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Fire Alarm Pole, Tokyo, 22 November 1945, by Ray Olson

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Description: Fire Alarm Pole, Tokyo, 22 November 1945, photographed by Ray Olson for PIX magazine, State Library of New South Wales, ON 388/Box 017/Item 029 collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/nmQZwXPn/qkOqgMdJk48oE
Owner: State Library of NSW
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1945

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

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

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

Identified! [Charles Tillyer Trego, director of the film "Isles of Paradise", which was shot in Bali, possibly in Washington, D.C., for the premier of the film] (LOC)

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Description: Harris & Ewing,, photographer. [Charles Tillyer Trego, director of the film "Isles of Paradise", which was shot in Bali, possibly in Washington, D.C., for the premier of the film] [August 1932] 1 negative : glass ; 4 x 5 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.36964 Call Number: LC-H2- B-5375
Owner: The Library of Congress
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1932

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
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1949

Road safety series, Macleay Street, Kings Cross, Sydney, 25 October 1938, photographed by Ray Olson

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Description: Woman demonstrating how not to cross a road, Macleay Street, Kings Cross, 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

[Nick Altrock & Al Schacht (baseball)] (LOC)

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Description: Bain News Service,, publisher. [Nick Altrock & Al Schacht (baseball)] [1923] 1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller. Notes: Original data provided by the Bain News Service on the negatives or caption cards: Altrock & Schacht, 10/5/22. Corrected title and date 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.35039 Call Number: LC-B2- 5846-7
Owner: The Library of Congress
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1923

Paddle Steamer, [possibly HMS Torch], c. 1858

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Description: Paddle Steamer, {possibly HMS Torch], c. 1858, photographer unknown, album of photographs, State Library of New South Wales, PXA 4358/Vol. 1 114(b) collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/nM7lp5AY/WGrK3yrqgB7ro
Owner: State Library of NSW
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1858

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

Trophies for the prettiest cows and horses in the show?

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Description: This fine collection of trophies is described by the catalogue as “Agricultural Society’s Challenge Cups” but I suspect that they are not for the prettiest Cows and Horses. Which Society was it, and do the fine trophies still exist today? Thank you all for yesterday’s work, and especially the Beachcomber’s final comment on Jack the Ripper. I imagine most of us would develop a fever if we were approached by a man wielding a knife and shouting “I am Jack the Ripper”! Photographer: A. H. Poole Collection: Poole Photographic Collection, Waterford Date: ca. 6 July 1921 NLI Ref: POOLEWP 2923 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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1921

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
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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
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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

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
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1964

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
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1872

Mrs Farmer is not dressed for farming

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Description: Having discovered who now lives behind the blue door on the Milltown Road, we now discover that Mrs Farmer from Clonmel was an elegant lady. If she was the wife of a farmer named Farmer, then she did not farm in that elegant outfit! +++ UPDATE +++ Thanks to Sharon Corbet for revealing at lot more about “Mrs Farmer”. Mary Constance Farmer (née Barry) was married to retired Captain Langford Llanwarne Farmer. They had married in Kanturk in 1903, and had two sons Arthur and Frank. Mary was aged around 40 in this photograph. And speaking of “revealing”, if you read down through the comments, you may be discombobulated by the discussion of knickers. To see why, zoom in on the catalogue Mary Farmer is perusing... Photographer: A. H. Poole Collection: The Poole Photographic Collection, Waterford Date: ca. 9 March 1910 NLI Ref: POOLEWP 2012 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

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
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1942

Betty Mack and Talmages [i.e. Connie and Norma Talmadge] (LOC)

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Description: Bain News Service,, publisher. Betty Mack and Talmages [i.e. Connie and Norma Talmadge] [between ca. 1920 and ca. 1925] 1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller. Notes: Photograph shows American silent movie star Constance Alice Talmadge (1898-1973). (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2019) 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.34852 Call Number: LC-B2- 5816-5
Owner: The Library of Congress
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1920

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
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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

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

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

Joan Woodbury in 'There goes my girl,' ca. 1930, Sam Hood

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Description: Joan Woodbury performing 'Toreador' dance, from 'There Goes My Girl', ca. 1930, from Hood Collection part II, Theatrical, Live theatre, State Library of New South Wales, PXE 789 (v.57) collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/YdmLdg29#JQqVbyEQW2yDX
Owner: State Library of NSW
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1930

On the wrong side of the tracks...

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Description: To end a week where we had 500 years of Jesuits in Limerick, a fiddle for a tombstone, Star Wars in CIE, and Napoleon of the Confederacy, we have an image from none other than the Roger Casement collection!! A small photograph showing some railroad tracks and local stores with lots of people about. I am almost drooling at the prospect of what might be discovered about this scene... Photographers: Sir Roger Casement(?) Collection: Roger Casement Photographic Collection Date: April 1920(?!) NLI Ref: NPA CAS12D 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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1920

Napoleon McCafferty?

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Description: Given the pose a comparison with the late French Emperor was inevitable, but who was Captain John McCafferty? He certainly looks like a dashing character with a high opinion of himself. Was that an accurate description of the man? Who was he, and what happened to him? Photographers: Adolph Lesage Collection: Invincibles cartes de visite Photographic Collection Date: Well after 1838 NLI Ref: NPA INV20 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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1870

The Empire strikes back(ish)

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Description: In 1963, this machine must have appeared like something from another galaxy out there somewhere, when it was deployed on the permanent way. O’Dea’s cataloguing of the demise of the railways in Ireland was also an opportunity to celebrate new ideas and inventions. What did an “8 tool tamper” do for a living? Photographer: James P. O’Dea Collection: O’Dea Photograph Collection Date: Sunday, 7 April 1963 NLI Ref.: ODEA 35/91 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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1963

Baldwin Steam Tram, Marrickville Tram Terminus, c.1889, by John Rae

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Description: Baldwin Steam Tram, Marrickville Tram Terminus, c.1889, by John Rae, albumen print, from Miscellaneous views Album, DL PX 168 collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/9NaAyo3Y#5gMvvaD5WEP2E
Owner: State Library of NSW
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1889

Daimler YC-type water flusher tanker, Parramatta Council, Sydney, ca. 1926

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Description: Daimler YC-type water flusher tanker, Parramatta Council, Sydney, ca. 1926, gelatin silver print, from Peter Anderson aggregated collection of photographs, Series 01 Photographs of trucks and vans, ca. 1920-1980, State Library of New South Wales, PXA 978/101-203 collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/Yj7deMx9
Owner: State Library of NSW
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1926

The Pearse family celebrating Bloomsday?

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Description: PH Pearse poses with other members of his family for this photograph taken in the early 1900s. The various characters are named in the link, but this is an unusual image in that it shows the family and Patrick’s penchant for showing his “best” side! Have a happy Bloomsday! Photographer: Willie Pearse Collection: Republican Photograph Collection Date: Circa 1910 NLI Ref: NPA PRP4 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

Country Roads, take me home...

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Description: Yesterday’s Instructors Cottage proved to be a bit of a puggle, and while I suspect that today’s might do likewise, I have been proved wrong in short order in the past. A country road with a cottage near Camross in Co. Laois by Mr. O’Dea probably means that there is a strip of permanent way not too far off, if that is any help. Photographer: James P. O'Dea Collection: James P. O'Dea Date: Thursday, 17 May 1962 NLI Ref.: ODEA 30/89 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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1962

'Deep n the Gulf', McGunness and Gorum, Longreach to Darwin Survey for aerodromes and supply depots, 1919

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Description: 'Deep n the Gulf', McGunness and Gorum, Longreach to Darwin Survey for aerodromes and supply depots, 1919, Hudson Fysh, vintage gelatin silver pront, from Sir Hudson Fysh Photographic album, PX*D 294/vol.26 archival.sl.nsw.gov.au/Details/archive/110592586
Owner: State Library of NSW
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1919

'Where have the roads gone', Longreach to Darwin Survey for aerodromes and supply depots, 1919, Hudson Fysh

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Description: 'Where have the roads gone', Longreach to Darwin survey for aerodromes and supply depots, 1919, Hudson Fysh, vintage gelatin silver pront, from Sir Hudson Fysh Photographic album, PX*D 294/vol.26 archival.sl.nsw.gov.au/Details/archive/110592586
Owner: State Library of NSW
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1919

More Power to your elbow sir!

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Description: The old catchphrase for Power families was “More Power said old Power when new Power was born” and Mr. Richard Power of Belvedere, Tramore was able to say that a lot of times! A delightful family group from the Poole Collection, taken on the steps of their home. Mr and Mrs Power were busy, but produced a very handsome family. Photographer: A. H. Poole Collection: The Poole Photographic Collection, Waterford Date: ca. 13 June 1925 NLI Ref: POOLEWP 3288 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

Camera man with orang-outang, Taronga Zoo 1917

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Description: 26. Camera man with an orang-outang, Taronga Zoo, 1917, Sam Hood miscellaneous photographs, from nitrate negative, a2809 Online archival.sl.nsw.gov.au/Details/archive/110327741
Owner: State Library of NSW
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1917

Blessed among women...

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Description: We can understand that you are all exhausted after having to work over the weekend, but we have a personalities shot for you this morning that may re-energise you? (from left) Florrie McCarthy, Joe Clarke, and Eithne Coyle pose outside a window and with a plaque or mural to the side? +++ UPDATE +++ The location defeated us (for now), but not no. 6 Harcourt Street. And Wikipedia provided us with good-ish biogs of Irish republican activists Joe Clarke and Eithne Coyle. Florrie McCarthy remains elusive however, so any information would be welcomed with open arms... Photographers: Various Collection: Irish Personalities Photographic Collection Date: ca. 1930-1976 NLI Ref: NPA PERS81 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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1940

Rider carrying spare inner tubes, 'Thousand Mile Cycle Race', New South Wales, 10 October 1945, Alec Iverson

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Description: Rider carrying spare inner tubes, 'Thousand Mile Cycle Race', New South Wales, 10 October 1945, Alec Iverson, Pix Magazine photographer, State Library of New South Wales, ON 388/Box 016/Item 030 archival.sl.nsw.gov.au/Details/archive/110588199
Owner: State Library of NSW
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1945

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
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