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The Australian National Maritime Museum. We share stories of the sea. Australia’s centre for maritime collections, exhibitions, research and archaeology. Find out more.

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Acrobat and magician Long Tack Sam with his company of artists

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  • Australian National Maritime Museum on The Commons said:
    [http://www.flickr.com/photos/51979177@N02] Woah QM!! Very cool. So exciting when these discoveries are made and we can put names to faces! :) Good luck with the narrowing down! ;)
  • Australian National Maritime Museum on The Commons said:
    Check out this great graphic novel style film made by Sam's great-granddaughter! youtu.be/5S13dnw_sLU
  • covid convict said:
    trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/246729820 - they're reading the Sydney Daily Telegraph, 23rd March, 1936...
  • Flickr Foundation said:
    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_Tack_Sam

Brisbane in the 1890s

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  • Australian National Maritime Museum on The Commons said:
    [http://www.flickr.com/photos/51979177@N02] Thanks Quasymody :)
  • sccart said:
    Parliament House on the right with the Treasury Building on the left .

Bundaberg, probably during the 1893 floods

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  • Plastic Transport said:
    This is another pic of Bundaberg, showing the lower lying areas in flood...here we see the ornamental facade and roof of the Metropolitan Hotel, corner of Bourbong/Barolin Sts...check it out on Google street view.

    The SLQ has a pic of the Holy Rosary Church, corner of Barolin/Woongarra Sts, which is dated 1895...it looks slightly more advanced than the building we see here...I'd add the link, but all the links I make to SLQ time out...however, if you search on Trove for pics of the Holy Rosary Church it comes up...the foundation stone was evidently laid in October 1886...so if the date on the SLQ pic is correct, this ANMM Poulsen pic would have been taken some time in the period 1886-1895...perhaps at the same time as the other ANMM Poulson pics of Bundaberg...which I suspect might have all been taken during/after the 1893 floods...

    I'm sure a few Bundaberg people would be interested in these pics...they're fascinating
  • Australian National Maritime Museum on The Commons said:
    [http://www.flickr.com/photos/51979177@N02] Thanks Quasymody - glad you're getting stuck into these Bundaberg pics. It took me a while to realise that this image is facing away from the river. There is so much water on what looks like Crofton & George sts near Saltwater Creek I presume. Fantastic level of detail, thanks again!
  • Plastic Transport said:
    espace.library.uq.edu.au/eserv/UQ:263248/web_UQFL28_Album... ; espace.library.uq.edu.au/eserv/UQ:263249/web_UQFL28_Album... the next frame to the right!
  • Australian National Maritime Museum on The Commons said:
    [http://www.flickr.com/photos/51979177@N02] Ha! Nearly exactly the same! Thanks Quasymody
  • Jenny Goss said:
    Bundaberg Library ca 1916 bundaberg.spydus.com/cgi-bin/spydus.exe/ENQ/WPAC/BIBENQ?S...
    Qld State Library ca 1903 collections.slq.qld.gov.au/viewer/IE221242

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