Robin Whittle's Show-and-Tell

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Robin Whittle  26 October 2022   rw@firstpr.com.au

A little eclectic on-line museum. 
 
 
Directory Last update Description
easter-camp/ 1999 09 16 A marvelous 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.
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/ 2010 11 28 The Sun Beachgirl Quest, in the late 1940s or early 1950s.  Miss Frankston and other images added in November 2010.
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 surveillance 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.
plastic-tube-beads/
2010 11 28
An intriguing plastic tube cutter from the 1960s, and a photo of some handbags and other items made with thousands of tubular beads cut, by hand, from flame-polished plastic tubing.
nullarbor/
2015 03 03
Photos of the Nullarbor Plain and Bunda Cliffs on the western coast of South Australia.
gang-gang-cockatoos/
2022 10 26
Gang Gang cockatoos in Daylesford in 2016.  They look so cheereful!