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Oh where the Shannon River flows

from National Library of Ireland on The Commons

Collage portrait with dangling heads, in Alfred William Leslie Ellis. World War One Album, c. 1917

from State Library of New South Wales

  • Philippe de Feluy - PdF said:
    This is a high quality photo and I would like to invite you to my group :
    Atypical & Montages/collages PdF

    Friendly yours
    Philippe 😉
  • Tebo Colombet said:
    J'adore absolument 💙
  • Flickr said:
    Congrats on Explore! ⭐ November 17, 2025
  • Cornelis Dumoulin said:
    Congratulations on this photo in Explore!
  • Michael Gschwind said:
    Glückwunsch zu Explore !
  • Sigurd Krieger said:
    Congrats on Xplore!!
  • Mr. Happy Face - Peace :) said:
    Excellent Share 💫 Thank You
  • Lukas Larsed said:
    Congrats on Explore 📷
  • PaulSheff said:
    Beautifully captured and faved 🌟 Congrats on Explore 📷✨ Have a nice day 👍

Portrait: Popplewell, Nina

from LSE Library

The Ladies and the Tramp (steamer)

from National Library of Ireland on The Commons

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  • beachcomber australia said:
    "In Bantry Bay - the approach to Castletownbere Berehaven"
    via - www.historicalpicturearchive.com/shop/pictures/cc-00959/
  • beachcomber australia said:
    About here? Google Maps 3D -
    www.google.com/maps/@51.6436402,-9.913004,107a,35y,39.49h...
  • beachcomber australia said:
    Just around the corner from -
  • beachcomber australia said:
    And -
  • National Library of Ireland on The Commons said:
    beachcomber australia You've convinced us!

    Any hopes of identifying the steamer, beachcomber who is always amazing? :)
  • beachcomber australia said:
    National Library of Ireland on The Commons No luck yet with the rusty old tramp! There is someone wearing a tam o'shanter standing near the stern, which makes me think Scottish ? Someone will know ...
  • Quite Adept said:
    Having studied some of the ‘matches’ thrown up by Google Lens I think this could be a trawler or possibly even a whaler.
  • National Library of Ireland on The Commons said:
    Quite Adept Oooh, don't think we've had a whaler before.
  • George FitzPatrick said:
    Trawler I would say. Netting visible above the port side gunwale. Also visible is a drum winch on port side.

Portrait: Pankhurst, Emmeline

from LSE Library

Portrait: Seymour, Isabel

from LSE Library

Cork - through a glass darkly

from National Library of Ireland on The Commons

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  • beachcomber australia said:
    There seems to be no convenient streetview / riverview, so here is Google Maps 3D. I think Mr O'Connor was near that footbridge ...
    www.google.com/maps/@51.8960997,-8.473747,33a,35y,243.38h...
  • crack jackson jr said:
    Gorgeous!
  • Mike Grimes said:
    The view from the bridge in the photo. I wonder what the footbridge looked like back then.

    maps.app.goo.gl/5r1tEUWQMpzd5LD26?g_st=ac
  • Niall McAuley said:
    That row of shops with named proprietors may help date it, on Sullivan's Quay. No D. Foley or Foley Bootmaker in the 1921 Guy's. No John Shea either, either. Nor in 1935.

    Ah, they are all in the 1897.

    Dominick Foley, Bootmaker
    Michael McCarthy, Shopkr
    John Shea, Shopkeeper
    J Anderson, Shopkeeper

    By 1903, Shea is gone and #28 is Edward Phillon

    So right at the start of the date range.
  • Niall McAuley said:
    Back in 1891, McCarthy, Shea and Anderson are all here, but Foley's is Jordan J, Hairdresser

    Jordan is still there in 1893.
  • Niall McAuley said:
    No idea if the OCO pics are in any way grouped datewise, but we saw the next one in the sequence here before, OCO 327, of Jammet's in Dublin, opened 1901.
    Jammy times at the Jammet Hotel
  • Suck Diesel said:

    View from the Nano Nagle Bridge, close to where our photo was taken
  • Niall McAuley said:
    suckindeesel 17 years ago! The row of shops is a Christian Brothers school - I think I saw the start of that in Guy's

    26-30 is a CB school in 1935

    and in 1921, 1910, 1907

    Our friends are here in 1903.
  • Niall McAuley said:
    Should've looked in the NIAH first: Detached ten-bay (two-bay deep) two-storey national school, built 1905

NMRTC San Diego celebrates 250 years of Navy warfighting heritage and tradition 251007-N-KM181-1002

from Navy Medicine

  • k said:
    !!!!!!!!!!!

Harry Fell, hairdresser, Melbourne, 28 October 1952

from State Library of New South Wales

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  • Pig Pang said:
    Servus from Vienna! State Library of NSW, Harry Fell, hairdresser, Melbourne, 8 October 1952 is an incredible capture!your phto is truly impressive!

Portrait: Martindale, Hilda

from LSE Library

Portrait: Noakes, Daisy

from LSE Library

Portrait: O'Malley, Ida

from LSE Library

Portrait: Pankhurst, Sylvia

from LSE Library

  • Roger said:
    who is Ms Potlesman .... google has no quick answers

NO CAPTION (LOC)

from The Library of Congress

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  • Seuss. said:
    Washington Evening Star, May 11, 1923, page 2

    Two Couples Wed While Dancing On Houseboat

    Two couples took the solemn vows of marriage at a ceremony performed by Judge Robert E. Mattingly of the Munlclpal Court in a houseboat anchored off the Virginia end of the Highway bridge last night.
    The houseboat has been the scene of a so-called marathon dance contest and the couples wed were competing in the contest. Before a curious throng, with lights lowered, the musicians playing a wedding march Instead of jazz, the couples shuffled up to the judge and kept their feet moving while they took the vows.
    The contracting parties were Fred R Newman, twenty-one years old, and Miss Evelyn King, twenty years old, the first couple married, and Herbert J. Gately, twenty-three years old, and Miss Thelma Reese, twenty years old. They were attired In their dancing clothes and dancing slippers.
    During the day yesterday the two couples drove to the marriage license clerk's office, in the Supreme Court of the District building, where they secured their licenses to marry. The truck in which they rode was placarded, announcing the purpose of the trip.


    The Washington Times added . . .
    They have been dancing in the marathon dance at the south end of the highway bridge, and it was yesterday afternoon, after seventy-two hours shuffling, that they concluded that they would like to dance together for the rest of their lives.
    A big truck was brought into play, and the shifty-footed couples waltzed to the courthouse, where marriage licenses were obtained.
    Toddling back into the truck, they were returned to the houseboat, where they had been dancing, continuing their gyrations until 10 o’clock last night, when Judge Mattingly one-stepped onto the scene.


    During Prohibition there were many large boats, barges, houseboats etc moored on the Virginia side of the Potomac. Due to the odd boundary between Maryland (and DC) and Virginia (the River lies entirely in MD/DC) even though the boats were tied to the shore in VA, the rules of DC were in force. And because they were tied across the river from the District any approaching police or prohibition agents could be seen in plenty of time to hide any incriminating evidence. The "houseboats" on the VA side of the Potomac were some of the most notorious speakeasies of the time.

    My guess is this photo was taken at the District Building where the dancers were getting their licenses and the man at the table is the clerk, and not the Judge.
  • Jon (LOC P&P) said:
    Seuss.. I really like your suggestions. The only problem I have is that I looked up when nearby negatives were taken and they are from 1925. I suppose it is possible one got mixed up somehow but I would want a photo of the dancers or the judge for comparison.
  • Jon (LOC P&P) said:
    Seuss., you had it right! A staff member in our division found that we had another photo of the same scene taken by National Photo Company, www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2016834823/. The negative only has the caption "Marathon Dancers" but we also have albums of some of National Photo Company's photos, so I looked in there and it has a much fuller caption:

    "Fred Newman and Herbert Gately, shuffled their partners, Evelyn King and Thelma Reese, to the marriage license Bureau at City Hall today. They will be married tonight while competing in a marathon dance in Wash. When the picture was made they were on their 66th hour. All are from Balto. At the table is Col. Kroll, District Marriage License Clerk. Gately recently established a world's record of 167 hours in Balto." 5/10/23

    We'll put that caption in both records and we'll also put the correct date in the record for this photo.
  • jessamyn west said:
    Great catch!

Let's stay at Lacy's of Bray

from National Library of Ireland on The Commons

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  • Niall McAuley said:
    Per the NIAH: Detached multiple-bay three-storey Gothic Style hotel, built 1900.
  • beachcomber australia said:
    A Witches' Hat ? Google is telling me they should be conical; this looks hexagonal.
  • beachcomber australia said:
    Not far to the right from this other O'Connor photo -

    Mr O'Connor seems to have photographed every hotel in Bray!
  • Niall McAuley said:
    The 25" suggests this block was 2 hotels originally.
  • Niall McAuley said:
    The 1911 census has Mary Josephine Lacy, Hotel Keeper, 45.
  • beachcomber australia said:
    Niall McAuley Here is the other half of the 'blick' - catalogue.nli.ie/Record/vtls000299533
  • Mike Grimes said:
    Still standing, just up from the Strand Hotel, which was the former residence of Oscar Wilde.

    maps.app.goo.gl/3gBo6NGx7S1e4CBv7?g_st=ac

    Edit: In 2009 it was the Best Western Esplanade Hotel, which now seems to be closed. It would appear to be an IPAS accommodation now.
  • Suck Diesel said:
    Mike Grimes maps.app.goo.gl/GTDHgommcdXe3BAe7
  • John Spooner said:
    Dublin Evening Telegraph - Saturday 21 October 1893
    Dublin Evening Telegraph - Saturday 21 October 1893

    John F Lacy not only owned and ran two hotels, but was also a member of the Rathdown Board of guardians and the Bray Township Board. He died in February 1901.

Earl of Longford, Edward Arthur Henry Pakenham

from National Library of Ireland on The Commons

Circular Quay Looking South-East

from Powerhouse Museum

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  • covid convict said:
    11th August, 1908

Circular Quay with Sydney skyline, 1920 - 1929

from Powerhouse Museum

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  • covid convict said:
    11th August, 1908

Page 03, image 3

from Community Archives of Belleville & Hastings County

  • covid convict said:
    It's great to have a photo of this scene which comes with a definite date!

    Here are some others...with approximate dates

    ca. 1903-04

    ca. 1930

Am I seeing double once again?

from National Library of Ireland on The Commons

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  • beachcomber australia said:
    Thinking Innisfallen. There are several other stereo pairs there, but I can't find a match for the boathouse. See the distant hills here - catalogue.nli.ie/Record/vtls000564217
  • beachcomber australia said:
    Hmmm ...
    There is a substantial "Boat House" marked on the 25" map, west of Ross Castle, on Ross Island. About here on the GoogleMapsSatellite which shows nothing - maps.app.goo.gl/kiLUkFwL4qNjBjQM7
  • National Library of Ireland on The Commons said:
    beachcomber australia Link not working too well.
  • beachcomber australia said:
    National Library of Ireland on The Commons Thanks, fixed above. Nothing to see except trees and rocks. But if you twiddle round into 3D the shape of the hills is similar and the sun is in the right place when looking sout-west.
  • Rory Sherlock said:
    I wonder is that the now-lost boathouse just downriver from Lord Brandon's cottage?

    Here's a Streetview from the western shore of the Upper Lake, looking west - note the distinctive 'bump' to the left of the cloud-covered mountains - it has a steep step at right and a uniform slope at left, just like the bump to the left of the taller mountains in our boathouse photo.

    maps.app.goo.gl/iWWPW7F6Dh9ros1a8

    Less than 100m NW of the point where Peng Shi took that panoramic image in 2023 is the site of a boathouse which lies 290m SW of Lord Brandon's Cottage - the boathouse is shown on the Ordnance Survey 6" map (1st edition), but it's just marked as a Quay on the last edition. The boathouse seems to be about 18m long on the first edition map, so it could be the one in the photo.
  • Suck Diesel said:
    Rory Sherlock Could be
  • derangedlemur said:
    It has the same pile of rocks in the middle distance on the left. Where's the boathouse - in the copse behind the streetview? Maybe that pool before the copse?
  • derangedlemur said:
    the 25" is missing this sheet, so it's no help.
  • beachcomber australia said:
    Helpful ...

    A wonderful walk to Lord Brandon's cottage; relevant bit starts at about 8:30 - youtu.be/5FgmCudYTyk?si=C1KkYinIFlIAfC1b&t=510

    Bird's eye view (and fascinating short history) -
    gapofdunloetours.com/blog/lord-brandons-cottage-your-kill...

    Thinking the round tower where Lady Barandon was imprisoned after her fling with Lord Melbourne, should be visible (?) ...

Bar, Rosebery Avenue Hall of residence, 1974

from LSE Library

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  • ed_needs_a_bicycle said:
    Trying to place the location of where the original bar was? I was at Rosebery some 26 years later and the bar was very different to this

Poppie Olive Cotton SLNSW_FL14226442

from State Library of New South Wales

  • Narelle Jarvis said:
    The Olive Cotton Photography Award has just closed at Tweed Regional Gallery. In her name. Thankyou for sharing this.

Portrait: Morten, Honnor

from LSE Library

Private screening of film 'Cloistered' for nuns, State Theatre, Sydney, 1938

from State Library of New South Wales

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  • Pig Pang said:
    Great jb, rally inspiring.

Kenmare House, Killarney

from National Library of Ireland on The Commons

Botheration. From the Bathers Progress postcard series

from Australian National Maritime Museum on The Commons

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  • covid convict said:

Portrait of Hugh Ward Jnr

from Australian National Maritime Museum on The Commons

Dignitaries viewing the construction of the Sydney Harbour Bridge, 1930

from Powerhouse Museum

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  • covid convict said:
    I suspect this pic of Bradfield, etc was taken on 24th September, 1930, when the first hanger ('Hanger 0') was to be lifted into position...however a wild weather event passed thru Sydney that day, so the operation was held over to the 25th...

    Looks to be the same party...probably the same day

Coaching on Cliff Road

from Powerhouse Museum

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  • covid convict said:
    Postcard version

Signwriters from Rousel Studios painting an advertising sign on a wall for Tooth's K B Lager, 1920 - 1929

from Powerhouse Museum

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  • covid convict said:

Portrait: Needham, Dr Dorothy Mary [Moyle]

from LSE Library

Portrait: May, Edna

from LSE Library

NO CAPTION (LOC)

from The Library of Congress

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  • Jon (LOC P&P) said:
    Thanks Seuss.! I was just hoping we'd get the name of the group, but you got names for all of the people too!

Ice cased Adelie penguins after a blizzard at Cape Denison, c. 1912, photograph by Frank Hurley

from State Library of New South Wales

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  • Mystic Entity said:
    Lil cuties

Milestone

from Boston Public Library Digital

  • Flickr Foundation said:
    So "M to B" is miles to Boston? Or something else?
  • Boston Public Library Digital said:
    Good question! As far as we know, this item is from Boston's Dorchester neighborhood, which became part of Boston in 1870. This milestone likely predates its annexation. So maybe miles to Boston from Dorchester?

Acrobat and magician Long Tack Sam with his company of artists

from Australian National Maritime Museum on The Commons

Artist and dog arrive by Melbourne Express (taken for J.C. Williamson), 10/12/1937 / byTed hood

from State Library of New South Wales

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  • covid convict said:
    trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/232020069 - the Sun, 11th December, 1937...similar pic here...

    Frederick Blackman, producer of 'Balalaika' with 'Toy', a member of the cast...

A Magnesite factory in Waterford? Seriously???

from National Library of Ireland on The Commons

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  • Liam Cheasty said:
    On the positive side it gave good employment to Abbeyside/ Dungarvan area from 1970 to 1982 which was desperately needed at that time. It also kept the railway line open which is now The Waterford Green Way. The Railway Bridge ( known as The Red Iron ) across the River Suir from Kilkenny to Waterford was also in use. At one stage it was the longest bridge in Ireland, closed now with the centre span removed.
    Dungarvan Bay is one of the most beautiful spots in Ireland, especially view from The Pike at Ballinalira on the N25. Unfortunately when in production the Quigley factory was a real blight on a beautiful landscape. I delivered a container from Bell Lines to Ballinacourty when the factory was open and I commented to one of the workers as to how much the factory destroyed the view and I was quickly told , You can not eat scenery.

Australian Army soldiers marching along Eddy Avenue next to Central Railway Station, Sydney

from Australian National Maritime Museum on The Commons

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  • covid convict said:
    Also see

H.M. Frigate

from Museums of History NSW - State Archives Collection

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  • covid convict said:
    trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/63615005 - PS...the Illustrated Sydney News, 10th May, 1890...the various match-ups seen in this Illustrated Sydney News pic of the officers taken on HMS Opal was the key to solving this mystery...

Australian troops marching on Randwick Road in Sydney

from Australian National Maritime Museum on The Commons

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  • covid convict said:
    Also see