1897

112 photos and 6 illustrations tagged 1897, from 14 members of Flickr Commons.

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[Cannero Castle, Lake Maggiore, Italy] (LOC)

  • Stephen Gum said:
    Photobucket

Spitzberg - balloon stored, tethered in shed

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  • beachcomber australia said:
    It looks astronomical more than igloo-ish ...
  • Ilia Alshanetsky said:
    wonderful
  • Sharon Corbet said:
    I don't want to imply that you are a monkey's uncle... but this picture from the wikipedia article on S. A. Andrée's Arctic Balloon Expedition of 1897 does seem to imply that it is a balloon tethered in a shed on Spitsbergen, Svalbard (Norway.)
  • Sharon Corbet said:
    Inside the shed Departure of the balloon
  • Sharon Corbet said:
    beachcomber australia Snap, yet again!

Diamonds are a girl's best friend

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  • John Spooner said:
    According to the Belfast Newsletter, Jubilee day was June 21st
  • National Library of Ireland on The Commons said:
    John Spooner Thank you, John. We're surely safe with June 1897 then... Who is your new profile pic?
  • DannyM8 said:
    There is a Salmon on the town crest denoting the river bann
  • John Spooner said:
    National Library of Ireland on The Commons It's my great-grandfather. Read about him here and here. As a Methodist minister, he changed his 'station' every two years, so he pops up all over the place. Back to Coleraine. The Belfast Newsletter reported on the celebrations in detail, including Coleraine. There are also reports of the extremely lively 'celebrations' in Cork, Limerick and Dublin.
  • beachcomber australia said:
    I got very lost trying to find this - GoogleMapsStreetView