dublincity

James Green Douglas, is second from right. www.douglashistory.co.uk/history/james_green_douglas.htm Mr C J France, is far right i2.wp.com/www.markholan.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/AC...

We have seen "X"s before on Hogan photos. Makes them look like targets.

Picture from Freeman's Journal - Monday 14 February 1921
Weekly Freeman's Journal - Saturday 19 February 1921

Other press reports say that 5 of the 7 members of the delegation were Quakers.

In order that the truth of the existing conditions in Ireland should be known, the Committee sent a delegation of American citizens, all of whom were members of the religious Society of Friends, to make an impartial investigation and ascertain to what extent the American Committee might be called upon for aid. The delegation consisted of Messrs. R. Barclay Spicer, Phila- delphia, Pa. ; Oren B. Wilbur, Greenwich, N. Y. ; Philip W. Furnas, Canby, Ind. ; William Price, Philadelphia, Pa.; John C. Baker, Everett, Pa.; and Walter C. Longstreth, Philadelphia, Pa. They were accompanied by Messrs. C. J. France, Seattle, Wash., Chair- man, and Samuel D. McCoy, New York City, Secretary, and arrived in Ireland on February 12, 1921. Their report, which is printed in full on pages 62 to 67, was used as the basis of the amount of relief work that the Committee might have to furnish. archive.org/details/irelandcommitt00amerrich/page/48/mode... So if that's them, we're missing a few.

At the annual meeting of the Irish Agricultural Organization Society in Dublin on March 22nd last, at which Mr. France was present, the annual report was submitted. So possibly March 1921?

The Public Records Office ?? Completed in 1867 - "... Built between 1864 and 1866, it consisted of a three-storey over-basement Record House with staff offices, a caretaker’s apartment, a library, a binding room and a public reading room. Behind the Record House was the Record Treasury, an enormous six-storey building containing 100,000 square feet of shelving with records accumulated over seven centuries. ... " www.nationalarchives.ie/2021commemorationprogramme/public...

It looks brand spanking; no hint of pigeon and weather damage. And a very low catalogue number L_IMP_0008. I wonder if there is a matching stereo pair ...

Streetview. maps.app.goo.gl/2jupL4LfaDr9WLke7

A history of the buildings youtu.be/ms1YuXL58Qc youtu.be/5PDSQOKpE3I This video includes an account of which documents were and were not lost in the fire. Lost records included the the 1821/31/41/51 Census records. However, the 1861/71/91 Census records were not lost in the fire but pulped by the British government in 1919 to provide paper for the war effort. The 1901/11 escaped as they weren't stored there yet. The historic OSI maps also escaped as they were stored in the Park. I think the UK records also suffered a similar fate. On the right is the Record House, on the left is the Record Treasury where the records were stored. Connecting the two was an ‘isolation’ section intended to stop the spread of fire between the two sections

reinstate it i say

Looks like The Beano Book 1961 in the window, seen better in catalogue.nli.ie/Record/vtls000047253 .
from www.beano.com/posts/archive-beano-annual-1961

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Beano

About here (?), going by the outstanding drain pipe on the left - maps.app.goo.gl/i9butTibPm7Cfi228

marvelous stuff

Flickr seems to have tweaked Explore, a large number of B&W shots from various museums and archives are very prominent there today, including a number from the NLI posted long ago, suddenly getting congrats on Explore! messages.

Niall McAuley Niall - see this message at the head of the Explore page; Today’s Explore is a celebration of the Flickr Commons turning 16! Take a walk through history by scrolling through Explore now. Are we now famous at last?