Back in April we asked you What Are Your Tips for Dating Photos? We had such a huge response that we decided to place all the tips together in one print-friendly file (PDF) for you all to download and use.
Category Archives: — Can you date…?
Can you identify this Harbour?
Unidentified Harbour….it is Sydney or coastal NSW?
Can you identify this post office?
This week we have an unidentified Post and Telegraph Office. It looks to be one of the first established buildings on the street as there are no other identifiable buildings in sight.
This image is part of NRS 4481 – the photographs were taken by officers of the Government Printing Office during the years c.1870-c.1920. and cover a wide variety of subjects, including: public buildings, railways, tramways, street scenes, harbour views, Sydney University, groups of people, ships, public occasions, the Botanic Gardens, military camps, wharves, dams and waterways, statues and slums.
We have many other undated photographs in Flickr account. If you know the dates or any other interesting facts about these images please let us know.
Can you locate where this hospital is?
Is this the entire hospital or just a ward of a large medical establishment?
Can you identify these vessels?
A moment in time……
As there appears to be an ongoing debate regarding the unidentified court houses we decided to let the discussion run on as the court houses have stumped us all. But we didn’t want to disappoint so we thought a completely different topic might be in order. The two images below are of vessels docked at a Sydney wharf somewhere. So it’s time to get your sea legs going and see if you can identify the type of vessel, its purpose and the wharf.
Ahoy mateys……
We have many other undated photographs in Photo Investigator and on our Flickr account. If you know the dates or any other interesting facts about these images please let us know.
Can you date and locate these court houses?
Unidentified Court Houses
Can you date this photograph – Moree railway station
This week we are heading into regional NSW to Moree. The image below has a variety of subjects which may help you identify a date…
Can you date and locate this photograph? [unidentified townscapes]
This fortnight’s “Can you date?” post is brought to you by Jillian Kohlhagen and June Dietrich from CSU Regional Archives. They have not one but three connected photographs they are trying to place.
Can you date this Photograph? [Police Uniform, Armidale]
Bill Oates, University Archivist for the University of New England has requested help in dating a photograph. As UNE is a member of State Record’s Regional Repository network we thought we would lend a hand.