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Hudson Maxim and Margaret Gorman (LOC)

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Description: Bain News Service,, publisher. Hudson Maxim and Margaret Gorman [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.34905 Call Number: LC-B2- 5822-7
Owner: The Library of Congress
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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.34883 Call Number: LC-B2- 5819-18
Owner: The Library of Congress
Views: 3705
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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

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
Tags: goldrush goldfields newsouthwales australia bakery business pioneer industry 1870s

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
Views: 16445
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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
Views: 7508
Tags: cameras photography photographers cameraclubs photographerswithcameras 1942 pix statelibraryofnewsouthwales photographerinthepicture photographersacrossthecommons

1942

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
Views: 9530
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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
Views: 7913
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1930

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
Views: 9228
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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
Views: 10139
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1963

'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
Views: 8087
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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

Stine, Sabie, Gilliland, Batson, Snow [ready for race] (LOC)

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Description: Bain News Service,, publisher. Stine, Sabie, Gilliland, Batson, Snow [ready for race] [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.34648 Call Number: LC-B2- 5793-12
Owner: The Library of Congress
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1920

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

Deep Sea Hydraulic Engine

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Description: To end this week, where we have moved about the country quite a bit, we have a most unusual image from the Mason Photographic Collection. A “Deep Sea Hydraulic Engine” plan which at that time was unusual or significant enough to merit a photograph. Why did Mason have this image, and why is it so important? Collection: Mason Photographic Collection Date: 1890 - 1910 NLI Ref: M23/53/10 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: 9436
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1910

RMS Mauretania, merchant ship, ca.1915

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Description: RMS Mauretania was an ocean liner designed by Leonard Peskett for the British Cunard Line. She made her maiden voyage on 16 November 1907 and was the world's largest ship until the completion of RMS Olympic in 1911. In 1915 she was ordered by the British government to serve as a troop ship to carry British soldiers during the Gallipoli Campaign. This photo is from around that period and shows her painted in wartime 'Dazzle Camouflage.' RMS Mauretania, merchant ship, ca.1915, from vintage postcard, State Library of New South Wales PXE 722-2462 search.sl.nsw.gov.au/permalink/f/1cvjue2/ADLIB110328751
Owner: State Library of NSW
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1915

Dog poses with humans in Lismore while spaniel goes shy :-)

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Description: Continuing the practice of posting on Bank Holidays, we have this lovely, happy, and varied group from the Poole Collection. At least three generations of a family gathered with lots of smiles and happy faces, and all centred around a fine looking dog! Today in Ireland is a Bank Holiday celebrating May Day (just a bit late), and normally a great time for trips away, but not this year. Hopefully we will be out and about again soon? Photographer: A. H. Poole Collection: Poole Photographic Studio, Waterford Date: Around 21 August 1926 NLI Ref: POOLEWP 3391 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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1926

Soldier and dog, departure of the 6th Division for the Middle East January 1940, Sam Hood

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Description: Hood Collection part II, Wartime departure of the 6th Division for the Middle East, 9-10 January 1940, Sam Hood, Sydney, no. 50 archival.sl.nsw.gov.au/Details/archive/110095755
Owner: State Library of NSW
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1940

Queen of Czecho-slovakia (LOC)

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Description: Bain News Service,, publisher. Queen of Czecho-slovakia [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.34491 Call Number: LC-B2- 5775-7
Owner: The Library of Congress
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1920

Filming on set of the film 'Thoroughbred', 1935-1936, Sam Hood

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Description: Filming on set of the Cinesound-Ken Hall film, Thoroughbred, 1935-1936, Sam Hood, Hood Collection part II, Theatrical, Cinema; people, films and theatres, ca. 1920-ca. 1950, State Library of New South Wales, PXE 789 (v.56) archival.sl.nsw.gov.au/Details/archive/110095706
Owner: State Library of NSW
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1935

Paul Petroff and Tamara Toumanova, 1940, by Max Dupain, State Library of New South Wales

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Description: Paul Petroff and Tamara Toumanova, 1940, by Max Dupain, from album of vintage gelatin silver prints, State Library of New South Wales, PXA 28, archival.sl.nsw.gov.au/Details/archive/110332870
Owner: State Library of NSW
Views: 10195
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1940

Aluminium blues (self portrait), 1935, by Max Dupain

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Description: Aluminium blues (self portrait), 1935 by Max Dupain, vintage gelatin silver print, State LLibrary of New South Wales, P2/564 digital.sl.nsw.gov.au/delivery/DeliveryManagerServlet?emb...
Owner: State Library of NSW
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1935

I dreamt I dwelt in marble halls

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Description: This is allegedly a bust of Denis Florence MacCarthy. Now I suspect that many of us plebs never heard of this gentleman, so one wonders who was he to be preserved for all time in marble? It is a fine-looking sculpture with excellent detail, so this is a particularly singular honour for Denis. Google search on the way!!!! +++ UPDATE +++ No idea why our catalogue record had a question mark after Bust of Denis Florence MacCarthy? as it quite clearly states what it is on the tin, or in this case, marble plinth. Thanks to Suck Diesel for the list of the great and good of Irish society in 1882, who came together to contribute to a memorial fund to perpetuate “in a fitting manner the memory of this distinguished Irish poet”. We’re assuming this bust was the outcome of that fund? And we now know that Mr MacCarthy (1817-1882) was an Irish poet, translator, and biographer, born in Sackville Street Lower (now O’Connell Street), Dublin. Photographers: Various Collection: Political Personalities Photographic Collection Date: After 1882 (date of death is on the plinth) NLI Ref: NPA POLI41 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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1883

John Tyndall, half-length portrait, facing front

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Description: This image of John Tyndall has so much information contained within regarding sartorial, tonsorial and “barborial”, all denoting the fashions of a time! Who was John Tyndall? Did he write songs as well, or was he a wielder of the sword rather than the pen? +++ UPDATE +++ Turns out he was more of a wielder of the mind, rather than sword or pen. There was some initial argument as to whether this was, in fact, John Tyndall – based on hair parting, facial features, facial hair, apparent age in various portraits, and the name J. Glastrich on the carte-de-visite itself. However, the consensus is that this is indeed physicist John Tyndall, professor of physics at London’s Royal Institution from 1853 to 1887. He was a very interesting fellow. Domhnall Sioradáin provided us with a succinct biography: Tyndall, from Leighlinbridge, Carlow, is remembered in Cork, in the Tyndall National Institute. He left Carlow at 18 to work for the Ordnance Survey around Munster, before moving to Preston. He is noted for his explanation of why the sky is blue (Rayleigh scattering), heat absorption by CO2 in the atmosphere, and the measurement of aerosols by scattering (Tyndall effect). Photographers: Millard and Robinson Collection: Invincibles cartes de visite Photographic Collection Date: Around 1850?! NLI Ref: NPA INV1 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: 12505
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1850

The Terra Nova off Cape Evans with capsizing Berg. January 1911, [attrib.] Herbert Ponting

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Description: The Terra Nova off Cape Evans with capsizing Berg. January 1911, [attrib.] Herbert Ponting, from vintage print in photograph album of the Scott expedition to Antarctica, 1910-1913, annotated by T. Griffith Taylor, State Library of New South Wales, PXA 157 search.sl.nsw.gov.au/permalink/f/1cvjue2/ADLIB110339803
Owner: State Library of NSW
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1911

Bunlin Bridge, Co. Donegal

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Description: We had another personality lined up for today, but since yesterday’s post I have The Rising of the Moon playing live in my head, so we’re off to Donegal! Bunlin Bridge somewhere in that beautiful county looks like quite a feat to create the causeway and build the bridge. Is it still as picturesque today? +++ UPDATE +++ A big thank you to all of our usual suspects for finding out, and more importantly, for telling us that the cottage, the mill wheel, and the humpback bridge are sadly, long gone. The cottage was Widow Algoe’s, and Tuck Mill was a flax mill. They unearthed references to Molly Maguire activity in the area, and open-air masses in the late 1860s. In 1876, the widowed Mrs Algoe was evicted with her six children from the cottage for allegedly cutting some trees, “contrary to the order of” her landlord. She retook possession of her cottage in 1878, perhaps thinking that the assassination of her landlord, Lord Leitrim, might save her. However, the estate's agents evicted her again. And our resident newspaperman, John Spooner discovered that in August 1939, the Londonderry Sentinel newspaper considered it newsworthy that a pair of swans chose this inlet to nest and rear their young – must have been a very slow news month. Photographer: Robert French Collection: Lawrence Photograph Collection Date: Circa 1865 - 1914 NLI Ref: L_ROY_01279 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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1875

John Keegan “Leo” Casey

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Description: John Keegan Casey, or as the police would say, John Keegan alias Leo Casey, in a very old and faded photograph for today’s image. A big change from the wide and crowded street of Kingscourt to the clouded and tragic world of the Fenian Brotherhood. What can we find out about John, and what happened to him? +++ UPDATE +++ Thank you to everyone for the great information contributed about John Keegan Casey, who we found out was a poet, a teacher, a scholar, and a Fenian. BeachcomberAustralia found a great article in the Irish Times although he says it’s "hopefully reliable”. How very dare you? That’s the ‘paper of record’ you’re casting asparagus at! :)) Anyway, among many gems in that article by Denis Fahey was this interesting little nugget: “His coffin was draped in silk banners of green white and orange, the first recorded use of a tricolour for this purpose, and thousands of people marched in a procession from his home to Glasnevin Cemetery.” Photographers: Various Collection: Irish Political Figures Photographic Collection Date: ca. 1850-1870 NLI Ref: NPA PERS3 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: 12428
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1860

Queen Marie (Jugoslavia) (i.e., Yugoslavia) (LOC)

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Description: Bain News Service,, publisher. Queen Marie (Jugoslavia) (i.e., Yugoslavia) [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.34396 Call Number: LC-B2- 5758-5
Owner: The Library of Congress
Views: 4203
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1920

And the truth shall set us free...

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Description: One of Ireland's greatest heroes and statesmen who has streets and monuments named after him all over the country is now almost a forgotten man! Daniel O'Connell was a powerful figure in the 19th century who did not believe in the use of force but who put the fear of God into his opponents at that time. This caricature gives some sense of his power and the belief that people had in him! Collection: Mason Photographic Collection Date: 1890 - 1910 NLI Ref: M16/4/5 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: 27695
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1900

Les Corvettes L'Astrolabe Et La Zelee caught in Antarctic ice, watercolour by A. Mayer. (1838)

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Description: This watercolour painted by A. Mayer is of the Astrolabe and Zélée caught in Antarctic ice in 1838. The ships were on Jules Dumont d'Urville's Second Voyage of exploration which had left Toulon on 7 September 1837. One of their main objecttives was to discover the South Magnetic Pole but on 1 January 1838, two weeks after sighting their first iceberg, the ships became entangled in a mass of ice. Over the next two months d'Urville led increasingly desperate attempts to find a passage through the ice so that he could reach the desired latitude. d'Urville was eventually forced to give up the search and directed the two ships towards Talcahuano, in Chile, where he established a temporary hospital for the crew members affected by scurvy. Les Corvettes L'Astrolabe Et La Zelee Commandees Par Dumont-Durville Et Jacquinot; La Corvette L'Astrolabe Est Arretee Par Une Glace a La Sortie De La Banquise, Passages Antarctiques, a Fevrier 1838 / Watercolour by A. Mayer. (1838). V*/Ships/Astr/1 archival.sl.nsw.gov.au/Details/archive/110336668
Owner: State Library of NSW
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1838

The mill wheel keeps on turning...

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Description: The archivist trying to describe this image provided an elaborate title "River, rocky bed, between wooded banks, weir seen from dumstream, mill wheel mill, outflow to left" I await an explanation for "Dumstream" and a virtual sticky bun for the best version! The scene is wide and sylvan with an enormous mill building, probably a tidal river below the falls and a verdant river bank. Where is/was it? Photographers: Frederick Holland Mares, James Simonton Contributor: John Fortune Lawrence Collection: Stereo Pairs Photograph Collection Date: between ca. 1860-1883 NLI Ref: STP_0735 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: 18449
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1875

Amy Sheridan, as Lady Godiva, c. 1873, photographer unknown

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Description: In 1872 Miss Amy Sheridan's performance of Lady Godiva by W. M. Akhurst for Astley's circus created a furor among the respectable society when she appeared as Lady Godiva dressed in what for the time was deemed virtually nothing. Described as "a sight to drive the mosquitoes mad" photographs of the Amy were deemed pornographic by many but still sold in large numbers in Australia. Miss Amy Sheridan, Ias Lady Godiva, item 03: Photographs of actors and actresses, singers, music hall artists, and others, ca. 1863-ca. 1881, State Library of New South Wales PXA 362/vol. 3 p.8, archival.sl.nsw.gov.au/Details/archive/110336651
Owner: State Library of NSW
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1873

Mrs. Winifred Huck (LOC)

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Description: Bain News Service,, publisher. Mrs. Winifred Huck [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.34194 Call Number: LC-B2- 5722-14
Owner: The Library of Congress
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1920

You should see the ones that got away!

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Description: Tom with Trout is the title on this Clonbrock photo with a man holding two enormous fish while standing on a lawn. I know at least one of our contributors is an avid fly fisher and expect that he is drooling with envy at the sight. These are trout and not the salmon that got away from yesterday's image! Photographers: Dillon Family Contributors: Luke Gerald Dillon, Augusta Caroline Dillon Collection: Clonbrock photographic Collection Date: Circa 1934 NLI Ref: CLON2120 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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1934

Pearl diving Australia, 23 March 1939, PIX Magazine

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Description: Pearl Diving Series, 23 March 1939, photographic prints copied from earlier photo, PIX magazine, State Library of New South Wales, ON 388/Box 026/Item 063 archival.sl.nsw.gov.au/Details/archive/110589656
Owner: State Library of NSW
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1939

American and Australian soldiers at Townsville, 21 February 1944, photographed by N. Herfort

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Description: American and Australian troops not only fought together but were often housed in the same camps. Taken 76 years ago this picture is of Private First Class JE Peterson, of Chicago, and Bombardier N Roughley of Sydney. It was taken at the American Red Cross tent in northern Australia. State Library of New South Wales, ON 388/Box 019/Item 003 archival.sl.nsw.gov.au/Details/archive/110588548
Owner: State Library of NSW
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1944

The Vandeleur Evictions

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Description: Those among you Flickroonies who've been with us for a long time will be familiar the 1880s eviction photographs that we've posted over the years. They're mostly action shots of depredation and desperation. This one is rather different, with many of the dramatis personae pictured calmly sitting on the steps of Kilrush House. p.s. Apologies for late posting! You just can't get the staff these days... ;) Photographer: Robert French? Date: August 1888 NLI Ref: NPA MOPR 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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1888

Earl of Longford, Edward Arthur Henry Pakenham

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Description: When you read the title you might expect a man in ermine and silks standing in a great hall with flunkeys at his beck and call? Instead here is a portly young man with a suit that is just a little tight and a very pleasant smile on his face. From a photographic point of view this is a dreadful crop from another photo! Photographers: Various Collection: Irish Personalities Photographic Collection Date: 5th September 1928 NLI Ref: NPA PERS36 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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1928

'Victory Shower', Victory Hat, worn by Alba Callinan, war loan series, 28 February 1945, photographed by Grimes, PIX Magazine

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Description: 75 Years ago the Third Victory Loan Fashion display was put together to demonstrate how it was possible to subscribe to war loans and remain fashionable in the process. 'Victory Shower', worn by voluntary war-worker Alba Callinan, has a veil liberally be-spotted with War Savings Stamps. 'Victory Shower', Victory Hat, worn by Alba Callinan, war loan series, 28 February 1945, photographed by Grimes, PIX Magazine, copied from original negative, State Library of New South Wales, ON 388/Box 017/Item 075 archival.sl.nsw.gov.au/Details/archive/110588364
Owner: State Library of NSW
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1945

Joseph Holloway, head and shoulders, front facing portrait

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Description: I love a photograph with a lived-in face and this is just perfect! Joseph may be the older brother of Stanley for all I know but he has a great face for a portrait. Who was he and why was he considered to be an Irish Personality? Photographers: Various Collection: Irish Personalities Photographic Collection Date: ca. 1920-1944 NLI Ref: NPA PERS26 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

P. De Biasi (LOC)

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Description: Bain News Service,, publisher. P. De Biasi [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.34891 Call Number: LC-B2- 5820-13
Owner: The Library of Congress
Views: 2954
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1920

Ronette microphone, 088/F, March 1953, by Max Dupain

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Description: Ronette microphone, 088/F Filtercell omni directional with flexible chromium plated suspension, 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#e5O8e6J53lyLM 9587714
Owner: State Library of NSW
Views: 7566
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1953

Chas. L. Knight (LOC)

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Description: Bain News Service,, publisher. Chas. L. Knight [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.34821 Call Number: LC-B2- 5813-5
Owner: The Library of Congress
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1920

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
Views: 8960
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1926

Atlee Pomerene (LOC)

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Description: Bain News Service,, publisher. Atlee Pomerene [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.34758 Call Number: LC-B2- 5805-6
Owner: The Library of Congress
Views: 3507
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1920

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

Lean, mean and bowler hatted

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Description: This fine group of sportsmen taken by Mr. Poole is a bit of a puzzle. If they were oarsmen, there would surely be an oar or two on display. Fooballers would have a ball or two to play with. Hurlers would have hurleys, but these lads have what looks like a telescope? Who were they? What was their sport, and what are those devices the two in the front rank are holding? +++ UPDATE +++ Well, safe to say that everybody had a good time yesterday with this one! The spikes on the shoes certainly prove running/athletics. But were these chaps fire brigade men? Are those implements fire hose nozzles? Can't see this one being left to lie fallow, so bated breath here at Library Towers for a definite solution! Photographer: A. H. Poole Collection: Poole Photographic Studio, Waterford Date: Circa 16th March 1921 NLI Ref: POOLEWP 2900 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: 13869
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1921

Church of Santa Susanna, Rome (LOC)

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Description: Bain News Service,, publisher. Church of Santa Susanna, Rome [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). Subjects: Kyoto 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.34343 Call Number: LC-B2- 5743-10
Owner: The Library of Congress
Views: 3986
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1920

Bullshoals Caverns billboard, Route 178, Bull Shoals, Arkansas (LOC)

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Description: Margolies, John,, photographer. Bullshoals Caverns billboard, Route 178, Bull Shoals, Arkansas 1980. 1 photograph : color transparency ; 35 mm (slide format). Notes: Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Margolies category: Gift shop billboard signs. Purchase; John Margolies 2008 (DLC/PP-2008:109-4). Credit line: John Margolies Roadside America photograph archive (1972-2008), Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Please use digital image: original slide is kept in cold storage for preservation. Forms part of: John Margolies Roadside America photograph archive (1972-2008). Subjects: Gift shops--1980. Billboards--1980. United States--Arkansas--Bull Shoals. Format: Slides--1980.--Color Rights Info: No known restrictions on publication. For more information, see "John Margolies Roadside America Photograph Archive - Rights and Restrictions Information" www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/723_marg.html Repository: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA, hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print Part Of: Margolies, John John Margolies Roadside America photograph archive (DLC) 2010650110 General information about the John Margolies Roadside America photograph archive is available at hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.mrg Higher resolution image is available (Persistent URL): hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/mrg.01962 Call Number: LC-MA05- 1962
Owner: The Library of Congress
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1980

Not everybody left Skibbereen it seems!

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Description: This Mason image is a hive of industry with Looms, Spinning Wheels and a sewing machine to the fore! A fine bright room with lots of good light coming through the window, religious pictures on the wall probably indicate a local co-operative? Growing up the plaintive song "Skibbereen" was a party favourite but is seldom heard today! Collection: Mason Photographic Collection Date: 1890 - 1910 NLI Ref: M4/12 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: 12556
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1900

The Wheel of Life

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Description: The lovely Elinor was becoming quite inventive in framing this monastery and round tower in the spokes of a wheel. A really nice shot with lots of building and even a cow, though no dog, for our delectation on a cold, wet and windy Friday!!! Photographer: Elinor Wiltshire Collection: Wiltshire Photographic Collection Date: 1954 May NLI Ref: WIL k2[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: 13691
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1954

DOGS with Mr. J.P. Longfield M.F.H., Duhallow, Waterloo, Mallow on horse

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Description: With enough dogs to satisfy the dog fanatics among us this fine photograph from the Poole Collection shows a hunt about to begin! Mr. J.P. Longfield, Master of Fox Hounds is getting ready to lead the hounds out while in the background his retinue prepare for a days sport. Regardless of ones views on fox hunts such occasions were wonderful photographic opportunities and Arthur Henri nailed this one! Photographer: A. H. Poole Collection: Poole Photographic Studio, Waterford Date: between 1913 and 1914 NLI Ref: POOLED 0845 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: 13582
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1914

Unidentified but it looks like Wicklow?

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Description: Somehow this reminds me of a number of places in County Wicklow. The ridge, the trees and the houses in close proximity to water. The one thing that throws me is the broad expanse of possibly tidal waters in the foreground. I wonder why those stakes are placed at the end of the falling water? Fish traps perhaps? Photographer: Robert French Collection: Lawrence Photograph Collection Date: Circa 1865 - 1914 NLI Ref: L_CAB_05710 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: 10671
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1910

Easton - "Eva" (LOC)

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Description: Bain News Service,, publisher. Easton - "Eva" [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.34180 Call Number: LC-B2- 5721-9
Owner: The Library of Congress
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1920