Back to the main First Principles page for many other items of potential interest.
Robin Whittle 23 January 2002 rw@firstpr.com.au
This is the beginnings of my eclectic on-line museum. The
scope
of this project is potentially vast. I will add things as I feel
like
it and have time for. It would take months to do a proper job of
all
the things which could be scanned, the obscure 78s which could be
converted
to MP3 etc.
| Directrory | Last update | Description |
| easter-camp/ | 1999 09 16 | A marvellous hand-illustrated invitation to a Christian girl's camp, from the 1950s or 60s. |
| photos-postcards-1/ | 1999 09 16 | Various old pictures and postcards. |
| nature-study/ | 1999 09 16 | A beautiful colour photograph of a fine young woman taken in 1913, from the 1913-14 Penrose Annual of printing processes. |
| corsetry-1/ | 2001 09 01 | Some images from my extensive collection of corset advertisements from magazines. Also, images of Dita von Teese, and of some shapely and sensual girdles and the like which are currently available via the Net. |
| valentines-cards/ | 2000 01 28 | Five Valentines Day cards from Pennsylvania in1910-1915. Extraordinary ~12 colour German printing. |
| stamps-1/ | 2000 04 27 | A 25 stamp sheet: Faces of Australia. |
| little-franklin/ | 2000 10 01 | Mountain ash and temperate rainforest in South Gippsland, Victoria. |
| beachgirl/ | 2000 10 01 | The Sun Beachgirl Quest, in the late 1940s or early 1950s. |
| lachlan/ |
2002 01 23 |
Lachlan Hardy's 380 word essay I Dream . . . . . |
| angels/ |
2002 03 16 |
Rag-doll Christmas angel, and an angel Waverley Cemetery in
Sydney. |
| homeland-security/ |
2005 11 11 |
How Radio Frequency ID tagging technology and careful
surveilance of citizens protects us
all. |
| green-ants/ |
2006 08 02 |
Green ants build a nest in the leaves of a mangrove in Far
Northern Queensland's Daintree Rainforest. |