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56 photos tagged lifesavers, from 7 members of Flickr Commons.

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• beaches
• surf
• swimmers
• goldcoast
• surflifesaving
• statelibraryofqueensland
• slq
• queensland
• swimsuits
• surfcarnivals
• beach
• flags
• sydney
• sand
• surflifesavingreel
• lifeguards
• men
• coolangatta
• surflifesavingreels
• drawing
• illustration
• burleighheads
• boat
• marchpasts

Members using this tag

• State Library of Queensland 47 photos
• Australian National Maritime Museum on The Commons 3 photos
• State Library of New South Wales 2 photos
• Royal Australian Historical Society 1 photo
• National Library NZ on The Commons 1 photo
• Museums of History NSW - State Archives Collection 1 photo
• Powerhouse Museum 1 photo

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Promotional vehicle advertising Life Saver lollies

from State Library of Queensland

• 1 older comment, and then…
• james gallagher said:

  predating yet evoking space ships, shuttle launches and pop art.

• beachcomber australia said:

  Family resemblance! -
  
  

• capitan flickr said:

  My car!

• Patricio said:

  Lifesavers!!

Men running in a chariot race at the Piha Surf Club carnival, [ca 1938]

from National Library NZ on The Commons

• 9 older comments, and then…
• Jens Roesner said:

  Wow, that is insane - and fantastic :) :)

• mikescottnz said:

  Ah all the 'short back and sides' mens haircuts of those days before the second world war.

• Merciful Vessel said:

  Awesome :D

• Harsh School said:

  My god, 1938

• N N said:

  :))

Laying the Pacific Cable from Bondi, Sydney to Auckland, New Zealand

from Australian National Maritime Museum on The Commons

• beachcomber australia said:

  Possibly November 1912 at Bondi, according to this slightly tongue-in-cheek SMH report with illustrations - trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/15376333 .

• Australian National Maritime Museum on The Commons said:

  beachcomber australia Thanks beachcomber! I think you're right. Just updating the details now. :)

• Australian National Maritime Museum on The Commons said:

  [https://www.flickr.com/photos/51979177@N02] Ah, just realised you'd already done the digging about Cleary. Yes, as I understand it, Hood was the one actually taking the photographs but the contract was under Cleary...It's a potential can of worms :)

• covid convict said:

  trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/238731978 - this pic appeared in the Sydney Daily Telegraph on Monday, 18th November, 1912...the pic was taken two days previously, on Saturday, 16th November, 1912... trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/143280732 - the pic also appeared in the Australasian [Melbourne] on 23rd November, 1912...in a full page pictorial feature on the laying of the cable...