Dr Bernard Smith was appointed Foundation Professor of Contemporary Art and was Director of the Power Institute of Fine Arts, University of Sydney in 1967. In the following decade he and his wife Kate lived in Glebe.
During this period many inner-city areas were facing wide-scale demolition. The Glebe Society was founded in 1969 to ensure that new projects had adequate planning and that existing heritage buildings were preserved and Dr Smith was elected as the Society's Inaugural President from 1969-71 and as President from 1974-75.
Dr Smith donated a number of his photographs to the Municipality of Leichhardt in 1982 for storage and use in the Glebe Branch Library. The images stayed at the Glebe library after 2003 when Glebe was re-amalgamated with the City of Sydney LGA. The photographs are largely about the architectural heritage of Glebe and Forest Lodge in the 1970s.
Some slides and other photographic prints are yet to be digitised and listed.
Bernard and Kate Smith Glebe Collection [CN-0320]. City of Sydney Archives, accessed 21 Nov 2024, https://archives.cityofsydney.nsw.gov.au/nodes/view/1923916