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It's a cracker for sure! So many interesting details and expressions.

It was later renamed Rossa Street in honor of O'Donovan Rossa

At least post 1890, but probably later

Lipton - Graces Guide
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Liptons tea, "Direct from the tea gardens to the teapot."

March 2009 Streetview is closer than more recent ones -
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Superb photograph. Some front movements used there for sure and the plate has recorded an incredible amount of detail. A joy to behold! 👍😄

Is that a telegraph boy in the door of the post office?

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Is that Master Bateman with his hands in his pockets?

beachcomber australia Careful now

The third fella in the top left is William Tomlinson, who was married to my husband's aunt Norma.
Husband-Jerry Knight. Submitted via Facebook by Kendra L Knight

The fourth boy from the left in the front row is Gerald Oliver. Submitted by Lloyd Scott on Facebook.

Look at how sharply pressed those trousers are! A great portrait.

By 1952, a Matthew L. Nugent was living at 34 St. Andrews Terrace. He was fined 2s 6d for driving without a valid licence. It had expired 11 days previously. (New Ross Standard 28/3/1952).

That's 2 years trimmed off the end date (unless he was a lodger or somesuch). Or Miss O'Driscoll married Mr Nugent.

POOLEWP 4417 is 31st July 1943

POOLEWP 4410 is 12th May 1943

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The woman in the picture is wearing a wedding ring, not Miss O'Driscoll

Well, she is wearing a ring. But it's a very broad style for a wedding ring, especially in the 1940s. And he's not wearing any ring at all...

clive422 And look at the curves of his shirt collar!

National Library of Ireland on The Commons haha true! 😁👍

O Mac Perhaps house number refers to Newtown Rd, which is where the terrace is?
However, no trace in either the 1911 or 1926
Nothing relevant in Marriages either
A woman of mystery!

Joe F. Mikulec, Champion Long Distance Walker

Story: www.washingtonpost.com

Thanks Seuss., I'm glad to finally have this man identified.

OK I could not resist. This guy!

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_F._Mikulec

sheilscharity.ie

"Around 25 years ago, sadly the original Sheils buildings in Dublin had fallen into disrepair and were not up to standard.

A developer bought over the original buildings and constructed 27 new houses and apartments, fully up to modern standards."

…and a splendid bicycle! 😀👍

Built in 1868 per the DIA.

Today's word is Ruskinian.

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Also at Archiseek www.archiseek.com

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The Sheils' Institution comprised of 24 self contained almshouses built circa 1869 by Charles Sheils Almshouses Charity for poor ladies. A wealthy merchant from County Down, Sheils devoted his life and money into helping the elderly particularly women after the death of his own wife.

It's about 15:00. The clocks show different times.
Fantastic Frillyitus.

OK, I misread that, and thought it was No Longer Standing, but here it is in Streetview:
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Roger Very splendid!

Have we encountered "Ruskinian manner" before?

Hi all. I'm a Poe from the USA. David Poe is my Great (X8) grandfather. 2nd cousin, 6 times removed with EA Poe. I work in literature for a living which is fun. I'm heading to this area next month. Will stay at the Slieve Russell and explore (hopefully) the church where David is burried and hopefully find these ruins or where they used to be. Any tips/leads for when I go?

Nick Poe Work in literature? The family apple didn't fall far from the tree! :)

I'm not very familiar with this area, I'm afraid, but you should talk to locals when you get there, and to people in the Slieve Russell. They'll be delighted to help you!

Probably
Georgios Mistriotis (1840–1916), philologist, Professor of the University of Athens (Tripoli). Tripoli is the capital of the region of Greece known in English as Arcadia.
- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arcadia_(regional_unit)

A Greek Wikipedia article for him is
- el.wikipedia.org/wiki/Γεώργιος_Μιστριώτης

swanq, this looks to be him. We'll fix his name in the catalog record.

See obituary in NYT Jan 11 1954
- www.nytimes.com
"In 1904, he married Miss Pauline Whittier, who, like her husband, had played an active role in the charitable, and philanthropic life of the city. Mrs. Iselin died in 1946."

See
- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pauline_Whittier
Pauline "Polly" Whittier (December 9, 1876 – March 3, 1946) was an American golfer who competed in the 1900 Summer Olympics on behalf of Switzerland.

Whittier was born in Boston, Massachusetts. She won the silver medal in the women's competition. She was a daughter of Col. Charles A. Whittier, and in 1904 she married Ernest Iselin, son of Adrian Iselin Jr. "

Thanks, swanq, we'll add her name to the catalog record.

Is this the same woman as in
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If so, this is the first wife of Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt Sr.
- www.findagrave.com

According to
- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Gwynne_Vanderbilt
before she married Vanderbilt in 1901, she was Ellen "Elsie" Tuck French. They were divorced in 1908.
He married Margaret Emerson
- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Emerson
in 1911.
He died in 1915 in the sinking of the RMS Lusitania.

Thanks swanq, we'll add her name to the catalog record.

These are some of the Chinese delegates to the International Silk Exposition held in New York's Grand Central Palace Feb 7-12, 1921.

Front row, from left: Li Dengkui (李登魁 representative of the Shandong "Yellow-Grey" silk trade), Ding Rulin (丁汝霖 director of the Jiangsu-Zhejiang-Anhui Silk and Cocoon General Guild), Bi Kanghou 毕康候 (junior proprietor of the Bi Wanmao Silk Firm in Zhenze, Wujiang); middle row, from left: Mei Zhongsheng 梅仲泩 (junior proprietor of the Mei Hengyu Silk Firm in Nanxun), Zhang Heqing 张鹤卿 (board member of the Jiangsu-Zhejiang-Anhui Silk and Cocoon General Guild), Wang Mingxuan (王明轩); back row, from left: Wu Shenbo 吴申伯 (manager of the Ruilun Silk Factory, Shanghai), Gu Xinzhi 顾心之 (silk merchant of the Shandong "Grey Warp" trade group), Xu Jinrong 徐锦荣 (manager of the Yongtai Silk Factory in Shanghai and the Jinji Silk Factories in Shanghai and Wuxi).

Source: zhuanlan.zhihu.com

Thanks Seuss.! we'll update the catalog record.

Perhaps the missionary in Barbados mentioned in
The Chat [Brooklyn, NY] Nov 28 1914, P. 20
Chat of the Churches: First Free Baptist Church. Keap street and Marcy avenue, Brooklyn, NY

www.newspapers.com

"The Ladies' Aid Society held a meeting in the vestry room on Tuesday afternoon. Mrs. Julla Willlams, the president, presided. Plans were made for collecting old linen for the Brooklyn Surgical Dressing Committee, which meet dally at Hotel St. George.
The society is also working for the missionary in Barbados, West Indies, who is Rev. S. A. Esterbrook. Arrangements were made for a surprise soclal to be held in the near future at the home of Mrs. F. W. Yates."

AND
Asbury Park Press, Aug 16 1913, P. 2, Col. 1, in Local Happenings
www.newspapers.com
"At the evangelical tent in Springwood avenue the Rev. S. A. Esterbrook, will conduct the meetings every night."

See also:
The Sun [New York], 19 January 1908, Image 20, P. 6, Second Section, Col. 7
www.nyshistoricnewspapers.org
"The Rev. Antoinette Esterbrook has just returned to her work on the Island of Barbados, British West Indies, after a short visit to her old home in the United States. Miss Esterbrook is a native of New York, a graduate of a mission training school and an ordained minister in the Free Baptist Church. She was at one time inspector of prisons at Manchester, N. H., and for several years carried on evangelical work in various parts of New England.
Sixteen years ago, without funds or influence, she went to Barbados and began holding open air meetings. Now her mission holdings include four churches, two day schools, one mission home, a children's home and a naval home, all housed in substantial buildings. She superintends the Tropical Training School of Bridgetown. which she founded, and conducts twenty meetings each week and four Sunday schools, besides directing a corps of native assistants in school and church work.
On the sixteenth anniversary of the founding of the mission she received a purse of $100 from the merchants of Berkeley as a token of their esteem, and the Colonial Secretary, the Hon. S. W. Knagg. paid a warm tribute to her character and work. Last July the British Government invested her with the power to perform civil marriages."

Although this may indicate who she was, and why she might have been in the news in 1908, it does not clarify the date or location of the photo, which looks like a graduation picture.

Another reference to S. Antoinette Esterbrook in Barbadoes[sic] is in
- www.onemag.org
See page 58.

An obituary is at
Barbados Advocate [British West Indies], July 12 1951, P. 3, Col. 6
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"The Late Rev. Esterbrook
A Tribute

AFTER a lingering illness, the Rev. S. A. Esterbrook was called to rest from her earthly labours on Thursday, June 21st.
The deceased, who was an American, served as a Sunday School teacher and Evangelist in the Methodist Church, and at the age of 19, she was a captain in the Salvation Army.
On November 27th, 1904, Miss Esterbrook was ordained as Minister at the Hillsdale Baptist College, Mich. America, and graduated as a B.D. and D.E.
During her ministerial career in Barbados Miss Esterbrook served in the Free Baptist Church with much ardour and devotion, Through her instrumentality trained workers have gone from Barbados to be missionaries in Africa, and one laid down her life there.
With the assistance of others, several churches and missions were built, and the wide circle of friends which she made contributed generously to the Mission work, hereby enabling her to bring sunshine into the hearts of hundreds of the underprivileged of this Colony. It is true to state that both the merchants and planters gave unstintedly to the cause, as well as friends and well wishers in the U.S.A.
It is worthy of note to mention (hat during her active ministry the Rev. Esterbrook filled appointments in Canada and America, The results obtained therefrom were used in stimulating the work in Barbados.
After sixty years of missionary endeavour, Sarah Antoinette Esterbrook has passed on,
The mantle has fallen upon the shoulders of Rev. Ford-Moore, who is Superintendent of Court Free Baptist Church, Whitepark Road.
In honour of her memory a Memorial Service will be held at Court Free Baptist Church tonight at 7 o'clock and a cordial invitation is extended to all friends."

It seems possible that the picture was taken in 1904 when she graduated from Hillsdale Baptist College in Michigan

See

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phyllis_Dare
"Phyllis Dare (born Phyllis Constance Haddie Dones; 15 August 1890 – 27 April 1975) was an English actress and singer famous for her performances in Edwardian musical comedy and other musical theatre in the first half of the 20th century.

Born in Chelsea, London, Dare first performed on stage at the age of nine, in the Christmas pantomime Babes in the Wood (1899), together with her sister, Zena. Later that year, she appeared as Little Christina in Ib and Little Christina. She soon played Mab in the Seymour Hicks musical Bluebell in Fairyland, and at the age of 15, she took over the starring role of Angela in The Catch of the Season.

In 1909, Dare created the role of Eileen Cavanagh in the hit musical The Arcadians, where she met the producer George Edwardes. This started a long association between the two, who collaborated on productions including The Girl in the Train, Peggy and The Quaker Girl. In 1912, she starred in The Sunshine Girl. In 1913 she joined the cast of The Dancing Mistress, as Nancy Joyce, at the Adelphi Theatre and continued to star in successful productions throughout the 1920s, including in the role of Mariana in The Lady of the Rose (1922)."

A possible context for this photo is discussed in NYT, Apr 17 1908
- www.nytimes.com

"John B. Stanchfield, attorney for the defense in the suit of Emanuel Weil and Minnie Weiler against the Directors, of the New York City Railway to recover losses on Metropolitan Street Railway stock, at the hearing before Justice William H. Young in the Municipal Court yesterday expounded an interesting theory on the propriety of Directors speculating upon information obtained in the discharge of their corporate duties. This was by way of blocking off an attempt by Eugene Kremer, counsel for the complainants, to compel H. H. Vreeland, President of the City Railway and the Metropolitan, to tell what stock of the Third Avenue road he bought or sold about the time that the Metropolitan was acquiring the control of the Third Avenue Railway."

"Mr. Kremer approached the subject of putting in evidence the minutes of a meeting of Metropolitan Street Railway Directors, showing that Thomas F. Ryan, William L. Elkins, P. A. B. Widener, and Mr. Vreeland were all present when the Third Avenue lease was passed upon."

www.nytimes.com
"BOSTON, Aug. 2.-To-morrow, on the twenty-second birthday of Miss Gladys Lawson, eldest daughter of Thomas W. Lawson, Mr. and Mrs. Lawson will announce her engagement to Eben Blaine Stanwood, a well-known Boston society man. The wedding will take place in October.

Mr. Stanwood is the son of Francis M. Stanwood of 527 Beacon Street, Boston, and a grandnephew of the late James G. Blaine. He is a Harvard graduate and is prominent in many social organizations. Including the Hasty Pudding Club and the Puritan Club. The Stanwood residence is near the Winter residence of the Lawsons.

Miss Lawson is an accomplished horsewoman and athlete, and is the owner of the famous Gypsy Queen, winner of more than a score of blue ribbons. She also owns numerous valuable dogs."

Probably
- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Koch
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Heinrich Hermann Robert Koch (/kɒx/ KOKH; German: [ˈʁoːbɛʁt kɔx] ⓘ; 11 December 1843 – 27 May 1910) was a German physician and microbiologist. He won the 1905 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine "for his investigations and discoveries in relation to tuberculosis".
--
"In July 1867, Koch married Emma (Emmy) Adolfine Josephine Fraatz, and the two had a daughter, Gertrude, in 1868. Their marriage ended after 26 years in 1893, and later that same year, he married actress Hedwig Freiberg (1872–1945)."

Memoir by her was "Life Next to Robert Koch."
www.wallstein-verlag.de

See

See de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hedwig_Freiberg
which features this second Bain photo.

"Thomas Phillips (died 22 November 1693) was a Royal Navy officer and engineer who worked with some of the leading naval figures of his period, and was involved in military operations against the French during the Nine Years' War. ..."

via - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Phillips_(engineer)
And - www.dib.ie

Guessing the chain is encased in wood to make it float ?
Someone will know ...

beachcomber australia Which wood would work?

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It might be dogwood. You can tell by the bark.

beachcomber australia Oh, that old chestnut!

The chain is wearing swimming trunks.

beachcomber australia Can't beleaf this new branch of research.

National Library of Ireland on The Commons
I am bamboozled. Perhaps I should log on.

beachcomber australia Good idea. Then you might be able to twig what's going on.

That's Mrs GEORGE Gould, nee Edith Kingdon.