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Uniformed men possibly from a military band on board the ship WELLINGTON, 1920-1935

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  • covid convict said:
    This pic was evidently taken on 22nd February, 1927, when the Australian Commonwealth Band returned to Sydney on the S.S. Marama. The location was evidently the Margaret St wharf, Darling Harbour...

    trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/223475425 - the pic was used in an advert for the band that appeared in the Sydney Sun on 23rd February 1927...

    trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/117696928 - Truth, 23rd February, 1927...a cut and paste version of the pic also appears here...

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  • covid convict said:
    Another pic of them here

Photographic postcard of a man and two women seated at partners desk

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  • BobMeade said:
    They are, of course, sitting at a partners desk. The lady at left appears to be taking dictation, possibly in shorthand. The size of the notepad she is using is consistent with a stenographer's notepad or shorthand notepad.
  • Australian National Maritime Museum on The Commons said:
    Thanks BobMeade! Records updated :)
  • covid convict said:
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Photographic postcard depicting a cable system

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  • tarboat said:
    Flying fox! :-)
  • covid convict said:
    Possibly a cableway/ropeway...at a construction site such as a dam, or at a mine, etc

    The excavations seen on the lower left of frame have me thinking this pic might involve phosphate mines...maybe at Ocean Island (now Banaba)...or maybe Naru...


    or Naru..

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