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• christmasacrossthecommons
• holiday
• xmas
• children
• queensland
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• santaclaus
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• postkort
• santa
• julekort
• nasjonalbiblioteket
• nationallibraryofnorway
• holidays

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• Tasmanian Archives and State Library (Commons) 32 photos & illustrations

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Eight maids a' milking (just one lovely maiden)

from State Library of Queensland

• Vesna Verencevic said:

  Modern dairying would be impossible without milking machines. But it took a century after the first such machines were invented before they were widely adopted in Australia. For millennia, humans had milked cows and other animals by hand. In the 19th century, as mechanisation began to change agricultural practices, people started to apply their minds to the milking operation. The first milking machines were patented in 1838, says the Australian Bureau of Statistics. But, they add, it wasn’t until the late 1930s that milking by machine became the norm in Australia. It wasn’t through want of trying. Both overseas and in this country, numerous machines were tried and patents applied for. Many new patents were subsequently applied for using vacuum suction and, in 1895, the pulsator milking machine was invented. In 1897, Robert Kennedy and William Lawrence, an engineer from Glasgow, produced the Lawrence Kennedy milking machine which, in 1903, was improved by a Victorian dairy farmer, Mr A Gillies. The resulting LKG machine was widely used in Australia, although most dairy farmers continued to milk by hand until the 1930s. Source: australianfoodtimeline.com.au/milking-machines-in-australia/

Nollaig shona is faoi mhaise díobh go léir

from National Library of Ireland on The Commons

• 15 older comments, and then…
• beachcomber australia said:

  25 December 1936 was a Friday ...
  
  🎄H🎄A🎄P🎄P🎄Y🎄
  🎄🎅🎄
  🎄C🎄H🎄R🎄I🎄S🎄T🎄M🎄A🎄S🎄

• Swordscookie said:

  1936 with some interesting characters on display! A "Brownshirt" on the left? A Mr. Bean in clowns outfit and a PH Pearse imitator complete with wig and gown? Having a fancy dress party would have been great craic.
  Merry Christmas one and all!

• Carol Maddock said:

  I love SAUCY BUT OK! That shall be my motto for 2026... 😀
  
  Happy Xmas all!

• beachcomber australia said:

  Flickr amazes! Via Argy58

• Carol Maddock said:

  beachcomber australia I've said it before, and I know I'll say it again but you're amazing! Love the saucy backstory!

With Christmas and New Year Greetings (view west down Paterson Street, Launceston with horses and carts.)

from Tasmanian Archives and State Library (Commons)

• Wayne Hill said:

  I love old images of Tasmania where my grandfather grew up. (Samuel Hobart Hill)