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Here are conversations that have happened in the last week on Flickr Commons:
Controversy carved in stone!
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- Niall McAuley said:
- National Library of Ireland on The Commons said:
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- Suck Diesel said:
Two men in masks, Lunar Park, Sydney, c. 1945
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Pig Pang said:
Servus fro Vienna! State Library of NSW, Two men in masks, Lunar Park,Sydney, c. 1945 is an incredible capture!
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Chuck Walla said:
In 1974, there were no flat panel displays. It's unclear what display technology was made to look like a flat panel.
Westinghouse also built and sold power reactors and some of the expertise that made these consoles my have come from that division.
This position has a red handset that is not present at the other consoles. My guess is that it's an elevator emergency phone. When there's a problem, the phone in the car might ring here. BART initially had a fire crew which (I believe) was for the Trans-Bay tube. It may be for fire dispatch. I think they've always had an auto-aid agreement with SFFD and Oakland but in the early days they had one BART high rail fire vehicle.
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Chuck Walla said:
Truckers call flatbed trailers, "skateboards."
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Chuck Walla said:
This would've been a fun time to be at Rohr.
There was a episode of naval horniness for speedy vessels at about this time. There was a Soviet surface effect ship illustration on the cover of Popular Mechanics. There were also a couple of Soviet hydrofoil designs which were dual use but were marketed as civilian.
Many of these were operational well into the 1980s including some purchased by Turkey and scandinavian countries. The U.S. operated a ship designated Patrol Hydrofoil Missile (PMH) which included two Boeing 707 jet engines as part of the propulsion. So far as I know, these deigns went out of fashion when the Cold War ended.
U.S. Patrol Hydrofoil Missile historic photos:
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Chuck Walla said:
Name tags are not readable to my eye.
Boarding with McPhail is confusing
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Swordscookie said:
Galwey in Dublin but all in Belfast???
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National Library of Ireland on The Commons said:
Swordscookie Thank you! We do our best.
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beachcomber australia said:
Google Lens is nudging me towards the terrace of hotels at Queen's Promenade, Douglas, Isle of Man. I am not sure which particular pair of houses this is.
IoMview - maps.app.goo.gl/Xa4xkSrhdpzMrxYL7
Nearby in 1911 - www.facebook.com/groups/manxnostalgia/posts/1015906558580... -
beachcomber australia said:
NB The tram lines, still there in Douglas.
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beachcomber australia said:
Second thoughts - this pair seem to match a bit better - end of terrace on the right, five steps up, three basement windows, etc.
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beachcomber australia said:
Flickr is sometimes amazing! In June 2022 via me -

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Dún Laoghaire Micheál said:
Pawnbrokers Gazette 2 May 1903

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Dún Laoghaire Micheál said:
May 1922 -
"DOUGLAS .- Mrs. Baker, Balmoral, Queen's Promenade:
book now for the T.T. Races." -
Dún Laoghaire Micheál said:
1910
Latest ad I can find with "McPhails" from 1911 on, its just plain old Balmoral. (I could be wrong)
"DOUGLAS. - McPHAIL'S BALMORAL, Queen's Promenade. Magnificent sea view. Spacious dining, drawing, smokerooms; over 30 lofty bedrooms ; late dinners; full board from 5s. 6d. ; cars pass."
Give the carte to me
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Niall McAuley said:
No young D. Toomey in 1911 in County Waterford. I like 10 year old Denis Toomey of Clonmel. His father, also Denis, is a Fireman at a Milk Factory
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Niall McAuley said:
Google maps says this Streetview shows Ballydurn Creamery, which a HAGS says closed in the 1960s, and was a satellite of Kilmeaden. The building does not appear on the 1930s Cassini map.
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National Library of Ireland on The Commons said:
Niall McAuley he could well be, and in my opinion he could be 26 or 27 in this photo.
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CASSIDY PHOTOGRAPHY said:
Maybe the tip of a Montblanc fountain pen.
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Swordscookie said:
I seem to remember the "White Star pin". As I recall it was something to do with abstaining from the use of bad language. Our friend Stuart who collects such things will know.
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National Library of Ireland on The Commons said:
Swordscookie Sure let's ask him Stuart do you know anything about the pin this man is wearing? and please see the previous comment. Mary
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Stuart said:
National Library of Ireland on The Commons Hi Niall/Sean. Sorry, I don't recognise this badge at all. Also, it's way smaller than most lapel badges. There are white star-shaped lapel badges of this period and are generally associated with the Temperance Movement. Thanks for asking. Stuart.
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National Library of Ireland on The Commons said:
Stuart Thank you Sir, Mary
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Chuck Walla said:
Air/Space America 88 was an aviation exposition and airshow held at San Diego, California's Brown Field in late May of 1988.
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Chuck Walla said:
This may be the same microphone Dan Hearn was using when giving factory tours.
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Chuck Walla said:
There are photos of engine installations on a Cessna Citation in this photostream. I guess that's what this model represents but the engraved plaste doesn't say "Citation." It only says Cessna.
Viola Tree (LOC)
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swanq said:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viola_Tree
"Viola Tree (17 July 1884 – 15 November 1938) was an English actress, singer, playwright and author. Daughter of the actor Herbert Beerbohm Tree, she made many of her early appearances with his company at His Majesty's Theatre. Later she appeared in opera, variety, straight theatre and film." -
swanq said:
See her father in the Bain stream

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swanq said:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viola_Tree
"Viola Tree (17 July 1884 – 15 November 1938) was an English actress, singer, playwright and author. Daughter of the actor Herbert Beerbohm Tree, she made many of her early appearances with his company at His Majesty's Theatre. Later she appeared in opera, variety, straight theatre and film.
Tree made her London debut in 1904 as Viola in Twelfth Night, and for the next four years she appeared in her father's productions at His Majesty's Theatre, often in Shakespeare roles. She yearned to have an operatic career, and studied in Milan, but sang only two opera roles; she then resumed her career in plays and in variety. In 1919, she became manager of the Aldwych Theatre, while continuing her acting career.
In 1930–31 she played on Broadway and on tour in drama and appeared in the Ziegfeld Follies. In London in the 1930s, she played in comedies and tried her hand at directing. Her last West End role was in The Melody that Got Lost in 1938. She also appeared in four films between 1920 and 1938, wrote two plays and several books, including a novel and a book of etiquette."
Leslie Shaw, portrait bust (LOC)
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swanq said:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L._M._Shaw
"Leslie Mortier Shaw (November 2, 1848 – March 28, 1932) was an American businessman, lawyer, and politician. He served as the 17th Governor of Iowa and was a Republican candidate in the 1908 United States presidential election. He was Secretary of the Treasury from 1902 to 1907." -
Jon (LOC P&P) said:
Thanks swanq, we'll add some of this information to the catalog record.
Countess Westmoreland, three-quarters bust, cameo portrait (LOC)
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swanq said:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sybil_Fane,_Countess_of_Westmorland
"Sybil Mary Fane, Countess of Westmorland (20 August 1871 – 21 July 1910), born Lady Sybil Mary St Clair-Erskine, was a British aristocrat and socialite."
Her title after marriage was spelled Westmorland, without the "e."
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Jon (LOC P&P) said:
Thanks swanq, we'll fix the spelling and add her name.
Cardinal Giddons, front portrait (LOC)
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swanq said:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Gibbons
Notice -- "Gibbons" not "Giddons"
"James Gibbons (July 23, 1834 – March 24, 1921) was an American Catholic prelate who served as Archbishop of Baltimore for more than forty years, from 1877 until his death in 1921. Created a cardinal in 1886, he was the second American cardinal, after John McCloskey.
Ordained a bishop at age 34, Gibbons previously served as Apostolic Vicar of North Carolina (1868–1872) and Bishop of Richmond (1872–1877). In 1876, he published the apologetic book The Faith of Our Fathers, which became a best-selling work. During his time as Baltimore's archbishop, Gibbons became one of the most recognizable Catholic figures in the country. He defended the rights of organized labor and advocated for Americanism as a means of assimilation." -
Jon (LOC P&P) said:
Thanks swanq, we'll fix the spelling and update the record.
Jos. Folk, three-quarters bust, cameo portrait (LOC)
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swanq said:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_W._Folk
"Joseph "Holy Joe" Wingate Folk (October 28, 1869 – May 28, 1923) was an American lawyer, reformer, and politician from St. Louis, Missouri. He was Governor of Missouri from 1905 to 1909." -
Jon (LOC P&P) said:
Thanks swanq, we'll update the catalog record.
W. Reiferscheid, front portrait, cameo (LOC)
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swanq said:
Possibly the inventor of a "dirigible air ship".
See Rensselaer Journal, Volume 11, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 January 1902
newspapers.library.in.gov/?a=d&d=RLJR19020102.2.67
"A model of a new dirigible air ship is on exhibition at Chicago. It represents the results of five years’ work on the part of William Reiferscheid of Streator, Ill."
There is a picture of Reiferscheid and his invention in Chapter 6. A possible match.
- livinghistoryofillinois.com/pdf_files/Biography%20in%20Bl...
Also a discussion in the chapter.
"But of course life went on. For one thing, this was the spring when Streator's own inventor, William Reiferscheid, built an airship to enter in competition at the St. Louis World's Fair later that summer. With the backing of the newly formed Chicago Aerial Navigation Company, Reiferscheid worked long and hard in Oriental Hall building a giant balloon, pointed at each end, from which hung a frame that in turn supported six propellers.
The papers boasted that "scientists and the most skillful engineers who have examined Mr. Reiferscheid's model and drawings pronounce it the best and most scientific airship ever invented." Scientific perhaps, but practical no. The ungainly creation simply would not work. It ended its days on display in City Park, where curious and destructive boys made short work of its delicate structure."
More links related to the same man and his airship (but none with portraits)
- www.findagrave.com/memorial/272786848/william-reiferscheid
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Jon (LOC P&P) said:
Thanks swanq, we'll add a note saying it is probably William Reiferscheid.
Anne Warner, three-quarters standing (LOC)
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swanq said:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anne_Warner_(novelist)
"Anne Richmond Warner French (October 14, 1869 – February 3, 1913) was an American popular humorous author, best known for her local color stories about the character Susan Clegg.
Anne Warner was born on October 14, 1869 in Saint Paul, Minnesota, the daughter of lawyer William Penn Warner and Anna Elizabeth Richmond. In 1888, when she was 18, she married Charles Elting French, a Minneapolis flour manufacturer twenty five years older than her. They had two children: Anna Hathaway French (April 6 1892-December 17, 1892) and Charles Elting French (born September 19, 1896)." -
Jon (LOC P&P) said:
Thanks swanq, we'll add some information to our catalog record.
BUMED hosts 2026 Medical Service Corps Specialty Leader Business Meeting
from Navy Medicine
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k said:
Very very good photo
You'll get a needle to an anchor in Paddy Browne's
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O Mac said:
The Patrick Browne building is still there
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beachcomber australia said:
Graffiti in front of the Natioanal Bank -
REPUBLIC LIVES - WILL YOU DEFEND?
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Mike Grimes said:
O Mac Yes it is, it's Papa John's Pizza.
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mikeyashworth said:
Could be towards the latter end of your time period - the gas lamp column outside the bank has been decommissioned and is minus its lantern whilst on the adjacent post there's an early electric street lamp.
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beachcomber australia said:
Talking of Banks, the AIB on the right side is not yet there. When did it arrive ?
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beachcomber australia said:
The AIB is "c. 1940" . No real help to dating.
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National Library of Ireland on The Commons said:
beachcomber australia I read it as REPUBLIC LIVES - WILL YOU BE TRUE?
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beachcomber australia said:
[Aside]
"A sandstone crosshead was found in 1926 when building the Munster and Leinster Bank (now the Allied Irish Bank) in Tuam adjacent to the former site of the Augustinian Priory. averaging about 65cm. in diame ter; this circular shape may be secondary, Medieval pocked dressing suggesting a late fifteenth or sixteenth century re-shap ing. Also unusual is that it is carved on one face only, and that the two remaining arcs (segments of the encircling ring) linking the arms have differing inner projec tions, one stepped and the other almost semi-circular. . Etienne Rynne Journal of the Galway Archaeological and Historical Society , 1985/1986, Vol. 40 (1985/1986), pp. 125-129"
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National Library of Ireland on The Commons said:
O Mac
Sadly adding to No Longer Standing album.
Watching the skiffs from the cliffs at Kincasslagh
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beachcomber australia said:
I am petrified by rocks !
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Suck Diesel said:

Could be a Donegal thing? -
Kevin said:
Rock Band!
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Mike said:
Suck Diesel Good one
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So Cal Metro said:
Fashion Valley Mall in San Diego. This building is still here. Originally I believe it was The Broadway, now it's Macy's.
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So Cal Metro said:
Fashion Valley Mall in San Diego. This building is still here. Originally I believe it was The Broadway, now it's Macy's.
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So Cal Metro said:
Fashion Valley Mall, San Diego. This building still stands today. I believe it was originally The Broadway, now it's Macy's.
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So Cal Metro said:
Fashion Valley Mall in San Diego. This building is still here. Originally I believe it was The Broadway, now it's Macy's.
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So Cal Metro said:
Coming in high and trying to drop some altitude?
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So Cal Metro said:
PSA MD-80 landing at San Diego.
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So Cal Metro said:
American 727 landing at San DIego.
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So Cal Metro said:
Pan Am 727 landing at San Diego.
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So Cal Metro said:
Republic DC-9 landing at San Diego.
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So Cal Metro said:
China Southwest Airlines, Boeing 757-200.
Jennie Lind, standing, at keyboard (LOC)
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swanq said:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jenny_Lind
'Johanna Maria "Jenny" Lind (Madame Goldschmidt) (6 October 1820 – 2 November 1887), was a Swedish opera singer, often called the "Swedish Nightingale". One of the most highly regarded singers of the 19th century, she performed in soprano roles in opera in Sweden and across Europe, and undertook an extraordinarily popular concert tour of the United States beginning in 1850. She was a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Music from 1840.
Lind became famous after her performance as Agathe in Der Freischütz at the Royal Swedish Opera in 1838. Within a few years, she had suffered vocal damage, but the singing teacher Manuel García saved her voice. She was in great demand in opera roles throughout Sweden and northern Europe during the 1840s, and was closely associated with Felix Mendelssohn. After two acclaimed seasons in London, she announced her retirement from opera at the age of 29.
In 1850, Lind went to the United States at the invitation of the showman P. T. Barnum. She gave 93 large-scale concerts for him and then continued to tour under her own management. She earned more than $350,000 (equivalent to $13,545,000 in 2025) from these concerts, donating the proceeds to charities, principally the endowment of free schools in Sweden. With her new husband, Otto Goldschmidt, she returned to Europe in 1852, settling in England in 1855. She had three children and gave occasional concerts over the next three decades. From 1882, she was a professor of singing at the Royal College of Music in London for some years.' -
swanq said:
A very similar image was on sheet music thought to be from the 1840s
www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/portrait/mw251159/Jenny...
And another similar pose on sheet music:
- levysheetmusic.mse.jhu.edu/collection/188/061
H. Sienkewiczk, portrait bust (LOC)
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swanq said:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henryk_Sienkiewicz
"Henryk Adam Aleksander Pius Sienkiewicz (US: /ʃɛnˈkjeɪvɪtʃ, -jɛv-/ shen-KYAY-vitch, -KYEV-itch, Polish: [ˈxɛnrɨk ˈadam alɛkˈsandɛr ˈpjus ɕɛnˈkʲɛvit͡ʂ]; 5 May 1846 – 15 November 1916), also known by the pseudonym Litwos (Polish pronunciation: [ˈlitfɔs]), was a Polish epic writer. He is remembered for his historical novels, such as the Trilogy series and especially for his internationally known best-seller Quo Vadis (1895–1896)."
W.H. Taft, portrait bust (LOC)
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swanq said:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Howard_Taft
"William Howard Taft (September 15, 1857 – March 8, 1930) was the 27th president of the United States from 1909 to 1913 and the tenth chief justice of the United States from 1921 to 1930. He is the only person to have held both offices."
Maude Gonne McBride, three-quarters standing (LOC)
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Mitch Barrie said:
William Butler Yeats' muse, he proposed to her four times.
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swanq said:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maud_Gonne
"Maud Gonne MacBride (Irish: Maud Nic Ghoinn Bean Mhic Giolla Bhríghde; born Edith Maud Gonne; 21 December 1866 – 27 April 1953) was an Irish republican revolutionary, suffragette and actress. She was, contrary to her own claims of Anglo-Irish descent, English on the sides of both parents, and was won over to Irish nationalism by the plight of people evicted in the Land Wars. MacBride actively agitated for Home Rule and then for the republic declared in 1916. During the 1930s, as a founding member of the Social Credit Party, she promoted the distributive programme of C. H. Douglas. Gonne was well known for being the muse and long-time love interest of Irish poet W. B. Yeats."
E. Phillips Oppenheim, bust (LOC)
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swanq said:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E._Phillips_Oppenheim
"Edward Phillips Oppenheim (22 October 1866 – 3 February 1946) was an English novelist, a prolific writer of best-selling genre fiction, featuring glamorous characters, international intrigue and fast action. Notably easy to read, they were viewed as popular entertainments. He was featured on the cover of Time magazine in 1927."
Wu Ting Fang, Chinaman, New York (LOC)
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swanq said:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wu_Ting-fang
"Wu Ting-fang (Chinese: 伍廷芳; 30 July 1842 – 23 June 1922) was a Chinese calligrapher, diplomat, lawyer, politician, and writer who served as Minister of Foreign Affairs and briefly as Acting Premier during the early years of the Republic of China. He was also known as Ng Choy or Ng Achoy (Chinese: 伍才; pinyin: Wǔ Cái)."
Mrs. Chow Tzchi (LOC)
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swanq said:
The Bemidji daily pioneer. (Bemidji, MN), Jun. 13 1904.
- www.loc.gov/resource/sn86063381/1904-06-13/ed-1/?sp=1&...
"REGRET IS EXPRESSED.
China Will Make Proper Amends for Killing of Correspondent.
Washington, June 13. - Secretary Hay has received a call from Mr. Chow Tzchi, the first secretary of the Chinese legation here, who expressed the deep regret of his government at the reported killing near Newchwang of the American newspaper correspondent, Etzel, by Chinese soldiers who suspected him of being a pirate.
The legation has received no details, but the secretary was able to assure Secretary Hay that his government would make all proper amends for the unfortunate affair if the reports were true."
Mary Garden, bust, copyright by Mishkin, New York (LOC)
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Chuck Walla said:
At the time this photo was taken, NASA/JPL ran a backbone of analog Collins single-sideband multiplex microwave radios. The microwave hops interconnected buildings at the site. You can see the antennas in this photo.
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Chuck Walla said:
“When I land without tearing the airplane up, I feel good.”
— Chuck Yeager
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Chuck Walla said:
Looks like a Ford chassis to me.
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Chuck Walla said:
There were no laser printers or PCs in 1974. Microprocessors were not yet common. No bar codes were used in the mails. There was no internet. A Pitney Bowes postal meter machine printed postage and addresses either were on printed labels by data processig people or handwritten.
In fact, the U.S. Postal Service still used horse drawn wagons to move mail between towns. No, I'm kidding about the wagons.
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Chuck Walla said:
That looks like a big-butt shaker table.
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Chuck Walla said:
Could be rotated 90 degrees clockwise. Crane or hoist testing apparatus? Casting tool?
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Chuck Walla said:
Tall guy in the back row is Larry something.
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Chuck Walla said:
I think the name tag says Dave or Jake something.
Earl Yarmouth, front standing, with dog (LOC)
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Σταύρος said:
Smashing portrait
HCM00035
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Michael Lehmann said:
Thanks much for adding The Belleville Circa 1975 Bamboo Terrace to CRWDP!
Have tagged for the pool-index :-)
Hospital Corpsmen enhance lifesaving skills and Navy medical readiness
from Navy Medicine
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k said:
Great action video!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The times they are a changing!
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Niall McAuley said:
The 1914-15 motor directory is available at the lennon-wylie pages, and IM only went to 373 that year.
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Niall McAuley said:
The town hall tower without a clock: Following an ambush in which two police officers were killed on 19 July 1920, the Black and Tans set fire to the town hall in retribution. The building was gutted internally by the fire, but the shell remained intact and the building was completely restored in 1926
Was the Street named after the Hotel or vice versa?
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Niall McAuley said:
I don't know if the O'Connors are in any sort of chronological order, but took a look at catalogue neighbours in case.
OCO 320 shows the library in Rathmines looking brand new, the footpaths outside unfinished. The dia dates it to 1913. -
Niall McAuley said:
OCO 319 is likewise the new library, but with different builders materials outside.
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Niall McAuley said:
Never mind, OCO 326 is before 1903, so the OCOs are not chronological.





