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Rainy days and Sundays always get me down

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Description: On a wet and pretty miserable day in Dublin, and most of the North and East of the country, O'Dea takes us down South to a rainy day long ago. A man in a Mac (that was a Mackintosh raincoat long before Apple) passes a lady in a very old-fashioned cloak on a street in Bandon, County Cork. Photographer: James P. O'Dea Collection: O'Dea Photograph Collection Date: Friday, 15 September 1961 NLI Ref.: ODEA 27/93 You can also view this image, and many thousands of others, on the NLI’s catalogue at catalogue.nli.ie
Owner: National Library of Ireland on The Commons
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1961

They're Peelers not Sojers

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Description: Mr. John A. Costello looks decidedly discombobulated as he is escorted by Church and State to some event in Donegal. The title suggests that he has a guard of honour of soldiers, but those are actually some of An Garda Síochána's finest. Their uniform, with the closed collars, should be some guide to the latest date this could have been taken? Where, why and what? Photographers: Denis Tynan 1923-2010 Collection: Tynan Photographic Collection Date: Circa 1950-1960 Thursday, 24 May 1951 NLI Ref: NPA TYN651 You can also view this image, and many thousands of others, on the NLI’s catalogue at catalogue.nli.ie
Owner: National Library of Ireland on The Commons
Views: 9700
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1951

Francis Birtles, Australian adventurer, photographer, cyclist, and filmmaker, who set many long-distance cycling records, c. 1920, Arthur Ernest Foster

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Description: Francis Birtles, Australian adventurer, photographer, cyclist, and filmmaker, who set many long-distance cycling records, c. 1920, Arthur Ernest Foster, from touched up glass negative, ON 30/Box 1-4 , ON 30/Box 88-89 collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/digital/QM2zpJApAkJVd
Owner: State Library of NSW
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1920

Feeding Turkish Prisoners of War, Australian Light Horse, attrib. Palestine, ca. 1916-1917, James Chauvel

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Description: Feeding Turkish Prisoners of War, Australian Light Horse, attrib. Palestine, ca. 1916-1917, James Allan Chauvel, State Library of New South Wales, PXA 1046 collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/9O4oN76n/NQrkgLLRbWbr2 Major James Allan Chauvel served in the Australian Imperial Force during WW1. He was part of the Desert Column providing re-mounts from 1916 to 1919 and served with his brother, General Sir Harry Chauvel.
Owner: State Library of NSW
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1917

Yachts on Port Jackson, Sydney, 2 January 1941

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Description: Yachts on Port Jackson, Sydney, 2 January 1941, PIX magazine Sailing series, from original negative, State Library of New South Wales, ON 388/Box 027/Item 113 digital.sl.nsw.gov.au/delivery/DeliveryManagerServlet?emb...
Owner: State Library of NSW
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1941

Yachts sailing on Port Jackson, Sydney, 2 January 1941

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Description: Yachts sailing on Port Jackson, Sydney, 2 January 1941, PIX magazine photographs, from original negative, State Library of New South Wales, ON 388/Box 027/Item 113
Owner: State Library of NSW
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1941

Surf Carnival, Curl Curl, Northern Beaches, Sydney, 1 January 1938

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Description: Surf Carnival, Curl Curl, Northern Beaches, Sydney, 1 January 1938, from original negative, State Library of New South Wales, Series 006 Sun newspaper negatives, including the Sunday Sun, 1928-1954, ON 388/Box 044/Item 134 collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/9PQW64Xn
Owner: State Library of NSW
Views: 10267
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1938

Doreen Beresford and Rennie Collins with their first and second prize Christmas stockings, Paddington, December 1934

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Description: Doreen Beresford and Rennie Collins with their first and second prize Christmas stockings, Paddington, December 1934, Sam Hood, State Library of New South Wales, Home and Away - 4797 collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/YRlDVeqn Prizes For Purchase Sense (1934, December 26). The Labor Daily (Sydney, NSW : 1924 - 1938), p. 5. Retrieved December 22, 2020, from nla.gov.au/nla.news-article236468139
Owner: State Library of NSW
Views: 18943
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1935

PXE 711 304 Como Hotel

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Description: Como Hotel, Como, Sydney, Collection 1: Star Photo Co., unmounted views of New South Wales, [chiefly 1900-1910], Livermore, William, State Library of New South Wales, PXE 711/304 collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/16AJ8Ron The Como Hotel was located at Scylla Bay, Como a suburb of Sydney. It was destroyed by fire in 1996 and was originally a club for German railway workers before becoming a Hotel around 1887.
Owner: State Library of NSW
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1900

Acrobatics at the beach by two Tivoli stars, December 1951.

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Description: Acrobatics at the beach by two Tivoli stars, December 1951, Pix magazine, State Library of New South Wales, ON 388/Box, digital.sl.nsw.gov.au/delivery/DeliveryManagerServlet?emb...
Owner: State Library of NSW
Views: 18394
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1951

And the plot thickens...

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Description: Mr. Seumas O’Neill of Cashel, German Plot prisoner of Durham Gaol. A fine, handsome young man in semi-military garb with a Nationalist badge on his lapel, locked up in a British gaol. Who was Seumas, and what was the German Plot? What happened to him thereafter? Yesterday’s virtual trip through Germany, Switzerland, and Austria was most entertaining, and a welcome relief from the trials and tribulations of the pandemic, whose name must not be mentioned! Photographers: Unknown Collection: Irish Personalities Photographic Collection Date: Circa 1910-1930 NLI Ref: NPA PERS63 You can also view this image, and many thousands of others, on the NLI’s catalogue at catalogue.nli.ie
Owner: National Library of Ireland on The Commons
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1918

Tivoli stars next to a caravan, December 1951

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Description: Tivoli stars next to a caravan, December 1951, Pix magazine, State Library of New South Wales, ON 388/Box 015/Item, 081http://archival.sl.nsw.gov.au/Details/archive/110588107 digital.sl.nsw.gov.au/delivery/DeliveryManagerServlet?emb...
Owner: State Library of NSW
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1951

Maitland's Fokker Tri-motor plane (LOC)

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Description: Bain News Service,, publisher. Maitland's Fokker Tri-motor plane [between ca. 1920 and ca. 1925] 1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller. Notes: Title from data provided by the Bain News Service on the negative. Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). Format: Glass negatives. Rights Info: No known restrictions on publication. For more information, see George Grantham Bain Collection - Rights and Restrictions Information www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/274_bain.html Repository: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA, hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print Part Of: Bain News Service photograph collection (DLC) 2005682517 General information about the George Grantham Bain Collection is available at hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.ggbain Higher resolution image is available (Persistent URL): hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ggbain.35348 Call Number: LC-B2- 5904-15
Owner: The Library of Congress
Views: 3774
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1920

Acrobatics at the beach by two Tivoli stars, December 1951

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Description: Acrobatics at the beach by two Tivoli stars, December 1951, Pix magazine, State Library of New South Wales, ON 388/Box, digital.sl.nsw.gov.au/delivery/DeliveryManagerServlet?emb...
Owner: State Library of NSW
Views: 14414
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1951

PXE 1641 27 bw wr German Sudpolar-Expedition Album

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Description: Penguins on deck, S. S. Gauss, 1901-1903, photographer unknown, from vintage prints, German Sudpolar-Expedition Album, State Library of New South Wales, PXE 1641 search.sl.nsw.gov.au/permalink/f/15rjecp/ADLIB110373797
Owner: State Library of NSW
Views: 8872
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1902

Lionel van Praag (far left), manager of the Sydney Speedway talking with cyclists, Speedway series, 9 February 1946

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Description: Lionel van Praag (far left), manager of the Sydney Speedway talking with cyclists, Speedway series, 9 February 1946, PIX Magazine negative collection, photographed by Ray Olson, State Library of New South Wales, ON 388/Box 014/Item 029, archival.sl.nsw.gov.au/Details/archive/110587383
Owner: State Library of NSW
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1946

Como, Sydney, 1921-1925, by Rex Hazlewood

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Description: Como, Sydney, 1921-1925, by Rex Hazlewood, panoramic negatives of Sydney and surrounding suburbs, from original nitrate negative, State Library of New South Wales, a1949 Online collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/93Qkgmw1/EeWoPprxNGJJb
Owner: State Library of NSW
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1923

Bender (LOC)

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Description: Bain News Service,, publisher. Bender [between ca. 1920 and ca. 1925] 1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller. Notes: Title from unverified data provided by the Bain News Service on the negatives or caption cards. Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). Format: Glass negatives. Rights Info: No known restrictions on publication. For more information, see George Grantham Bain Collection - Rights and Restrictions Information www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/274_bain.html Repository: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA, hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print Part Of: Bain News Service photograph collection (DLC) 2005682517 General information about the George Grantham Bain Collection is available at hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.ggbain Higher resolution image is available (Persistent URL): hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ggbain.35252 Call Number: LC-B2- 5882-2
Owner: The Library of Congress
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1920

Steaming into history

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Description: Clearance testing N.I.R. 56 at Clonsilla in Co. Dublin seems to have attracted some admirers, including a member of the canine fraternity who has the best seat in the house! A very different scene I imagine to the Clonsilla of today, with its role as part of Dublin’s commuter belt! Photographer: James P. O'Dea Collection: O'Dea Photograph Collection Date: Saturday, 4 May 1968 NLI Ref.: ODEA 56/4 You can also view this image, and many thousands of others, on the NLI’s catalogue at catalogue.nli.ie
Owner: National Library of Ireland on The Commons
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1968

Amazing Grace – with a bit of dodge and burn?

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Description: A lovely, happy wedding group this morning from the Poole Photographic Collection. Commissioned by Mr. H. A. Grace of 108 Ballyruckle (Ballytruckle?), Waterford. There appears to have been quite a bit of manipulation of the image to improve or otherwise alter it! +++ UPDATE +++ Gorgeous information on this lovely wedding photo. We knew that Mr Grace of 108 Ballytruckle, Waterford ordered it, and that it was taken on 18 August 1943. Thanks be to all the digitised family history records now available, we got to vigorously ring our People Identified bell. This photograph marked the wedding of Edward Grace and Ellen Angela Power, who got married on Wednesday, 18 August 1943 in St. John's church, Waterford. Edward Grace was a fitter of 42 Lower Yellow Road. We have no occupation for Ellen Angela Power, but she lived at 108 Ballytruckle, Waterford. The witnesses were William Grace (left of groom) and Josephine Power (right of bride). Photographer: A. H. Poole Collection: Poole Photographic Collection, Waterford Date: Wednesday, 18 August 1943 NLI Ref: POOLEWP 4419 You can also view this image, and many thousands of others, on the NLI’s catalogue at catalogue.nli.ie
Owner: National Library of Ireland on The Commons
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1943

What’s the story here? (LOC)

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Description: Harris & Ewing,, photographer. [Woman using typewriter in shower] [1922] 1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller Notes: Title devised by Library staff. Date based on date of negatives in same range. Gift; Harris & Ewing, Inc. 1955. Subjects: United States. Format: Glass negatives. Rights Info: No known restrictions on publication. For more information, see Harris & Ewing Photographs - Rights and Restrictions Information www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/140_harr.html Repository: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA, hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print Part Of: Harris & Ewing photograph collection (DLC) 2009632509 General information about the Harris & Ewing Collection is available at hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.hec Higher resolution image is available (Persistent URL): hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/hec.31708 Call Number: LC-H27- A-4617
Owner: The Library of Congress
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1922

Road safety series, Sydney, 25 October 1938, photographed by Ray Olson

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Description: Woman demonstrating how not to cross a road, Sydney, 25 October 1938, by Ray Olson, for the Road safety series PIX magazine, collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/9ALZ5doY/pXpWPpJPWJ805
Owner: State Library of NSW
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1938

Jan Fahey, 1947, composite portrait by Max Dupain

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Description: Jan Fahey photographed for Kriesler promotion, September 1947, composite portrait by Max Dupain, ON 559/Box 17/nos. 54-63 collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/9qoaZLJ1/26pPm7lVlAGkd
Owner: State Library of NSW
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1947

DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA; TRAFFIC. STOP AND GO SIGNS (LOC)

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Description: Harris & Ewing,, photographer. DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA; TRAFFIC. STOP AND GO SIGNS 1913. 1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller Notes: Title from unverified caption data received with the Harris & Ewing Collection. Gift; Harris & Ewing, Inc. 1955. Subjects: United States--District of Columbia--Washington (D.C.) Format: Glass negatives. Rights Info: No known restrictions on publication. For more information, see Harris & Ewing Photographs - Rights and Restrictions Information www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/140_harr.html Repository: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA, hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print Part Of: Harris & Ewing photograph collection (DLC) 2009632509 General information about the Harris & Ewing Collection is available at hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.hec Higher resolution image is available (Persistent URL): hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/hec.01963 Call Number: LC-H261- 2095
Owner: The Library of Congress
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1913

Man with binoculars and sledge dogs, Antarctica, 1899, British Antarctic(Southern Cross) Expedition

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Description: Man with binoculars, sledge dogs and flag, summer, Antarctica, , British Antarctic(Southern Cross) Expedition, 1898-1900, William Colbeck photographs and clippings, State Library of New South Wales, PXA 2123, archival.sl.nsw.gov.au/Details/archive/110373973
Owner: State Library of NSW
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1899

Virg. Valli (LOC)

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Description: Bain News Service,, publisher. Virg. Valli [between ca. 1920 and ca. 1925] 1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller. Notes: Title from unverified data provided by the Bain News Service on the negatives or caption cards. Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). Format: Glass negatives. Rights Info: No known restrictions on publication. For more information, see George Grantham Bain Collection - Rights and Restrictions Information www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/274_bain.html Repository: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA, hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print Part Of: Bain News Service photograph collection (DLC) 2005682517 General information about the George Grantham Bain Collection is available at hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.ggbain Higher resolution image is available (Persistent URL): hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ggbain.35114 Call Number: LC-B2- 5855-9
Owner: The Library of Congress
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1920

Plain, purl and cable stitch?

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Description: As a child visiting Liscannor, I could sit for hours watching the fishermen repairing their nets. This took great skill and patience, so the workers in this factory in Killybegs must have had their work cut out for them to manufacture and quality control the manufacture of full nets! Photographers: Denis Tynan 1923-2010 Collection: Tynan Photographic Collection Date: 8 June 1977 NLI Ref: NPA TYN1071 You can also view this image, and many thousands of others, on the NLI’s catalogue at catalogue.nli.ie
Owner: National Library of Ireland on The Commons
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1977

Traffic Jam at Kilmacow

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Description: From the reluctant Khan in far off Persia, to the cans of milk at Kilmacow Creamery for today's image from the Poole Collection. A lovely scene that many who grew up in rural areas will have been familiar with in the early mornings. This scene had not changed much by the mid to late 1960s. Photographer: A. H. Poole Collection: Poole Photographic Collection, Waterford Date: ca. Sunday, 18 May 1924 NLI Ref: POOLEWP 3169 You can also view this image, and many thousands of others, on the NLI’s catalogue at catalogue.nli.ie
Owner: National Library of Ireland on The Commons
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1924

[Dave Robertson, New York NL (baseball)] (LOC)

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Description: Bain News Service,, publisher. [Dave Robertson, New York NL (baseball)] 1922. 1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller. Notes: Original data provided by the Bain News Service on the negatives or caption cards: D. Robertson, NY - N, 1922. Corrected title based on research by the Pictorial History Committee, Society for American Baseball Research, 2006. Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). Format: Glass negatives. Rights Info: No known restrictions on publication. For more information, see George Grantham Bain Collection - Rights and Restrictions Information www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/274_bain.html Repository: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA, hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print Part Of: Bain News Service photograph collection (DLC) 2005682517 General information about the George Grantham Bain Collection is available at hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.ggbain Higher resolution image is available (Persistent URL): hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ggbain.34976 Call Number: LC-B2- 5837-3
Owner: The Library of Congress
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1922

Jaguar with new car radio, Sydney, ca. 1951, by Max Dupain

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Description: Jaguar with new car radio, Sydney, ca. 1951, by Max Dupain, State Library of New South Wales, collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/Yj7oDkl9/8rxjlGVDgvxbv
Owner: State Library of NSW
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1951

British migrants on the deck of the Georgic, bound for Australia, 1949, Norman Herfort, Pix Magazine

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Description: British migrants on the deck of the Georgic, bound for Australia, 1949, Norman Herfort, Pix Magazine digital.sl.nsw.gov.au/delivery/DeliveryManagerServlet?emb...
Owner: State Library of NSW
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1949

Smoke bombs demonstration, Australian troops, attrib. Palestine, ca. 1916-1917, James Allan Chauvel

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Description: Smoke bombs demonstration, Australian troops, attrib. Palestine, ca. 1916-1917, James Allan Chauvel, State Library of New South Wales, PXA 1046 collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/9O4oN76n/A74Owr3JN7O4o Major James Allan Chauvel served in the Australian Imperial Force during WW1. He was part of the Desert Column providing re-mounts from 1916 to 1919 and served with his brother, General Sir Harry Chauvel.
Owner: State Library of NSW
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1917

Major General EW Chaytor with staff and Model T Ford Utility, Palestine, 1917, James Allan Chauvel, State Library of New South Wales,

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Description: Major General EW Chaytor with staff and Model T Ford Utility, Palestine, 1917, James Allan Chauvel, State Library of New South Wales, PXA 1046 collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/9O4oN76n/L6zpNJ5DM8KQy Major James Allan Chauvel served in the Australian Imperial Force during WW1. He was part of the Desert Column providing re-mounts from 1916 to 1919 and served with his brother, General Sir Harry Chauvel.
Owner: State Library of NSW
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1917

Australian Cricketers in England, 1884, London Stereoscopic Company

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Description: Australian cricket team in England in 1884, Bonnor, Palmer, Blackham, Boyle, Spofforth, Murdoch, Bannerman, Cooper, McDonnell, Griffin, Scott by London Stereoscopic Company, State LIbrary of New South Wales, [collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/digital/oxgRG34BVggWQ PXA 1031]
Owner: State Library of NSW
Views: 6849
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1884

Gwen Brown, Balalaika ballerina in Shadow series, 1938 by PIX photographer Ivan

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Description: Gwen Brown, Balalaika ballerina in Shadow series, 6 January 1938, by Ivan, from PIX magazine negative collection, State Library of New South Wales, ON ON 388/Box 030/Item 097 collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/n7oXMB3n#VDNbMVErLzjEq
Owner: State Library of NSW
Views: 10358
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1938

Shell streamlined petrol tanker, ca. 1935, Milton Kent, gelatin silver print

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Description: Shell streamlined petrol tanker, ca. 1935, Milton Kent, gelatin silver print, from Peter Anderson collection, Series 01, State Library of New South Wales, PXA 978/101-203 collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/Yj7deMx9#EeM2KdWVoKBdy
Owner: State Library of NSW
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1935

Bakery, Home Rule gold fields, New South Wales, Australia, ca. 1872, American & Australasian Photographic Company

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Description: Bakery, Home Rule gold fields, New South Wales, Australia, ca. 1872, American & Australasian Photographic Company, from glass negative, State Library of New South Wales, ON 4 Box 5 No 18438 archival.sl.nsw.gov.au/Details/archive/110040146
Owner: State Library of NSW
Views: 20151
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1872

Miniature Camera Club, 30 October 1942 _ photographed by Ivan Ives

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Description: Group of men with cameras, Miniature Camera Club, 30 October 1942, by Ivan, PIX magazine, negatives, ON 388/Box 022/Item 042 collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/1bGWB4PY#kLPLp7XaOyNe
Owner: State Library of NSW
Views: 7508
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1942

Swaggering signallers strike significant poses!

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Description: Mr. Poole got a commission to photograph this group of soldiers of the Royal Engineers, Signalling Corps, and what a fine group they were. If moustaches are anything to go by, most of the group are a long way short of the standard to compete with the Sergeant! Photographer: A. H. Poole Collection: The Poole Photographic Collection, Waterford Date: ca. 27 March 1915 NLI Ref: POOLEWP 2616a You can also view this image, and many thousands of others, on the NLI’s catalogue at catalogue.nli.ie
Owner: National Library of Ireland on The Commons
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1915

The end of the line...

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Description: Cavan might be the last place you would want to end up for Christmas, but that is only if you didn't know the many attractions of the town! A lovely shot from Mr. O'Dea of the railway station in Cavan with a full stop, which is what we will be doing until after the Christmas. On behalf of all at the NLI and from the Marys, we would like to wish all our many followers and contributors a very happy and peaceful Christmas and a prosperous New Year. For those who do not celebrate Christmas we wish you the compliments of the season. Just to remind us that the season is made of children's memories here are the final lines from a poem by Patrick Kavanagh: I was six Christmases of age My father played the melodeon, My mother milked the cows, And I had a prayer like a white rose pinned, On the Virgin Mary's blouse. Photographer: James P. O'Dea Collection: O'Dea Photograph Collection Date : Wednesday, 25 February 1959 NLI Ref.: ODEA 14/80 You can also view this image, and many thousands of others, on the NLI’s catalogue at catalogue.nli.ie
Owner: National Library of Ireland on The Commons
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1959

When the dark cow leaves the moor

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Description: Thomas MacDonagh and friend in a really pleasant, casual portrait. One thing we can be sure of is that this was taken no later than 1916, and as MacDonagh is mature, probably some time after 1900. Who is his friend, and what can we find out about this photograph? Photographers: Unknown Collection: Irish Political Figures Photographic Collection Date: ca. 1900-1916 NLI Ref: NPA POLF111 You can also view this image, and many thousands of others, on the NLI’s catalogue at catalogue.nli.ie
Owner: National Library of Ireland on The Commons
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1910

Comrades in arms sharing the pain.

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Description: “Injured soldier being cared for by the Red Cross on the South Western Front during the Irish Civil War”! A long title for a photograph that tells a tale from 98 years ago somewhere in Munster. The wounded man appears to be in considerable pain and is being held and comforted by his friend and colleague. Two things that stand out for me are the makeshift Red Cross armbands on the two medics, and the old-fashioned kit bag seemingly holding their first aid supplies! Photographer: W. D. Hogan Collection: Hogan Collection Date: 25 July 1922 NLI Ref.: HOG216 You can also view this image, and many thousands of others, on the NLI’s catalogue at catalogue.nli.ie
Owner: National Library of Ireland on The Commons
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1922

A fine set of fetlocks!

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Description: Captain W.J. Baird, Aide de Camp to the Lord Lieutenant sits astride a really fine looking horse in this carefully posed image from the Poole Collection. Now we know the name of the soldier so now we want to know is the name of the horse??? +++ UPDATE +++ Thanks everyone, for confirmation that Captain James Baird was aide-de-camp to Lord Wimborne, Lord Lieutentant in Ireland, and that he was in that post in 1917 (newspaper reports). O Mac suggests Busoni as the horse's name, but we'd need some hard evidence. We're a tough crowd. Oh, and we always love to see John Spooner waxing lyrical about movable boudoirs! Photographer: A. H. Poole Collection: Poole Photographic Collection, Waterford Date: 1915 - 1917, most likely 1917 NLI Ref: POOLEWP 2734 You can also view this image, and many thousands of others, on the NLI’s catalogue at catalogue.nli.ie
Owner: National Library of Ireland on The Commons
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1917

The Sugar Loaf? Hardly!

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Description: For those Irish followers and especially those inside the Pale, there is only one Sugar Loaf, and that is beside Dublin Bay in Co. Wicklow. However, down on the Cork/Kerry border they claim to have their own Sugar Loaf! Viewed as this one is from Glengarriff, it is like a jewel in a crown. +++ UPDATE +++ Thanks to beachcomber australia for narrowing the date from a broad 1865-1914, down to early 1890s. This is all based on an entertaining, but fairly scientific, examination of fancy benches, height of fir trees, Library of Congress images, top hats, and poor paint jobs. Photographer: Robert French Collection: Lawrence Photograph Collection Date: Circa 1865-1914 – see comments, probably early 1890s NLI Ref: L_CAB_01390 You can also view this image, and many thousands of others, on the NLI’s catalogue at catalogue.nli.ie
Owner: National Library of Ireland on The Commons
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1892

Migrants from British Isles to Australia, Georgic, Norman Herfort, 1949

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Description: British migrants on the deck of the Georgic, bound for Australia, 1949, Norman Herfort, Pix Magazine FL9365472 digital.sl.nsw.gov.au/delivery/DeliveryManagerServlet?emb...
Owner: State Library of NSW
Views: 6259
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1949

HMAS Australia painted by Charles Edward Dixon, 1913

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Description: HMAS Sydney was launched in England on 25 October, 1911. This painting of the flagship of the fledgling Royal Australian Navy is by the English artist Charles Edward Dixon best known for his London river scenes. collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/nGm4AvyY 25 October 1911
Owner: State Library of NSW
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1913

Theo. Komisarjevsky (LOC)

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Description: Bain News Service,, publisher. Theo. Komisarjevsky [between ca. 1920 and ca. 1925] 1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller. Notes: Title from unverified data provided by the Bain News Service on the negatives or caption cards. Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). Format: Glass negatives. Rights Info: No known restrictions on publication. For more information, see George Grantham Bain Collection - Rights and Restrictions Information www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/274_bain.html Repository: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA, hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print Part Of: Bain News Service photograph collection (DLC) 2005682517 General information about the George Grantham Bain Collection is available at hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.ggbain Higher resolution image is available (Persistent URL): hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ggbain.35115 Call Number: LC-B2- 5855-10
Owner: The Library of Congress
Views: 4775
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1920

Cheaper by the dozen?

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Description: For the Grandparents, or even Great Grandparents that posed with their enormous clan, this must have been a very proud moment? What a wonderful collection of women, men, and children, all scrubbed up and looking very happy. I am really looking forward to meeting the Dowleys, and discovering all about them! Photographer: A. H. Poole Collection: Poole Photographic Collection, Waterford Date: Sunday, 3 May 1925, but perhaps a year ealier in 1924, NLI Ref: POOLEWP 3262 You can also view this image, and many thousands of others, on the NLI’s catalogue at catalogue.nli.ie
Owner: National Library of Ireland on The Commons
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1925

Duke of York (LOC)

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Description: Bain News Service,, publisher. Duke of York [between ca. 1920 and ca. 1925] 1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller. Notes: Title from unverified data provided by the Bain News Service on the negatives or caption cards. Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). Format: Glass negatives. Rights Info: No known restrictions on publication. For more information, see George Grantham Bain Collection - Rights and Restrictions Information www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/274_bain.html Repository: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA, hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print Part Of: Bain News Service photograph collection (DLC) 2005682517 General information about the George Grantham Bain Collection is available at hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.ggbain Higher resolution image is available (Persistent URL): hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ggbain.34917 Call Number: LC-B2- 5824-7
Owner: The Library of Congress
Views: 3248
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1920

Galli-Curci (LOC)

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Description: Bain News Service,, publisher. Galli-Curci [between ca. 1920 and ca. 1925] 1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller. Notes: Title from data provided by the Bain News Service on the negative. Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). Format: Glass negatives. Rights Info: No known restrictions on publication. For more information, see George Grantham Bain Collection - Rights and Restrictions Information www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/274_bain.html Repository: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA, hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print Part Of: Bain News Service photograph collection (DLC) 2005682517 General information about the George Grantham Bain Collection is available at hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.ggbain Higher resolution image is available (Persistent URL): hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ggbain.34868 Call Number: LC-B2- 5819-3
Owner: The Library of Congress
Views: 3165
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1920

We’ve got gas

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Description: A really unusual one from the lens of Mr. O’Dea today! An advertisement for the Waterford Gas Company gives a fine list of all the things they will NOT do. Town gas is gone in Ireland nowadays, so what can we find out about this? Photographer: James P. O'Dea Collection: O’Dea Photograph Collection Date: 22 September 1964 NLI Ref.: ODEA 40/54 You can also view this image, and many thousands of others, on the NLI’s catalogue at catalogue.nli.ie
Owner: National Library of Ireland on The Commons
Views: 9194
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1964

Val Doonican’s “Marvellous Toy”!

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Description: We opened the week with an engineering drawing of Monsieur Papin’s “Digester”, and so we end the week with another engineering drawing of a very complex piece of machinery. It reminded Morning Mary for one, of a song by the late Waterford-born singer Val Doonican, “The Marvellous Toy” – www.youtube.com/watch?v=BdJ0m8Rj5-Y Collection: Mason Photographic Collection Date: 1890 - 1910 NLI Ref: M23/56/8 You can also view this image, and many thousands of others, on the NLI’s catalogue at catalogue.nli.ie
Owner: National Library of Ireland on The Commons
Views: 10304
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1900

Ronette GS210 microphone, March 1953, by Max Dupain

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Description: Ronette microphone, GS210 streamlined chrome finish, filtercell, high or low impedance, March 1953, by Max Dupain, taken for AWA, from original negative, State Library of New South Wales, ON 559/Box 5/nos. 168-170 collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/n7oXJzXn#Aj8V4wkk55eD5 9587714
Owner: State Library of NSW
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1953

Rosella delivery truck, Australia, ca. 1930, Peter Anderson Collection

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Description: 86. Rosella delivery truck, PL Sutcliffe, gelatin silver print, from Peter Anderson aggregated collection of photographs chiefly of motor vehicles and buses, and Sydney streets, buildings and events, ca. 1900-1980, Series 01: Photographs of trucks and vans, ca. 1920-1980, AEC - Albion, State Library of New South Wales, PXA 978/101-203 collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/Yj7deMx9#lljAOW47eQP6e
Owner: State Library of NSW
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1930