Inger Sheil

@oceanicing.bsky.social

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Assistant Curator Australian National Maritime Museum, loves lighthouses and ocean liners, vintage and antique clothing collector, historian, 1920s aesthetic, literature and art lover, silent film watcher and chihuahua attendant

A purple velvet evening dress with silver and pearl beadwork at the waist and neckline. Dress is photographed on a mannequin torso against a white background.
A loose fitting peach coloured dress that drops a little below knee length is photographed on a mannequin against a white background. The dress is covered in by scattered clear beads. A stylised trellis design extends vertically up the length of the front of the dress, and a flowering vine in gold beads is entwined in it.
Magazine cover for The Sydney Mail 17 February 1926. A woman with dark bobbed hair seated in a deck chair front of a background of three sailboats. She is wearing a white dress with a red close-fitting “cloche” hat and a red scarf around her neck is blowing in the breeze. She is holding a pair of binoculars and looking to the right of the viewer.
A view from a lighthouse lantern room. A fresnel lens is partially visible on the left. The view looks over Darling Harbour and the Carpentaria light ship. In the background is city of Sydney skyline
A cream coloured long haired chihuahua is lying curled up on a blue cushion on a plastic outdoor chair
An engraved illustration of a bearded man in profile, reading a book. He is seated in the lantern room of a lighthouse, alongside a group of lanterns that provide illumination for the lighthouse beam
A deep blue velvet cape with ruffled hem
A black silk dress with pink and blue beaded flowers worn with a deep blue velvet cape, displayed on a mannequin against a white background
Broad side view of a three masted steel hulled sailing ship Dimsdale.
A deep pink velvet cape with a large ruched collar and band of floral metallic lace is shown worn over a pink evening dress on a mannequin form
A 1920s dress with abstract embroidery in tones of pink and silver
A salmon coloured linen dress with embroidery on a mannequin against a white background
Book cover for max dupain biography by Helen Ennis. Cover is a black and white photograph of a young Max Dupain, crouching with a camera in hand and smiling at the viewer