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• men

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• U.S. National Archives 10 photos & illustrations
• University of Washington Libraries Digital Collections 9 photos & illustrations
• State Library of Queensland 6 photos & illustrations
• The Library of Congress 5 photos & illustrations
• Navy Medicine 4 photos & illustrations
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• George Eastman Museum 1 photo / illustration
• National Library of Australia 1 photo / illustration
• Museum of Photographic Arts 1 photo / illustration

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Painters on the Brooklyn Bridge Suspender Cables-October 7, 1914

from Museum of Photographic Arts

• 20 older comments, and then…
• Phil Zammit said:

  A fantastic shot. So clear.

• SεΣ ╤hi∩Gs DiƒFerεNT└y said:

  Wow!

• lf979883 said:

  Brilliant shot, love the extreme clarity of some old photos.

• Humdrum Respect said:

  not bad for 10 cents a day

• Abaft Peace said:

  Just a question... "This photo was taken some time in 1914 using a Canon EOS 5D Mark II. " -WHAT?!:D

Man climbing coconut palm tree at Yarrabah, 1933

from State Library of Queensland

• Vesna Verencevic said:

  TRADITIONAL ABORIGINAL FOOD-GATHERING : TREE-CLIMBING People climbed trees for a number of reasons: To catch possums, lizards, snakes and other native animals. (These animals were also removed from trees by lighting a fire below and smoking them out, and by throwing stones at the animal, knocking it out of the tree.) To collect eggs and young birds from nests. To collect fruit and seeds from high branches. To reach native beehives for honey and wax. Beeswax was used as a seal on water containers, as a resin when making weapons, and as a fixative when making body decorations. (People didn’t always climb trees to obtain honey. Sometimes they chopped the whole tree down instead. Also, some species of native bee make hives at ground level.) To chop and strip long sheets of bark to be used for canoe-making and shelters. Throughout much of Australia, a small hatchet with a stone head was used to cut toe holds into trees to assist in climbing. In these photos, taken in the rainforests of northern Queensland, strong jungle vines (lawyer-vines or lawyer-cane) are used like ropes to assist climbing trees in search of both animals and native bee hives’ wax and honey. Source: www.aboriginalculture.com.au/tree-climbing/

H.M. Sarvant with ice axe and rope at top of Gibraltar Rock, Mount Rainier

from University of Washington Libraries Digital Collections

• Pixel Wrangler said:

  Typo: H.H. Sarvant s/b H.M. Sarvant

• University of Washington Libraries Digital Collections said:

  Thanks for letting us know about the typo in the title!

• Mark Griffith said:

  Now that is an ice axe! -- Seen in some comments. (?)