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39 photos and 1 illustration tagged ss, from 10 members of Flickr Commons.

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• ship
• xmlns:dc=httppurlorgdcelements11
• sydney
• steamship
• usnavy
• orient
• libraryofcongress
• usn
• liner
• unitedstatesnavy
• powerhousemuseum
• circularquay
• ships
• sydneyharbour
• photographs
• photoalbums
• philadelphia
• americanline
• id1663
• ussyale
• ssphiladelphia
• ssparis
• internationalnavigationco
• sscityofparis

Members using this tag

• Australian National Maritime Museum on The Commons 13 photos & illustrations
• The Library of Congress 7 photos & illustrations
• Powerhouse Museum 7 photos & illustrations
• SDASM Archives 3 photos & illustrations
• Museums of History NSW - State Archives Collection 3 photos & illustrations
• National Library of Ireland on The Commons 2 photos & illustrations
• Cloyne and District Historical Society 2 photos & illustrations
• Royal Australian Historical Society 1 photo / illustration
• Center for Jewish History, NYC 1 photo / illustration
• State Library of New South Wales 1 photo / illustration

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Sydney from Lavender Bay

from Powerhouse Museum

• covid convict said:

  trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/63616320# - this pic appeared in the Illustrated Sydney News on 14th March, 1891...but I suspect the pic might have been taken a few years earlier...if you zoom in, over at Circular Quay there looks to be scaffolding around the Customs House...so the James Barnet rebuild (completed ?1887) might still be in progress. The Mort & Co wool store extension looks complete...the extension was built in 1884-86...I can't see the 1886 extension to the Harrison Jones & Devlin wool store (in Loftus St, opposite Customs House)...but that might be because it's obscured...

Mascot of PHILADELPHIA (LOC)

from The Library of Congress

• Art Siegel said:

  See

• aware health said:

  I'm guessing it's the cat and not the cabin boy... :)

Pilot Steamer THETIS

from Australian National Maritime Museum on The Commons

• 7 older comments, and then…
• FrigateCol said:

  What a lovely old ship.
  Has anyone else noticed that the 'Favorites' star isn't working?

• nugget1958 said:

  SS Thetis NSW Government Steamer

• beachcomber australia said:

  FrigateCol Favourites star working for me - Flickr is still very glitchy, and I particularly miss the Preview Comment button.
  
  The original size of this is ENORMOUS, and THETIS is written on the bow. I thought it might have been the CAPTAIN COOK (1), the Pilot Steamer.

• beachcomber australia said:

  Aha! Snap! The same image at State Records NSW (4481_a026_000478). Theirs might well be the original glass plate negative.
  investigator.records.nsw.gov.au/asp/photosearch/photo.asp...
  
  The State Records NSW blurb - "The pilot steamer Thetis, built in 1868 for the New South Wales Department of Public Works. In 1871 the Thetis was placed in temporary service as Sydney's Pilot Steamer until 1877."
  The blurbs for this particular Series at SRNSW are notoriously inaccurate, so let's see if we can improve on the history of this wonderful ship ...

• FrigateCol said:

  What do you think of the new style Flickr Beachcomber?