boomerang

29 photos and 4 illustrations tagged boomerang, from 7 members of Flickr Commons.

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1891

2013

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State Library of New South Wales 1 photo / illustration

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Man in studio with animals, Cairns District, 1890s from State Library of Queensland uploaded June 2025
Portrait of group from the Cardwell District, 1890s from State Library of Queensland uploaded June 2025
Studio portrait of two men with visible scarrification on one of the men in the Toowoomba District, 1869 from State Library of Queensland uploaded June 2025
Bill Onus’s boomerang, New South Wales, 1941 - State Library of New South Wales from State Library of New South Wales uploaded October 2024
P51 Mustang, Boomerang and Tiger Moth at Doomben during World War II, ca. 1945 from State Library of Queensland uploaded January 2022
Cooktown tribe at Barambah Aboriginal Settlement from State Library of Queensland uploaded May 2020
Decorated men dancing at Barambah Aboriginal Settlement 1908 from State Library of Queensland uploaded May 2020
airshows domestic convention osh kosh wi august 1996 from SDASM Archives uploaded August 2018
British Library digitised image from page 395 of "Der Mensch und seine Rassen. Mit ... Illustrationen" from British Library uploaded March 2018
British Library digitised image from page 89 of "Among Cannibals. An account of four years' travels in Australia, etc [Translated from the Danish.]" from British Library uploaded May 2017
British Library digitised image from page 220 of "Following the Equator. A journey around the world [With a portrait.]" from British Library uploaded April 2017
British Library digitised image from page 219 of "The World's Inhabitants; or, Mankind, animals & plants ... With ... illustrations, etc" from British Library uploaded January 2016
Sailboats on Pittwater from Australian National Maritime Museum on The Commons uploaded January 2014
Yacht BOOMERANG sailing on Sydney Harbour from Australian National Maritime Museum on The Commons uploaded May 2013
People disembarking at Royal Sydney Yacht Squadron in Kirribilli, Sydney from Australian National Maritime Museum on The Commons uploaded April 2013

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Sutherland Dry Dock, Sydney

from Powerhouse Museum

Whipper_snapper said:
Tentative identification shows this as a gunboat or torpedo gunboat of the 1890s. There is one gun on the foredeck and traces of a gun embrasure or casemate on the forward hull below the foc's'le. These points suggest this is either HMS Whiting or HMS Wizard. The names were changed in 1890 to Boomerang and Karakatta. Both vessels were launched in 1889 and survived until sold out of service in 1905. The Victorian livery again suggests pre 1902/1903. The deck gun would be a 4.7-inch, one of two carried by these ships plus there were 5 x 14-inch torpedo tubes and four x 3-pounders. A 3-pounder would be mounted in the foc's'l casemate or embrasure. Compare with: www.library.uq.edu.au/fryer/hume/hume774.jpg www.library.uq.edu.au/fryer/hume/hume494.jpg Please add to: Naval History
beachcomber australia said:
Same dock c.1900 -
1kevin2 said:
I've often wondered what was that large building on the horizon, presumably on Victoria Road Drummoyne.

Sussex Street at Erskine Street

from Powerhouse Museum

beachcomber australia said:
How good is this! Google "Joshua's Boomerang Brandy" to get an advert in the Sydney Morning Herald on 30 July 1897 - news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1301&dat=18970730&... This is a reverse view of this photo - www.flickr.com/photos/powerhouse_museum/2713156400/
pellethepoet said:
beachcomber australia I'll acknowledge your excitement on Powerhouse Museum's behalf: Très, très bien!
beachcomber australia said:
pellethepoet Ha! That was 22 months ago, when I was young and innocent (ignorant?), and Trove hadn't been invented. At the time is was amazing ... 22 months ago Google newspapers did not go far enough back for most of these photos, but I see that it does now. It is much clearer to read than Trove, and doesn't seem yo rely on that program which suffers hugely from misspellings needing correction. Worth further investigation ...
covid convict said:
trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/71484758# - this pic appeared in the Australian Town & Country Journal on 12th August, 1903.

Bill Onus’s boomerang, New South Wales, 1941 - State Library of New South Wales

from State Library of New South Wales

clive422 said:
If it's not a great picture from you, it's educational. In the case of this one, it's both!