vintage photographs Archives ~ Photo Time Tunnel

Two women with a flathead, probably at Lake Macquarie. Photo by Milton Merrilees.

Ones that didn’t get away: people with fish.

Post author:Greg Ray
Post published:July 22, 2020
Post category:Miscellaneous Vintage Photographs and Photography

Rummaging around collections of old amateur and family photos and negatives I find certain themes recur. One of these themes is fish and fishing. People love fishing, and taking photos…

Thornthwaite, via Scone. Some of the Hunter’s earliest photographs

Post author:Greg Ray
Post published:July 21, 2020
Post category:History Vintage Photographs and Photography

All the images and most of the information in this post were supplied by members of the Docker and Brougham families, via Malcolm Docker. . Among the earliest photographs known…

Our Town Revisited: Newcastle in colour with a focus on the 1970s

Post author:Greg Ray
Post published:November 12, 2019
Post category:Greg Ray's Writing History Newcastle, NSW, Australia Vintage Photographs and Photography

This is the Newcastle that I remember from my own younger days. And this is the most personal of our books to date, peppered with fragmentary anecdotes of my memories…