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Monkey looped the loop a few times and took another photo after the game started - catalogue.nli.ie/Record/vtls000737759/HierarchyTree?recor...

GoogleMaps3D - www.google.com/maps/place/Dalymount+Park/@53.3639478,-6.2...

I think I see the flag of West Germany. Ireland beat them 3-0 in a friendly on the 25th of November 1956

[Aside} Mildly annoyed that the fine St Peter's Church didn't boast a clock back in 1956. There is one there now - maps.app.goo.gl/Barrefpd2RdiogkT8

Edit - There was a clock in 1915 - catalogue.nli.ie/Record/vtls000290817

Niall McAuley Date updated.

25 November 1956 was a Sunday ...

Attendance was 35,000*. Gate receipts were £6,000. All goals were in the 2nd half - Cantwell with a penalty, a "really good score" by Haverty, and the 3rd by McCann. In goal was 19-year-old Alan Kelly of Drumcondra. (Derry Journal - Monday 26 November 1956).

* or 38,000 or 40,000 depending on who you believe.

I can't find a kick-off time in the press, but the radio broadcast was from 2:00 to 4:15. There are no floodlights and sunset was about 4:10.

There were special trains to Dublin on the day, and it was thought that about 2.000 would come from NI. Northern papers reported on the ongoing petrol shortage (due to the situation in the Middle east), and much quieter roads except the road across the border to Dublin (probably football supporters) .

Found it - kick-off 2:30. In a GNS advert for a special train from Belfast in Ireland's Saturday Night on Saturday 17 November 1956. So I'd guess Monkey pressed the shutter release at about 2:20-2:25.

I think this is an inserter. Comments welcomed below.

Some information about the IBM System/370.

This is known as Rohr Edgemont according to one source. It's located in Moreno Valley. The divided street at the bottom left of frame is Alessandro Boulevard. There's a chamber of Commerce aerial photo on the link above. These four building oulines are present on the 1978 Riverside East 7.5-minute topographic map. I know, I know. TMI.

This slide should be flipped horizontally. Location: column L50 at unknown site. California flag suggests... well, you know.

Year 1905 is in the notes. Many other RX-2 photos were shot on 05/25/1972, so I added that tag. Can't find a John Quaoy anywhere... John Quay?

Notice the grader has no roll cage. A Gallion 503 motor grader?

Bridge or viaduct? The older California Department of Transportation, Division of Structures documents referred to viaducts as over land and bridges as over water. Is this naming convention still used?

According to the South Bay Historical Society, this may be part of a widening of Interstate 5 through Chula Vista.

The white car is a Desoto. The power lines give this away as Chula Vista area. I'm tagging these as Interstate 5 construction. Please post a comment below if this is incorrect.

The award on the wall to the left of Mr. Raynes' head looks like a Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award. Not possible since they were not awarded until 1988.

This seems to be a distant relative of Eadweard Muybridge's motion studies. Muybridge used photography to discover that all four hooves left the ground at some points during a horses' gait.

It appears that she had a tragic end. See -> en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_Rowan

Via Trove, spooky ...

... When the S.S. Rowan was about to sail from Scotland to Dublin, on what proved to be her last voyage, the manager of the Southern Syncopated Orchestra tried in vain to persuade one member called Morris to sail. Although the orchestra was due to perform at the Scala Theatre in Dublin, he refused to embark, saying that he had a premonition that something would happen to him if he did. As it turned out; that premonition undoubtedly saved his life.
See - trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/137408327?searchTerm=%...

Also via Trove, THIS PHOTO and one of the 'Clan Malcom' which hit her. - trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/87562892?searchTerm=%2...

The Southern Syncopated Orchestra in 1920 -

Via - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_Syncopated_Orchestra

Also - www.youtube.com/watch?v=2huqGUSmlLc

Tintin et Milou Thank you. A lot of the ships we have featured Inevitably end that way!

beachcomber australia Subsequently known as Lucky Morris!

Flickr is sometimes amazing. Via Scottish Maritime Museum

She was HMS 'Rowan' during WW1, an Armed Boarding Steamer, and involved in the Gallipoli campaign (1915). See - www.greatwarforum.org/topic/26889-hms-rowan/

... which explains this Mediterranean photo ...

via - www.clydeships.co.uk/view.php?official_number=&imo=&a...

beachcomber australia Good finds.

Servus fro Vienna! State Library of NSW, Two men in masks, Lunar Park,Sydney, c. 1945 is an incredible capture!

I can't find any early cab interior photos but here's what the controls looked like after Bombardier reconditioned the Rohr cars. Note the M7100 Systems EDACS mobile radio:

Fingers versus band saw?

Name tags are not readable to my eye.

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

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.

Niall McAuley he could well be, and in my opinion he could be 26 or 27 in this photo.

Maybe the tip of a Montblanc fountain pen.

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.

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

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.

Stuart Thank you Sir, Mary

This may be the same microphone Dan Hearn was using when giving factory tours.

A wind tunnel model?

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."

Thanks swanq, we'll add some of this information to the catalog record.

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."

Thanks swanq, we'll fix the spelling and update the record.

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
- patents.google.com/patent/US1291686

Thanks swanq, we'll add a note saying it is probably William Reiferscheid.

Very very good photo

Suck Diesel Good one

Fashion Valley Mall in San Diego. This building is still here. Originally I believe it was The Broadway, now it's Macy's.

Mission Valley Center, San Diego. This building was most recently Macy's, but I think it's been empty since ~2017. Here's the whole building back in the May Company days:

Coming in high and trying to drop some altitude?

American 727 landing at San DIego.

Republic DC-9 landing at San Diego.

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.'

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

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."

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."

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."

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.