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227 photos and 2 illustrations tagged croquet, from 21 members of Flickr Commons.

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• chromolithography
• sport
• game
• women
• men
• florida
• games
• chromolith
• tennis
• girl
• children
• lawn
• people
• environmentalprotectionagency
• documerica
• usnationalarchives
• bldigital
• publicdomain
• vol0
• mechanicalcurator
• beach
• playing
• france
• libraryofcongress

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• UBC Library Digitization Centre 200 photos & illustrations
• U.S. National Archives 3 photos & illustrations
• Keene Public Library and the Historical Society of Cheshire County 3 photos & illustrations
• The Library of Congress 2 photos & illustrations
• Public Record Office of Northern Ireland 2 photos & illustrations
• National Library of Ireland on The Commons 2 photos & illustrations
• State Library of Queensland 2 photos & illustrations
• British Library 2 photos & illustrations
• Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America 1 photo / illustration
• Provincial Archives of Alberta 1 photo / illustration
• Nasjonalbiblioteket 1 photo / illustration
• SMU Libraries Digital Collections 1 photo / illustration

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Les terrains de jeux

from UBC Library Digitization Centre

• Deborah Goschy said:

  The words "Les terrains de jeux c'est la sante des enfants" mean "The playground is the health of children." The card is from the Commission Americaine de Preservation contre la Tuberculose en France--The American Commission of Preservation against Tuberculosis in France. Before World War I, Tuberculosis, which was then called Consumption, was a leading cause of death in France--88,000 died annually. The death rate for Tuberculosis in the United States was lower--in 1913 the mortality from Tuberculosis was half that of Paris, France, even in congested American cities. The American Commission of Preservation against Tuberculosis in France was an effort to replicate the changes that had been made in the U.S. to prevent spread of the disease. (The American Review of Reviews by Albert Shaw).

Never a dull moment here!

from UBC Library Digitization Centre

• Deborah Goschy said:

  I wonder why the American flag is upside down?

• UBC Library Digitization Centre said:

  We aren't a hundred percent sure why, but generally when an American flag is flown upside down it is a sign of distress or emergency. Additionally, the flag doesn't look as if it was originally part of the illustration, so it could have been put that way accidentally or purposefully by the owner of the illustration. It's one of the collection's mysteries!

Cranbrook (private residence 1859-1900, residence of the NSW Governor 1900-1917, now Cranbrook School), Bellevue Hill (NSW)

from Museums of History NSW - State Archives Collection

• 1 older comment, and then…
• Andy Brill said:

  The imposing gatehouse: srnsw:

• beachcomber australia said:

  Thanks State Records for the huge size. That has to be the NSW Governor, Admiral Sir Harry Holdsworth Rawson, GCB, GCMG (1843 – 1910)(NSW Governor 1902-09), his wife Florence Alice Stewart, and a daughter. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Rawson - see illustrations. Also adb.anu.edu.au/biography/rawson-sir-harry-holdsworth-8162

• Timothy188 said:

  Those were the days Photo ! ☺

• Richard lewis said:

  great capture

• beachcomber australia said:

  From the wikipedia and adb articles (linked above) - Florence, the wife, 'a kind gentle-voiced motherly grey-haired woman' died at sea in 1905, and daughter Alice took over her mother's duties. I wonder if this is Alice in the photo? The Alice Rawson School for Mothers was named after her - So, the photo is between 1902 and 1905.