Tag: Mayfield

Milton Kent’s Airplane Photographs of Newcastle

August 25, 2014

  The aerial view of Newcastle by Milton Kent,  located in TROVE, and reproduced above was originally published in The Australasian on the 22nd June 1929 page 71, and appears to come from the same set of original glass negatives reproduced below. This may provide some evidence to the dating of at least some of … More Milton Kent’s Airplane Photographs of Newcastle

Local Treasures: Progressive Sydney – The Newcastle, Mayfield and Toronto Bits (1938)

April 15, 2013

Day Shift – 16/04/2013 – 02:10 PM Presenter: Carol Duncan Interviewee: Gionni Di Gravio, Archivist, Newcastle University University of Newcastle Archivist Gionni Di Gravio explores a work entitled “Progressive Sydney as it stands today : a pictorial directory of its most attractive centres, in sepia” published in Adelaide by G.H. Baring, 1938. This unusual book … More Local Treasures: Progressive Sydney – The Newcastle, Mayfield and Toronto Bits (1938)