the early 1950s to be of architectural and historical value
A pictorial guide to identifying Australian architecture – photo collection
This collection of over 700 black and white photo prints was used to illustrate the book 'A pictorial guide to identifying Australian architecture' by Richard Apperly, Robert Irving and Peter Reynolds, first published in Sydney in 1989
Alan Spearman Evans Collection
The Alan Spearman Evans Collection comprises over 2000 photographic images of houses, house interiors, garden landscapes and industrial workplaces in NSW
Maritime Services Board
A sample of the 4000+ digitised glass plate negatives from the Maritime Services Board
Ikon Studio
During the public call out for our Street Photography exhibition an extraordinarily rare collection of street photography negatives came to light. The Ikon Studio negatives provide a fascinating visual narrative of the street photographer at work
Documenting NSW Homes
Recorded for the future: documenting NSW homes
The Caroline Simpson Library has photographically recorded homes since 1989
Government Printing Office Glass Negatives
From the late 19th century into the 20th century, photography played a significant role at the Government Printing Office, leading to a rich and varied collection of images depicting life in New South Wales
Purging pestilence – plague!
The Bubonic Plague hit Sydney in January 1900. Spreading from the waterfront, the rats carried the plague throughout the city. Within eight months 303 cases were reported and 103 people were dead