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26 photos and 9 illustrations tagged pearl, from 10 members of Flickr Commons.

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• bldigital
• publicdomain
• mechanicalcurator
• sherlocknet:category=organism
• hawaii
• pearlharbor
• vol0
• vogue
• fashion
• dress
• sherlocknet:tag=england
• sherlocknet:tag=france
• sherlocknet:tag=london
• queensland
• statelibraryofqueensland
• pearling
• portrait
• medium
• woman
• harbor
• rimpac
• tarawa
• lha1
• rimofthepacific

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• SDASM Archives 10 photos & illustrations
• British Library 9 photos & illustrations
• State Library of Queensland 5 photos & illustrations
• The Library of Congress 3 photos & illustrations
• North East Museums 3 photos & illustrations
• National Library of Ireland on The Commons 1 photo / illustration
• OSU Special Collections & Archives : Commons 1 photo / illustration
• New York Public Library 1 photo / illustration
• State Library of New South Wales 1 photo / illustration
• Cloyne and District Historical Society 1 photo / illustration

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Heap of pearl shells at Darnley Island ca. 1948

from State Library of Queensland

• Vesna Verencevic said:

  Shell found in or about coral reef bottom is hard and of good quality, although subject to these borers. Shell along the east coast of York Peninsula is very like the Papuan coast shell but is much larger and heavier when fully grown. The deep-water shell of Darnley Island waters is really a reef shell. The best quality is found on what is known as the old ground, which covers the area over the western approach to Torres Strait. The sea-bed, affected by the waste from the coast and by discharge from rivers, appears to affect the quality of the mother-of-pearl shell. The beautiful colouring of the pearl shell is divided into two general classes: white or silver-lipped and gold or orange-lipped. The white-lipped shell is the natural shell without the gold-lip colouring. The latter colouring extends over the entire back of the shell, penetrating a more or less shallow distance into the nacre, and then right to the thin outer edge, hence "lip." Gold-lip shell is some pounds sterling per ton of less value commercially than silver-lipped. Source: anglicanhistory.org/aus/white1918/05.html

Ruth St Denis in costume.

from New York Public Library

• 13 older comments, and then…
• superbomba said:

  wow.

• pamgphotography said:

  I Love this old photo of Ruth St. Denis!

• tasteful support said:

  this is an amazing coincidence - have a look here where Ruth St Denis is being exploited by Nazi propaganda www.flickr.com/photos/82757070@N00/3144572245/

• Christophe Levet said:

  vintage fashion!

• Dangerous Window said:

  simply lovely, i just love the good old style

Pearls From Thursday Island

from OSU Special Collections & Archives : Commons

• World Footprints1 said:

  Thank you for sharing. We have selected this photo to accompany an article on www.WorldFootprints.com