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Looks similar to the stone crushing machine we encountered previously -

Is that the Baron, Luke Dillon at left? If so, date is 1900+ish rather than 1860...

makes my mind wander and think of a Kate Bush and Donald Sutherland shooting the "Cloud Busting" video ... showing my age...

interestingly, there is a man at the front of the engine/carriage wearing a top hat, almost like a showman/ ringmaster ?

I have fond memories of traction engines towing threshing machines into the fields and working all dy non stop at grandmas in the late 1940s. Life was more fun then.

Health and Safety would not be happy with the candles these days.

Seasons greetings to all in our National Library and especially you, Mary, for keeping this flickery thing going. Location. Temple of Castor and Pollux, The Forum, Rome www.flickr.com/photos/photohistorytimeline/8515815313/in/...

We could do with a drop-cloth like that this year. Easily the highest levels of needle shedding we've had in recent years. Those ceramic(?) heads on the drop-cloth scare me more than the candles to be honest :) We know the Dillons were well-traveled - do we think the images behind were collected or otherwise represent some of those travels?

Merry Christmas! I love how it has central place in the room. And the cloth under it was so sensible. As kids we still had crackers on our tree. I love the wee interior details here with the rod picture rail and the curtain pelmet rail to the left (oh the joy of changing fashions and that pelmets have long gone!)

I don't think cats were so common as indoor pets as they are today. Pets are taking over!! (No, none live in my house--say what you will. . .. :-) Thank you, Mary, and happy holiday to all at the National Library of Ireland!

25" OSI The formal garden was to the right of the main house but there were shubberies and rockeries all over the estate. so she could be sitting anywhere. Born Augusta Caroline Crofton 16th October 1839, she died 5th September 1928 She would have been 75/76 in 1915.

From her date of birth (16.10.1839) she would have been 75 in 1915.

TCD is working on a Letters of 1916 project, which includes a bunch to/from the Clonbrocks from about this time. For example R.E. Dillon congratulating his mother on her golden wedding anniversary.

I’d kill to see this television series! Do any of you remember it? The ladies of the lens At the Great Exhibition in London of 1851, Lady Augusta Crofton’s father bought her a camera and she never looked back. With Rose Shaw she became one of the earliest photographers in Ireland and starting tonight their work, along with thousands of pictures by their male colleagues, will be featured by RTÉ in a six-part television documentary series on old photographs called “Shadows”. “Lady Augusta Crofton was the first great Irish woman photographer” says Michael O’Connell, producer of the series. “If you think that photography was only invented in 1837 and that she was in action by the very early 1850s that makes her very much part of the pioneers. She was operating a camera less than ten years after what would be reputed to be the first photographs taken in Ireland.” With her wet plate process camera, Augusta, who married into the Dillon family of Clonbrock in East Galway, took over 1,000 photographs which are today in the basement of the National Library [not any more, they’re not!] and God knows how many others as well which are now lost to posterity… (Irish Times, 15 February 1985)

Where are the photographs now Carol? Sounds a terrific TV series!