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Красивые старые фотографии !

hr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Novodjevi%C4%8Danski_manastir

Also from wiki above -
The name "New Virgin" was given to it to distinguish it from the women's cloister of the Ascension Monastery in the Moscow Kremlin which was known as the "Old Virgin Monastery" ...

This wiki article is better - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Novodevichy_Convent

... In 1922, the Bolsheviks closed down the Novodevichy Convent (the cathedral was the last to be closed, in 1929) and turned it into the Museum of Women's Emancipation. By 1926, the monastery had been transformed into a history and art museum. In 1934, it became affiliated with the State Historical Museum. Most of its facilities were turned into apartments, which spared the convent from destruction. ...

Marvellous historical photo!

Grand Duke Vasily III in May 1524 founded the Great Monastery of the Most Pure Mother of God Hodegetria New Maiden Monastery with a cathedral church in the name of the Smolensk Icon.

The place for the monastery was chosen in the bend of the Moscow River, three versts (it is a little more than 3 kilometres) from the Moscow Kremlin on the Maiden Field....

After the October Revolution in 1917-1918 the Monastery was actually abolished.

In 1994 the monastic community was renewed.

The architectural ensemble of the monastery, formed in the XVI-XVII centuries, has not undergone significant changes since then. As an exceptionally well-preserved example of the Moscow Baroque, it is protected by UNESCO and declared a treasure of all mankind.

The monastery is jointly administered by the Russian Orthodox Church and the State Historical Museum. Since 2010, the Church Museum of the Moscow Diocese has been operating here.

From the DIB article on Rosamond Jacob: In 1931, as Irish delegate for the Friends of the Soviet Union, she travelled to the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), and reported favourably on conditions there, in lectures in Dublin.

вид на улицу -
maps.app.goo.gl/fb29X4bDXksZeUpQ6

“Novodevichy Convent, also known as Bogoroditse-Smolensky Monastery, is probably the best-known cloister of Moscow. Its name, sometimes translated as the New Maidens' Monastery, was devised to differ from the Old Maidens' Monastery within the Moscow Kremlin”
Wikipedia

Maxim Sinelshchikov Thank you Maxim. It's great to know that it survives despite all the turmoil of the last century!

[https://flic.kr/p/2pgKmPC]
Rosamond was a member

Continuing yesterdays theme of Irish Suffragists

“Rosamond Jacob (13 October 1888 – 11 October 1960) was an Irish writer and political activist. She was a lifelong activist for suffragist, republican and socialist causes and a writer of fiction”

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosamond_Jacob

Her 171 diaries are held by your good selves

Suck Diesel They are indeed! This is the one for the time period in question, but under copyright, so can only be viewed on-site...

National Library of Ireland on The Commons It must have impressed her, as a suffragist, that the March 1917 law, passed by the Provisional Government, made Russia the second nation in the world to grant women the vote.
While still under British rule, only property owning Irish women over 30 gained a limited form of suffrage in 1918.
Full suffrage was achieved in the 1922 Free State Constitution.

«Я никогда не путешествую без своего дневника. В поезде всегда нужно иметь при себе что-то сенсационное для чтения».
Oscar Wilde

Picture Esk only exeter to penzance was 1 rail moved inwards, 177 miles

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KRESS Building, not Krisis Building...

LoC has a picture of the building taken by Carol Highsmith in 2022. hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/highsm.71505

and another photo by Margolies from 1980
hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/mrg.05166
but neither has the address.

2814 2nd Avenue North, Billings, Montana 59101 is the address for the current ground-floor tenants.

2022 Streetview

Thanks Michael Schmieder, we'll fix the spelling in the catalog record.

Instead of taking an hour to transcribe so much metadata, couldn't somebody be bothered to color-correct these scans on the most basic level? Even a simple "Auto Color" action in Photoshop would take 1 second and make these look 10x better and truer to the photographer's original work, as long as someone kept an eye on the results before uploading.

PETRITZ Building, please.

See a photo from the Historic American Building Survey (HABS) at
www.loc.gov/item/mt0108/
The HABS photo was probably taken in 1984, according to the typed description at tile.loc.gov/storage-services/master/pnp/habshaer/mt/mt01...

The most recent Streetview is from 2019
2019 Streetview

Thanks Michael Schmieder, we'll fix the misspelling.
swanq, thanks for locating the building in the HABS Collection, it's always to interesting to compare places that appear in multiple collections.

Before it crashed, RR299 showing HT-E was displaying on the UK air show circuit.

What it looks like today.

www.google.com/maps/place/Broadway+%26+Kettner+Blvd,+San+...

219 W Main St, Laurel, MT 59044,
used to be the Lennox Hotel, according to map for a walking tour of the historic area of Laurel
- mhs.mt.gov/shpo/docs/Laurel.pdf
Now has apartments, according to
www.zumper.com/apartment-buildings/p793663/219-w-main-st-...

2021 Streetview

Boa Viagem Island – Niterói

Suck Diesel What? How? Where?

Photographer André-Charles Armeilla worked in Rio between 1903 and 1913
(born in France - died in Rio de Janeiro, 1913)

search.worldcat.org/title/1253445693

maps.app.goo.gl/P4FkPGin2nfeVAQU9
And www.brasilcult.pro.br/leilao/rio_antigo/leilao02_a.htm

National Library of Ireland on The Commons

www.brasilcult.pro.br/leilao/rio_antigo/leilao02_a.htm

Fraser Pettigrew Still beautiful!

Flickr is sometimes amazing! In 2016 via fedewerner

View from the other side

albertolopesleiloeiro.com.br/peca.asp?ID=11309160

More of his pics

www.bbc.com/portuguese/brasil-55320828

“André-Charles Armeilla (France, ? - Rio de Janeiro, May 15, 1913) was a French photographer who arrived in Rio de Janeiro around 1903, where he made a living selling his photos of the city and surroundings to magazines, books and postcards. In the last decade of the 19th century until 1902, he had worked as a photographer in Montevideo.
Little is known about his life before reaching the American continent. According to Pedro Corrêa do Lago:

"Armeilla is the link between Ferrez and Malta, with qualities that neither of them had. [...] He is not content to take pictures from the same angle that everyone else took, and he is a master of volumes. He plays with the hills, the vegetation, the waves and the foam of the sea, with the clouds... All these are forms that he harmonises with extraordinary mastery."

pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andr%C3%A9-Charles_Armeilla

What a lovely spot

When I saw this picture, I knew this was very unlikely to be Ireland. But what a wonderful story that emerges from the comments! Thank you for posting the pictures and hosting the comments 😍

National Library of Ireland on The Commons Little is known of the life of André-Charles Armeilla, who I believe is the photographer of our picture.
He arrived in Rio in 1903 and supported himself by selling his views of Rio and the surrounding area.

Therefore, propose a date range of 1903 - 1910

"Bird's-eye-view of ruins of San Francisco from captive airship, 600 feet above Folsom " doesn't begin to describe it. Lawrence used a train of 7 large kites to lift his homebuilt 49 pound panoramic camera to altitude, trusting a clockwork to trigger and pan the camera at the right time.

What I think I'd like to know is even though it was only a couple of miles from the Elswick works to Walkers, how on earth did they move something this big that distance with the infrastructure in 1940. I presume it must have been floated down the river on a barge.

"HARDCORE"

👍👏🌟 well done !! congrats on Explore !!! 🌟🏆❤

👍👏🌟 well done !! congrats on Explore !!! 🌟🏆❤

A fine portrait.

The driver must have been in a real hurry for the toilet!😛

duckspeaks Probably a Pee driver 😉

Oh dear! It was a tragedy. Friday 15 April 1938
Read All About It ! - trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/239988062/25566383

CAR AMOK; MINER IS KILLED
Tragedy At King's Cross WOMAN HURT
A MAN was killed, a young woman injured, and portion of a men's toilet at King's Cross wrecked when the accelerator of a car driven by Sir Harry Moxham, well-known Macquarie Street specialist, jammed yesterday afternoon. Roderick Vincent Penno, 27, a miner, of Inch Street, Lithgow, was the victim, while Miss Enid McCauley, 21, of Craigend Street, King's Cross, who suffered a probable fractured pelvis, was injured. The car, after striking the man and the young woman, who was with him, continued on at a terriflc pace and struck the ralling surrounding the toilet. The railing was smashed, and an iron electric light standard was torn from its concrete foundations and left at an angle of 30 degrees. The doctor's car was proceeding west along King's Cross Road. When only a few yards from the intersection of Darlinghurst Road, the accelerator of the car jammed, and the driver made frantic efforts to regain control, as the car, gathering speed, hurtled towards the top of the toilet, which is built underground. ... ...
The driver, it is stated, applied the brakes and attempted to turn the engine into Victoria Street, but the speed of the car was apparently too great. Penno and the young lady were on their way to a fish shop, and were In the middle of the road when the car bore down on them. Penno was killed instantly. The girl was reported last night to be In a satisfactory condition. Penno had arrived from Lithgow on Thursday evening to spend Easter In the city. The doctor, apart from severe shock, was uninjured. A young lady who was travelling In the car with him at the time also escaped injury. The car Is a new model of a particularly powerful make. Central District Ambulance attended and conveyed the deceased and Miss McCauley to St. Vincent's Hospital. Following the accident the toilet was closed to the public. An attendant was the only person there at the time. He said that the crash sounded as If a bomb had been dropped on the place. "

I didn't even know that drones existed back then.

I was reading Sir Herbert Maxwell's (my great-grandfather's employer) autobiography one evening last week, and it turned out he was at Christ Church, like most of the members of St. Aldate's Club. He was there 2 years earlier than them, so wouldn't have known them, but he does mention that one of his lecturers was Charles Lutwidge Dodgson aka Lewis Carroll. And the daughter of the Dean was Alice Liddell, to whom Carroll told a story on a boating trip. He later turned the story into a book.

So many of the Aldate's Club members would have known Lewis Carroll and Alice (or been aware of her).

Sir Herbert, in his own words, was a 'slacker' at Oxford and didn't stay for his degree, but later became an authority on all sorts of subjects, especially birds, so I searched his writings for any names he had for jackdaws, and came across this passage (about ospreys):

I was not lucky enough to see them myself, but a boatman described how he had watched one of them sailing along the brow of the Gateheugh, whence poured out a swarm of vulgar jackdaws, chattering and scolding the gallant intruder. He paid little heed to them at first, but presently, getting bored by the clamour, just as a luckless daw passed beneath him, the osprey closed his pinions, and, falling on the black rascal, dealt it a blow which sent it whirling helpless into the gulf below.

(Memories of the months. Second series - Maxwell, Herbert, Sir, 1845-1937)

I swim at these baths!!!!! They've just been fully restored back to their former glory.