Recent Uploads: Disasters, Travel, Tiles and More

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Time for another Picture of the Week from the State Library of Queensland, Australia!

This one is a horse-drawn cart with two motor vehicles parked outside the Ambulance Transport Brigade building at Mount Morgan, ca. 1921.

Horse drawn cart with two motor vehicles parked outside the Ambulance Transport Brigade building at Mount Morgan, ca.1921
Picture of the Week
Like tiles? The Biblioteca de Arte-Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian delights with <i>sooo</i> many new tile images from convents — including some from Brazil! Convento de São Francisco, Salvador, Brasil
Conventos
The fun is unleashed with more stereoscopic dry plate negatives, from the National Library of New Zealand. Edgar and Owen Williams and Edith Kenworth inspect a Nikau palm flower bud, at Motohou near Wanganui, 1901
stereoscopic dry plate negatives
Stunning landscape photographs from the Library of Congress are up. See Niagara Falls, Quebec, and the St. Lawrence River. Horseshoe Fall from Goat Island, Niagara
Photochrom Travel Views
Doh! Disaster strikes and the Florida State Archives has the documentation …

see hurricane damage of yore. Glad I live where only earthquakes can get to me.

Rescue train swept off the tracks by the 1935 Labor Day hurricane
Hurricanes in Florida
Travel to London to view the shipping ports with the National Maritime Museum. Anchors aweigh! Ship under construction
Port Cities London
I like the images that the Swedish National Heritage Board posts from Carl Curman. From sweeping landscape to portraits, this series always offers a great glimpse into northern European life. Carl Curman and company, Lysekil, Sweden
Carl Curman – Sweden

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