Conversations
Here are conversations that have happened in the last week on Flickr Commons:
Oh Happy Day
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- beachcomber australia said:
- beachcomber australia said:
- National Library of Ireland on The Commons said:
- Suck Diesel said:
- Suck Diesel said:
- beachcomber australia said:
- National Library of Ireland on The Commons said:
- O Mac said:
- O Mac said:
Do you know your "Schüte-Lanz" from your "Astra Torres"?
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Suck Diesel said:
1915, price 2d
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beachcomber australia said:
I'd not heard of Schütte-Lanz airships before - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Sch%C3%BCtte-Lanz_airships
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National Library of Ireland on The Commons said:
Suck Diesel 1915, thank you.
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beachcomber australia said:
Flickr is sometimes amazing! A 1914 postcard (with a message in German on the back) of a Schütte-Lanz airship bombing Warsaw, via Neil Ennis
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Swordscookie said:
The German aircraft were so much more elegant than their British counterparts! The British planes illustrated here really do look like "stringbags".
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National Library of Ireland on The Commons said:
beachcomber australia Always startled by the early dates of aerial bombing.
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National Library of Ireland on The Commons said:
Here's more on the bombing of Warsaw in WWI.
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Suck Diesel said:
The airships initially bombed with impunity
They could escape defending aircraft by quickly ascending to more than 10,000-ft and depart.
Even if the they were shot at, the bullet holes were small and gas loss was minimal.
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Suck Diesel said:
The poster could also be purchased from
E. PONSOMBY, LIMITED, 116, Grafton Street, Dublin
The Post Office - a home from home!
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Suck Diesel said:
Bridge St, NLS, sadly
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Niall McAuley said:
The coronation of Edward VII and his wife, Alexandra, as king and queen of the United Kingdom and the British Dominions took place at Westminster Abbey, London, on 9 August 1902. Originally scheduled for 26 June of that year, the ceremony had been postponed at very short notice, because the King had been taken ill
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Niall McAuley said:
The poster says 26 June, so it was put up before the cancellation, and would surely have been replaced before the event.
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Niall McAuley said:
The dia says the PO was built 1895-97, but cryptically adds Fittings 1904 dia.ie
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Niall McAuley said:
The other poster is for the Adder, a steamer sailing between Belfast and Ardrossan in Scotland.
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Niall McAuley said:
In the 1901 Census, Thomas Brogan, postmaster, his mother Jane, and Annie Richards, a servant, are living here.
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Suck Diesel said:
Yorkshire Relish was once the best-selling bottled sauce in the world, selling over 13 million bottles a year by 1907.
Now only produced by Goodall’s of Ireland -
Niall McAuley said:
Jane Brogan lived until 1912, died still on Bridge St, Portadown, so good chance the Brogans are living here in this shot.
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Niall McAuley said:
Yes, Thomas is still postmaster in the 1911.
[Optical illusion disc with somersaults and horseback riding] (LOC)
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Patrice M Christian said:
It is a phenakistoscope.
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Jon (LOC P&P) said:
Thanks Patrice M Christian, I'll see if we can add that to the catalog record.
Ear Elgin, Sec'y for Colonies, portrait bust (LOC)
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Jon (LOC P&P) said:
swanq, I agree, I think this is Victor. We'll add that to the catalog record.
Lord Tweedmouth, Naval Secretary, portrait bust (LOC)
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jesse@some said:
Amazing shot 🏆
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Jon (LOC P&P) said:
Thanks for all the information swanq. We'll update the catalog record.
Czar and Czarewitch, cameo portrait (LOC)
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Jon (LOC P&P) said:
Thanks swanq, we'll update this catalog record.
J.S. Sherman, profile portrait (LOC)
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Jon (LOC P&P) said:
Thanks swanq, we'll update this catalog record.
Jack O'Brien, in wrestling trunks (LOC)
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Jon (LOC P&P) said:
Thanks swanq, we'll update the record and I'll get someone to change wresting trunks to boxing trunks.
A. Birrell, Chief Sec'y for Ireland in 1908, at desk (LOC)
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Jon (LOC P&P) said:
Thanks swanq, we'll update the catalog record.
26_0074942 Rohr Collection Image
from SDASM Archives
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Chuck Walla said:
I think there are two diffusion vacuum pumps on the top of whatever this thing is. Corrections are welcomed.
26_0075490 Rohr Collection Image
from SDASM Archives
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Chuck Walla said:
I'd like to see the crimper that crimped the wire rope seen here.
26_0075468 Rohr Collection Image
from SDASM Archives
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Chuck Walla said:
Hard hat shortage?
Naming of the parts.
Wire rope:
Clevis:
LCF-24: V32 Training with Panamanian SENAFRONT 260729-M-UR958-1588
from Navy Medicine
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Sigurd Krieger said:
Congrats on Xplore!!
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Flickr said:
Congrats on Explore! ⭐ August 13, 2026
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Jan said:
congrats on Explore!
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Francesco Dini said:
Congrats on making Explore! 🎉✨ 👏 - Wonderful light and mood 🌅
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Nicolas Appel said:
Well done! Congratulations on being featured in explore!
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lameato feliz said:
Congratulations on Explore!
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Miriam Ulivi said:
☮️ 👍👏🌟 well done !! congrats on Explore !!! 🌟🏆❤☮️
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Lukas Larsed said:
Congrats on Explore 😍
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Axel Khan said:
Great photo.
Your photostream is fascinating and full of great shots!
Congrats on Explore.
Fanny Myers
from North East Museums
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jessamyn west said:
Saul שאול Davis May her memory be a blessing.
Lum's hot dog restaurant: Fort Lauderdale, Florida
from Florida Memory
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Infrogmation of New Orleans said:
Anyone know where this one was? I'm pretty sure I went here with family in the early 1970s - it was attached to a mall that also had a movie theater. Somewhere on Federal Hwy in the northern part of Ft. Lauderdale maybe?
Ride the Book Trail to knowledge and adventure (LOC)
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Howard 1234 said:
wonderful
Sailor with breathing apparatus, submarine 'Tactician', 1950 SLNSW_FL9306914
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Reg Gorring (regwah) said:
The nose clamp is hilarious, what a scary job.
"B" Company of the Irish Volunteers from Cork.
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Suck Diesel said:
“The Irish Volunteers was a paramilitary organisation formed in November 1913. It was set up in response to an article by Eoin MacNeill in the nationalist newspaper, An Claidheamh Soluis. The article called on nationalists to arm themselves in order to achieve Home Rule.
With the advent of the First World War, there was a split in the Irish Volunteers. This was because the leader of the Nationalist Party, John Redmond, called on all Irish Volunteers to support the British war effort. Those who agreed with Redmond became the National Volunteers. Those who did not want to support the British in the war remained the Irish Volunteers, many of whom eventually took part in the 1916 Rising”
"the first item on the agenda of any Irish organisation is the split"
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beachcomber australia said:
Great to see there is a Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy in Company B ...
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National Library of Ireland on The Commons said:
beachcomber australia I was wondering which of you would suggest this!
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Niall McAuley said:
The catalogue says this is September 1914, the same month the Volunteers split over support for WW1
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National Library of Ireland on The Commons said:
Niall McAuley Missed September. Mea culpa!
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Suck Diesel said:
Niall McAuley which way did they go?
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Suck Diesel said:
“Capuchin Archives, Ireland
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Colours for Irish National Volunteers, Cork, 1914
A newspaper clipping from the ‘Daily Mail’ documenting the consecration and presentation of military colours to the Cork Battalion of the Irish National Volunteers in November 1914. The article features two photographs highlighting a ceremony where William Redmond first receives the blessed flags from the divisional chaplain, Reverend John Russell. The second image shows Redmond presenting these consecrated colours to Lieutenants MacGrath and Hill.
William ‘Willie’ Redmond was an Irish nationalist politician and a younger brother of John Redmond, the leader of the moderate Irish Parliamentary Party. The Redmond brothers championed the Irish National Volunteers – the majority faction that split from the original Irish Volunteers in 1914 to support the Allied war effort in hopes of securing Home Rule. At the age 53, William Redmond commissioned into the 6th Battalion of the Royal Irish Regiment. Referring to his decision to enlist, he remarked ‘No man who is honest can doubt the single-minded desire of myself and men like me to do what is right for Ireland. And when it comes to the question … of asking young Irishmen to go abroad and fight this battle … in Flanders and in France – old as I am, and grey as are my hairs, I will say come with me’. William Redmond was killed at the Battle of Messines in June 1917.
Thousands of National Volunteers, including members from the Cork Battalion, joined the British Army and formed the core of the 16th (Irish) Division. As World War I progressed, the domestic National Volunteer organization collapsed because large numbers of its members were deployed to – and killed on – the battlefields of Europe. This steep loss of life, combined with the political shock of the 1916 Easter Rising, caused Irish public opinion to turn sharply against Redmond’s moderate, constitutional strategy and embrace militant republicanism instead.
The newspaper clipping is taken from an ephemera collection compiled by the editors of ‘The Capuchin Annual’ (Identifier: catholicarchives.ie.)”
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Empire Hotel
from Powerhouse Museum
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covid convict said:
The Empire Hotel was built in stages...the 105 Pitt St component appears to have been built in 1884-85...the remainder (which included the corner allotment and also 27 Hunter St) was built in 1885-86...the original building/s was built by the Colonial Mutual Life Assurance Society, with the intention that it would be let as offices...Colonial Mutual Life moved into the ground floor of 105 Pitt St in 1886...however, in ca. early-mid 1887 the building was turned into a hotel...and the Empire Hotel opened for business on 15th October, 1887...though the lower floors of 105 Pitt St weren't incorporated into the hotel...they remained as offices...Colonial Mutual Life had their Sydney head office there until 1910...
The architect for both the 105 Pitt St building and the second building at the SW corner of Pitt/Hunter Sts that became the Empire Hotel was John Kirkpatrick, who at the time just happened to have his office next door at 109 Pitt St…the contractor for the 105 Pitt St building was William Coleman, the contractors for the building at the SW corner of Pitt/Hunter Sts were Bignell & Clarke...Andrew & Palfrey were evidently contractors for the stonework and brickwork. Some newspaper items refer to the building/s as being in the Jacobean [Revival] stye...others have it as being in the Queen Anne style…
I'm not 100% certain, but I think this pic might have been taken in ca. 1892...if you zoom in you can see the allotments at 19-21 Hunter St are vacant. Just going on the few newspaper items that I've managed to find, the previous building at 19 Hunter St appears to have been demolished in late 1891 or early 1892...the previous building at 21 Hunter St appears to have been demolished in ca. late 1890-early 1891...
The later building erected at 19-21 Hunter St was evidently known as Argent Chambers...it was numbered 19, 19a, 21 Hunter St...it first appears by this name in the digitised newspapers in 1893...so my guess is it might have been built in 1892-93...
So all up, I think the date has to be ca. 1892...after the previous buildings at 19-21 Hunter St had been demolished, but before the new building was built...
See comments/links here...
26_0075483 Rohr Collection Image
from SDASM Archives
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Chuck Walla said:
In order to help the museum make images easier to locate and marketable, if you can identify building numbers in photos, please feel free to add tags. Also feel free to add names of persons appearing in photos or work group names to tags.
I just now realied that Bycrus Erie crane belongs to Rohr and not some crane service...
26_0031826 Rohr Collection Image
from SDASM Archives
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Chuck Walla said:
This looks like some hydraulic modeling tool. Part of a patent application?
26_0031271 Rohr Collection Image
from SDASM Archives
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Chuck Walla said:
RADAR was an internal parts system at Rohr. (I only know this from tagging images.)
26_0046802 Rohr Collection Image
from SDASM Archives
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Chuck Walla said:
Are those steel-toed shoes? Kidding.
26_0014912 Rohr Collection Image
from SDASM Archives
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Chuck Walla said:
Should be flipped horizontally.
26_0014911 Rohr Collection Image
from SDASM Archives
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Chuck Walla said:
Should be flipped horizontally.
26_0014908 Rohr Collection Image
from SDASM Archives
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Chuck Walla said:
Should be flipped horizontally.
26_0014909 Rohr Collection Image
from SDASM Archives
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Chuck Walla said:
Should be flipped horizontally.
26_0014910 Rohr Collection Image
from SDASM Archives
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Chuck Walla said:
Should be flipped horizontally.
26_0014904 Rohr Collection Image
from SDASM Archives
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Chuck Walla said:
Should be flipped horizontally.
26_0042727 Rohr Collection Image
from SDASM Archives
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Chuck Walla said:
Looks like a Richard Serra aculpture.
26_0042731 Rohr Collection Image
from SDASM Archives
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Chuck Walla said:
Early computer-aided drafting?
26_0058452 Rohr Collection Image
from SDASM Archives
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Chuck Walla said:
Gladys? I can't read the nametag.
26_0038863 Rohr Collection Image
from SDASM Archives
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Chuck Walla said:
At center is an IBM line printer. It seems to be the subject of this photo. I think these were belt printers. Please comment if you know. Also, please add tags identifying the location of this system if you know it.
26_0038858 Rohr Collection Image
from SDASM Archives
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Chuck Walla said:
A Pitney Bowes postage metering machine used in business and non-profit mail rooms.
26_0038561 Rohr COllection Image
from SDASM Archives
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Chuck Walla said:
Anyone recognize this? Looks like an airport.
26_0038556 Rohr COllection Image
from SDASM Archives
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Chuck Walla said:
Damaged rubber belt and wiring harness.
26_0038555 Rohr COllection Image
from SDASM Archives
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Chuck Walla said:
Safety inspector Chuck says, "Can you spot the trip hazard?"
26_0038554 Rohr COllection Image
from SDASM Archives
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Chuck Walla said:
I like the repetition of form of the letter J on each column. I would not put my hand as shown in the photo. 💥
Wonderful Waverly in the wilderness
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La Belle Province said:
I love the behatted poppets, and they are indeed reminiscent of The Railway Children.
The "Skins" being bombed in their billets - photobombed
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Maryade said:
Colin Hanks (back row, far right) looks a bit dubious 😄
26_0063984 Rohr Collection Image
from SDASM Archives
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Chuck Walla said:
Slide is flipped horizontally.
Ireland's answer to Communism
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Maryade said:
National Library of Ireland on The Commons he was a politician, participant in the Easter Rising. Other members of his family were active in politics including his granddaughter Avril Doyle.
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Maryade said:
Suck Diesel In that case, I’m Brian and so is my wife!
Wind Tunnel Solar Car
from SDASM Archives
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Chuck Walla said:
Thanks to Flickr user So Cal Metro for posting a photo that suggests this is San Diego State's Suntrakker car (your corrections are welcomed):
