Following on from his initial success OzHair has taken a further crack at the Mildenhall collection.
The National Archives have released a large selection of the Mildenhall Collection of early Canberra online. They’re asking people to take modern photos from a similar vantage point to compare the changes over the years. I decided to have a try at something a little different, and was pretty happy with this first attempt. [...]
Meanwhile over on Facebook CanMeme’s had this to say:
The top pic was taken by WJ Mildenhall in the late 1920s in almost exactly the same spot as my pic taken during my lunch break today.
http://mildenhall.moadoph.gov.au/photo/1123
The Museum of Australian Democracy has put up a web gallery to promote their exhibition “Discovering Mildenhall’s Canberra, Photographs from the birth of our capital, 1921-1935“.
The Mildenhall Collection of photographs documents the early development of Australia’s capital city, Canberra, from the 1920s to the 1930s. The collection comprises more than 7,700 images on glass [...]