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It’s a long road to Tipperary

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Description: Having visited the home of the current All Ireland Hurling Champions yesterday, today we move to their great rivals, the Premier County, and the town of that name. We have seen Tipperary before but never this particular view with the winding road leading to the town. Could this Lawrence Royal plate have been taken from a railway embankment? And would that help with dating? Photographer: Robert French Collection: Lawrence Photograph Collection Date: Circa 1865 1892-1914 NLI Ref: L_ROY_02580 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: 1704
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1893

The greatest Playboy of them all?

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Description: Arthur Shields as “The Playboy” must have been a wonderful theatrical experience? One of the great Abbey actors, playing one of the iconic roles from Irish Theatre, captured here. Photographer: Harry C. Phibbs Date: 1933 NLI Ref: AB9 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: 1855
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1933

Projectors, Regent Theatre Sydney, 25 October 1938

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Description: Projectors, Regent Theatre Sydney, 25 October 1938, PIX Magazine, ON 388/Box 032/Item 158 collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/nQRelLj1
Owner: State Library of New South Wales collection
Views: 12440
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1938

Photographer Milton Kent holding his aerial camera, Sydney, June 1953

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Description: Photographer Milton Kent holding his oblique aero camera from Carl Zeiss AG, Sydney, June 1953, People Magazine photographer, from original negative collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/YEGq0yPn/V5bG6Og2MpvWg x
Owner: State Library of New South Wales collection
Views: 1886
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1953

1928 model Studebaker sedan, Crown Street, Sydney, 29 January 1935

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Description: 1928 model Studebaker sedan, Crown Street, Sydney, Australia, 29 January 1935, Sam Hood, from original nitrate negative, State Library of New South Wales, Home and Away - 11738 collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/digital/V5mRRdAZWEJ6v
Owner: State Library of New South Wales collection
Views: 2326
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1935

A handsome pair of Cats – The Murphys on their wedding day

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Description: A handsome pair of Kilkenny Cats – Mr and Mrs Austin Murphy from Gowran in Co. Kilkenny who got married in 1952. What can we find out about them, if anything? Photographer: Poole Studios Collection: Poole Photographic Collection, Waterford Date: ca. June 1952 NLI Ref: POOLEWP 4640 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: 4046
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1952

Yawn and stretch exercises, 24 May 1939, composite photograph by Ted Hood

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Description: "Yawn & stretch" exercise series, 24 May 1939, composite photograph by Ted Hood, from original negative, State Library of New South Wales, ON 388/Box 028/Item 055 collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/npANwZl1/LK2PzPJzmjjEo
Owner: State Library of New South Wales collection
Views: 2227
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1939

Photographer A.B. Clinton, New South Wales, 1872-1873, American & Australasian Photographic Company

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Description: Photographer A.B. Clinton, New South Wales, 1872-1873, American & Australasian Photographic Company, from original glass negative, State Library of New South Wales, ON 4 Box 44 No [22] search.sl.nsw.gov.au/permalink/f/15rjecp/ADLIB110041034
Owner: State Library of New South Wales collection
Views: 2196
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1872

Oh look? Mr. Nolan's new truck!

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Description: Mr. Joseph A. Nolan, Coal Merchant purchased a bone shaker if ever there was one. Back in 1922, this must have been the wonder of the age, and was probably badly needed in Waterford with its many hills. In my neck of the woods, the horse and cart lasted until well into the 1960s. This looks a solid piece of work, and what can we find out about it? Photographer: A. H. Poole Collection: Poole Photographic Collection, Waterford Date: Monday, 2 October 1922 NLI Ref: POOLEWP 3054 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: 4591
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1922

Person being weighed, 6 December 1937

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Description: Person being weighed by a street vendor, 6 December 1937, Pix Magazine, State Library of New South Wales, ON 388/Box 030/Item 058 1937 collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/nvgPv0E1/MWOAOW0yv5xPA
Owner: State Library of New South Wales collection
Views: 2615
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1937

Get off your horse and drink your milk...

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Description: Back to the Poole Collection today, and a portrait of a very pretty lady in “Cowgirl” dress. Commissioned by Mr. Piper of Carlow she has one of the sweetest smiles we have seen on this stream! The title on the catalogue is simply “LADY” so who was she, and is there any explanation for the Wild West gear? Photographer: A. H. Poole Collection: Poole Photographic Collection, Waterford Date: ca. 24 September 1924 NLI Ref: POOLEWP 3211 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: 5456
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1924

Table Bay, Cape Town South Africa, c. 1861,

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Description: Table Bay, Cape Town South Africa, c. 1861, Album of views, illustrations and Macarthur family photographs, 1857-1879, PXA 4358/Vol. 1, collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/nM7lp5AY/BB6l5Am3omyAO On 16 August 1860 HMS Herald left Australia on its return trip to England after nearly 9 years away. On the way back the ship passed through Cape Town in Feb 1861 and this image of the harbour was likely to have been taken around this time.
Owner: State Library of New South Wales collection
Views: 3588
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1861

The Smyths?

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Description: Our catalogue tells us that this lovely family group was commissioned by Mrs. Smyth, 44 Poleberry, Waterford, which should help you with your deliberations. I always look forward to reading the comments on a photo like this one. It is fantastic that you can discover so much information about the people in the photos we feature here on Flickr, it really does bring them alive. +++ UPDATE +++ Well, this family photograph led to a lively chase up and down Poleberry in Waterford, trying to match likely families, and likely dogs in online dog license records. But the main problem is the “unusual” house numbering of Poleberry. Our Bernard Healy is not usually given to cast asparagus at anyone, but even he was driven to this extreme: “I think we have to conclude that the census enumerator was drunk, or the houses were re-numbered at some stage”. Photographer: A. H. Poole Collection: Poole Photographic Collection, Waterford Date: 6 September 1919 NLI Ref: POOLEWP 2819 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: 5244
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1919

Barbara Blane, shadow-ballet dancer at the Tivoli, 5 January 1939, by Ray Olson

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Description: Barbara Blane, shadow-ballet dancer at the Tivoli, 5 January 1939, photographed by Ray Olson for Pix Magazine, State Library of New South Wales, ON 388/Box 026/Item 137, collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/9qoa3PO1/yjoaQlKMNMbWx Barbara Blane was an American dancer who toured Australia in 1939. She was born in New Haven, Connecticut and by age nine was teaching dancing in her own studio. During her travels in Australia she experienced flying for the first time and had her first surf in Sydney. APA citation BACK STAGE WITH BARBARA BLANE (1939, March 28). Goulburn Evening Penny Post (NSW : 1881 - 1940), p. 3 (Daily). Retrieved February 24, 2021, from nla.gov.au/nla.news-article100098347
Owner: State Library of New South Wales collection
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1939

Smiles all round for a good beginning!

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Description: A lovely smiley wedding group from Mr. Poole to start the week on a positive note! The happy couple, the witnesses, and the clergy all have broad smiles, while the bride has a firm hold on her man. Ordered by Mr. Richard Siggins of 28 The Glen in Waterford. What can we find out about them? +++ UPDATE +++ We found out ridiculously fabulous information about them, and much of the heavy lifting was done by Bernard Healy! Meet engine driver Richard Siggins and Emily Cozens, both of 28 The Glen, Waterford. They got married in the Cathedral in Waterford on 23 October 1944, and their witnesses were William Siggins and Mary Josephine Cozens. The presiding priest was Fr. John O'Connor, so just the stray smiling priest yet to be identified... Photographer: Poole Studio staff Collection: Poole Photographic Collection, Waterford Date: 1901-1954 Monday, 23 October 1944 NLI Ref: POOLEWP 4470 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: 5769
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1944

J. Baptiste, hairdressing/barber's saloon, Hill End gold fields, ca. 1872

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Description: J. Baptiste, hairdressing/barber's saloon, Hill End gold fields, New South Wales, ca. 1872, American & Australasian Photographic Company, from quarter plate glass negative, State Library of New South Wales, ON 4 Box 9 No 70020, collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/YdmeQJp9
Owner: State Library of New South Wales collection
Views: 14563
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1872

Midnight sun, over the Ross Sea, Antarctic, December 1910

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Description: Midnight sun, over the Ross Sea, Antarctic, December 1910, photograph album of the Scott expedition to Antarctica, 1910-1913, annotated by T. Griffith Taylor, vintage gelatin-silver print, State Library of New South Wales, search.sl.nsw.gov.au/permalink/f/1cvjue2/ADLIB110339803
Owner: State Library of New South Wales collection
Views: 3552
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1910

Happy Hatoriffic(ish) weekend to you all.

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Description: A group of three, two ladies with fine hats on board. And a gentleman sitting down while the ladies stand? Miss Nolan of Brownswood, Carrick-on-Suir was the lady who made the commission, but is she in the image, and what was the occasion? +++ UPDATE +++ Looks as if this one will have to simmer on the back burner for a while. No Brownswood Nolans in either the 1901 or 1911 censuseses. And Evening Mary could find nothing in any online newspapers. We shall sit back (if we can get a chance to sit down with these young feller-me-lads hogging all the seating) and await developments... Photographer: A. H. Poole Collection: Poole Photographic Collection, Waterford Date: ca. Wednesday, 16 October 1907 NLI Ref: POOLEWP 1717a 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: 5820
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1907

Weekend, 1940, by Max Dupain

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Description: Weekend, 1940, by Max Dupain, from album of vintage gelatin silver prints, State Library of New South Wales, PXA 28, collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/n7oVMPMn/QVraGG7XpPraX
Owner: State Library of New South Wales collection
Views: 3727
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1940

Rosaleen Norton, Kings Cross, Sydney, 21 June 1943

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Description: Rosaleen Norton, Kings Cross, Sydney, 21 June 1943, by Ivan, for PIX Magazine, from photographic negative, State Library of New South Wales, ON 388/Box 020/Item 059 archival.sl.nsw.gov.au/Details/archive/110591896 A New Zealand-born Australian artist and occultist who lived much of her later life in the bohemian area of Kings Cross, Sydney, leading her to be termed the "Witch of Kings Cross." en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosaleen_Norton
Owner: State Library of New South Wales collection
Views: 3858
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1943

Georgian Decay

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Description: What was once a common enough sight in Dublin is well captured here! A gap in the teeth of a fine Georgian terrace, where one or more of the once grand houses has been torn down. Its partners on either side are shored up with timber baulks to save them from the same fate. Whereabouts is it, and what does the street view tell us now? Photographers: Unknown Original Researcher: Valerie Houlden Collection: Dublin Corporation Photographic Collection Date: ca. 1960-1980 NLI Ref: NPA DCC 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: 5854
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2004

Heat wave in Sydney, 4 January 1946

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Description: Man with ice cream cones during a heat wave in Sydney, 4 January 1946, Sun newspaper photographs, State Library of New South Wales, ON 388/Box 054/Item 247 collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/nvgPr7D1/d3ODOlGJJLyKe
Owner: State Library of New South Wales collection
Views: 4672
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1946

Mrs. Murphy's back garden

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Description: Well last week we had the front of a shop on Alexander Street in Waterford and in the spirit of variety and change today we have the view from the rear window. View from back of house. Commissioned by Mrs Murphy, St. Andrews Terrace, Waterford is the title on todays image and shows a well tended back garden with a fine view beyond for the window! Photographer: A. H. Poole Collection: Poole Photographic Collection, Waterford Date: Monday, 22 May 1911 NLI Ref: POOLEWP 2287 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: 5369
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1911

The Dreaded Weed

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Description: As a thank you to all our supporters, followers, and Flickroonies for the 90 million views, and this week’s tremendous work we have The State Express Tobacco Factory from the Morgan Aerial Photographic Collection. There were a number of tobacco factories in Ireland at that time but I must admit that this is the first time I heard of the State Express factory. I suspect that this is one that we can safely say is “no longer standing”? Photographer: Alexander Campbell “Monkey” Morgan Collection: Morgan Aerial Photographic Collection Date: Tuesday, 27 April 1954 NLI Ref: NPA MOR16 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: 6038
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1954

All fall down...

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Description: There is something winterish and depressing about todays image from Arthur Henri. Dull and misty atmosphere and a crop that looks as though it has been burned by the frost and is now wilted would not cheer one up? Dangan, Thomastown is the place and we even have a date but what else is there to find out about this? Photographer: A. H. Poole Collection: Poole Photographic Collection, Waterford Date: Wednesday, 31 December 1913 NLI Ref: POOLEWP 2523 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: 4329
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1913

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
Views: 6868
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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: 6888
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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 New South Wales collection
Views: 4253
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1920

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 New South Wales collection
Views: 4480
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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 New South Wales collection
Views: 5250
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1938

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
Views: 7864
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1959

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 New South Wales collection
Views: 13334
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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 New South Wales collection
Views: 10623
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1900

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 New South Wales collection
Views: 5381
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1951

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 New South Wales collection
Views: 6451
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1951

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
Views: 7410
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1910

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 New South Wales collection
Views: 5543
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1902

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 New South Wales collection
Views: 4902
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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
Views: 10343
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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
Views: 9821
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1917

Traffic during tram and bus strike, North Sydney, 20 December 1951, PIX magazine

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Description: Traffic during tram and bus strike, North Sydney, 20 December 1951, PIX magazine [attributed] State Library of New South Wales, ON 388/Box 044/Item 226, collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/.../16AX6oon/QDWXrXBD6jW7j The North Sydney Orpheum Theatre, Alfred Street, North Sydney is visible on the corner with Good Year tyres billboard above it. The Cinema which first opened in 1913 was demolished in 1962, to make way for the Warringah Expressway.
Owner: State Library of New South Wales collection
Views: 6102
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1951

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 New South Wales collection
Views: 5703
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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 New South Wales collection
Views: 4204
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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

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 New South Wales collection
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1949

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 New South Wales collection
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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 New South Wales collection
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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 New South Wales collection
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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 New South Wales collection
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1899

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