Historic Photograph Collection
The Macleay Museum's Historic Photograph Collection contains approximately 50,000 images dating from the late 1840s to the 1960s.
Current On-Line exhibitions
Collection Highlights
- One of the earliest surviving Australian daguerreotypes taken by J W Newland 1848
- William Hetzer's albumen prints of Sydney c1860
- 3000 Glass Plates of New South Wales by Charles Kerry & Co.
- Burns Philp and Company's photos of Papua and the Pacific
- Baldwin Spencer's photos of the Horn Expedition to Central Australia in 1894
- Transfers from the University of Sydney's Anthropology Department
