The Earliest Photos of Australia / HD Colorized

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#1900s #Sydney #Australia

[@OnceWasRStrathfield]

4:38 That's Pitt Street Sydney. On the right side is Soul Pattinson Chemist (or Washington H. Soul & Co). It closed in 2017 and I was the last storeman assistant working there. It was weird working there during its last week as a business. Framed B'n'W photos of the chemist through out history were being boxed up and customers that had been entering the store for 60 odd years were walking in to take their final look around. And then closed forever. It was one of the finest places I ever worked for. Last time I looked, it was some kind of fly-by-night surf store full of clueless young people.

[@Surinboy60]

Yes that's what thought too remember shopping there late 80s early 90s.

[@OnceWasRStrathfield]

@@Surinboy60 I used to go to the city often in the early 90's to mid 90's. My favourite place was Red Eye records. The vinyl was very expensive and the two store rooms were packed with goths and hipsters. Now Red Eye records is spacious with only a few scattered customers. Same staff that the shop had in the 90's, but older.. lol

[@youngbess1]

Thank you so much for these amazing photos, but best of all is that you left enough time between each photo so you could really appreciate the entire photo before the next one came up. Amazing photos and history. Once again thank you so much.😊🇦🇺

[@bcu567obzx]

Excellent work, just loved it, especially the Sydney streets.

[@BrightStyle]

Thank you so much.

[@thardingau]

Photos good. Music bad.

[@99IronDuke]

At 1.56 in, I have grave doubts that is a 'South Australian volunteer in the 1860's', as he is wearing a Napoleonic French Imperial Guard Uniform.

[@dummekunst7708]

Great spotting! I have zero historical knowledge but I'm ok at google searching and this chap is Eduardo Majeroni. He came to Australia in 1875. He and his wife made a living doing these reenactments in Sydney and he was also manager of Sydney’s Theatre Royal. (Read his Wikipedia page, he had quite an adventurous life)

[@MarkHenstridge]

Its fantastic to see what Australia looked like in color from the late 1800's when my Grandparents were born and again in 1910 when my Dad was born, I came along when color was the norm in 1961. Thanks for a fantastic upload...well done

[@BrightStyle]

Thank you very much, I really appreciate it.

[@DuchessCharlotte]

Your dad was born in fucking 1910?!

[@Londonechoes]

You must have some great memories yourself, passed down from you and your Dad living through the last century!

[@Ellen-nx2sw]

Colour was the norm in 1961? I remember colour TV being a novelty in Sydney when they began rolling out in the mid to late 70's.

[@BarbaraMacDonald-bq1lb]

​@@Ellen-nx2swsame , dont remember coloured photos until the 70's same with colour TV

[@BrightStyle]

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[@user-tl4gx4qj7d]

You have Mr Sydney Skukerman (5:05) listed as a wife killer. Intrigued, I detoured off in search of his story, only to find the following according to Trove, 'Special Photograph no. 17A. An entry in the Supplement to the NSW Police Gazette Sydney for Skukerman, (alias Kukarman, alias Cecil Landan) is captioned 'obtains goods from warehousemen by falsely representing that he is in business'. This picture is one of a series of around 2500 "special photographs" taken by New South Wales Police Department photographers between 1910 and 1930. These "special photographs" were mostly taken in the cells at the Central Police Station, Sydney and are, as curator Peter Doyle explains, of "men and women recently plucked from the street, often still animated by the dramas surrounding their apprehension". Other than that, what a terrific collection!

[@GenevaBible1560]

Awesome job! Thank you for taking the time to do the research history is a lie.

[@user-tl4gx4qj7d]

@@GenevaBible1560 History is not "a lie", it's made up of people, stories and many, many different interpretations, which makes it so fascinating (including your terrific channel!) I just found the arresting (mind the pun) photo of the very snappily dressed Mr Sydney Skukerman (5:05) exceptional...could he really be a 'wife killer'? No, just a wee bit opportunistic...a self-made scam artist!

[@ShelbyCobra-u2l]

These are somewhat amazing, to bring something back to life in colour that happened over 100 mile years ago, keep up the amazing work.

[@BrightStyle]

Thank you so much

[@elizabethgittus6358]

Whenever I look at these old photos, I think, "Those horse and cart people built that?" Anyway I enjoyed watching these, thank you.

[@Michelle-kw2sp]

no, they didn't build all the majestic buildings, but shacks and shanties, yes. All these horse and cart people are a new civilisation, a brand new population consisting of the forced migration of orphans and other mysterious replacements.

[@elizabethgittus6358]

@@Michelle-kw2sp Hello Michelle, of course they didn't build all that, I'm just learning about resets, I'm just an old lady who is starting to find out the truth of it all. Thank you for your comment.

[@martagrant2908]

Thanks for sharing this amazing video ❤

[@BrightStyle]

Thank you for your comment

[@Aprilsraven629]

I'm Australian and love seeing these digitised videos, I hope someone puts them in book format as there's so many hidden gems in each picture and videos are just to quick to explore...great work now to Goggle my notes

[@BrightStyle]

Thank you very much, I really appreciate it.

[@alexandrosilva7703]

Muito bom ver essas imagens do século passado em acores 👏🏼👏🏼

[@vt1940]

Electric Trams - Sydney. NO. The Scene is Cable Trams - Underground Cable was picked up by a Grabber and pulled along. Hence 2 Rails and Central Gap in the Roadway. Sydney had only 2 Lines for Cable because they preffered Steam until Overhead Electricity was made available.

[@Surinboy60]

Amazing look back into Australia's past grew up & still live in Sydney great images.

[@BrightStyle]

Thank you so much

[@rumdo5617]

Hard work and commitment goes into building those towns, businesses, families and communities from scratch. Props.

[@Indigo4711]

Where it states 'George Street Sydney 1890' about 8:38, is in fact York Street.

[@bhalse8132]

You are correct. York St, looking south from Market St. Enjoyed the presentation and thank you, excellent restoration work.

[@Londonechoes]

This is amazing! Have always wanted to see historic photos of Australia before it became an Official Nation. Thanks for sharing

[@GenevaBible1560]

Take the time to walk the streets where you live and look the the old church or buildings there amazing how men were much stronger back then with there horse and carts.

[@gfbprojects1071]

Great look at previous lives. Thanks

[@petramitchell7162]

These are awesome! Thanks 🙂

[@BrightStyle]

Thanks a lot !

[@navypti]

Just discovered your channel. BRILLIANT. How could I NOT subscribe?. Got me!! Thank you so much.

[@AbiNomac]

Lovely. Thank you

[@grahamy3400]

Thank you very interesting

[@roughriderreturns5039]

This added greatly to my weekend. Thank you, very much.

[@helendeacon7637]

Wonderful to watch each one of these images. Thank you.

[@leannebryant9962]

That was really interesting. I enjoyed it a lot.

[@BrightStyle]

Thank you very much, I really appreciate it.

[@Baskerville22]

At 2.48 - "Electric trams, King St, Sydney 1899" seems incorrect to me. The "trams" are clearly cable-drawn vehicles. Note the absence of overhead electricity-bearing wires and the centre gap between the 2 tram-tracks by which the attaching rod can descend and grip the moving cable I also have grave doubts about "South Australian Volunteer in 1860s" at 1.58. He looks to be in European military garb....and I can assure you that no "volunteer" army in Australia in the mid-19th century could afford that quality of uniform. AND if they could, they would be laughed at whenever they made an appearance. More chance of him being an Austrian soldier than an Australian soldier.

[@renross6726]

My mum rode on those trams daily. Nothing incorrect about it.

[@renross6726]

And BTW,he was an Aussie soldier.

[@renross6726]

You seriously need a lesson in Australian history. Your ignorance is showing .

[@Baskerville22]

@@renross6726 Where is the "electricity" coming from ? No overhead wires. Why the cable-access gap between the tram rails ?

[@Baskerville22]

@@renross6726 I've been an Australian for 73 years. YOUR ignorance is on display here.

[@56music64]

Great images, many new to me. Good job. Very enjoyable

[@BrightStyle]

Thank you so much !

[@oceanreefer2626]

Great work with the colouring. I would love to have seen some scenic photos of Perth, Western Australia. Maybe in your next video! 😀

[@SOBIESKI_freedom]

Despite the anachronism of the music relative to the photos, it was enjoyable nonetheless. Kudos!

[@ethericrose2307]

Two things the victorians did well. They knew what good architecture was and knew how to dress well no matter what the event. Smart was the norm. I wish we still wore corsets. It might stop individuals from becoming obese. Then again, people worked harder in that era, so being obese was rare to see. In young women, at least.

[@oo0Spyder0oo]

No, people didn’t have shopping centres and take aways etc, food was hard won. A roast or such was a luxury on Sundays etc. Sugary foods weren’t as plentiful. We’re rich in comparison, we can get whatever we want when we want. Nothing to do with working hard. Well to do people often got fat from luxurious living. And not everyone was well dressed, poverty was worse for many back then, cholera and dysentery commonplace, no such thing as the good old days. 😅

[@rocioguevaraobando9075]

¡Espectacular! Bellísimo trabajo artístico y fotogràfico. Muchas gracias por compartir. 😊🌸

[@BrightStyle]

Muchas gracias, realmente lo aprecio

[@debbieanne7962]

Celebrating Australia Day in 1900. Australia Day was first celebrated in 1935. Glad we don’t have to wear those impractical long dresses nowadays, especially to the beach!

[@rhondanieborak5829]

No the moality of today gone out the windows. Sadly

[@ashhart2850]

Music accompaniment also 🥇

[@BrightStyle]

Thanks

[@carolyndarragh1891]

'Australian Soldiers with captured, London Guns 1918' is Clearly France, possibly Paris, looking at the Haussman Style archtecture and it's proximity to where the guns were captured.

[@hettyphilips]

When the photos are colourised, it looks like the people are in the 21st Century.

[@edwardfletcher7790]

The Murray Cod at 03:14 is incredible. Sadly we'll never see freshwater fish like that again ☹️

[@stephenbrogan215]

great collection

[@BrightStyle]

Thank you

[@a24-45]

7:09 the colour of the basic WWI uniform for Australian troops (and the British) was khaki, not blue as shown here. While artistic licence is fine for most of these colourisations, I think in the case of military uniforms which are historically recognisable, the authentic colour looks more realistic, as well as showing respect.

[@Rollers123a]

the scene at Eldorado 8:57, seems way too urban for a sleepy little country town.

[@weibie]

15:34 - This is not a photo taken in 1869. The clothing is wrong for that time period.

[@dee-smart]

5:58 When I looked Sydney up on Google I got a Daily Mail article with mug shots and in it he apparently was a fraudster, not a killer.

[@philpaton3812]

A correction regarding the Queen Victoria Building looking south to Town Hall, is actually York Street and not George Street. Great pictures though.

[@brycenuttall6144]

I arrived from 1889 7days ago and these photos are very similar to what l took.

[@sarahclaireclaire7586]

😂

[@hardyakka6200]

1860,s era would have been nice. Richard Daintree was taking photos about that time. Some of his would be nice.

[@disgruntledunicorn007]

Agree. the title of this is misleading. The Ralph Snowball collection is also interesting.

[@ForgottenTasmania]

Not exactly the “earliest photos of Australia”. The camera was embraced by Aussies from about 1840 onwards. As soon as the patent was filed, it spread rapidly. And many of those photos survive.

[@letitiakearney2423]

I laughed how many criminals photographed back then. Australia looked pretty rough back then but had great buildings.

[@guldenaydin9918]

💝

[@margi9103]

At 8.40 - that’s Queen Victoria Building is on the left hand side.

[@grosvenorclub]

When you think it was only 100 years since a few leaky ships had arrived with a few very weary travellers and very little supplies they had done very well for themselves .

[@maggirae1961]

Lots of old world buildings and electricity

[@now591]

They are far too immense & elaborate to have been built when the population was still relatively small.

[@ElisabetaTofalvi]

❤🎉❤😮🎉

[@BrightStyle]

Thanks

[@lyndalmorse6555]

I don’t know how they dressed like that honestly. It’s so hot here

[@kathleenmccaughtrie]

What a contrast to viewing the photos of the Indigenous peoples of this same era and how European settler's arrogant attitude toward them continues to this day.

[@wilsonwombat3456]

3:19 indigenous Australians didn’t have blue paint, probably should be ochre

[@billyski6798]

Not many pictures of PERTH, I lived there a year in 1973, and the population has almost tripled since I was there. Nice music, 👍🇺🇸

[@BrightStyle]

Thanks

[@magneticzen]

My great aunt kate was first woman charge with drink driving in NSW .. probably australia … it was a horse n buggy hahahaah .. (i have another aunts memoirs true story )

[@hypnoticmagicsand2260]

👍🇫🇷

[@margi9103]

At 8.53 they couldn’t have celebrated Australia Day in 1900. Australia became one country rather than being made up of separate British colonies in 1901, termed Federation.

[@Rollers123a]

Clyde engineering - Time to work? Looks like they're off to the pub!

[@Bigbro28]

Maybe not - the nearest pub was/is the Rosehill Hotel, 11km away.

[@Mattb81]

@@Bigbro28 Plenty of pubs for them within walking distance at Auburn or Granville

[@SolSurfing]

Great work, amazing we believe convicts built these cities with horse and buggy. Notice there is no construction going on, it's all obviously built by some other civilisation pre 1900 and appropriated by the ones who re-wrote the history books

[@susannah1066]

4.14 WW1 uniform -[1914-1918]

[@malcolmgreen6364]

These are old photographs but absolutely none of them are 'the earliest' photos of Australia. Those would date from the 1840 and 1850'. The title is deliberately misleading. Nice photos though.

[@BrightStyle]

I found only few photos of the 1850s in very poor quality and not interesting...

[@GenevaBible1560]

Look at the amazing architecture back in the 1800s doesn't the narrative tell us man only had horse and cart? Who really built those buildings? When will the truth be told? Research the research.

[@fieldsofgold775]

Time waits for no one. In a 100 years from now. They’ll be looking at us the same way. Maybe we’ll be 3D photogrammetry holograms then?

[@gregjameson2141]

Are the portraits paintings ? Video heading says photos

[@BrightStyle]

Portrait photography, or portraiture, is a type of photography aimed toward capturing the personality of a person or group of people ( Wikipedia )

[@Hardcastle83]

04:50 a Lesbian before anyone even knew they existed... bless her.

[@CoralHullforJesusChrist]

Poor horses in George Street Sydney. What a life. Thank God for the electric trams. Beautiful turtle. What a shame. Hunting Club killing everything that moves. Wake in fright.

[@rebeccabriggs2982]

There's no way they built those magnificent buildings with their horse and carts.

[@heatherjay8802]

I believe tools were used, not horses and carts!

[@rebeccabriggs2982]

@heatherjay8802 transportation? what kind of tools? We don't/can't even build just ornate buildings today.

[@justabloke1806]

They must have melted their arses off wearing all that crap in a Aussie summer.

[@koala2464]

Australia Day 1900? I don’t think so 🤔

[@susannah1066]

4.14-WW1 [1914-1918]

[@willowbrooke1215]

I can't stop thinking of how hot the women would've been in the long hot summers

[@helenlesley5456]

And no woke idiots upsetting the vibes… what a wonderful time to be alive in Sydney… much prefer prefer this to the sleek modern. Streetscape… where is the Time Machine 😊

[@donato_donato]

Photography started being a thing in the late 1830s, from the average age of these photos looks it took 60 - 70 years to get to Australia, a lot of time, since there are photos from the 1840s basically from everywhere. No offence but these are hardly the oldest photos from Australia.

[@annemaria5126]

Civilised, cultured, but very unpracticala d hot! But I guess, no need to work hardas there are 'servants'.

[@MICCHAN12199]

途中でとんでもなく長い恐竜の化石の手？を見たけど、この長さだと体長がとんでもないと思った😱😱😱

[@TheYorkshirelady]

It’s a whale fin fossil.

[@l.l.2463]

It was the flipper from a whale

[@TonyDoubleTrouble]

Pity about the ridiculous music.

[@AbiNomac]

I liked it.

[@edwardfletcher7790]

It's too overwhelming....

[@sylviekins]

@@AbiNomacso do I.

[@AbiNomac]

@@sylviekins - hi five 🖐🏻

[@magneticzen]

BIT LOUD BUT T IT IS THE MUSIC OF THE ERA and probably think all of us tht like it are deaf now 😂😂😂😂

[@Iygfdsvnkyf]

Very sad...to see such large beautiful animals being slaughtered and photographed as a hunting trophy...

[@sarahclaireclaire7586]

The Music is HORRIBLE

[@a7128]

Do you realise how offensive this is for First Nations People?

[@darrellcross4538]

Absolutely terrible music….stopped after 3 minutes….no music

[@OpinionatedChicken59]

Uh oh, the Aborigines won't like this at all 😕

[@wendycrawford1792]

Um, Australia is a continent, not a country.

[@BrightStyle]

The name Australia refers to both the island nation and the mainland continent which forms a major part of the region known as Oceania.

[@sarahclaireclaire7586]

🤣

[@grahamkearnon6682]

Not that great really, when you consider the earliest cameras surfaced in the 1830's.

[@wrongtracksuit]

Oldest continuing culture my arse. There’s nothing continuous about welfare.