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Factory clocking-in clock Early 1900s, Time Recorders (Leeds) Ltd.

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  • 2 older comments, and then…
  • Flickr said:
    Congrats on Explore! ⭐ January 15, 2024
  • Sigurd Krieger said:
    Congrats on Xplore!!
  • gato-gato-gato said:
    Das ist schön.
  • Ian Betley said:
    Congrats on Explore! ❤📷❤ great image! regards.
  • Simon W. Photography said:
    An impressive shot. Congratulations on a well deserved Explore! ⭐

British Library digitised image from page 146 of "Round the Calendar in Portugal ... Illustrated by Miss Dorothy Tennant, Mrs. Arthur Walter ... and the author"

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  • Flickr said:
    Congrats on Explore! ⭐ January 15, 2024
  • Sigurd Krieger said:
    Congrats on Xplore!!
  • Finn Frode said:
    Beautiful shot ♥ - congrats on Explore. :)
  • Erika Hartmann said:
    Gratulation zum Explore ♥
  • Ian Betley said:
    Congrats on Explore! ❤📷❤ great image! regards.

An Indian Cavy. Brigade signal troop at work in France [Aire]. Photographer: H. D. Girdwood.

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  • signal mirror said:
    There are two heliographs visible - one towards the front, and one further back. I think this is one panel of a stereograph - the sterograph is here at the National Galleries of Scotland:
    www.nationalgalleries.org/art-and-artists/80944/heliograp...
  • signal mirror said:
    It is very hard to tell from this photo, but I think the angle between the heliograph rear rod and the mirror is too large for the heliograph to be the British Mance pattern (right example in image below), and is rather than India pattern (left example in image below), as one might expect from Indian troops in WWI.

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