Conversations

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

57-55 birds-eye view of Grays Harbor via Jones 5x7 b_w neg Ryan Negative

from SDASM Archives

  • Chuck Walla said:
    Front page of the Aberdeen Herald January 11, 1894.

    Don't forget to take your Simmons Liver Regulator every day.

73-0100-016 Ryan Negative

from SDASM Archives

  • Chuck Walla said:
    I hadn't realized these Allisons originally shipped with three-blade props.

88077-C Ryan Negative

from SDASM Archives

  • Chuck Walla said:
    Because the left knob has an adjustment range of 0-3, the display would seem to be showing degrees.

    Entire face of unit:

106331 Ryan Negative

from SDASM Archives

  • Chuck Walla said:
    At right: possibly Lieutenant General John Macnair Wright, U.S. Army (14 April 1916 – 27 January 2014).

C74-001-015 Ryan Negative

from SDASM Archives

  • Chuck Walla said:
    Name tag on the guy on the left is something like, "A. J. Brillanto." I can't find that name in the organization charts (yet).

C74-001-017 Ryan Negative

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C74-001-026 Ryan Negative

from SDASM Archives

  • Chuck Walla said:
    If you want to fix it, several of these black-and-white images need to be flipped horizontally, Note the text in the background. Best wishes and thanks for your efforts. Ok to delete this comment.

Flex-Wing in flight N140N 70mm color film clip no frame number right side from distance 3 Ryan Negative

from SDASM Archives

  • Chuck Walla said:
    I don't think this is Fox Field. Any idea which airfield? Please tag...

No print number - Unknown Ryan Proposed System Ryan Negative

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  • Chuck Walla said:
    Possibly some kind of ASROC which may or may not ever have been deployed.

Ryan chart A-7293 GSDI 4x5 color neg Ryan Negative

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  • Chuck Walla said:
    Tags added based on Wikipedia entries. Please feel free to post corrections or ask for incorrect tags to be deleted.

Old Sydney Girls High School Castlereagh St, Sydney

from Museums of History NSW - State Archives Collection

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  • covid convict said:
    Ha! I've just now discovered that in 1922 David Jones sold what was a larger part of the former Girls' High School site to Sir Benjamin and John Fuller, who subsequently built the St James Theatre and St James Building there...the St James Theatre was built in 1923-26 (including excavation)...the St James Building wasn't completed until ca. late 1929...it was opened in January 1930...

    trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/16005719 - SMH, 3rd June, 1922...item re DJ's sale of the larger part of the Girls' High School site to the Fullers...

The "Human Squirrel" who did many daring "stunts" in climbing for benefit of War Relief Funds in New York City.

from U.S. National Archives

[Red Cross Siberian Commission] Happy New Year, 1920 (LOC)

from The Library of Congress

  • swanq said:
    See www.jstor.org/stable/3405597?seq=1 for info about the Red Cross Siberian Commission from February 1919.
    "Under the Red Cross Commission to Siberia, over one hundred and fifty American nurses are now stationed at Red Cross hospitals at Vladivostok, Russian Island, Omsk, Tumen, Novo-Nikolaovsk, and the Engineers' Hospital established to help care for the men now at work on the Trans-Siberian Railway."

Prang's American Christmas & New Year cards (LOC)

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  • swanq said:
    See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Prang
    'Louis Prang (March 12, 1824 – June 15, 1909) was an American printer, lithographer, publisher, and Georgist. He is sometimes known as the "father of the American Christmas card".'

New Year reception at the White House. Photo shows thousands of citizens waiting to be received (LOC)

from The Library of Congress

  • swanq said:
    The President in 1927 was Calvin Coolidge.

New Year's Eve (LOC)

from The Library of Congress

Nollaig shona is faoi mhaise díobh go léir

from National Library of Ireland on The Commons

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  • Oliver (Wolbadger) said:
    Happy New Year and all the best for 2026!
  • Carol Maddock said:
    John Spooner Fantastic! I found one as late as 27 July 1946 in the Drogheda Independent. Jill Delaney carried the day in the Girls Under Eight competition at the Children's Carnival at Bettystown for Best Advertisement.

"The Tetons - Snake River," Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming.

from U.S. National Archives

  • 21 older comments, and then…
  • jonzdesire said:
    💎💎💎💎

76117a-2 Curatorial Collection Image

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  • Ilsa Hesse said:
    Can we see the marking on it?
    Could it be 148th?
    that was an artillery regiment attached to the 41st in WWI.
    That is a Sunset from them for sure.
  • SDASM Archives said:
    Ilsa Hesse

    Looks like 348

Crates of peaches in the orchard, Delta County, Colo. (LOC)

from The Library of Congress

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  • Alan Levine said:
    On recommendation of friends I visited in Paonia (in Delta County) in 2016 I stopped in the town of Delta to buy a box of them, here's the true color (and the taste was divine)

A happy New Year 1867 - a happy New Year 1917 (LOC)

from The Library of Congress

  • Oliver (Wolbadger) said:
    Wishing you a peaceful and happy New Year!

A year in review: a message from NMFDC's commander

from Navy Medicine

  • Oliver (Wolbadger) said:
    Happy New Year and best wishes for 2026!

Bufford's new year sheet no. 12 (LOC)

from The Library of Congress

  • swanq said:
    See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Henry_Bufford
    "John Henry Bufford (1810–1870) was a lithographer in 19th-century Boston, Massachusetts.
    Bufford trained in the Pendleton shop in Boston from 1829 to 1831.
    In 1835 he moved to New York, where he worked independently for five years while accepting commissions from George Endicott and Nathaniel Currier. Bufford returned to Boston in 1839, and became 'chief artist' in the print shop owned by Benjamin W. Thayer (who had bought the Pendleton outfit)."

    By 1878, the copyright date for this sheet of cards, John Henry Bufford, Sr. had died. His sons were running the business.

Puck's greeting to the new year (LOC)

from The Library of Congress

  • bill doyle said:
    now i’m going to wonder what ‘bryanism’ is/was!
  • Lulu Winslow said:
    Puck or cupid or ?
  • Jon (LOC P&P) said:
    bill doyle, Bryanism would be a reference to William Jennings Bryan, who was the Democratic candidate for president in 1896 but lost to McKinley. His big issue was bimetallism and wanted to use a standard of silver and gold, not just gold.
  • Jon (LOC P&P) said:
    Lulu Winslow, the child is Puck, a mascot of the magazine. In our catalog record we have a description of the cartoon which says, "Print shows Puck holding a lithographic pen, greeting the New Year, a young woman labeled 1898 riding on a bicycle and spilling flowers from a cornucopia straped to her back; an old woman labeled 1897 rides off on a bicycle into a dark and dismal background, stirring up a cloud of dust labeled "Bryanism" and "Hard Times", and showing two furies.
  • bill doyle said:
    Jon (LOC P&P) thanks for the reply! that seems rather an arcane (if not outrightly quaint!) issue to have been designated as one of the two major woes of the year, particularly when contrasted with the sweeping cliche ‘hard times’

    one suspects editorial crankishness

New York, New York. Blowing horns on Bleeker Street on New Year's Day (LOC)

from The Library of Congress

  • Manitoba Museum of Finds Art said:
    Bleecker Street
  • Lulu Winslow said:
    In our neighborhood, people come out with skillets and spoons or firecrackers, and make noise however they can (vuvuzuelas?) at midnight on the eve of the New Year.
  • Jon (LOC P&P) said:
    Thanks for pointing out the misspelling Manitoba Museum of Finds Art. It led me to find other misspelled titles. We'll get them all fixed.

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

from The Library of Congress

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  • Colins sponsor said:
    Belinda ( Mary ) Hale Good morning gorgeous one, Your page popped up on my feed and I really enjoyed your pictures, they are so lighted and colourful, I would like to see more of your contents here so I have just followed you.... We can also chat and get to know each other better.... I'm Robert.
  • Colins sponsor said:
    CHRISTIE SUTTON Good morning gorgeous one, Your page popped up on my feed and I really enjoyed your pictures, they are so lighted and colourful, I would like to see more of your contents here so I have just followed you.... We can also chat and get to know each other better.... I'm Robert.

Ice cased Adelie penguins after a blizzard at Cape Denison, c. 1912, photograph by Frank Hurley

from State Library of New South Wales

Barnsdahl-Rio Gas, Goleta, California (LOC)

from The Library of Congress

Ryan chart B2545 LRCA 'make or buy' B-1 4x5 b_w neg Ryan Negative

from SDASM Archives

  • R Baucke said:
    Tulsa mentioned
    This is a B-1 chart

Garden party on Governor's Island, Mrs. F.D. Grant, Mrs. Elihu Root Jr. , Gen. Grant, Mrs. F.M. Gibson, New York (LOC)

from The Library of Congress

  • 1 older comment, and then…
  • Jon (LOC P&P) said:
    Thanks Phil Osborne, we'll add some additional info about the party to the catalog records for this photo and the other you identified.