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Here are conversations that have happened in the last week on Flickr Commons:

Wilhelmina Fletcher, arrested for stealing

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  • John Evans said:
    Yet again thankyou for the back story as its always nice to know more of the lives these people had.

BHP shipbuilding and freight wharves, Whyalla, South Australia, c. 1950

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  • bill doyle said:
    thanks for that!
  • Flickr said:
    Congrats on Explore! ⭐ June 2, 2025
  • Michael Gschwind said:
    Glückwunsch zu Explore !
  • Gianluigi Roda said:
    SEEN IN WONDERS OF PHOTOGRAPHY IN GENERAL.MARAVILLAS DE LA FOTOGRAFIA EN
    www.flickr.com/groups/14876488@N22/pool
    .
  • dale bentham said:
    Lovely image congratulations on explore
  • Sigurd Krieger said:
    Congrats on Xplore!!
  • Lukas Larsed said:
    Congrats on Explore 😄
  • Francesco Dini said:
    Congrats on making Explore! 🎉✨
    Absolutely stunning shot! 🔥 Love the composition and details.
    Can’t wait to see more of your amazing work! 👏😍
  • Lloyd Christmas said:
    Congratulations on making Explore — such a beautiful image and so well deserved!

The school trip place

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  • Suck Diesel said:
    “AI Overview

    Arklow Pottery was established in 1934 in Arklow, County Wicklow, Ireland, and operated until its closure in 1998. It was the second pottery company to be founded in the Irish Free State. The factory produced a wide range of decorative earthenware and tableware, and at its peak employed around 480 people.
    The company was known for its innovative designs and export-driven approach, producing up to 25,000 items per week. Arklow Pottery supplied dinnerware to many top hotels and institutions across Ireland. The company developed its own unique style, with many early patterns featuring 22-carat gold finishes.
    The history of Arklow Pottery is deeply intertwined with the social landscape of Arklow and Ireland. The factory was a significant employer in the area and played a central role in the community.”
  • Suck Diesel said:
    Some of their better work, bottom left

    www.museum.ie/en-IE/Collections-Research/Art-and-Industry...
  • beachcomber australia said:
    Seagullview 3D - www.google.com/maps/@52.790912,-6.1484361,152a,35y,70.72h...
    I'm glad to see they have got rid of that 'knuckle' at the bend in the waterway. It must have been an accident waiting to happen.
  • beachcomber australia said:
    "I'm a little teapot ..."
    via Stephen Davies

    And some ladies at a trade stall, via The 'Eir-Lite' Book of Whimsy
  • National Library of Ireland on The Commons said:
    I was looking in the 1911 census for any sign of a Pottery tradition in the area prior to the business being started there in 1934, but the search did not reveal anything concrete (or ceramic for that matter). I did find some interesting occupations as follows, High Explosive Mixer, Seafaring Tailor, Cartridge Wrapping in Explosive Factory, Labourer in Cordite Works, Factory Girl Kynocks, Traveller in Tea, Seniptress, Shipowner, Electric Wire-man, Lead Miner Unemployed and Lamplighter.
  • National Library of Ireland on The Commons said:
    beachcomber australia Perhaps it's gone because it did happen?
  • National Library of Ireland on The Commons said:
    Suck Diesel Was it a Government sponsored business?
  • beachcomber australia said:
    Via Trove from 1934 ...

    "Irish Pottery.
    Irish pottery had almost ceased to exist. Last year [1933] Ireland imported £389,451 worth of earthenware. It is pleasing to know that the famous Belleek firm, which has been out of action for some years, is being re-established at Arklow. The promoters anticipate the immediate employment of 300 workers."


    See - trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/104400936?searchTerm=a...
  • Carol Maddock said:
    Hands up if you had the Autumn Leaves set, or at least some of it, in your home!

CO 1069-415-76

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  • Gabriella Howell said:
    This is also where his ashes were laid to rest. A tombstone stands there now commemorating his work and life in Antigua.

CO 1069-415-29

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  • Gabriella Howell said:
    Governor Baldwin (third from left) with Claude Bell (third from right) holding a water diviner rod. Claude Bell was a water diviner who was invited to Antigua from Jamaica by Baldwin to locate wells and underground streams for the people to obtain additional access to water.

CO 1069-415-27

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  • Gabriella Howell said:
    Held in the grounds of Government House, Antigua & Barbuda.

CO 1069-415-23

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  • Gabriella Howell said:
    Oliver Baldwin, Governor of the Leeward Islands with the moustache. His life-long partner, Johnny Boyle in white shorts and shite shortsleeve shirt.

CO 1069-415-22

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  • Gabriella Howell said:
    Oliver Baldwin, Governor of the Leeward Islands with the moustache, bottom right. His life-long partner, Johnny Boyle in white shorts and shite shortsleeve shirt, top right photo.

Peaceful rural scene in South East Queensland

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  • T Mann said:
    I just love seeing Mt. Ninderry in the distance... Beautiful location, man!

26_0019594 Rohr Collection Image

  • A30yoyo said:
    Think it's an A310

23_0088181 Convair Negative Image

  • A30yoyo said:
    Wearing the titles U.S. AIR FORCE and MILITARY AIR TRANSPORT SERVICE !!

Kaitlyn Schoeffe, 2017 Miss New Jersey, in the 108th Annual Ocean City Baby Parade along the boardwalk in Ocean City, New Jersey (LOC)

  • 49er Badger said:
    The vehicle is an Austin-Healey Sprite.

Vo-Tech Building, Monroe, Louisiana (LOC)

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  • swanq said:
    According to en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louisiana_Technical_College
    "In July 2012 the Bastrop, Farmerville, Ruston, West Monroe, and Winnsboro campuses merged with Louisiana Delta Community College."
  • swanq said:
    [Monroe] Morning World, Feb 11 1979, P. 28, top right
    - www.newspapers.com/article/morning-world-delta-ouachita-v...
    "The school, which has campuses in Monroe and West Monroe,
    also will sponsor radio and television advertisements during the week with the theme: "Know How Vocational Education Serves the Nation."
    ...
    "The institute is operated by the state Board of Elementary and Secondary Education. It formerly consisted of two separate schools: Ouachita vo-tech school in West Monroe and a Delta vo-tech school in Monroe.
    The institute plans a new campus in the West Ouachita Industrial Park, west of West Monroe near Interstate 20."

    The building in this 1982 Margolies photo seems unlikely to be the "new campus." Perhaps it is the building used by one of the older schools, with the new name painted on.

Deck of the SY Aurora, Weddlell sea, Australian Antarctic Expedition, 1911-1912

  • clive422 said:
    "Stored" is an ambitious expression here! It's interesting to see mawson's dogs in this shot, too.
    Great picture.
  • State Library of New South Wales said:
    clive422 👍
  • Merryjack said:
    The sheep-skins were useful.
    "On March 8 the blizzard died away and a good day followed. All hands joined in building a solid stone outside of the Magnetograph House. This piece of work, in which thirty tons of rock were utilized, was completed on the following day. The wall reached almost to the roof on every side. The unprotected roof was lagged with sacks and sheep–skins and, after this had been effected, the hut became practically wind–tight. The external covering controlled the influx of cold from the penetrating winds, and, on the other hand, the conduction of the sun’s warmth in summer. Thus a steady temperature was maintained; a most desirable feature in a magnetograph house. Webb had the instruments set up in a few days, and they were working before the end of the month."
    The Home of the Blizzard
    by Sir Douglas Mawson (1915)
    www.antarctica.gov.au/about-antarctica/history/exploratio...

    On dogs:
    "Several families were born at this time, but although we did everything possible for them they all perished, except one; the offspring of Gadget. This puppy was called ‘Blizzard’. It was housed for a while in the veranda and, later on, in the Hangar. Needless to say, Blizzard was a great favourite and much in demand as a pet."
    op.cit.

Aloha Airlines in one of the two major airlines connecting the islands, October 1973

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  • TVL1970 said:
    Hawaiian Air Tours / Hawaiian Air Tour Service (HATS) and their DH-104 Dove (reg. N134G), wearing fleet number "7" on its vertical stabilizer in the photo above, make a cameo appearance in the circa-1960s "America!" television series episode entitled, "A Heaven Called Honolulu," at the 17min 24sec mark.
    See:
    YouTube - Periscope Film - 'America! A Heaven Called Honolulu' - 32605z

23_0088149 Convair Negative Image

  • R Baucke said:
    Resistive sheet being placed in center of the waveguide

23_0088153 Convair Negative Image

  • R Baucke said:
    This is a rectangular waveguide - used for highly efficient propagation of RF energy from source to antenna… I’m guessing S-band (2-4 GHz).
    This waveguide has a slight ridge machined into the upper and lower surfaces, in the center. The black rectangle in the lower part of the photo is probably a resistive sheet, placed between the ridges in the guide to measure its RF resistance.

Erickson_AL16 Photo_000153

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  • Mike Seager Thomas said:
    Many thanks for accepting the invitation to WW2 North African Campaign group. A great photo from a great archive! Thanks for making it public...

Give me the History of Ireland on one sheet of paper!

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  • Swordscookie said:
    We drove the Danes out of Ireland over 1000 years ago and there are still shiploads of them off our west coast! Are they heading to Greenland to repel the US invasion?????
  • National Library of Ireland on The Commons said:
    Question of the day.
    Why is the Honeymoon of Maggie and Jiggs represented on the map?
  • National Library of Ireland on The Commons said:
    beachcomber australia There's a good Limerick in there somewhere.
  • Foxglove said:
    and several dogs !.... and a lion pair too
  • DannyM8 said:
    Foxglove I saw them first!
  • O Mac said:
    Arra Musha is at it again.
  • National Library of Ireland on The Commons said:
    O Mac and the same to you Owen.
  • Carol Maddock said:
    The literature person at the Waterford News & Star, 3 December 1937, loved this bonkers map, but was not happy about the lack of attention Waterford received!
    WONDERFUL PRODUCTION

    As we mentioned yesterday, a Waterford friend sent us a copy of a map entitled Story Map of Ireland, produced by a Chicago firm—a work of remarkable interest. The border design and title decoration are stated to be adapted from the Book of Kells and the Book of Mac Durnan, sixth and tenth century illuminated manuscripts. As an example of modern printing the production is an eye-opener. The map itself is illustrated in colour with tiny portraits of famous people placed alongside the locality they made famous in history or the arts. Waterford hardly gets its due. The "signature" pictures show Barron and his Gaelic College; Reginald's Tower; Meagher; Sir Walter Raleigh; Lismore Castle; Mount Melleray; Robert Boyle; Ardmore; James II's ship in flight to France. In other parts of the map we see the early Irish chief, Marson, setting out in 983 to discover America! And there is St. Brendan in "an Irish skin boat" (very crowded!) on a trip to Hy Brasil (identified as Florida!) But taken on a whole this is a wonderful map, and Irish men and women at home must envy their Chicago compatriots their opportunity of possessing it. We centainly envy our Waterford friend his luck in having it sent to him.
  • Suck Diesel said:
    As a jigsaw
    “produced by Colortext Publications in the 1930s and 1940s. The Story Map of Ireland (1935) features historical facts about Éire’s major battles, discoveries, and cultural events; basic geographic details, including elevations, bodies of water, bays, counties, and towns; and intricate borders and title decorations adapted from The Book of Kells and Book of Mac Durnan illuminated manuscripts. Captions labeling landmarks such as lighthouses, castles, and universities intermingle with bits of whimsy such as a leprechaun and a limerick. Amid the ships of many centuries sailing the surrounding seas are the portraits of “Dublin’s Sons,” “Irish Patriots,” “Erin’s Heroes,” and “Modern Bards.” The Story Map of Ireland is one of many such creatively illustrated maps included in the world’s largest cartographic collection, the Geography and Map Division of the Library of Congress.”

    shop.nybooks.com/products/story-map-of-ireland-500-piece-...

Dorothea Lange, Resettlement Administration photographer, in California (LOC)

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  • Art Braitman said:
    Creator of masterpieces! Great photo!

Technolab, Charlotte, North Carolina (LOC)

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  • jacklowry47 said:
    Mega good architecture shot.
  • Kapaliadiyar Thirumayilai said:
    Viewed and admired In Explore .
    Congrats .....

Under the watchful eye of the Spaniel

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  • beachcomber australia said:
    Further hints that this is an early set of Poole photos, with a 'triptych' of rowers, similarly catalogued -
    POOLEWP 0166 - catalogue.nli.ie/Record/vtls000590029
    POOLEWP 0166a - catalogue.nli.ie/Record/vtls000590030
    POOLEWP 0166b - catalogue.nli.ie/Record/vtls000590031

    The last one is on Flickr, and 14 (!) years ago we thought "circa 1885??"
  • Flickr said:
    Congrats on Explore! ⭐ May 29, 2025
  • Michael Gschwind said:
    Glückwunsch zu Explore !
  • Sigurd Krieger said:
    Congrats on Xplore!!
  • Atelier photo Parigné said:
    ❤️👌
  • Lukas Larsed said:
    Congrats on Explore 😄
  • Sonia Adam Murray - (Share the Kindness) said:
    Congratulations on Explore, great work!

Dillwyn Llewelyn children

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  • Jim Griffin said:
    Mrs Emma Dillwyn Llewelyn, about 1845,
    daguerreotype taken by her husband John Dillwyn Llewelyn:

You cannot be serious!

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  • Swordscookie said:
    What? No short skirts, no popping the spare tennis balls up the legs of their drawers and only two rackets🤔 That can't be tennis.
  • National Library of Ireland on The Commons said:
    Swordscookie You cannot be serious!
  • Suck Diesel said:
    "Simonne Mathieu[a] (French pronunciation: [simɔn matjø] née Passemard;)[1] (31 January 1908 – 7 January 1980) was a tennis player from France, born in Neuilly-sur-Seine, Hauts-de-Seine, who was active in the 1930s. She won the French Championships singles title in 1938 and 1939.

    During World War II, she created and led the Corps of French Volunteers in the Free French Forces, the first female unit in the military history of France.”

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simonne_Mathieu
  • National Library of Ireland on The Commons said:
    Suck Diesel Very successful player, I wonder are all the others in the album as famous?
  • beachcomber australia said:
    Madame Mathieu playing in 1929 - youtu.be/GlZee-dj7Qs?si=oUTaw8Wamp2klqEj
  • National Library of Ireland on The Commons said:
    beachcomber australia Excellent to see her in action!
  • Suck Diesel said:
    “The Court des Serres, renamed Court Simonne Mathieu, was opened in March 2019, ready for the 2019 tournament, as was the rebuilt Court Chatrier, with the retractable roof completed in time for the 2020 tournament.”

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stade_Roland_Garros
  • John Spooner said:
    On 27th June 1927 The Graphic published its Wimbledon preview, including this quartet of hopefuls for the Ladies' competition. It's a shame they couldn't come up with anything better for a caption than "an Eton-cropped visitor from France". I notice she's eschewed the in-vogue bandeau.
    The Graphic - Saturday 25 June 1927
  • Carol Maddock said:
    Simonne Mathieu had an impressively long tennis career. I found this in the Irish Examiner, 16 May 1946...
    LAWN TENNIS
    MME. MATHIEU FOR WIMBLEDON

    Mme. Simone Mathieu is to compete in the Wimbledon Championships. "It is just twenty years ago since I first played at Wimbledon, and to play again after the war years means a great deal to me. I shall play in everything, and expect to partner Billie Yorke in the women's doubles. In the mixed doubles I shall probably have Yvon Petra as my partner."

Buildings Awning Co., Peoria, Illinois (LOC)

California Bridge Center, Fairfax, Louisiana (LOC)

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  • swanq said:
    Not in Louisiana, but in Los Angeles.

    See
    California Bridge Center, 945 North Fairfax, Los Angeles, California (LOC)
  • Jon (LOC P&P) said:
    Thanks swanq, we'll fix the state.

26_0019645 Rohr Collection Image

  • Eagle0025 said:
    Now on display at Pima Air and Space Museum, Tucson, AZ

California Bridge Center, 945 North Fairfax, Los Angeles, California (LOC)

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  • swanq said:
    See another view at
    California Bridge Center, Fairfax, Louisiana (LOC)

Fleet Week New York 2025: Re-enlistment 250527-M-MA503-1014

  • Franks Photos! said:
    Outstanding, doc!