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

• W.J. Simmons (LOC)

  

  
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  • Phil Osborne said:

    William Joseph Simmons (May 7, 1880 – May 18, 1945) was an American preacher and fraternal organizer who founded and led the second Ku Klux Klan from Thanksgiving evening 1915 until being ousted in 1922 by Hiram Wesley Evans.

  • Richard Norton said:

    www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q983330

  • Lulu Winslow said:

    He is listed as Imperial Wizard at en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Joseph_Simmons

• Mme. [Ernestine] Schumann-Heink & children (LOC)

  

  
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  • 2 older comments, and then…
  • swanq said:

    Two of Ernestine Schumann-Heink's children were daughters,
    Charlotte Heink was born ~1884
    Marie Theresa Schumann was born ~1896
    
    The boy looks compatible with her youngest son, born 12 Dec 1898 in New York.
    - www.findagrave.com/memorial/195890346/george_washington_s...
    
    The daughter here might be Marie Theresa (Mizzi).
    - www.findagrave.com/memorial/111173868/marie_therese_fox
    
    The older daughter, Charlotte can be seen with Marie in one of the photos at
    - www.findagrave.com/memorial/239680129/charlotte_greif
    
    To me, the daughter in this picture is a better match to Marie than Charlotte. Marie was first married in 1915.
    See www.newspapers.com/article/lancaster-new-era-marriage-of-...
    So this picture is probably no later than 1915.
    
    Aside 1: According to www.balboaparkhistory.net/glimpses/scheink.htm
    "In February 1906 she returned to Germany where she succeeded in getting six of her eight children out of the country. August, a merchant seaman, and Charlotte, the wife of Doctor Grief [Greif] in Leipzig, remained behind. According to German law, Schumann-Heink, by marrying a foreigner, had forfeited her property in Germany. Also, her boys were required to serve in the army before they could leave the country. The German courts decided the boys and daughter Marie could accompany her to America and that she could retain one-third of the money in Germany as she, rather than her deceased husband, had earned it. Her home in Germany was confiscated, and she had to buy it back."
    
    Aside 2: According to www.balboaparkhistory.net/glimpses/scheink.htm
    "While she was singing in the 1914 Bayreuth Festival, World War I began. She ordered her chauffeur to put an American flag in front of her automobile. The flag placated officials looking for enemy agents and enabled her to reach the American consul at Coburg. After a roundabout route which took her to Copenhagen, she, her son George Washington, her daughter Marie, and her accompanist, Mrs. Katherine Hoffman, finally sailed for America on a Holland-American liner out of Rotterdam."

• [Ernestine] Schumann - Heink (LOC)

  

  
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  • swanq said:

    See earlier photo from Bain stream (one of many) at
    

  • swanq said:

    The St. Charles Herald. November 06, 1920, p. 5, photo at top center
    - chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn85034322/1920-11-06/ed-...
    shows Schumann-Heink singing to immigrants on a crowded Ellis Island. Given the neighboring photos with the same 5338 negative number prefix, this photo may have been taken at Ellis Island.
    
    The photo in the newspaper article is available in much better quality at
    - www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/1920-mme-schuman-heinke-no...
    To me, this certainly suggests that she is wearing the same dress and hat in the two pictures.
    
    The same picture is shown in The World-News [Roanoke, Virginia]. Oct 8 1920, p.2, top center
    - www.newspapers.com/article/the-world-news-opera-star-ente...
    
    First occurrence of the same photo is in The Journal Times [Racine, Wisconsin]. Sept 29 1920, p. 13, top center
    - www.newspapers.com/article/the-journal-times-opera-star-e...
    
    A few days earlier, the New-York tribune. September 26, 1920, Page 5, Image 39, col. 5, just below photo collage
    - chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83030214/1920-09-26/ed-...
    says 'Mme. Ernestine Schumann-Heink will sing for the immigrants on Ellis Island this afternoon. Her accompanist will be Miss Katherine Hoffman and her numbers will include "America" and "The Star-Spangled Banner."'

  • swanq said:

    On Pinterest (but without information about original source)
    - www.pinterest.com/pin/527624912570261434/
    has a picture that purports to include Katherine Hoffman, Schumann-Heink's accompanist.
    This looks more like the shorter woman at left than the taller woman.
    
    LoC has a group picture including Schumann-Heink and Katherine Hoffman at
    - www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2014712863/

  • swanq said:

    The Cincinnati Post, Oct 14, 1920 p.1, top center
    - www.newspapers.com/article/the-cincinnati-post-singer-thr...
    has another photo of Schumann-Heink singing from the balcony at Ellis Island, with an inset of her face with open mouth as she sang. This photo and caption were published in many newspapers over the next few weeks.
    
    There is still the puzzle about the man walking in front of Schumann-Heink and the tall, elegant woman in front of the woman who may be Katherine Hoffman, the accompanist.
    
    it is not Frederick A. Wallis, who was the new Commissioner of Immigration in 1920, and is pictured at
    
    
    Some concerts at Ellis Island for the immigrants were arranged by Joseph A Fuerstman who organized concerts in Newark, NJ, including free outdoor concerts in the summer. I have been unable to find photographs.

• Ellis Island (LOC)

  

  
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  • Lulu Winslow said:

    I wonder how many of these people had seen a camera before...

• The town with the split personality

  

  
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  • Suck Diesel said:

    The Ballina-Killaloe Historical Journal, Vol. 3, includes this image.
    If anyone has a copy?
    
    www.nenaghguardian.ie/2021/12/15/third-volume-of-ballina-...

  • National Library of Ireland on The Commons said:

    Suck Diesel Your friendly local National Library has a copy...

  • beachcomber australia said:

    A wild guess - Mr and Mrs Reddan ...

  • beachcomber australia said:

    Yikes! May 2021 - clarechampion.ie/killaloe-mourns-iconic-publican-marie/

  • Suck Diesel said:

    National Library of Ireland on The Commons Long gone, I’m afraid
    
    maps.app.goo.gl/HmFN7mQAD7Zsahtb6?g_st=ic

  • National Library of Ireland on The Commons said:

    ɹǝqɯoɔɥɔɐǝq Wasn't a family inheritance: "Reddan’s was purchased by Paddy Reddan in 1947"...

  • Foxglove said:

    humming ...."hands in his pockets, a fag in his mouth, come Saturday night he comes rolling home drunk" (I will be with him wherever he goes)

  • Niall McAuley said:

    In 1901, Widow Phebe Reddan and her unmarried daughters are Hotel Proprietors in Killaloe www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1901/Clare/Killaloe/...

  • Niall McAuley said:

    Elizabeth married a piano tuner (!) named Ogilvie in September 1901

  • National Library of Ireland on The Commons said:

    Niall McAuley Elizabeth or Annie in the doorway? Plus a nattily-dressed hotel guest, or piano tuner Ogilvie?

  • Niall McAuley said:

    Only one Phoebe Reddan in records of deaths and in Calendar of Wills, died in 1902 at 78, late of Clonmel

  • National Library of Ireland on The Commons said:

    Niall McAuley Anna Louisa died the year before her mother, Phoebe/Phebe?
    
    In the Limerick Leader on Friday, 27 December 1901...
    

    Notices of Application to Quarter Sessions for Certificates for Publicans' Licenses.
    TAKE Notice that it is my intention to apply, and that I will apply, at the next General Quartet Sessions of the Peace, to be held at Ennis, in and for the Division of Ennis and Ennistymon, and County of Clare, on the 17th day of January next, for a Certificate to entitle me to receive a Transfer of a License to sell Beer, Cider, and Spirits by retail, at my house, situate at The Canal Bank and Bridge-street, in the Town and Parish of Killaloe, Barony of Lower Tulla, and County of Clare, and known as the Shannon View Hotel, otherwise Reddan's Hotel, and in which said house I reside, the said licence being the licence formerly held by Anne Louisa Reddan, deceased. Dated this 11th day of December, 1901. PATRICK ROHAN, Applicant, P. E. O'Donnell, Solicitor for Applicant, 8, Glentworth-street, Limeriok.

  • Niall McAuley said:

    I don't see a record of Anna's death. A hint that the Phoebe's are the same person, the piano forte tuning Ogilvie's address is Sara field St. Clonmel.

  • Niall McAuley said:

    Cornelius Reddan, Hotel Keeper, died aged 63 in 1892. Daughter Jane present.

  • Niall McAuley said:

    Jane married the memorably named Stopford Jones, civil engineer at the University of Dublin, in 1898, Anna Louisa a witness.
    
    They are in Belfast in 1901, with children Louisa and Stopford Jr

  • Niall McAuley said:

    Patrick Rohan of Killaloe is a road steward by 1911. No Hotelling on Bridge Street, but 3 public houses.
    
    The one with 8 windows to the front as in the pic is occupied by Catherine Gillis and family. She is listed as Married, but Mr. G. is not at home.

  • John Spooner said:

    If that molar is making your life hell, but you're clutching that well-earned shilling, make sure you turn up at the Shannon View Hotel on the right alternate Monday, and not the alternative alternate Monday
    
    (Limerick Echo - Tuesday 27 August 1912)

  • John Spooner said:

    Niall McAuley In the marriage notice in the Leinster Reporter on Saturday 12 October 1901. Mr H Ogilvie is described as a "Professor of Music" (i.e. expensive piano tuner).

  • O Mac said:

    The hotel has a bay window in this W.L.
    catalogue.nli.ie/Record/vtls000334383

  • beachcomber australia said:

    O Mac The bay window photo has to be later than today's. Also a house behind apparent, and two trees on the embankment have gone, etc, when compared with catalogue.nli.ie/Record/vtls000332888

  • Niall McAuley said:

    L_ROY_05591 L_ROY_05589 nearby is a boat pier in Killaloe, and includes the steamer Countess Cadogan
    
    The Countess Cadogan, measuring 70 ft by 14 ft x 7 ft was one of these steamers. Built in Paisley in Scotland by Fullertons or McLachlans as a steam lighter in 1897

  • Suck Diesel said:

    O Mac Note ‘Grace’s Hotel’ to the right

  • Niall McAuley said:

    STP_1027 shows the Shannon View Hotel was here before 1883 but without the extension to our right, just the corner building

  • Suck Diesel said:

    beachcomber australia The only ref I could find to a ‘Grace’s Hotel’ in Killaloe, but not our one I think
    
    ‘I often picked strawberries in the garden in front of the house ,for miss Gaynors shop it wasn't a hotel at that time , miss Grace was there ..it was just past the Shannon View in an iron gate up steps’
    
    So, before Graces became an hotel, if that’s of any use
    
    www.facebook.com/killaloeballinalhs/posts/jim-brennan-has...

  • National Library of Ireland on The Commons said:

    Niall McAuley Happy to change date to after 1897 because of your Countess Cadogan, but which L_ROY is that? Today's hotel is L_ROY_05591.

  • Suck Diesel said:

    Miss Grace, hotel keeper, in her private residence
    
    www.census.nationalarchives.ie/reels/nai000484837/

  • John Spooner said:

    An article in the Sporting Review entitled "Rambles along the Trout & Salmon Rivers and Lakes in the South of Ireland", reproduced in the Cork Constitution - Tuesday 7 September 1858 included this:
    

    We put up our quarters at the Shannon View Hotel, kept by Mr. Sparling, which for comfort, cleanliness, economy and civility, is not to be exceeded in Europe. Better sleeping accommodation could not be had for love nor money. The bed-rooms are large, and the beds most comfortable.

    
    
    In the Limerick Reporter Limerick Reporter - Tuesday 10 February 1863 there's a notice that the Shannon View Hotel, "lately occupied by Augustus Sparing" is to be sold.
    
    In Bassett's Chronicle - Wednesday 30 August 1865, there's a notice advertising the "Shannon View Hotel, Killaloe, C Reddin, proprietor. Tourists and Gentlemen will find every accommodation combined with cleanliness and moderate charges at above hotel."

  • John Spooner said:

    Extensive improvements in 1885/1886.
    Midland Counties Advertiser - Thursday 12 August 1886

    The town was also explored and like most Cathedral "cities" has very much of the appearance of stagnation; but one notable exception was seen in the modern and extensive improvements made since last year In Mr C. Roddan's Shannon View Hotel, the view from the bow windows of which is truly enchanting, while internally the establishment is a model of comfort, cleanliness, and beauty.

  • Niall McAuley said:

    The steamer is in L_ROY_05589

  • National Library of Ireland on The Commons said:

    Niall McAuley Thanks, Niall.

  • Niall McAuley said:

    I found the record of the death of Anna Louisa, 11th August 1901 of a brain effusion. Mistranscribed as Readdan in the records.

  • Niall McAuley said:

    Meanwhile in Clonmel, Mary Louisa Ogilvie is born in June 1903, mother Eliza née Reddan.

  • Suck Diesel said:

    Niall McAuley Was she in a workhouse?

  • Niall McAuley said:

    Suck Diesel I think by 1903, workhouses were almost hospitals, but she was not well off.

  • Suck Diesel said:

    Niall McAuley Yes, many did later become hospitals.
    E.g. St. Columcille's Hospital occupies the site of the former Loughlinstown Workhouse.
    In my youth, older residents would avoid attending the hospital due to its workhouse associations.

  • Suck Diesel said:

    Niall McAuley But what about the hotel, did her family not own it? Seems to have disappeared by the 1911

  • Niall McAuley said:

    Suck Diesel upthread I linked Catherine Gillis in 1911, who seems to have the premises as a Public House, not a hotel. Record of the birth of her son Robert shows her husband Thomas is an RIC man.

  • Suck Diesel said:

    Niall McAuley But she was also there at #4 in the 1901.
    Comparison of the Building Return Forms for both years shows that #1, our hotel, has now become a drapery.
    
    www.census.nationalarchives.ie/reels/nai001796644/
    
    Hard to reconcile this change of use, unless temporary, with the 1912 ad above from ‘Smiles’ which mentions the Shannon View as a venue.
    
    It seems that the death of one sister may have led to its closure.

  • John Spooner said:

    I was joking upthread about Hunter Ogilvie being an expensive piano tuner, but Clonmel publican Edwin Fox seems to have thought so.
    
    Fox was found by his wife lying on the floor of their bedroom with a bullet wound in his forehead and a recently discharged revolver close by.
    
    At the inquest

    Mr Hunter Ogilvie, piano tuner, deposed to having been in deceased's company for several hours on Thursday night. They had some slight words at parting over the price which witness charged him for tuning his piano.

    
    [There was also evidence that Fox had money problems and had been drinking heavily. The jury found that the wound which caused the death was self-inflicted, but couldn't decide whether it was accidental or otherwise. ]
    (Cork Weekly Examiner - Saturday 25 July 1903)

  • Niall McAuley said:

    Suck Diesel
    Looking at the buildings return, I see I misread it above, Reddans Hotel has 8 windows, Gillis's pub only 2.
    
    Why only 10 buildings instead of 1901's 14? The census taker has included the Hotel on the cross street Canal Bank rather than Bridge Street. Next door is Grace's "temporary" Hotel, as in the later pictures?
    
    The Hotel Manageress is Mary Costello, can't tell who owns it.

  • Niall McAuley said:

    From the I.T.A. Topographical and General Survey 11942/3
    
    There is no hotel in Killaloe proper which can be recommended. The Shannon View Hotel is in a bad state of repair and badly kept. Shannon View Hotel: 10 Bedrooms, 2 Bathrooms, Licensed.
    
    So the Hotel existed under that name from at least 1863 to 1942.

  • Niall McAuley said:

    I cant put a latest date on it, but the fact that there are later shots showing work done (bay window instead of the Hotel Bar entrance) which are still before 1914, and that this one has Reddan's Hotel over the door, suggests to me that this really is when Reddans owned it, so before late 1901.
    
    The couple in the doorway might be Eliza with Ogilvie, Jane with Stopford Jones, or perhaps Anna Louisa had a gentleman friend before her untimely death.

  • Suck Diesel said:

    Niall McAuley The hotel was heavily reliant on British anglers, who now longer came due to the war?
    Good catch re the hotel address in the 1911, which explains its apparent disappearance.
    Can only conclude that the business faltered following the many family deaths.
    
    Who would have thought such tragedies lay in store?

  • National Library of Ireland on The Commons said:

    John Spooner Niall McAuley Suck Diesel Thanks for all the weekend overtime you've put in the last day or so!

  • John Spooner said:

    Notice in the Irish Independent - Friday 16 March 1956
    

    LICENSED AND RESIDENTIAL BUSINESS PREMISES
    formerly known as SHANNON VIEW HOTEL
    Will be sold by Publlc Auctien (without reserve)
    AT THE SALESROOMS. 7 GLENTWORTH ST.. LIMERICK On WEDNESDAY. Seth MARCH AT 3 On the instructions of Mrs. Duggan

    
    so it appears the name didn't survive until March 1956.
    
    Mrs Duggan put a personal message in the Irish Independent - Friday 21 April 1950
    "Mrs E Duggan, Shannon View Hotel, Killaloe, acknowledges receipt of £15 restitution money"

  • National Library of Ireland on The Commons said:

    John Spooner Intriguing! Restitution for what? Restitution from whom? You can't leave us hanging like this...

  • Suck Diesel said:

    Niall McAuley Looks like ‘Mrs Duggan’ owned it after the Reddans.
    
    ‘And where was your mother from?
    My mother was from Castleconnell. She worked in the Shannon View Hotel.
    
    Can you tell me anything you remember about that?
    She was a chef, t’was all women were chefs at that time in the Hotels, cooks they called them. When I was young I used go across the bridge after school and go in to see her and slip into the room behind the kitchen and eat the jelly and the plums, that’s what I remember about that’
    
    ‘When you say your mother worked in the Shannon View – who owned the Hotel that time?
    Duggan’s, Mrs. Duggan, Helen Duggan’s mother.
    
    killaloeballinalhs.wordpress.com/2019/05/15/billy-mills-s...
    
    ‘From the Killaloe side, who do you remember? Any of the shops?
    Not really, we used to just go to school and back. Except my aunt owned the Shannon View Hotel, we used to go in there. They were Helen Duggan’s people.
    So you would go in and out of there – what was it like?
    did, it was lovely, it was three stories high, it was lovely. They used to have fishermen coming over from England.”
    
    killaloeballinalhs.wordpress.com/2019/04/03/mrs-crowe-sha...

• Three generations of Walkers

  

  
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  • beachcomber australia said:

    The bollards seem to have shrunk over the years. Or has the concrete risen? Pierview - maps.app.goo.gl/NYhMvDKGwWEyoijz5

  • beachcomber australia said:

    1906 according to ...
    www.facebook.com/CarrickOnline.net/posts/1353649868139699/ , but I never trust Faecesbook since the Cambridge Analytica debacle.

  • National Library of Ireland on The Commons said:

    beachcomber australia Definite concrete rise, by the looks of things.

  • O Mac said:

    Nice example of a Scottish Zulu.

  • National Library of Ireland on The Commons said:

    O Mac A Scottish Zulu?
    Asking in the same tone as Lady Bracknell querying "A handbag?"! :)

  • Niall McAuley said:

    Arthur Walker, 80 in the 1901 census.

  • Niall McAuley said:

    Malinmore/Malinbeg townlands are on the mainland North of Teelin, just South of Glen

  • Suck Diesel said:

    The only Nat Walker I could find
    
    www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1901/Donegal/Mountch...

  • Niall McAuley said:

    How about www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1901/Donegal/Glencol...

  • O Mac said:

    National Library of Ireland on The Commons
    
    collections.rmg.co.uk/media/541/915/f9313_001.jpg
    
    Their name comes from Scottish sympathy for the Zulus of South Africa during the wars of the same name: the first vessel of the type appeared in 1879. It seems that many soldiers in the Scots regiments were being killed in a war that was considered an English act of aggravation (again!) and public opinion erred on the side of the natives.

  • Suck Diesel said:

    Niall McAuley ‘Nathanael’ v ‘Nathaniel’

  • National Library of Ireland on The Commons said:

    O Mac Thank you! That's our first one, I think, unless any are lurking in the background of our harbour/port photos.

  • beachcomber australia said:

    This might have something to do with anything ...
    'The story behind the proposed rail line to Teelin Pier' - carrickonline.net/history/the-story-behind-the-proposed-r...
    
    And also - rogerfarnworth.com/2023/04/26/teelin-bay-teelin-pier-and-...

  • John Spooner said:

    Among the appointments made at the annual meeting of the general vestry of the parish of Glencolumbkillie were: Parochial nominator - Mr Nathaniel Walker; Select vestry - Mr Arthur Walker and Mr Nathaniel Walker. Incidentally Mr Willam C. Walker was elected a Churchwarden. (Donegal Independent - Friday 03 April 1891)

  • Niall McAuley said:

    23rd April, 1896, here is the birth of
    Arthur James Henderson Walker, father Nathaniel Arthur Walker, address Fish Curing Station, Teelin, occupation Manager
    
    Mother Lizzie Anne née Currie

  • Niall McAuley said:

    The record of their marriage in 1889 confirms Nathaniel's father is Arthur of Malinmore

  • Niall McAuley said:

    Daughter Margaret Elizabeth born August 1889

  • Niall McAuley said:

    Arthur James Henderson registered again in 1897?? Father Nathaniel the Manager of the fish Curing Station.

  • Niall McAuley said:

    Ah, the first one died aged 9 months, and they named the next boy for him. Maggie died aged 7.

  • Foxglove said:

    Just dropping this in for (my!) future reference classicsailor.com/2018/05/the-mighty-zulu-smylies-boats/
    If one glannces at the photo - it can appear that the little girl has a pair of manly legs :-)

  • Niall McAuley said:

    Nathaniel is the manager in that 1901 census, and he is not living in Glen, but near the fish Curing Station in Teelin. The station and Walkers home are owned by Sir James Musgrave

  • Anne McGinley said:

    Is the smallest child wearing a Tam o' shanter?

  • National Library of Ireland on The Commons said:

    Anne McGinley It certainly looks like my understanding of a Tam o' Shanter, though I'm no millinery expert.

  • Suck Diesel said:

    National Library of Ireland on The Commons
    
    Two Tams for the price of one!

  • O Mac said:

    National Library of Ireland on The Commons There are lots of Zulus to be seen in the CDB photos taken at Downings.
    
    catalogue.nli.ie/Record/vtls000186707
    We came on them there in discussion 12 years (OMG) ago.
    

  • National Library of Ireland on The Commons said:

    O Mac OMG is right! Time flies when you're having fun...

  • Suck Diesel said:

    Niall McAuley Could the child wearing tampons be daughter Florence, aged 9 in the 1901?
    Could date the photo to c. 1900

  • Niall McAuley said:

    Suck Diesel If it is Florence or Maggie, who is the boy? If he is Arthur, born 1897, who is the girl? I don't know.

  • National Library of Ireland on The Commons said:

    suckindeesel Did your auto correct go mad with Tam o' Shanter, Mr Diesel? :)

  • Niall McAuley said:

    L_IMP_1609 of Teelin harbour shows a small house with 3 windows to the front. This matches the house Nat is living in per the 1901 census. A distant figure sitting in the doorway might be him.

  • Niall McAuley said:

    It makes sense that Nat is in the CDB collection, fish curing was a common industry for the CDB to introduce to try and improve a district, as we saw on Clare Island

  • Suck Diesel said:

    National Library of Ireland on The Commons Damned auto correct!

  • Suck Diesel said:

    Niall McAuley The 25” shows a structure to the right of the cottage that is not in that picture

  • Suck Diesel said:

    Niall McAuley I don’t know either.
    The 1901 only lists Nat (35), Lizzie (35) and Florence (9)
    Can’t find them in the 1911

  • Niall McAuley said:

    Suck Diesel I don't see them or old Arthur in 1911, or in later marriages/deaths, perhaps some emigration

  • Suck Diesel said:

    Niall McAuley Seems likely, given the times that were in it

  • Suck Diesel said:

    Niall McAuley well, old Arthur was 80 in the 1901, so won’t be seen in the 1911.
    Don’t see a record of his death either, which would have given us an end date for photo.
    
    Suggest Grandson Arthur Crawford (12) for the boy
    
    www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1901/Donegal/Malinbe...

  • Flickr said:

    Congrats on Explore! ⭐ October 4, 2024

  • Lukas Larsed said:

    Congrats on Explore 💯

  • Michael Gschwind said:

    Glückwunsch zu Explore !

  • waewduan C said:

    Many congrats……………….

  • Sigurd Krieger said:

    Congrats on Xplore!!

  • Ian Betley said:

    Tremendous image 💛

  • John Linton said:

    Congrats on Explore!

  • xprocessed said:

    Kudos on making it to Explore! 🎉 ✨

  • clive422 said:

    Gratz on Explore!
    As a descndant of a 'Walker' it's nice to see some others!

  • National Library of Ireland on The Commons said:

    clive422 You're a recent Exploree too!

  • clive422 said:

    National Library of Ireland on The Commons 👍🙏

  • derangedlemur said:

    We had Teelin's mouldy old post office a few years ago:

  • National Library of Ireland on The Commons said:

    derangedlemur So we did! Well remembered...

• 18_000311_2

  

  
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  • 1 older comment, and then…
  • TVL1970 said:

    This is a photo of the recovery of the body of Mexican aviator Francisco Sarabia from the wreckage of the Gee Bee R-6H (XB-AXM, formerly NX14307), he named "El Conquistador del Cielo," after he and the aircraft crashed into the Potomac River, on June 7, 1939. The recovered aircraft was eventually restored and is currently placed on display at the Museo Francisco Sarabia, in Ciudad Lerdo, Mexico.
    
    See:
    www.findagrave.com/memorial/30682768/francisco-sarabia_ti...
    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Granville_Gee_Bee_R-6
    www.aviationmuseum.eu/Blogvorm/museo-francisco-sarabia/

  • Stig Jarlevik said:

    Thanks
    Yes I am familliar with that accident.
    Perhaps the main photo text should be in line with the tags to the right??
    Stig

• Seaplane, Rose Bay, Sydney, 1938

  

  
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  • Maximilian Karl Haupt said:

    Nice shot

• Damien Parer and George Silk, Tobruk, Libya, 1941

  

  
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  • covid convict said:

    Pssst! it's 'Contax'...looks like a Contax I or Contax II...like many cameras of the period it was a rangefinder

  • duckspeaks said:

    The last of them passed away earlier this year. They are great heroes and bringer of peace.

  • Flickr said:

    Congrats on Explore! ⭐ October 4, 2024

  • Michael Gschwind said:

    Glückwunsch zu Explore !

  • Sigurd Krieger said:

    Congrats on Xplore!!

  • waewduan C said:

    Many congrats…………….

  • Lukas Larsed said:

    Congrats on Explore ✨

  • Ian Betley said:

    Great photo! ⭐️

  • xprocessed said:

    Congratulations State Library of New South Wales on reaching Explore! 👍

  • ingrid eulenfan said:

    Perfect photo! Congratulations on explore!
    
    Via Today's Explore at #71 on Fluidr

  • clive422 said:

    Gratz on Explore!
    So good that these diggers' memories are being shown to a new generation.

  • State Library of New South Wales said:

    covid convict 👍

• Toscanini (LOC)

  

  
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  • swanq said:

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arturo_Toscanini
    "Arturo Toscanini (/ɑːrˈtʊəroʊ ˌtɒskəˈniːni/; Italian: [arˈtuːro toskaˈniːni]; March 25, 1867 – January 16, 1957) was an Italian conductor. He was one of the most acclaimed and influential musicians of the late 19th and early 20th century, renowned for his intensity, his perfectionism, his ear for orchestral detail and sonority, and his eidetic memory. He was at various times the music director of La Scala in Milan and the New York Philharmonic."

• Francis Birtles, Australian adventurer, photographer, cyclist, and filmmaker, who set many long-distance cycling records, c. 1920, Arthur Ernest Foster

  

  
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    Thank you for your post in :
    Portrait★Faces★Open Minded .

• Paul Petrov of the Ballet Russe, backstage at the JC Williamson New Year's Eve party, Theatre Royal, Sydney, 31 December 1936 / Sam Hood

  

  
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• Wallace Kirkland, 'Life' magazine photographer, Australia, 1940

  

  
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• Stewart House boys looking at comics from a Sunday paper, South Curl Curl Beach, by Sam Hood, 10 January 1935

  

  
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• Shirley Winter, Double Bay, Sydney, July 1954

  

  
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• Sir Herbert Ames (LOC)

  

  
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  • swanq said:

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herbert_Ames
    "Sir Herbert Brown Ames (June 27, 1863 – March 31, 1954) was a Canadian businessman, philanthropist and politician."
    Biography from Parliament of Canada
    - lop.parl.ca/sites/ParlInfo/default/en_CA/People/Profile?p...

  • swanq said:

    Very similar photo is in Fulton County Tribune., December 24, 1920, p 6, top of col 5
    - chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn87076552/1920-12-24/ed-...
    In the caption was "Sir Herbert Ames, author and student of social and political economy, who was recently elected financial secretary of the League of Nations at Geneva."
    
    A photo of Ames appears on
    - libraryresources.unog.ch/LONSecretariat/financial
    as "Chief Financial Agent."

• Cabin in Southern U.S. (LOC)

  

  
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  • Clint Robertson said:

    From the LOC website:
    
    About the FSA/OWI Color Photographs
    Photographers working for the U.S. government's Farm Security Administration (FSA) and later the Office of War Information (OWI) between 1939 and 1944 made approximately 1,600 color photographs that depict life in the United States, including Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands. The pictures focus on rural areas and farm labor, as well as aspects of World War II mobilization, including factories, railroads, aviation training, and women working.
    
    The original images are color transparencies ranging in size from 35 mm. to 4x5 inches. They complement the better-known black-and-white FSA/OWI photographs, made during the same period [view information about the black-and-white FSA/OWI photographs].

• Victor F. Da Cunha (LOC)

  

  
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  • swanq said:

    Chair and background, together with negative number beginning with 5339 suggest that this is at the same location on the same day as
    

  • swanq said:

    New York Times, July 26, 1917
    
    BRAZILIAN DIPLOMAT WEDS.; Vice Consul V.F. da Cunha Marries Miss A. Violet Crosbie.
    
    www.nytimes.com/1917/07/26/archives/brazilian-diplomat-we...
    indicates that Victor F. da Cunha was the Brazilian Vice-Consul in the U.S. in 1917 and married an English wife. It makes sense that he might fly on the Vasari, which was owned by Liverpool, Brazil and River Plate SN Co from 1909 to 1928 to the U.S. in November 1920, but I have found no proof that he was on the same passage as Gigli.

• Gigli (LOC)

  

  
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  • Flickr Foundation said:

    Beniamino Gigli Italian Opera Singer, I believe commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Beniamino_Gigli

  • swanq said:

    See comments with
    
    for probable liner identification and date.

• Kilby plane, Tokyo (LOC)

  

  
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  • Kees Kort said:

    People in the crowd holding above their head at least the top wing of the Norman Thompson flying boat flown by Kilby. This surely would have hindered an investigation in the cause of the downfall. See also the next picture where the flying boat of Kilby is caught by a photographer just when the machine was falling down.

• Fall of Kilby plane (LOC)

  

  
  from The Library of Congress

  • swanq said:

    Another photo of the "Kilby plane" gives Tokyo as the location:
    

  • Kees Kort said:

    The fatal crash of Kilby and his mechanic - Mr. Arthur Sunman - is extensively reported in the magazine The Aeroplane 10 November 1920 p.776.
    Mr. Herbert Frank Shaw Kilby was flying a Norman Thompson flying boat fitted with a Viper engine rated at 240 hp. The flying boat plunged straight in the ground in the land between Susaki Aerodrome and Tokyo Bay on 2nd August [1920].
    
    The full article can be found at:
    
    archive.org/details/the-aeroplane-19.1920/page/774/mode/1up

• Santine -- Dentale -- Francioli (LOC)

  

  
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  • swanq said:

    Teofilo Dentale, Romeo Francioli and Gabriello Santini, arriving on the Vasari to join the Chicago opera company that had several names over the years. See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago_Civic_Opera
    
    For Teofilo Dentale, see
    - archiviostorico.operaroma.it/persona/dentale-teofilo/
    
    For Francioli, see p 374 of
    - libsysdigi.library.uiuc.edu/OCA/Books2009-06/fortyyearsof...
    which suggests he acted as Stage Director for a Chicago opera performance in January 1921.
    
    For Santine, see p 226 of
    - libsysdigi.library.uiuc.edu/OCA/Books2009-06/fortyyearsof...
    which suggests that Gabriel Santini was a conductor with the Chicago opera in 1920-21.
    
    www.operas-colon.com.ar/cgi-bin/wwwisis/[in=aaa.in]?base=Elisir%20d%27amore,%20L%27%20and%20base=inter
    has Gabriel Santini as conductor and Romeo Francioli as director for L'Elisir d'Amore in 1922 at Teatro Colon in Buenos Aires.
    
    For probable voyage and date, see comments with
    

• Gigli (LOC)

  

  
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  • swanq said:

    Beniamino Gigli with daughter Rina.
    
    See comments with
    

• Gigli (LOC)

  

  
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  • swanq said:

    Beniamino Gigli. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beniamino_Gigli
    
    With him are probably Gigli's wife Costanza and their daughter Rina.
    - it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rina_Gigli
    "Rina Gigli (Napoli, 31 gennaio 1916 – Recanati, 22 agosto 2000) è stata un soprano italiano." [via Google translate: Rina Gigli (Naples, 31 January 1916 – Recanati, 22 August 2000) was an Italian soprano.]
    
    
    See ~1921 photo of Gigli with Rina from earlier in Bain stream
    
    The shoes Rina is wearing are in the same style as in this photo.
    
    The couple had a son, Enzo. According to www.geni.com/people/Enzo-Gigli/6000000064349537036
    he was born in 1919. In 1920 or 1921, his parents might have chosen not to bring him out for the photo on what looks like a cold day -- or he might have been sleeping.
    
    By late 1922, some photos included the two children. See Image 60 of The New York herald (New York, N.Y.), December 31, 1922, (SECTION FIVE)
    - www.loc.gov/resource/sn83045774/1922-12-31/ed-1/?sp=60&am...
    
    See also, from late 1924, Palisadian (Cliffside Park, N.J.), November 28, 1924, ROTOGRAVURE SECTION, p 11
    - www.loc.gov/resource/sn84020438/1924-11-28/ed-1/?sp=11&am...

  • swanq said:

    Gigli first joined the Metropoiitan Opera for the 1920-21 season. I think this picture was probably taken at the end of his voyage to join the company.
    
    See New-York Tribune. November 19, 1920, p.6, bottom of col 7.
    - chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83030214/1920-11-19/ed-...
    
    The full article is:
    Opera Stars Sing "Aida" Aboard Ship in Harbor
    
    Program Given at Same Time Score Is Being Offered at the Metropolitan
    
    Just about the time the curtain rose on the first act of "Aida" at the Metropolitan Opera House Wednesday night, an abbreviated presentation of Verdi's masterpiece started aboard the Lamport and Holt liner Vasari, from Brazil and the Argentine, which anchored off Quarantine too late to dock.
    Among her passengers was Signor Beniamino Gigli, a new tenor of the Metropolitan, and a group of singers who will appear soon with the Chicago Opera Company. The Vasari was scheduled to dock at 5:30 p.m. but the high wind and stiff tide, which held a fleet of vessels down the bay, prevented her from coming up to her pier in Hoboken.
    All the singers aboard had planned to go to the Metropolitan Opera House Wednesday night.
    "Well," said Gigli, "if we can't go to 'Aida,' let us have 'Aida' aboard ship."
    He looked over a copy of The Tribune that had been taken aboard by the pilot and studied the cast.
    "We have neither a ballet nor a chorus," said the tenor, "but we can give the important numbers, and I shall tell Signor Gatti to-morrow just how to produce opera aboard ship.'' Gigli procured a score from his baggage and with the aid of the ship's orchestra, Teofilio Dentale, Romeo Francoli and Gabriello Santini, of the Chicago company, entertained the Vasari's passengers until midnight.
    
    So the photo was probably taken after the Vasari finally docked in Hoboken.

• Ostvig in "Ariadne" (LOC)

  

  
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  • jonzdesire said:

    💎💎💎💎

• [Gas station attendant filling a car tank with custom blend gas, at a Sunoco gas station, Washington, D.C. area] (LOC)

  

  
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  • jonzdesire said:

    💎💎💎💎

• Cutting through the curd which has cheddared, and thus releasing the whey. Tillamook cheese plant, Tillamook, Oregon (LOC)

  

  
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  • jonzdesire said:

    💎💎💎💎

• Pressing the curd into form. Swiss cheese factory. Madison, Wisconsin (LOC)

  

  
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  • jonzdesire said:

    💎💎💎💎

• Chicken at Four State Poultry Supply, Route 65, Springdale, Arkansas (LOC)

  

  
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  • jonzdesire said:

    💎💎💎💎

• Gil Blas Visita il Dottor Sangrado: = Gil Blas Rend Visite au Docteur Sangrado =: Gil Blas Visit Doctor Sangrado: = Gil Blas Rend Visite au Docteur Sangrado

  

  
  from National Library of Medicine

  • Brian J. Hunt said:

    I believe the abstract here is for one of the other pictures.

• Woman's rights meeting, Tokyo (LOC)

  

  
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  • swanq said:

    According to en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feminism_in_Japan which uses this photo,
    "On September 28, 1923, 100 leaders from many organizations came together to form the Tokyo Federation of Women's Organizations: Tokyo Rengo Funjinkai. They divided into five sections: society, employment, labour, education, and government. The government section focused on women's rights and discussed ways to gain membership in the state. The leader of the government section, Kubushiro Ochimi, called a meeting in November 1924 for women interested in working for women's rights. The meeting created the principal women's suffrage organization called the League for the Realization of Women's Suffrage (Fujin Sanseiken Kakutoku Kisei Domei). The organization's goal was to improve the status of Japanese women. In their manifesto they declared that it was female responsibility to destroy the past 2,600 years of customs and to promote natural rights of men and women."
    
    So this seems likely to be in 1924 or later.

• Telva (LOC)

  

  
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  • swanq said:

    Marion Telva, opera singer, mezzo-soprano
    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marion_Telva
    "Marion Telva (December 26, 1897 – October 23, 1962) was an American opera singer who was a leading mezzo-soprano at New York's Metropolitan Opera for a decade."
    
    See photo from earlier in Bain stream
    

  • swanq said:

    Listen to her in Norma in 1927 with Rosa Ponselle
    - www.youtube.com/watch?v=exZUkMrUN2M

• Police station, Pyrmont, Sydney, 1949

  

  
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  • Wendy Scicluna said:

    Julie Storry ?

• Peta the Home Office cat

  

  
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  • JJ_Dredd said:

    Purrrr! =^..^=

• 10_0030611 SDASM Image

  

  
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  • Stig Jarlevik said:

    What a pity the photo is so indifferent. Aircraft seems to be civilian in spite of carrying the 'Star and Bar' on the fuselage.
    Anyone who knows which one it is?
    Stig

  • SDASM Archives said:

    Stig Jarlevik I uploaded the highest res. 22nd Troop Carrier Squadron

  • Stig Jarlevik said:

    Fooled again by bad eyesight. What I took to be the letter N is in fact the digit 4 (as in 44) making this most likely a C-54E, one of 125 built (44-9026 to 9150).
    Stig

• 10_0030616 SDASM Image

  

  
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  • Stig Jarlevik said:

    Pity we have another mediocre photo. Basically nothing useful in the photo, but if the text supplied is correct we know that Lindbergh, with his wife, having Basil Rowe as his co-pilot together with Juan Trippe and wife went to Paramaribo in S-38B NC9137 on the inaugural flight, no date known by me.. Paramaribo, by the way, was not in the British Guyana, but in the Dutch. Now independent much better known as Surinam.
    NC9137 had had a major accident on 17 May 1929. After the flight above it was based at Cristobal, Panama Canal Zone from 12 Aug 1929. It had another accident when struck by a bird on 5 Nov 1929.
    Exactly what does the date 30 Sep 1929 refer to?
    Stig

  • SDASM Archives said:

    Stig Jarlevik Switched this with highest res hard to make out but last two might be 2M

  • Stig Jarlevik said:

    There is an inherent problem with what I wrote initially and I should have spotted it, if I had checked my sources.
    The data I supplied was when Lindbergh was flying PanAms S-38 to Paramaribo, for the first time but the date you quote (30 Sep 1929) was when Lindbergh made that trip in a PanAm Fokker Trimotor taking off from Miami on 29 Sep flying Miami-Cuba-Haiti-Puerto Rico-Trinidad-Colombia- Dutch Guyana. At some point they switched to a S-38 and arrived with that one to Paramaribo.
    That aircraft could well have been PanAm's S-38 NC142M.
    Unfortunately the books I am quoting from does not have any specific aircraft data, so the NC142M rests entirely on your vision. 👍
    Stig

• Workers in Richmond Hosiery Mills, Rossville, GA - Dec.

  

  
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  • Janet Williams said:

    My grandma Sertha Bayne and my mom Patricia Bayne Williams. My mom worked at the hosiery mill 1957. She worked there until she married my dad in 1957.

• Jap[anese] torpedo boat driven ashore (LOC)

  

  
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  • swanq said:

    See The San Francisco Call and Post, Aug 14, 1911
    - www.newspapers.com/article/the-san-francisco-call-and-pos...
    which reported that "a torpedo boat was swept in shore at Tokyo."

• "Meiji Maru" ashore after typhoon in Japan (LOC)

  

  
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  • swanq said:

    A newsletter from the Sasakawa Peace Foundation from July 2012
    - www.spf.org/opri/en/newsletter/287_3.html
    stated "The ship has braved and survived all kinds of threats both on the sea and off it. It was blown ashore three times during typhoons and storms, and immediately after the end of WW2 it was, remarkably, commissioned as the USS Gary Owen by the wife of General Douglas MacArthur and used as a canteen club by the US Red Cross for the occupying US military unit stationed on the campus during which time their neglect resulted in it resting on the bottom of the pond it was floating in."
    
    An article from August 2024 about a visit to the ship
    - japan.stripes.com/travel/meiji-maru-and-monjayaki-tokyo%E...
    indicates that the ship is in reasonable shape and can be visited, but is not open every day. The museum website is www.kaiyodai.ac.jp/en/overview/facility/meijimaru/

  • swanq said:

    The University of Glasgow Library University of Glasgow Library shows a painting the university has of the vessel as originally built. See
    
    
    koto-kanko.jp.e.agh.hp.transer.com/event/detail.php?eid=1838
    is a web page with posters in Japanese about a symposium held in July 2024 for the 150th birthday of the Meiji Maru.

• Mr Mayor

  

  
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  • National Library of Ireland on The Commons said:

    Is the lad directly in front of the mayor a professional tripod steadier?

  • Suck Diesel said:

    maps.app.goo.gl/sKJGYu1Zf9KBWEdAA?g_st=ic

  • Suck Diesel said:

    Richard Hearne served as Mayor of Waterford in 1901 and 1902.
    
    The family resided at 8 William Street, Waterford. Richard Hearne was one of the owners of Hearne and Cahill, boot manufacturers, with a factory located at 15 Broad Street, Waterford.
    
    He was the father of John J. Hearne (1893-1969) who was credited by Éamon de Valera as having been the architect-in-chief and draftsman of the Irish Constitution of 1937.

  • beachcomber australia said:

    13:39
    
    One minute earlier there was a kerfuffle, and a small black Dog ! -
    catalogue.nli.ie/Record/vtls000590284

  • beachcomber australia said:

    23 January 1902 was a Thursday ...
    
    Poster "Edison Electric Animated Pictures" at the Rotunda, Dublinis is interesting.

  • beachcomber australia said:

    And it rang a bell ...

  • Joachim Hingler - On/off - traveling to the south of italy said:

    Fine atmosphere and details

  • beachcomber australia said:

    Hmmm via Trove from 1902 - "On Wednesday, January 8, the National Convention was held in the Rotunda, Dublin. ... ...
    ... Edison's cinematograph was in operation both outside the Rotunda for the purpose of "taking" the delegates as they arrived, and inside in order to picture the scene there. ..."
    
    From - trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/104414967?searchTerm=E...
    
    I wonder if the man with the tripod is making a movie ?
    
    🎥

  • National Library of Ireland on The Commons said:

    Suck Diesel Map updated, thank you.

  • National Library of Ireland on The Commons said:

    beachcomber australia The one minute earlier shot is very good too.

  • National Library of Ireland on The Commons said:

    Joachim Hingler - On/off - traveling to the south of italy Thank you.

  • DannyM8 said:

    beachcomber australia Given the choice, NLI picks the one without the little black dog!!

  • beachcomber australia said:

    DannyM8 The little black Dog might also be in this photo. Spot The Dog !

  • Suck Diesel said:

    I wonder who the other photographer was and what’s with the knee length boots?
    
    Looks like Mr. Poole didn’t get the gig for this shoot.

  • Foxglove said:

    Looking closer at the camera.... I think it's a movie camera as his left hand appears to be on a "crank" - this may also explain why the tripod is being grounded ...

  • National Library of Ireland on The Commons said:

    Foxglove I think you are correct.

  • Foxglove said:

    Yes always handy to have a few camera geeks on Flickr !

  • John Spooner said:

    From Mr Poole's favourite publication, Lady of the House - Wednesday 15 January 1902

    EDISON'S PICTURES AT THE DUBLIN ROTUNDA
    A most successful season will be brought to a close on the 18th inst. in the Round Room, Rotunda, when the Thomas-Edison Animated Pictures will have completed a period of seven weeks, during which time, so far, packed houses have been attracted to the daily matinee and evening performances, and it has been difficult on most occasions for a late-corner to find even standing room. The success of the visit has been so marked and satisfactory that the management would gladly have further extended it, but, then, the Rotunda is otherwise engaged after the 18th. They are, therefore, and in deference to numerous requests' received from the provinces, able to proceed on a tour through ,Ireland, visiting Wexford, Waterford, Limerick, Drogheda, Newry, Belfast,' Londonderry, and Cork. They will be accompanied by their indefatigable operators, who will, as usual, secure pictures of subjects of interest in the various districts visited. If we may judge from the enthusiasm of the Dublin public in regard to this entertainment, the augury is decidedly favourable for the forthcoming tour.

    So possibly the man with the movie camera is recording a local event to show at the Waterford leg of the tour.

  • John Spooner said:

    Waterford Chronicle - Saturday 25 January 1902:
    Theatre Royal, Waterford
    The Enormous Attraction,
    five nights only,
    commencing Monday 27th January 1902,
    Edison's world renowned animated pictures

  • National Library of Ireland on The Commons said:

    The weather was mild as we see from this extract from the Waterford News, from Thursday 23rd January 1902.
    
    WATERFORD NEWS
    (From our Correspondent).
    Waterford Wednesday
    THE WEATHER.
    The weather continues delightfully mild.
    THE MAYORALTY.
    The election of Mayor, which will take place
    to-morrow, has excited, comparatively speaking,
    little interest so far. The present Major
    (Mr Richard Hearne) will be proposed for the
    position for a second year, and, according to
    information which I possess, has received
    promises of support from 26 members of the Council.

  • Suck Diesel said:

    National Library of Ireland on The Commons I think Mr. Poole was more interested in this new moving picture invention than the re-election of the local mayor.
    
    
    Mr. Edison’s invention featured prominently in this shot of the fun fair

  • National Library of Ireland on The Commons said:

    Suck Diesel you may well be right, I bet it was fascinating to all photographers at the time.

• View of the wreck of the Mary Washington

  

  
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  • rockcreek said:

    The Mary Washington sank the afternoon of October 5, 1896, springing a leak at its dock at the foot of 11th Street and going under on the Virginia side of the river. See "Sank at Anchor in River" in that day's "Evening Star".

• Woman aircraft worker, Vega Aircraft Corporation, Burbank, Calif. Shown checking electrical assemblies (LOC)

  

  
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  • Franco Fedeli said:

    
    Sublime image! FAVED in the group:
    
    ! FavTop Plus 200+ (P1, A+F4)
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    Our 12 Groups Family…

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    Sublime image! FAVED in the group:
    
    ! FavTop Plus 200+ (P1, A+F4)
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    Our 12 Groups Family…

  • floriusquimbert said:

    
    Sublime image! FAVED in the group:
    
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    Our 12 Groups Family…

  • Marc Barrot said:

    Sublime image! FAVED in the group:
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    Our 12 Groups Family…

• 10_0030615 SDASM Image

  

  
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  • Stig Jarlevik said:

    The Curtiss P-1A was no racer and must have been there to show the public the USAAC's fighters and make some group aerobatics.
    Lindbergh was in the Army reserve but now and then performed with a group called 'The Three Musketeers'
    Don't know if they were still performing in 1931.
    This Cornealson chap could possibly be Lt Cornelius who I know performed with the group in 1928.
    Stig

• 10_0030612 SDASM Image

  

  
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  • Stig Jarlevik said:

    Both Ernie Smith and Emory Bronte in their Travel Air 5000 was disqualified by James Dole because they didn't follow his rules.
    So it goes....
    Stig

• Edward Rex, Sally Anne's, and YMI in Portadown

  

  
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  • Ulster 2008 said:

    Portadown is in Co.Armagh..and not Co.Down

  • National Library of Ireland on The Commons said:

    Ulster 2008 Apologies! You are quite correct. Changing it immediately.

• The End (of horse apples) is Nigh

  

  
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  • beachcomber australia said:

    T R I F E C T A !!
    
    DOG, horse-apples, and a CLOCK !!
    
    10:55

  • Niall McAuley said:

    IO is Kildare. in 1914-15, 228 is registered to Joseph Roantree, Durham Lodge, Newbridge
    
    Thanks to the ever-valuable Lennon Wylie pages.

  • National Library of Ireland on The Commons said:

    Niall McAuley You've had your Weetabix!

  • beachcomber australia said:

    Hmmm - streetview August 2024 - maps.app.goo.gl/zYC326FMCMk1Raic8
    
    And April 2009 - maps.app.goo.gl/44BHXMEbZcTjR5z39

  • beachcomber australia said:

    Same day, same car, same corner (ed. at 11:15) - catalogue.nli.ie/Record/vtls000316944
    
    Edit - and another at 12:20 showing reverse view of Charlotte St. - catalogue.nli.ie/Record/vtls000338052

  • Suck Diesel said:

    
    Ours could be a Humber Roadster

  • Niall McAuley said:

    National Library of Ireland on The Commons I beg his pardon, per the 1911 census, it is Doctor Roantree.

  • National Library of Ireland on The Commons said:

    Niall McAuley I'm sure Dr. Roantree would not be at all discombobulated.

  • National Library of Ireland on The Commons said:

    Who was post mistress/master, I wonder?

  • Niall McAuley said:

    Dr. Roantree's home address is Charlotte Street, the cross street going right to left in picture. Also living on Charlotte Street in 1911 is Charles Robinson, Servant Car Driver.

  • Niall McAuley said:

    Roantree is a GP in Newbridge on Charlotte Street in 1901, too. I don't see any sign of a Durham Lodge on the OSI maps, but it sounds fancier than Charlotte Street, I'd say he moved to a leafier residence after 1911.

  • Niall McAuley said:

    National Library of Ireland on The Commons In 1901, WIlliam Croker is postmaster, living in this Post Office building. In 1911 he has moved to Lisburn, and I don't see a postmaster/mistress in Newbridge.
    
    There is a May Poole, Post Officer Clerk.

  • National Library of Ireland on The Commons said:

    Niall McAuley And we are around 1911-veryish here, aren't we?

  • DannyM8 said:

    I like the Dog

  • Niall McAuley said:

    Wow, I just discovered that some outfit called the NLI Internet Archive has the 1911-12 Motor Directory digitized!
    
    IO-288 is still Dr. Roantree at Durham Lodge. The IOs go up to 496. In the 1914-15 linked earlier, the IOs go to 890, so registrations were at about 130 a year. I'd say IO-288 is no earlier than 1909.

  • Niall McAuley said:

    I also just noticed that the Annual is published by Tempest of Dundalk, one of our regulars here:
    

  • Suck Diesel said:

    Niall McAuley I think this is Where the good doctor lived, based on number of windows and being next to the bank, as per Census
    
    maps.app.goo.gl/bd5MQD1jENvRG9qC9?g_st=ic

  • Niall McAuley said:

    I found a book online called Irish Doctors in WWII, and in its roll of honour for all Irish doctors who served is William Bernard Roantree, Durham Lodge, Newbridge. MB Bch (TCD 1925), FRCS (Edinburgh 1930), Lt Col RAF 1942 Sq. Ldr.
    
    The same 8 year old from the 1911 census above!

  • Niall McAuley said:

    Suck Diesel Roantree gave Durham Lodge as his address when getting married in 1898, so evidently that was the name of his house on Charlotte Street. The one you streetviewed is a likely choice, although I don't see it named anywhere.

  • Niall McAuley said:

    Joseph Roantree died at 93 in 1960, just a year after his wife died aged 92.

  • Suck Diesel said:

    beachcomber australia That would be the doctor’s house, second last on the left

  • Suck Diesel said:

    Niall McAuley Well, it’s next to the bank, with the correct number of windows (if you also count the side windows of the bow front), in agreement with the census return

  • National Library of Ireland on The Commons said:

    Tempted to add a Car Identified tag! 😀

  • beachcomber australia said:

    [Aside] Out of frame, to the right, next to the Doctor's house, is "E. Dowdall, Saddler, Hearse & Coaches, Funerals Supplied At Shortest Notice". Demolished in 1924 for the Hibernian Bank. Seen better at - catalogue.nli.ie/Record/vtls000316944
    But the locals think that the Hibernian Bank happened in 1895., which would stuff up the dating for today's photo. Probably there was another HB building somewhere in Charlotte St between 1895 and 1924. Who is going to tell them ... ?
    www.buildingsofireland.ie/buildings-search/building/11818...
    
    www.facebook.com/groups/633469560061298/posts/98979976369...
    
    www.curragh.info/archives/HibernianBankNewbridge1895.pdf

  • Suck Diesel said:

    beachcomber australia The 25” does show a second bank. Not the 1920s Hibernian Bank.
    About here, no. 2 Edward St.
    
    maps.app.goo.gl/BskPafDb6UgS1NMZ6?g_st=ic

  • Suck Diesel said:

    beachcomber australia An unusual withdrawal from that HB bank in Charlotte St
    
    kildarelibraries.ie/ehistory/saor-eire-raid-on-the-hibern...

  • Steve Brett said:

    He's making good use of that lamppost!

  • National Library of Ireland on The Commons said:

    Steve Brett He certainly is!

• Qantas’s first fatal crash, 1927

  

  
  from State Library of New South Wales

  • Luc Brocard said:

    So Rain Man told us a lie !!!

  • Blue Mountains Library, Local Studies said:

    The aircraft was an Airco (later de Havilland DH.9C ) a converted World War I light bomber, that stalled on landing approach. "At first stripped DH.9s were used to carry one passenger behind the pilot in the gunner's position, but later versions, designated DH.9B, added a second passenger seat ahead of the pilot. A second seat behind the pilot was added by extending the rear cockpit in the early DH.9C. Later it had this rear position converted to hold two passengers face to face, protected by a faired dorsal canopy or cabin."
    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airco_DH.9C
    
    List of Qantas fatal accidents
    "While Qantas has never had a fatal jet airliner accident, the Australian national airline suffered losses in its early days before the widespread adoption of jets in civilian aviation. These were mainly biplanes or flying boats servicing routes in Queensland and New Guinea."
    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Qantas_fatal_accidents

• Panel 1 Help ID me.

  

  
  from SDASM Archives

  • 1 older comment, and then…
  • Q Flieger said:

    Das sieht aus wir das Panel vom Grunau-Baby....

  • SDASM Archives said:

    Q Flieger Thanks!

• William Marvy, St. Paul, Minnesota (LOC)

  

  
  from The Library of Congress

  • 1 older comment, and then…
  • swanq said:

    The younger man at left seems likely to be one of Wliiam Marvy's sons.
    
    For James, see high school photo at
    www.classcreator.com/St-Paul-Minnesota-Central-1963/class...
    
    According to wmmarvyco.com/about-us/ in 2024, Robert is running the company.
    
    There is a good company history from 2013 at
    www.twincities.com/2013/06/22/st-paul-company-has-the-exc...
    including a picture of Robert and his three sons. I think it's a possible match for 30 years earlier.

  • Jon (LOC P&P) said:

    Thanks swanq, I agree it does appear to be Robert. We'll add his name to the catalog record.

• One man's Noir is another man's Black

  

  
  from National Library of Ireland on The Commons

  • 15 older comments, and then…
  • Suck Diesel said:

    Niall McAuley No record of a birth, but Sarah Moir and William Birmingham had a son, Alfred James, in 1896.
    I think this is our little kilted laddie.
    
    civilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/images/birth...

  • Suck Diesel said:

    Son John, now a widower, remarried in 1909.
    
    civilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/images/marri...
    
    No entry for first wife Johanna in 1901, only for John who must have returned to live in his parent’s house.
    
    Also, the 5 girls share a family resemblance, which suggests that couple with hand on shoulder are in fact sister Sarah and husband William, and their son Alfred James
    
    However, more tragedy awaited John. He lost his life in the 1917 Waterford shipping disaster.
    By this time he was the 1st Engineer on board the S.S. Formby when it was sunk by a German U-Boat, with the loss of all souls.
    This means that the foundry was gone.
    He left a wife and 5 children. Wife’s name is given as L.O. Moir, matching Lydia Olliver on their marriage certificate.
    waterfordcouncil.ie/app/uploads/2023/11/Waterford-Shippin...

  • k'idiki said:

    Suck Diesel bravo!

  • National Library of Ireland on The Commons said:

    Suck Diesel I would echo that bravo!

• Tombstone of Vicksburg the mascot of A Battery, 120 FA 32 Division USA at Camp Cable Queensland 1942

  

  
  from State Library of Queensland

  • 2 older comments, and then…
  • Tony Glue said:

    Sadly, this memorial and the other two that stood in the same vicinity were relocated to the Logan Village RSL in 2012. This was done to make way for new road infrastructure to provide access to the Yarrabilba housing development.

• Dr. Don Francisco J. Peynado - Dominican Minister (LOC)

  

  
  from The Library of Congress

  • 8 older comments, and then…
  • Jon (LOC P&P) said:

    I loaded the TIFF files which can be found in our online catalog, and compared details of the two images and they seem to show two different men. While their attire, the diplomatic uniform, is similar, the details on the hat differ as does the collar. Peynado has a mustache which curves at the ends, while Bernstorff's does not. Bernstorff's wife also looks nothing like the woman in this picture.