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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! |