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Fosbury Flop!

This is a pic of 'Harbour Girl' Rose Mitchell and her dog Pedoro... nla.gov.au/nla.obj-442631946/view?partId=nla.obj-44266376... - a cropped version of the pic appeared in Pix on 4th January, 1941...in a feature article on Rose Mitchell...who evidently lived on her father's launch moored at Rose Bay, in Sydney...see pic on p. 10... Some of the other pics in this series also appeared in the Pix feature article... trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/230963074 - the Sun, 6th November, 1941...Rose Mitchell was a finalist in the Australian 'Streamlined Venus' contest... trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/235601406 - the Hurstville Propellor, 5th September, 1940...some background on her father's launch...which was named 'Pedoro'...according to Pix, the dog was named after the launch... www.navy.gov.au/hmas-pedoro - during WW2 the launch was requisitioned by the navy...and was used as a Naval Auxiliary Patrol Vessel... www.instagram.com/pedoro1940/ - the launch has evidently been restored survives today...I'm not in Instagram...so I'm blocked from checking out the pics... Ha! Rose Mitchell was another Pix girl captured by the enemy! Per various digitised newspaper hits her father was Stanley Mitchell of Arncliffe, in Sydney... trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/231574697 - the Sun, 19th July, 1946...pic of Rose Mitchell at her 'marriage'...to Howard Aufderheide, of Minnesota... trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/231007472 - the Sun, 24th September, 1952...pic of her on a return visit to Sydney with her infant daughter...

Rose Mitchell also appears in this pic www.flickr.com/photos/statelibraryofnsw/52474724667/

Pat West...another Pix girl captured by the enemy! www.flickr.com/photos/statelibraryofnsw/53018850623/

As in other cities around Australia, the residents of Brisbane welcomed in the new year, the new century and the new nation on Commonwealth Day, 1 January 1901. The festivities planned for Brisbane were both formal and fun. Churches held services where official prayers were said for the new Commonwealth and for Queen Victoria. Governor Lamington had responsibility for reading the proclamation of the Commonwealth of Australia and the message from Queen Victoria to the Australian people. The people of Brisbane were joined by those from surrounding districts and further afield, who had made the trip by train to see the processions and parades. Women and men were dressed in their finest clothes, and important businesses and public buildings of Brisbane were equally well decorated for the occasion. Source getting-it-together.moadoph.gov.au/queensland/celebration...