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

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• statelibraryofqueensland
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• coolangatta
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• burleighheads
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• 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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Bondi surf lifesavers, n.d. / by Sam Hood

from State Library of New South Wales

• PeacockDesigns said:

  So much hair,, so little junk food...

• 8Frisky said:

  2nd from right (kneeling)

• jonzdesire 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...

A sales promotion car done up as a packet of peppermint "Lifesavers", Sydney, 27 October 1934 / Sam Hood

from State Library of New South Wales

• 18 older comments, and then…
• Michael Sutton said:

  How very cool, and how creative of those old codgers.

• rchrdstranger said:

  COOL!
  
  THEY "RE-FURBISH"
  & MANUFACTURE
  THE
  "OSCAR MEYER WIENER MOBILE"
  IN "MY TOWN"...
  
  www.reedberry.com/wienermobile.html

• tacit geese said:

  Hi, I'm an admin for a group called Eye Candy Art Post (share 1 comment 1), and we'd love to have this added to the group!

• Envious Party said:

  Cute car!

• Lú_ said:

  It ought to get together with the Oscar Meyer Weiner car.