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Townsville showing Castle Hill, ca. 1905 from State Library of Queensland uploaded February 2023
Customs House, Townsville, Queensland, ca. 1902 from State Library of Queensland uploaded February 2023
Lovers Rock at Tweed Heads, 1916 from State Library of Queensland uploaded October 2021
Rockhampton War Memorial located in the Botanic Gardens, ca 1936 from State Library of Queensland uploaded May 2021
Anzac memorial in the Rockhampton Botanic Gardens, March 1938 from State Library of Queensland uploaded May 2021
Sitting Bull Monument, Route 1806, Mobridge, South Dakota (LOC) from The Library of Congress uploaded April 2020
British Library digitised image from page 413 of "Délen és éjszakon" from British Library uploaded July 2016
This Rock is for the Terry Monn. [sic] from SMU Libraries Digital Collections uploaded April 2016
Crane in operation on Roker Pier, 1885 from North East Museums uploaded September 2015
Progress at Roker Pier, 1889 from North East Museums uploaded September 2015
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Stanley, S.B. Purves - photographs of the quarry at Moruya used for construction of the Sydney Harbour Bridge, 1925-1927
- ¿algenonQ? said:
Townsville showing Castle Hill, ca. 1905
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Vesna Verencevic said:
Castle Hill is a heritage-listed isolated pink granite monolith in the suburb of Castle Hill, City of Townsville, Queensland, Australia.[1][2] Its Indigenous name is Cootharinga, sometimes written as Cooderinga. It rises to a height of some 286 metres (938 ft) above sea level and dominates the city skyline.[5] It is one of the most distinctive natural features on the Queensland coast. There are a number of vantage points from which to view the city below and also across Cleveland Bay to nearby Magnetic Island. Castle Hill (as a hill) was listed on the Queensland Heritage Register in 1993. The surface is primarily bare rock or shallow lithosols with small areas of duplex soils. There are three peaks to the summit. Robert Towns (the founder of Townsville) monument is on the Castle Hill. The vegetation, largely regenerative, is dominated by indigenous plant species. Approximately 300 plant species have been identified. The fauna, which has not been surveyed comprehensively, includes the unadorned rock-wallaby.[6] The avifauna had been surveyed, with over 50 bird species either visiting or residing on the hill. Peregrine falcons and brahminy kites nest here. Echidna, death adder and quail have been seen. Castle Hill has formerly also been known locally as Cutheringa, Cudtheringa, Cootharinga, and Mt Cutheringa.[5] The Aboriginal history associated with Cutheringa has not been recorded, but its name survives as one of only two known Australian Indigenous place names in the Townsville region, the other being Pallarenda. Castle Hill was one of the earliest sites named by Andrew Ball who, together with MW Reid, were the first Europeans to explore the Ross River area in April 1864.[6] The settlement established here was known initially as Castletown, until the name was replaced by Townsville in 1865. The hill became a much admired local landmark, evoking aesthetic delight and a unique sense of identity. This prominent link between urban life and nature largely determined the disordered layout of Townsville's streets and in the late 19th century was frequented for recreational pursuits such as botanising and nature study. Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castle_Hill,_Townsville#See_also
Bethlehem graveyard and steel mill. Pennsylvania (LOC)
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TexKap said:
The mirroring of headstones, buildings and smokestacks is just a compositional masterpiece. Always loved this and used a reference image when I taught black and white photography classes in college.
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parkermulligan said:
Now home of a Sands Casino (as of Memorial Day weekend 2009). www.pasands.com/default.aspx
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ROBERT HUFFSTUTTER said:
What a statement this photo makes. It is a prophecy of the AMERICAN FUTURE IN INDUSTRY...
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ROBERT HUFFSTUTTER said:
There is a story to tell here, a story about the greatest generation, a story about the life and death of America's steel industry, a story too, about crosses and the ACLU's efforts to remove them. Don't let the ACLU mess with Christianity, please--or any other religion. We are a free country with freedom to believe what we want. I don't believe we need a religious police force or a group of GOD COPS censoring our spirituality. Amen...
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Shadows and Rust said:
The name of this cemetery is St. Micheal's. It lies on the sloping side of a low moutain on the south side of Bethlehem Pennsylvania. This was the side of the town where the mill stood. It was the side that the workers lived on as you can see by the row homes in the picture. As the plant closed and the jobs disappeared many families were forced to leave. Shops and lunch counters closed with no noon rush to keep them open. The south side became run down, buildings sat empty and this cemetery was neglected and vandalized. Behind where Evans stood to shoot this image, the graves continue up into the tree line. Many do not contain a word of English, baring testament to the various ethnic groups that had come here to work at the steel. Some, such as a plain cross cut from sheet metal show just how hard some people were struggling.