Conversations

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

1795 unidentified street, Halifax downtown

from Halifax Municipal Archives

  • 4 older comments, and then…
  • Ryan Tucker said:
    1795 Hollis. You can see the reflection of the Royal Bank in the windows, and the building on the right would be George Street Bank of Montreal (archives.novascotia.ca/eastcoastport/archives/?ID=2082). I think the small building in the photo was at one point Acadia Insurance Co. based on a 1960 phone directory.

Identified! Sewer project on Queen Street after Morris

from Halifax Municipal Archives

  • 1 older comment, and then…
  • Ryan Tucker said:
    Definitely looks like Queen Street after Morris. 1320 Queen on the left and the Old Infirmary on the right. The facade and fencing on the right match an old photo of the Infirmary (www.facebook.com/share/p/1H5ZeKJVVv/?mibextid=wwXIfr)
  • Halifax Municipal Archives said:
    Thanks, Ryan Tucker! It does look like this is most likely the Halifax Infirmary. We'll update the database description to reflect the location.

New Wolseley & DKW automobiles in showroom (for Building Publishing Co), 1938

from State Library of New South Wales

DKW, Hudson and Wolseley car showrooms; corner Cathedral and Riley Streets, Woolloomooloo (for Building Publishing Co)

from State Library of New South Wales

Identified! Tenement building on Market Street

from Halifax Municipal Archives

  • 3 older comments, and then…
  • Ryan Tucker said:
    "A Redevelopment Study of Halifax, Nova Scotia 1957" (Retrieval Code 711.45 .S8 v.1) refers to it as "TENEMENT BUILDING IN MARKET STREET" on page 14 (PDF page 25).
  • Halifax Municipal Archives said:
    Good catch, Ryan Tucker! It looks like we did note the study and that it was possibly on Market Street in the database description and forgot to note that here - we will go back in and make it clearer that we do think it is Market Street. Thank you for the identification!

Make sure to take my best side?

from National Library of Ireland on The Commons

  • 27 older comments, and then…
  • Niall McAuley said:
    Sharon Corbet but that pic is not Lady Clodagh, it is the Misses Malcolmson at their house called Clodiagh House.

HC06010A

from Community Archives of Belleville & Hastings County

  • Laura Fraixanet said:
    Thanks Lois for your research. We know a lot more about our house now. Wondering if Mary Boyd has more knowledge to share about the house

Al Purdy

from Community Archives of Belleville & Hastings County

Reception for Captain Cook, Ha'apai, Tonga, 1773-1784

from State Library of New South Wales

  • Mike Kelly said:
    Looks like Polynesians had dogs, never thought about that before.

Three Aboriginal men, one man wearing a king plate, camped alongside a track, ca. 1900

from State Library of Queensland

Self-portrait of Anton Foitik, wearing a mask and top hat

from SMU Libraries Digital Collections

  • 1 older comment, and then…
  • Johnson Campbell said:
    I watched it all the way through. The result was truly unique. I've always appreciated your photography. Great work. I think we should agree to purchase the photography . Are you offering it for sale?

121.53. Oceania gőzös

from Eötvös Loránd University Faculty of Law Library

Don Athaldo 1938 SLNSW_FL9703421

from State Library of New South Wales

  • clive422 said:
    What people did for a laugh before the Internet came along.
    Great picture!