Geoff Barker
@spritebark
Add in equal parts - History, Photography, Music, Wikis - digitise - then serve chilled. Library/Museum Curator. Works @ State Library NSW. Shared views mine own. & Q64778919
Display of valve/vacuum tube types, Australian Wireless Association (AWA), Sydney, c. 1935, by Sam Hood. Uploaded to #Wikipedia by @StateLibraryNSW en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vacuum_...
#InternationalCatDay 8 Aug - 'Felis Australis, Souterensis,' c.1910, by cat lover D.H. Souter, State Library of New South Wales. Uploaded to Wikipedia en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_H... #icatcare #ICD2026
Boy and two Alsatian dogs, Sydney, taken #OTD 5 August 1951, vintage film negative, Australian Consolidated Press Archive, State Library of New South Wales.
Modernist Featherstone furniture display, Melbourne, Australia, 3 August 1953, by Gordon F. De Lisle, State Library of New South Wales. Uploaded to Wikipedia en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grant_F... #Modernism #1950s
The Dreadful Murders on Maungatapu Mountain, 1866 - 5 murders in New Zealand and a rare vintage print of the murderers in before being hanged. The discovery of the victims and arrest of the murderers proved to be a complicated tale of intrigue and treachery geoffbarker.wordpress.com/2026/06/23/t...
Taken #OTD 22 July 1949, Robin Stanton, Woollahra, Sydney, by Ian Grimes, State Library NSW. Uploaded to #FlickrCommons flic.kr/p/2rDVX2B
On 20 July 1851, gold was found near present-day Castlemaine, Victoria (Mt Alexander Goldfields), at Specimen Gully. This view of Mount Alexander gold diggings, Victoria, 1852, is by ST Gill & was uploaded to #Wikipedia by @StateLIbraryNSW en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austral...
Female ushers at Embassy theatre, hand inspection by male supervisor, Sydney, 30 May 1941, ACP Magazines archive. Uploaded to #Wikipedia by State Library NSW en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usher_(...
Distortion mirror, Sydney, January 1949, Australian Consolidated Press Archive, State Library of NSW collection - uploaded to #FlickrCommons flic.kr/p/2sdBpap
Aerial photo of Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea, 1921, by Frank Hurley from his Curtiss SOC Seagull aircraft. Uploaded to Wikipedia by State Library of New South Wales en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Port_Mo...
Valve float, Australian Wireless Association (AWA), David Jones Parade, Sydney, c. 1938, by Sam Hood, vintage glass negative, Hood Collection part II, State Library of New South Wales
Steam trawler St Lolan, Sydney, July 1937. In 1939 Lolan was renamed HMAS Korowa and requisitioned by the RAN to be fitted out as an auxiliary minesweeper. Uploaded to #Wkipedia by State Library NSW en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMAS_Ko...
Cinesound Productions mobile recording unit no. 2 with motion camera, and microphone, Moore Park, Sydney, 1934. Uploaded to Wikipedia by @StateLibraryNSW en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cinesou...
Dawn Anderson - artist and model with her sweater clipped for studio shoot, July 1946, by Ivan Ive. Dawn's mother wrote books under the name Pat Kerry & Dawn illustrated her mother's works. Uploaded to #FlickrCommons by @StateLibraryNSW flic.kr/p/2rVJGkY
Recording aviator Amy Johnson - born #OTD 1 July 1903- after her record breaking London to Australia flight, Sydney, 1930. Uploaded to #Flickrcommons by State Library NSW flic.kr/p/2s9bSvC
Portrait of Betty Howell, Miss Radiola for AWA, September 1947, by Max Dupain, vintage film negative. Uploaded to #FlickrCommons by State Library of New South Wales, flic.kr/p/2sbN1x4
Mail being delivered to Kiandra township, New South Wales, 21 June, 1941, by Robert Donaldson. Uploaded to Wikipedia by @StateLibraryNSW en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kiandra...
Thamer Karsavina in L'Oiseau de Feu, 1913, by Emil Otto Hoppé, photogravure. Uploaded to #Wikipoedia by State Library of New South Wales, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E._O._H...
Entrance, Luna Park, Sydney, 1940, by Edward Hopkins, State Library of New South Wales. Uploaded to #FlickrCommons by @StateLibraryNSW flic.kr/p/2s8mp2K
Siege of Ngatapa 1869 - an engagement during Te Kooti's War, East Coast of New Zealand. 1 - Ngatapa besieged with escape route of Te Kooti, Aotearoa-New Zealand, by Boresfield. 2 Plan of Ngatapa 1869. State Library NSW. Uploaded to #Wikipedia en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_o...
Turon quartz crushing works, Sofala Gold fields, New South Wales, 1852, James Gay Hawkins. State Library NSW. Uploaded to #FlickrCommons flic.kr/p/2s2KLur
Late Night, Sydney, 18 August 1949, by L. Bartholomew, vintage film negative, Australian Consolidated Press Archive, State Library of New South Wales collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/9arWx...
May Bradford and Jack Jones welding the all-Australian monoplane, Sydney, 1934, by Sam Hood, glass negative, Image @ State Library NSW collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/16A7M... article @ geoffbarker.wordpress.com/2025/12/06/m...
#OTD 3 June 1769, Captain James Cook made these remarks on the Transit of Venus. Half-sheet of paper written on both sides in Cook's handwriting and with his signature, Uploaded to Wikipedia by @statelibrarynsw en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1769_tr...
Born #OTD 2 June 1774 - William Lawson who was on the first successful crossing of the Blue Mountains by British colonists. Ambrotype copied from an original daguerreotype, Uploaded to #Wikipedia by @StateLibraryNSW New South Wales en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William...
The adoption of photography for the reduction of maps was pioneered by England’s Ordnance Survey offices in 1855. Article on the development of this process geoffbarker.wordpress.com/2026/05/30/t...
Grumman G-21 Goose seaplane, landing in Sydney, c. 1938, film negative, Australian Consolidated Press Archive, Uploaded to #Flickrcommons by @StateLibraryNSW flic.kr/p/2s34wCu
#OTD King Street at night, Sydney, 21 May 1938, by Norman Herfort uploaded to FlickrCommons by @StateLibraryNSW flic.kr/p/2rtPr1x #ThrowbackThursday