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51 photos and 16 illustrations tagged shells, from 17 members of Flickr Commons.

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Spanish or Portuguese Doorway

from Cornell University Library

• cbartolo1968 said:

  i know that "Spanish or Portuguese Doorway" is probably the original title from 19c. but... I don't know where, but definitely spanish more spanish plateresque than portuguese manueline or renaissance style; and the coats of arms over the door have the castle tower and the lion that represents the Castilla and Léon kingdom of nowadays Spain

• Cornell University Library said:

  Hello cbartolo1968 ! Thanks for letting us know about this! We'll try to have someone at the library take a look at this.

Markwell standing over crew cleaning shell on the boat Three Cheers, Aru Islands Regency, 1908

from State Library of Queensland

• Vesna Verencevic said:

  The popular image of master pearlers is of Anglo-Celts in ‘pearling whites’ and pith helmets overseeing their ‘coolie’ labour. But, in reality, they came from diverse cultural and socio-economic backgrounds, and some were women. They exerted power and influence at all levels of government. Some of the early master pearlers – the McRae brothers, for example – were settlers and pastoralists; others were merchant seaman. Many were opportunists keen to exploit a lucrative trade for profit, even if this meant engaging in slaving. Some Asian pearlers owned pearling operations until their ownership was banned; others formed ‘dummying’ partnerships with white pearlers. Other Asian and European pearlers operated from East Indian ports, such as Dobu (Aru Islands). Under foreign flags of convenience, they exploited pearlshell outside the three-nautical-mile exclusion zone around Australia’s coast, thereby evading the fees, duties and regulations imposed on those based in Australia. In the Torres Strait, the London Missionary Society set up Papuan Industries, which allowed communities to build and own their own luggers. Each with its own colours, these ‘company boats’ were a source of pride and income for the Islander communities. Some pearlers founded pearling dynasties, but only the Paspaley family has survived into the twenty-first century. Source: museum.wa.gov.au/explore/lustre-online-text-panels/master...

Wisham Bride, 1910

from Musée McCord Stewart Museum

• anjoudiscus said:

  Magnifique !