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Extract from Sarah Parker Remond’s application to become a British citizen

from The National Archives UK

  • Blue Mountains Library, Local Studies said:
    It is my understanding that the whole document wasn't actually 'written' by Sarah. Her signature is quite unlike the 'flowing, elegant script' of the petition. An amanuensis or scribe skilled in this sort of flowery expression and presentation work would have written it under her instructions and no doubt for payment.
  • Merryjack said:
    Blue Mountains Library, Local Studies
    I'm thinking a solicitor's clerk may have been the actual 'writer' of the document.
    Doctor's handwriting was probably as poor then as now, although it wasn't until two years later in 1867 that Sarah went to Italy to pursue medical training in Florence, where she became a physician. She practiced medicine for nearly 20 years in Italy and never returned to the United States, dying in Rome at the age of 68. See a lovely portrait of her here with more details of her life - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarah_Parker_Remond
  • Jock Livre said:
    Sarah's brother Charles Lenox Remond was a firebrand orator who told a meeting in 1857 which Sarah also attended, "When the world shall learn that 'mind makes the man'-- that goodness; moral worth, and integrity of soul, are the true tests of Character, then prejudice against caste and color, will cease to be."
    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Lenox_Remond
  • Merryjack said:
    It is interesting that when Charles Lenox Remond married Elizabeth Magee, a native of Virginia, in Newton on July 5, 1858. The abolitionist preacher, Rev. Theodore Parker, officiated. Theodore Parker (August 24, 1810 – May 10, 1860) was an American transcendentalist and reforming minister of the Unitarian church. A reformer and abolitionist, his words and popular quotations would later inspire speeches by Abraham Lincoln and Martin Luther King Jr. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodore_Parker
  • Blue Mountains Library, Local Studies said:
    Merryjack
    And the great Frederick Douglass, "the most important leader of the movement for African-American civil rights in the 19th century", so admired Charles that he named one of his sons for him: Charles Remond Douglass.
    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Lenox_Remond
    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_Douglass

Went to the opticians and look what they did to my lens

from National Library of Ireland on The Commons

  • beachcomber australia said:
    It all looks electric to me. Probably 1960+ ...

    "... Electrification, helicopters, radar and radio beacons: An electrification programme began in the 1960s, and helicopter operations were introduced, leading to a reduction in the number of lighthouse vessels from four to one. Radar beacons or racons were introduced to provide radar marking for key dangers and radio beacons were introduced to provide long-range (200 mile) positioning. ... "

    via - www.irishlights.ie
  • George FitzPatrick said:
    Switch gear looks from the 60's through to 70's. Now a good idea where the abrasive belt linisher is sited. Grinding dust could be deposited on the lens/reflector dish and ring gear.
  • CASSIDY PHOTOGRAPHY said:
    This light fixture rotates 360°. Was it possibly for a lighthouse?
  • Suck Diesel said:
    CASSIDY PHOTOGRAPHY Yes, given the original
    Switchgear May or may not have been for the lights?
    Lots to f stuff going on in that workshop
    I wonder if it was the one in Dun Laoghaire?
  • Suck Diesel said:
    I’m thinking xenon arc lamps, given the heavy control traffos, likely 1950s
    Lamps not fitted yet, for safety reasons, given their very high internal gas pressure

Identified! [Underwater breathing devices: "Dräger Gegenlunge" (left), "Momseng Lung" (center), and "Davis Submerged Escape Apparatus" (right)] (LOC)

from The Library of Congress

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  • philethier said:
    Admiral Charles Bowers "Swede" Momsen was my late wife's granduncle. He was the uncle of Lois Mae Momsen. He was the son of Hart Momsen and violinist/pianist Susie Bowers.

    Sewde also invented the McCann Rescue Chamber, and directed the rescue of sailors from the sunken submarine Squalus in 1939. Sam Neill (who just died a couple of weeks age) played Swede Momsen in the TV movie Submerged, loosely based on the Peter Maas books.

    The Momsen Lung was actually a rebreather, not an oxygen tank.

Maud Powell

from Boston Public Library Digital

New Zealand contingent at 1937 Anzac Day commemoration, 25 Aoril 1937, by Sam Hood

from State Library of New South Wales

Miss Child, playing cricket, ca. 1935, Sam Hood

from State Library of New South Wales

Una Dodd from Camping trips on Culburra Beach by Max Dupain and Olive Cotton

from State Library of New South Wales

[Ruthenian woman.]

from New York Public Library

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  • Creative Design said:
    beautiful :)

December 1970 Aerial - Menlo Park Civic Center and El Camino Real/Downtown

from Menlo Park Planning

  • Richard Clark said:
    It took me a second to figure this out - that is the Alec variety store in the upper left corner of the photo.

Gasoline Shortage 06/1973

from U.S. National Archives

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  • Chuck Walla said:
    Keeping in mind that I also make mistakes, the sign maker means,
    IS: "do to,"
    SHOULD BE: "due to."

Some say Griessler, some say Griebler

from National Library of Ireland on The Commons

  • beachcomber australia said:
    Confusing! - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%9F
  • National Library of Ireland on The Commons said:
    beachcomber australia Thank you for your contribution, you have managed to confuse me even more!
  • glessew said:
    I think Griessler is written with the old German ringel-s.
  • beachcomber australia said:
    Ha ha! AI (Google Lens) is telling me she is Austrian professor Laura Griessler, but I cannot find anything non-AI to confirm. Yet ...
  • Suck Diesel said:
    Grießler" (or Griessler) is a distinctly Austrian or southern German surname
  • Niall McAuley said:
    catalogue.nli.ie
  • Niall McAuley said:
    Per the dib, Hanna travelled in France and Germany for her health in 1895, TB usually meant in the Alps. She had a position teaching German in the Rathmines school of commerce.
  • Suck Diesel said:
    Niall McAuley In 1912 she had a busy time

    May 1912: She co-founded and launched The Irish Citizen, a feminist newspaper designed to support the Irish suffrage movement.
    June 13, 1912: In protest of women being excluded from the Home Rule Bill, she and several other women smashed the windows of government buildings at Dublin Castle. She was arrested and served a month in Mountjoy Prison. Following her arrest, she was fired from her position as a German teacher at the Rathmines School of Commerce

A Weastern Peach and peach orchard (LOC)

from The Library of Congress

  • Lulu Winslow said:
    You mean PEAR and PEACH or PEACH and PEAR but not PEACH and PEACH, yes?
  • Jon (LOC P&P) said:
    Thanks Lulu Winslow! I will update that in the catalog record. Also we discussed if the second word really was supposed to be Weastern. I looked up the copyright registration and it says Western, so I will put Western in brackets beside Weastern.

Peach water tower, Gaffney, South Carolina (LOC)

from The Library of Congress

  • swanq said:
    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peachoid
    'The Peachoid is a 135 foot (41 m) tall water tower in Gaffney, South Carolina, U.S., that was built in 1981 to resemble a peach. The water tower holds one million U.S. gallons (3.78541 million litres) of water and is located off Peachoid Road by Interstate 85 between exits 90 and 92 (near the Cherokee Foothills Scenic Highway). Usually referred to by locals as "The Peach" and by passing motorists as "Mr. Peach" or "The Moon over Gaffney", the water tank is visible for several miles around these exits.'

When Dublin and Cairo were twinned

from National Library of Ireland on The Commons

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  • John Spooner said:
    Cairo replaced Gibraltar on Saturday 25th March 1809.

    British Press - 16 March 1809:
    British Press - 16 March 1809
  • John Spooner said:
    Barker also had a Panorama in the Strand, where interesting views of Dover and Copenhagen could be seen in the summer of 1809 (Morning Post 28 July 1809).

    Cairo and Dublin were still on view at the Leicester Square Panorama in September (Morning Herald (London) 30 September 1809)
  • John Spooner said:
    The Dublin exhibit was closed on 27th February 1810, replaced by Flushing. Cairo was to continue for a short time. ( Morning Chronicle 17 February 1810). The Flushing view showed the recent attack by land and sea, with the town in flames.
  • John Spooner said:
    A diagram of the Leicester Square Panorama building here
  • John Spooner said:
    Some background to Barker and the Panorama in The Stage 17 November 1988
    These were all the rage in the 19th century, spectacular artefacts made possible by a Scottish artist Robert Barker who discovered a means of presenting an all-embracing view, by painting on the inside of an enormous cylinder and placing the spectator at its centre.

    It was a technical problem of considerable complexity. In a picture painted round a circumference of 360 degrees, straight lines had to be curved, and curved lines straightened. Distances called for finely graduated brush- work to create the illusion of depth and perspective had to be observed.

    Barker called the picture a Panorama, patented the process in 1787 and first exhibited "Mr Baker's Interesting and novel view of the City and Castle of Edinburgh and the whole adjacent and surrounding Country" in 1788 exactly 200 years ago.

    In 1789, Barker's Panorama came to London. It was so successful the artist had it permanently housed in a vast brick rotunda he built for it near Leicester Square in 1793. There it continued to draw the town at the moderate entrance fee of one shilling.
  • beachcomber australia said:
    Trove thinks Mr Robert Barker was Irish ...
    trove.nla.gov.au

    THE INVENTOR OF THE PANORAMA.
    ROBERT BABKER, an Irish painter, who lived in Edinburgh toward the close of the last century, was the inventor of panoramas. In 1785 (says the Irish-American) he was imprisoned for debt in the Scottish capital. His cell was lighted by an air-hole in one of the corners, which left the lower part of the room in such darkness that he could not read the letters sent to him. He found, however, that when he placed them against the part of the wall lighted by the air-hole the words became very distinct. The effect was most striking, and it occurred to him that if a picture were placed in a similar position it would have a wonderful effect. Accordingly, on his liberation, he made a series of experiments which enabled him to improve his invention, and on 19th of June, 1787, he obtained a patent in London which establishes his claim to be the inventor of the panorama. London artists spoke with great contempt of Barker's exhibition, but their opinions did not prevent the public from rushing in crowds to see the pictures exhibited in the rotunda in Leicester-square. Excellence was soon obtained in the art, and it became a "chestnut " that so completely descriptive was a panorama by Barker of a shipwreck that a Newfoundland dog would leap into the picture to drag the drowning persons out of the sea.
  • beachcomber australia said:
    I was wondering how those sailing ships fitted under Sackville Bridge; then I twigged the drawing is 'upside-down', South is at the top. Equivalent Google Maps 3D (which might have blown Mr Barker's mind!) - www.google.com
  • beachcomber australia said:
    "Robert Barker (1739 – 8 April 1806) was a painter from Kells, County Meath, Ireland, known for his panoramic paintings and for his coinage of the word "panorama". "

    via - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Barker_(painter)
  • beachcomber australia said:
    Yikes! I didn't expect the Rotunda building to still be there near Leicester Square. Transformed into a church in the 1860s ...
    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Notre_Dame_de_France



    Google Maps 3D - www.google.com

Miss Amy Castles soprano

from Boston Public Library Digital

  • National Library of Ireland on The Commons said:
    Lovely to see Russell & Sons photographs in other libraries' collections!
  • National Library of Ireland on The Commons said:
  • Boston Public Library Digital said:
    National Library of Ireland on The Commons ❤

Marie Heilbron

from Boston Public Library Digital

Wilson and Carswell have Reformed

from National Library of Ireland on The Commons

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  • billh35 said:
    "Bell, Logan & Carswell" were printers and stationers in Belfast in the 1950/60's with premises in Queen Street.

    "A five storey red brick warehouse building built 1895 – 1896. The building was part occupied by R. Carswell & Son Ltd, stationers and printers since 1896 and the remainder of the building was leased to various businesses. R. Carswell & Son became Bell, Logan & Carswell Ltd during the 1950s and continued to occupy the building until at least 1960. The company was acquired by Century Press and reportedly continued to occupy part of the building until the late 1980s."

Lamps, Masts, and Layabouts

from National Library of Ireland on The Commons

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  • billh35 said:
    The little quay on the right where the donkey and cart are shown was called The Sand Quay where sand was landed and trans-shipped.

None so wise as the Sage cabinet maker

from National Library of Ireland on The Commons

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  • Suck Diesel said:
    No. 36/7 now occupied by the Bell Pepper Restaurant
    bellpepper.ie

    Streetview out of date showing site occupied by former pop up art shop The Cliff
  • Niall McAuley said:
    The William who died in his 30s was a son of the older William, living with him still in 1901:

    nationalarchives.ie

Entrance to White City Rushcutters Bay Sydney, c. 1915

from State Library of New South Wales

Amarillo, Texas, general view, Santa Fe R.R. trip (LOC)

from The Library of Congress

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  • Anthony Mullenix said:
    my hometown wow