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

Soldier's goodbye & Bobbie the cat, Sydney, ca. 1939-ca. 1945 / 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

hood_27808r

from State Library of New South Wales

New gas-masks for the NSW Fire Brigade, Castlereagh Street headquarters, Sydney, 1927 / Sam Hood

from State Library of New South Wales

Ice mask, C.T. Madigan, between 1911-1914 / photograph by Frank Hurley

from State Library of New South Wales

Pam Clemson modelling AWA headset, Sydney, ca. 1950

from State Library of New South Wales

Building The Foundation Of Freshmart - Northbrook

from Cloyne and District Historical Society

  • Bo Dudas said:
    How appropriate that you took this during the time of the master street photographers. 1970’s - 80’s. The distribution of elements is masterful !!!

McDonnell, XF-88, Voodoo

from SDASM Archives

  • 1 older comment, and then…
  • Eagle0025 said:
    XF-88, s/n 46-525. The first of two prototypes. First flew 20 October 1948. Designed by McDonnell Aircraft to compete with the Lockheed XF-90 and North American Aviation YF-93A to fulfill a USAF Penetration Fighter requirement for a bomber escort. Participated in a flyoff where the XF-88 was declared the winner, but the overall program was scrapped when the Boeing B-47's performance proved a bomber escort was unnecessary. Assigned to NACA Langley Research Center, Langley AFB, VA 13 July 1953 to 16 September 1958. The first prototype was modified to the XF-88B as a propeller-research vehicle. First flown 14 April 1953 in this configuration. The propeller was driven by a nose-mounted 2,500 shp Allison XT38 turboprop. The aircraft was used to test three different propellers through 1956, to speeds slightly exceeding Mach 1.0 (the first propeller-equipped aircraft to do so). Both prototypes were scrapped at Langley AFB, VA in 1958. A considerably enlarged version of the XF-88 was chosen in 1951 to meet a USAF requirement for a long-range fighter, the revised design becoming the F-101 Voodoo.

McDonnell, XF-88, Voodoo

from SDASM Archives

  • 2 older comments, and then…
  • Eagle0025 said:
    XF-88, s/n 46-525. The first of two prototypes. First flew 20 October 1948. Designed by McDonnell Aircraft to compete with the Lockheed XF-90 and North American Aviation YF-93A to fulfill a USAF Penetration Fighter requirement for a bomber escort. Participated in a flyoff where the XF-88 was declared the winner, but the overall program was scrapped when the Boeing B-47's performance proved a bomber escort was unnecessary. Assigned to NACA Langley Research Center, Langley AFB, VA 13 July 1953 to 16 September 1958. The first prototype was modified to the XF-88B as a propeller-research vehicle. First flown 14 April 1953 in this configuration. The propeller was driven by a nose-mounted 2,500 shp Allison XT38 turboprop. The aircraft was used to test three different propellers through 1956, to speeds slightly exceeding Mach 1.0 (the first propeller-equipped aircraft to do so). Both prototypes were scrapped at Langley AFB, VA in 1958. A considerably enlarged version of the XF-88 was chosen in 1951 to meet a USAF requirement for a long-range fighter, the revised design becoming the F-101 Voodoo.

F-93-A US Air Force Photo

from SDASM Archives

  • 1 older comment, and then…
  • Eagle0025 said:
    YF-93A, s/n 48-317 (msn 157-1). First flew 24 January 1950. Designed by North American Aviation to compete with the McDonnell XF-88 Voodoo and Lockheed XF-90 to fulfill a USAF Penetration Fighter requirement for a bomber escort. Participated in a flyoff where the XF-88 Voodoo was declared the winner. The overall program was scrapped when the Boeing B-47's performance proved a bomber escort was unnecessary. The Air Force turned both prototypes over to the NACA Ames Laboratory, Moffett Field, CA for further testing and evauation (48-317 arrived 5 February 1951 and 48-318 arrived 5 June 1951). Beginning in 1953, both aircraft served as chase aircraft for the newly developed Century Series fighters. Both aircraft were eventually declared surplus in the late 1950s and scrapped.

YF-93A North American Photo

from SDASM Archives

  • 1 older comment, and then…
  • Eagle0025 said:
    YF-93A, s/n 48-317 (msn 157-1). First flew 24 January 1950. Designed by North American Aviation to compete with the McDonnell XF-88 Voodoo and Lockheed XF-90 to fulfill a USAF Penetration Fighter requirement for a bomber escort. Participated in a flyoff where the XF-88 Voodoo was declared the winner. The overall program was scrapped when the Boeing B-47's performance proved a bomber escort was unnecessary. The Air Force turned both prototypes over to the NACA Ames Laboratory, Moffett Field, CA for further testing and evauation (48-317 arrived 5 February 1951 and 48-318 arrived 5 June 1951). Beginning in 1953, both aircraft served as chase aircraft for the newly developed Century Series fighters. Both aircraft were eventually declared surplus in the late 1950s and scrapped.

North American YF-93A Roger Besecker photo

from SDASM Archives

  • 1 older comment, and then…
  • Eagle0025 said:
    YF-93A, s/n 48-317 (msn 157-1). First flew 24 January 1950. Designed by North American Aviation to compete with the McDonnell XF-88 Voodoo and Lockheed XF-90 to fulfill a USAF Penetration Fighter requirement for a bomber escort. Participated in a flyoff where the XF-88 Voodoo was declared the winner. The overall program was scrapped when the Boeing B-47's performance proved a bomber escort was unnecessary. The Air Force turned both prototypes over to the NACA Ames Laboratory, Moffett Field, CA for further testing and evauation (48-317 arrived 5 February 1951 and 48-318 arrived 5 June 1951). Beginning in 1953, both aircraft served as chase aircraft for the newly developed Century Series fighters. Both aircraft were eventually declared surplus in the late 1950s and scrapped.

YF-93A

from SDASM Archives

  • 1 older comment, and then…
  • Eagle0025 said:
    YF-93A, s/n 48-317 (msn 157-1). First flew 24 January 1950. Designed by North American Aviation to compete with the McDonnell XF-88 Voodoo and Lockheed XF-90 to fulfill a USAF Penetration Fighter requirement for a bomber escort. Participated in a flyoff where the XF-88 Voodoo was declared the winner. The overall program was scrapped when the Boeing B-47's performance proved a bomber escort was unnecessary. The Air Force turned both prototypes over to the NACA Ames Laboratory, Moffett Field, CA for further testing and evauation (48-317 arrived 5 February 1951 and 48-318 arrived 5 June 1951). Beginning in 1953, both aircraft served as chase aircraft for the newly developed Century Series fighters. Both aircraft were eventually declared surplus in the late 1950s and scrapped.

Mrs. W.F. Morgan, Orange (LOC)

from The Library of Congress

  • swanq said:
    This looks like the presentation of a medal to a young golfer.

    Could be the wife of William Fellowes Morgan Sr, who was a sportswoman, including playing golf.
    See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emma_Leavitt-Morgan
    and
    Mrs. W.F. Morgan & Mrs. H.L. Pratt (LOC)

Open-air Mass, Brooklyn Navy Yard, 69th Reg't, Percy Nagle, New York (LOC)

from The Library of Congress

  • swanq said:
    See
    Crowd at Mass in Brooklyn Navy Yard, New York (LOC)

Open-air Mass, Jas. Simcox, Mascot of Spanish War Veterans, Brooklyn Navy Yard, New York (LOC)

from The Library of Congress

  • swanq said:
    See
    Crowd at Mass in Brooklyn Navy Yard, New York (LOC)

Crowd at Mass in Brooklyn Navy Yard, New York (LOC)

from The Library of Congress

  • swanq said:
    See
    Crowd at Mass in Brooklyn Navy Yard, New York (LOC)

Altar at open-air Mass in Brooklyn Navy Yard, New York (LOC)

from The Library of Congress

  • swanq said:
    See
    Crowd at Mass in Brooklyn Navy Yard, New York (LOC)

Crowd at Mass in Brooklyn Navy Yard, New York (LOC)

from The Library of Congress

  • swanq said:
    The Stark County Democrat (Canton, Ohio), May 26, 1908, (WEEKLY EDITION), P. 6, Col. 1
    www.loc.gov/resource/sn84028490/1908-05-26/ed-1/?sp=6&amp...
    "Mass Held For Dead of Army and Navy Largely Attended at
    BROOKLYN NAVY YARD
    - New York, May 24.-There was a large attendance at the military fleld mass in the Brooklyn navy yard today.
    - As early as 9 o'clock the people began to gather at the navy yard gates although the mass was not to begin until 10:30. Every building facing the parade ground where the mass was celebrated was adorned with American flags and a profusion of the fags hung over the balconies of the marine barracks, before the center of which the elaborate altar was erected.
    - Before the mass there was music, both religious and secular, ranging from "Onward Christian Soldiers" to "Auld Lang Syne," "Annte Lauri," and "Marching Through Georgia."
    - The service was under the auspices of Gloucester Naval Camp of Spanish War Veterans, assisted by the Long Island chapter of the Knights of Columbus, and was designed as a memorial day tribute to the dead of the army and navy and marine corps of the United States. The celebrant
    was the Rev. William H. I. Reaney, chaplain of the navy and among his assistants were Father John F. Nash, rector of the Church of the Sacred Heart, and Father Chadwick, the Maine's former chaplain.
    - Among the several bodies officially in attendance were a detachment of the Marine corps, companies of blue jackets, the 69th, 47th and 14th regiments N. G., N. Y.
    - Rear Admiral Goodrich, commandant of the yard, had opened the yard to the public for this service."

Mrs. A.E. Fish of the Crippled Children's School, New York (LOC)

from The Library of Congress

  • swanq said:
    Mrs. Arthur Eliot Fish.
    See New York Times, April 2 1905, Section P, P. 2
    - www.nytimes.com/1905/04/02/archives/society-news-and-goss...
    In SOCIETY NEWS AND GOSSIP
    "A large and successful subscription affair was the international point euchre of Monday, given in the Waldorf-Astoria. It was for the benefit of the Summer Home of the Free Industrial School for Crippled Children. Those who had charge of the tables were Mesdames Arthur Eliot Fish,..."

Girls of Public School Athletic League folk dance in Central Park, New York (LOC)

from The Library of Congress

  • swanq said:
    In Central Park. Probably on May 25, 1908.
    See www.loc.gov/resource/sn83030214/1908-05-22/ed-1/?sp=8&amp...
    "FOLK DANCES IN CENTRAL PARK.
    A festival of folk dances and games, under the auspices of the girls branch of the Public Schools Athletic League, will be held in Central Park, on The Green, west of the Mall and opposite the West 66th street entrance, on Monday, at 4 o'clock."

Roseville residents really relished raising roses

from National Library of Ireland on The Commons

  • 55 older comments, and then…
  • waewduan C said:
    Many congrats……………….
  • Tom Fodronix said:
    Congratulations on Explore!
  • Niall McAuley said:
    Frank's name not on his Birth record in 1867.
  • Niall McAuley said:
    Florence died aged just 43 days in 1873 at Roseville.
  • Niall McAuley said:
    Their mother Maria died in 1900, per the Calendar of Wills, father Francis Augustus still kicking
  • National Library of Ireland on The Commons said:
    Niall McAuley Thanks Niall.
  • Niall McAuley said:
    I don't see a will or a death record for peripatetic dad Francis Augustus.
  • Niall McAuley said:
    1862 unusually early to find a record, but here are Francis A. of Athlone, National Bank, and Maria Baldwin getting married
  • Niall McAuley said:
    Mary, 15 in this pic, married a James Carey, Divinity Student, in 1885.

Stock Brokers Ball Game (N.Y. - Boston), Manager N.Y. team J.F. Carlisle, also C.R. Runyon, and Ira Richardson (LOC)

from The Library of Congress

World Trade Center

from SMU Libraries Digital Collections

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  • tim_zukas said:
    Guess they hadn't finished them yet?

    Must be looking NE, WTC1 on the left.

Auto rides for crippled children, New York (LOC)

from The Library of Congress

  • swanq said:
    According to P. 7 of The evening world (New York, N.Y.), May 19, 1908, (Final Results Edition)
    - www.loc.gov/resource/sn83030193/1908-05-19/ed-1/?sp=7&amp...
    the event was on May 25 1908

    "Last May, Wyckoff, Church & Partridge took the little ones
    ones from the Industrial School for Crippled Children
    of West Fifty-seventh street, to Luna Park. Conev Island,
    island, in Stearns cars.
    On Monday. May 25, twenty to thirty Stearns cars will again call at the Crippled Children's School at 10 A. M and give these unfortunates their second annual outing. The Crescent Athletic Club, of Brooklyn, will throw open its beautiful summer clubhouse at Bay Ridge, where the cripples will be served with lunch at noon. From Bay Ridge the trip will be continued to Coney Isiand.
    Frederick Thompson has thrown open the Luna Park attractions, and the little ones will be given the treat of seeing all the shows In full operation."

In the earth and in the heavens

from National Library of Ireland on The Commons

Operating a hand drill at Vultee-Nashville, woman is working on a "Vengeance" dive bomber, Tennessee (LOC)

from The Library of Congress

  • 269 older comments, and then…
  • K J said:
    Hey that's me in another life! I repair things on my job. I'm a maintenance tech.

Belleville Fall Fair September 25, 1946

from Cloyne and District Historical Society

  • minions & myrmidons said:
    the woman off to the right is the star of the show with that coat and hair and the seamed stockings.

Oh Flower of Scotland

from National Library of Ireland on The Commons

  • 9 older comments, and then…
  • beachcomber australia said:
    Wikipedia has a very similar photo in Westminster Abbey dated "c. 1875 - c. 1885". There's no label on the sword and shield ...
    Spot the Differences!

    The Stone of Scone has had more than its share of ups and downs - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stone_of_Scone
    "Since March 2024, it has been on permanent public display in Perth"
  • beachcomber australia said:
    Flickr is sometimes amazing! Via Leonard Bentley who says the Magic Lantern slide is late 1880s -
  • Niall McAuley said:
    We had its Irish equivalent, an Lia Fáil, here before, also by Mason below.

    I see the Scottish rock is also called An Lia Fàil in Scots Gaelic!
    The harp that once through Tara's Halls...
  • National Library of Ireland on The Commons said:
    beachcomber australia Because that comment came from you, for one milli-zillisecond I thought, what's it doing in Western Australia?! :D
  • beachcomber australia said:
    National Library of Ireland on The Commons Ha ha! I am moithered that the Stone of Scone doesn't rhyme !
  • National Library of Ireland on The Commons said:
    beachcomber australia Be very ware! Or a row will break out about how the baked scone should be pronounced!
  • Niall McAuley said:
    But the Stone doesn't rhyme with either the obviously correct "gone" or the illiterate "bone" pronunciation of the baked Scone.
  • National Library of Ireland on The Commons said:
    It's Stone of Scooooone, isn't it?
  • beachcomber australia said:
    Jam or cream first ... ?

RR Train, Great Britain (LOC)

from The Library of Congress

  • 13 older comments, and then…
  • Pechristener said:
    Steven Pemberton No, the date must be between 1890 and 1904. The picture must have been taken between 1890 and 1904, as the slip-excenter valve gear was only fitted to the Dreadnought class after the system had been tried and tested on the last seven locomotives of the Teutonic class, which were delivered in 1890. The locomotive was scrapped in 1904.
  • Pechristener said:
    The Library of Congress The date 1926 is incorrect. It must be between between 1890 and 1904, as the locootive seems to be fitted with the slip-excenter valve gear requiring the atention of the worker with the crowbar to change the direction. The slip-excenter gear was only fitted to the Dreadnought class after the system had been tried and tested on the last seven locomotives of the Teutonic class, which were delivered in 1890. (see Ahrons, E. L. The British Steam Railway Locomotive, 1825–1925. London; New York: The Locomotive Publishing Company Limited; Spon and Chamberlain, 1927, p. 247) The picture must have been taken bevor the locomotive was scrapped in 1904.
  • Jon (LOC P&P) said:
    Pechristener, thank you for your comments. It doesn't show here, but in the catalog record (www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2014689499/) we had already changed the date range to 1890 to 1904. Bain rarely sent their photographers outside of the New York City area. When they wanted photos of other topics they would obtain photos from other sources and make copy photos of them. In this case I looked at the neighboring images and they appear to have been taken around July/August of 1911, when there was a big railway strike in Great Britain. Bain probably just obtained whatever photo of a British train they could find. They must have used it again in 1926.

The Bonaventure gang

from National Library of Ireland on The Commons

  • 9 older comments, and then…
  • beachcomber australia said:
    25 July 1948 was a Sunday ...

    Don't look at the carpet !
  • beachcomber australia said:
    A couple more, and an address ...
    catalogue.nli.ie/Record/vtls000595244
    catalogue.nli.ie/Record/vtls000595245

    "Sister Bonaventure, c/o Mrs. Kavanagh, 14, Barrack Street"
  • seikinsou said:
    Beautifully staged. It must have taken quite a while (probably days) to make this photograph happen.
  • National Library of Ireland on The Commons said:
    beachcomber australia What Carpet?
  • National Library of Ireland on The Commons said:
    seikinsou I would have thought that Poole would not have given more than 1 hour to get the whole process completed?
  • Mike Grimes said:
    The habit she is wearing would appear to be of the Dominican order which has a white tunic and scapular with black cape.
  • Mike Grimes said:
    There was a Dominican Sister Bonaventure who might be of the age of the nun in the picture but little information available at this link.

    www.dominicansisters.co.uk/obituaries/sister-bonaventure-...
  • John Spooner said:
    The Kilkenny Journal and Leinster Commercial and Literary Advertiser of Saturday 10 July 1948 had a report of the Golden Jubilee of Very Rev. Laurence Canon Coghlan. at Rosbercon One paragraph of the account was in printed bold font
    An Interested visitor and participant in the Jubilee celebrations was Sister M. Bonaventure, Holy Faith Convent, Killester, sister of Canon Coghlan. Sister | Bonaventure celebrated her Diamond Jubilee in the religious life some seven years ago and is still going strong. Ad muitos annos.
  • Dún Laoghaire Micheál said:
    A Kilkenny candidate?

    NUN'S DISTINCTION.
    Sister Bonaventure Ryan, Dominican Convent, Seattle, U.S.A., who has obtained her B.A. degree, is a native
    of Woollengrange. Bennettsbridge, and daughter of Mrs. Ryan, do. She is sister to Messrs. John, Patrick, and Michael Ryan, do .; Mrs. Dunphy, do .; Mrs. Cassin, Lower Kilmacow; Miss Lizzie Ryan, Parochial House, Piltown: Sister Colette, Convent of the Sacred Heart, Westmount, London,[UPDATED: Died 1943, see next comment] and of the late Sister Ambrose, Sacred Heart Convent, Lisburn.

    17 Oct 1936
    Kilkenny Journal

Photograph of Pilot William C. Hopson of the U.S. Mail Service in Winter Flying Clothing

from U.S. National Archives

  • 6 older comments, and then…
  • Old Salt said:
    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Hopson . Killed when his mail plane crashed 18 Oct 1928. "Hopson died instantly on October 18, 1928, at the age of 41, near Polk, Pennsylvania, in a plane crash while flying on his contract airmail route between New York City and Chicago. Hopson's plane was carrying about US$100,000 in diamonds. Only about US$65,000 of the diamonds were recovered."

Colin Wyatt SLNSW_FL9723806

from State Library of New South Wales

  • Blue Mountains Library, Local Studies said:
    "With his marriage on the rocks and fearing his wife was having an affair, ex-champion skier Colin Wyatt decided to cope the only way he could think of.

    He began stealing rare butterflies.

    What unfolded over the following months in the late 1940s would become a bizarre search spanning multiple museums and crossing international waters.

    It would also involve thousands upon thousands of tiny flying insects.

    Hundreds of 'the best specimens' taken from museums across Australia
    The first sign of trouble came in early 1947 — some 825 specimens of rare Australian butterflies had disappeared from the Melbourne Museum's George Lyell collection.

    When Melbourne raised the alarm, other museums checked their own collections ... "
    More - www.abc.net.au/news/2024-06-02/history-butterfly-theft-au...
    And - science.anu.edu.au/news-events/news/museum-heist-70-years...
  • Jazz Guy said:
    Lower left hand corner... I think that is a blotter to dry off signatures on documents. What year did ball point pens replace quill pens? There's a plot twist in a movie titled "Angel Heart" that involves this.
  • Jazz Guy said:
    And now the big question... Is the bottle of gin in the drawer on his left or on his right? :-)
  • State Library of New South Wales said:
    I read 'The Butterfly Thief' by Walter Marsh over the weekend and saw the image was in the Library collections. Really amazing that he was able to get them all over to the UK as well..
  • Narelle Jarvis said:
    What a story! So where was this picture taken and what is he doing with the photographs?
  • Blue Mountains Library, Local Studies said:
    Jazz Guy
    " It was not until the 1820s, when John Mitchell, Josiah Mason and others set up a factory in Birmingham, England to manufacture steel nibs, that their popularity took off. The metal nib retains a sharp point or edge much longer than the quill, which wears out more quickly and requires much skill to sharpen. Metal nibs are also easily manufactured to have different properties for different purposes. Also, they can now be attached to and removed from holders, allowing one to switch between nibs with relative ease."
    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nib_(pen)

    Steel nibs were in regular use in Australian primary schools through the 1950s, that's how many kids learnt to write.
  • Jazz Guy said:
    Blue Mountains Library, Local Studies I was raised in Texas in the 60s. We had to use a steel nib pen for cursive writing class in fourth grade, but we could use ball point pens in other classes. These days, many schools don't even teach cursive writing anymore.
  • Blue Mountains Library, Local Studies said:
    Jazz Guy 👍

Cúchulainn loved the Mód Direach!

from National Library of Ireland on The Commons

Farrell's Barricade

from National Library of Ireland on The Commons

26_0049323 Rohr Collection Image

from SDASM Archives

  • Chuck Walla said:
    I recommend rotating this 90 degrees counterclockwise.

26_0049703 Rohr Collection Image

from SDASM Archives

  • Chuck Walla said:
    Invar is used where you need a dimensionally-stable part: it will change size less than another material over a very big temperature range. 👍

26_0049708 Rohr Collection Image

from SDASM Archives

  • Chuck Walla said:
    I would rotate this 90 degrees clockwise.

26_0049778 Rohr Collection Image

from SDASM Archives

  • Chuck Walla said:
    That's large rebar.

26_0049821 Rohr Collection Image

from SDASM Archives

  • Chuck Walla said:
    Hysol was a brand of adhesives used in these kinds of applications. One web source confirms my recollection the brand was owned by Dexter. It also claims the brand was sold to Locktite in 2000.

26_0049439 Rohr Collection Image

from SDASM Archives

  • TVL1970 said:
    Starboard side jet intake for the Grumman F-14 Tomcat.

Elmhurst for the holidays but only in the summer

from National Library of Ireland on The Commons

  • 5 older comments, and then…
  • CASSIDY PHOTOGRAPHY said:
    Quite a beautiful photo of a beautiful house.
  • Niall McAuley said:
    Google maps gives an Elmhurst Road, but it is not very near Bournemouth and this house is not on it.
  • Niall McAuley said:
    UCD have a collection of correspondence of a Dr. William Frazer, who was a hobbyist in historical and archaeological stuff.

    www.ucd.ie/archives/t4media/la0041-frazer-william-descrip...

    Maybe not, he seems to have died in 1899: www.irishgenealogy.ie/files/civil/deaths_returns/deaths_1...
  • John Spooner said:
    The Bournemouth Daily Echo of- Saturday 4 October 1902 carried an legal notice of an application to license a building for stage plays. William Frazer M.D. of Elmhurst, Bournemouth, is named.
    Bournemouth Daily Echo - Saturday 04 October 1902
  • John Spooner said:
    Dr Frazer of Elmurst had one daughter , Elsie Mary, who married Mr Edgar Grotrian of Wetherby, Yorkshire on on April 27th 1905. (Gentlewoman - Saturday 20 May 1905)
  • John Spooner said:
    The Bournemouth Guardian on 5th November 1887 published comprehensive list of residents and visitors. Dr and Mrs William Frazer are listed at Elmhurst Lodge, on Madeira Road (at the opposite end from the police station).

    I didn't spot Elmhurst on a quick streetview saunter along Madeira road.
  • John Spooner said:
    But the list in the same paper on April 21st 1888 puts Elmhurst Lodge in Dean Park Road . It looks from a quick streetview scan much more likely to to have large houses such as Elmhurst, but they're all hidden by mature leafy trees (and none of the streetview versions were capture in winter).
  • John Spooner said:
    Bournemouth Daily Echo - Friday 28 July 1905:
    It is with feelings of profound regret—in which feel sure our readers will join—that have to announce the death of Dr. William Frazer, one of the oldest local medical practitioners. which occurred his residence. Elmhurst, Dean Park-road. Bournenmouth.

    The deceased gentleman, who was 54 years of age, bad been in failing health for some little time past, but be had only kept to his bed for the past three weeks. He gradually sank, and became weaker at the beginning of the present week, and expired between the hours of twelve and one yesterday morning.

    He was attended during his illness by Dr. Gregory White.

    Dr. Fraser, who was respected and highly esteemed by all who know him, came to Bournemouth in 1878, and although his professional duties prevented his taking any active part in the public life of the borough, was all times ready and willing to do all in his power to advance the welfare of the town which has resided for so many years.

    He was a B.A.T.C.D. in 1871. M.U., 1878; M.B. 1873; M.K.Q.C.P. (Ireland). 1877; L.R. C.S.L, 1873; L.M. (Rotunda Hospital, Dublin). 1879; Member British Medical Association; Irish Graduates' Association. and Bournemouth Medical Society. He was hon. physician to Bournemouth National Sanatorium, hon. physician the Royal Victoria Hospital, Bournemouth, and the St. Mary’s Home for invalid ladies. He was also late Resident Medical Officer the Royal National Hospital for Consumption. Ventnor. and was formerly surgeon in the P. and 0. Company.

    Some years ago was asked to be President of the Irish Graduates' Association, but his health prevented him from accepting the invitation.

    For many years he acted as one of sidesmen of Holy Trinity Church, and took an active interest in the work of the parish. was an ardent lover of sport, and was ever ready to encourage athletic and other sports in Bournmouth.

    The deceased gentleman, who was son the late Dr. William Frazer, of Dublin, leaves a widow, one son and one daughter, with whom the greatest sympathy is felt in the bereavement which has overtaken them. The funeral will take place tomorrow afternoon. the cortege leaving Elmhurst at two o'clock.


    Perhaps the Dr William Frazer Niall McAuley found was his dad.
  • John Spooner said:
    In September 1905, not long after Dr Williams' death and her daughter's marriage, two unfurnished rooms at Elmhurst were advertised by Mrs Williams as being to let. (Bournemouth Daily Echo - Tuesday 19 September 1905)


    In June 1906 it was proposed that the County Borough Council borrow £6,100 to purchase Elmhurst and a property called "Leyton Mount" for the purpose of a museum. This would have to be approved by the Local Government Board. (Bournemouth Guardian - Saturday 02 June 1906)

    Fast forward 25 years and the Bournemouth Times and Directory of Friday 8 May 1931 reported that a sub-committee was considering a Municipal Museum, and the Town Clerk
    made a statement with regard to the purchase of “ Leyton Mount,” Old Christchurch-road, and “East Hillside,” Dean Park-road, which were purchased in 1906 for museum purposes
    . So did Elmhurst become East Hillside? Did they purchase the property and not get round to making it a museum?

Identified! 6033 and 6039 Fernwood Lane

from Halifax Municipal Archives

  • 1 older comment, and then…
  • Colby Rice said:
    I'm pretty certain that this is fernwood lane in the south end of halifax. 6033 on the right and 6039 on the left.
  • Colby Rice said:
    I've walked by these recently, they look just the same. According to google maps the addresses are 6033 and 6039 Fernwood Lane, just off of Franklyn.
  • Halifax Municipal Archives said:
    Hello Colby Rice - thanks a lot for the identification on this one! We've updated the description in our database with the location.

26_0045487 Rohr Collection Image

from SDASM Archives

  • Mitch Barrie said:
    I love these kinds of manufacturing floor photos. In 1981 I worked for a small defense subcontractor that machined and marked all kinds of aerospace and other weapons systems parts. This photo reminds me of that experience.

Children outside the migration centre, Uranquinty, New South Wales, 1950

from State Library of New South Wales

  • Blue Mountains Library, Local Studies said:
    "Uranquinty played role in Populate or Perish Policy
    Excerpts “From Our Past” by Sherry Morris, the Daily Advertiser Jan 20,1996
    The migrant hostel was established in December 1948 on the site of the former RAAF Air Service Flying School, some 5 Kilometres north west of the township of Uranquinty. During the occupancy through to its closure as a migrant centre in 1952, near 28,000 displaced persons/ refugees migrants passed through the facility, by far the greater majority of these being women and children.

    Male migrants were contracted to work on projects at the discretion of the Commonwealth Dept. of Immigration.

    As accommodation became available in proximity to where the workers were situated, then the families moved on from the hostel centre, hence the large figure shown as having been housed at Uranquinty in a relatively short period of time.

    The NSW Department of Education opened a school for immigrant children. Staff at the centre totalled 100 by April 1949.

    The huts were unlined corrugated iron with few provisions for comfort — suitable for toughness-building austerity in single men, but not suitable for women, children and particular young babies. Accommodation was dormitory-style for up to 22 people in separate single or family blocks. Though expected to be temporary, the immigrants were often kept there for up to three years..."
    More - afuo.org.au/ukrainians-in-australia/history-of-ukrainians...

Looking southeast from above Market & Valencia Streets, May 1906

from San Francisco Public Library

  • 1 older comment, and then…
  • Warren Wulzen said:
    D H Wulzen climbed to the roof of the apartment building on the east side of Laguna St, just off Market St, to take this photo, AAG-0505 and AAG-0507.
  • jessamyn west said:
    Warren Wulzen Neat fact. Are you a relative?

Interior of City Hall, June 12, 1900

from San Francisco Public Library

  • Warren Wulzen said:
    Western Neighborhoods Project/Open SF History has this in lantern slide format, wnp13.022.

East on Market Street from above Valencia Street, May 1906

from San Francisco Public Library

  • 1 older comment, and then…
  • Warren Wulzen said:
    Same camera location as AAG-0507 and AAG-0515, atop the apartment house on Larkin, just off Market St.

Looking West on Market Street near Buchanan Street, May 1906

from San Francisco Public Library

  • Warren Wulzen said:
    D H Wulzen climbed to the roof of the apartment building on the east side of Laguna St, just off Market St, to take this photo, AAG-0505 and AAG-0515.

Wulzen's Pharmacy on the southwest corner of Castro & 17th with a food line to the basement, May 1906

from San Francisco Public Library

  • Warren Wulzen said:
    After the 1906 earthquake and fire, the basement of the drug store became a food distribution center. People here are lined up along 17th street, past the Wulzen home behind the drug store building.