- Mystery object – can anyone shed any light on this fascinating piece? "Boy from Canstatt" http://flic.kr/p/99TVde #
- Welcome @YouNeedaHelmet. You didn't need one though back then "Triumph Model H motorcycle – 1920s?" http://flic.kr/p/8zWQpc #
- A little bit of boating history to welcome @Historyandlife "Bull's Head at Barnes. Oxford & Cambridge boat race?" http://flic.kr/p/6GHPns #
- Welcome @The__Flaneur – I feel this chap has the feel of being a 'flaneur' – "Will Hunt or Heart" http://flic.kr/p/6HoZFf #
- Welcome @JAMESMASON76 – here's some garden landscaping on a grand scale "view from Pagoda at Kew Gardens" http://flic.kr/p/88XyAg #
- Welcome @GonzoArtBooks – I wonder what she is reading? "Lady reading in the garden. Paget colour c.1915" http://flic.kr/p/8wAPXn #
- Some Scandinavian history to welcome @kulturfoto "Barque 'Viking' in unknown British (?) harbour" http://flic.kr/p/8HsXaQ #
- A classic Paris landmark to welcome @EWGalerie "Notre Dame, Paris in the winter, at night, c. 1940s" http://flic.kr/p/9ECGpD #
- Some dapper young Australians to welcome new follower @Nina99 "Three Australian gents, Eaglehawk, Victoria" http://flic.kr/p/6JSC1f #
- Welcome @gluepotpress . Someone could write a story about the history of, and in, these images http://bit.ly/eE0kIB #
- A classic Kent view, to welcome follower @OldTownsMaps "The beach at Dover, Kent, early 1900s" http://flic.kr/p/pBYoh #
- Some Japanese history to welcome @LetsGoToMuseums "Japanese street scene, early 1900s" http://flic.kr/p/4KTqd1 #
- Some vintage musicians, though possibly not your style, to welcome follower @bethmc_IndieMI – France, November 1926 http://flic.kr/p/95nUB3 #
- @JayneShrimpton Thanks Jayne. Not great quality, and a very rough stamped card. Any thoughts on date? Quite late for a CdV I thought? in reply to JayneShrimpton #
- Welcome to new follower @_Womens_history. I wonder how many Canadian female doctors there were in India, c. 1900?! http://flic.kr/p/5yLHjE #
- "Family gathering. Wonderful 1920s/30s interior" – welcome to new follower @Englishgatherin http://flic.kr/p/8Jw5Pc #
- @JayneShrimpton have posted an 'enhanced' version. re: dating, see 2nd comment, and great @Library_Vic image – http://flic.kr/p/9UyGQG in reply to JayneShrimpton #
- @JayneShrimpton I now think 70s too. I was initially at least a decade out! http://t.co/Ha19WWJ in reply to JayneShrimpton #
- New on Flickr: "Australians" by T M Cleaves, Eaglehawk, Victoria, Australia (improved): whatsthatpicture posted … http://bit.ly/kLheLb #
- I'm guessing someone somewhere will be able to identify this one? Can you help? "Chinese/Japanese Temple?" http://flic.kr/p/6GW7pp #
- @unmuseum thanks for plug. One link I forgot to send: all my photos tagged WW1 – http://bit.ly/iOOS6Q (but a tiny % as my tagging is poor!) in reply to unmuseum #
- @LetsGoToMuseums I have a few more from this batch that look to be Japan, but very little is known about them – http://bit.ly/iN2s9B in reply to LetsGoToMuseums #
- @EastMarple1 Hi Sarah, good to 'see' you on Twitter. Glad the link was interesting. I find it all fascinating. in reply to EastMarple1 #
- A mystery and a bit of fun "Traces of… Huber". American, military, c.1920, on #Flickr http://bit.ly/jBnmRc #
- One for all us dads on Fathers' Day "Father & son by Dickson, Glasgow". Are these rarer than mothers and children? http://flic.kr/p/7CMbQJ #
- An impressive large family group from Glasgow, late 1860s, from Flickr user Don Lickley http://flic.kr/p/9fgaUp #
- It's Father's Day in the UK, so here are some delightful Vintage Father and Son(s) images http://flic.kr/y/hhUBJd #
- It turns out that it's Father's Day in many countries, but not all – http://bit.ly/ju2cMi #
- @BullsHeadLive You should have a print of this somewhere as I swapped it for a free meal a few years back 🙂 Best estimate is early 1900s in reply to BullsHeadLive #
- Have been told to say: Just signed up to beta for "One Page Twitter Dashboard" from #TwitSprout http://t.co/qAfBftY via @TwitSprout #
- One for Google Sea View? MT @Shorpy: Hotel Windsor: 1900 – The Jersey Shore circa 1900 http://ow.ly/1dlv4m #
- No confusion over what you'll find here from @Library_Vic – "Outhouses, dunnies & thunderboxes!" http://bit.ly/inOGjy #
- Advice please – is the lady in this wonderful pic http://flic.kr/p/5yPmP7 the same as in this one http://flic.kr/p/5yLHjE ? I think not #
- @shieldwolf2012 brilliant, thanks – http://flic.kr/p/6GW7pp is definitely Japanese then. Narrows it down a bit! in reply to shieldwolf2012 #
- ha, I just passed 1,000 tweets without noticing #
- Great! RT @AntiquePhoto: Identified! Panorama photo shows city of #Kobe in 1880-1885 – http://bit.ly/jPHHh4 / @bancroftlibrary Collection #
- @EastMarple1 @SepiaSleuth @bibliotraveler @galpix thanks for comments. Definitely not the same lady then!" http://bit.ly/lBziRm #
- Funny how e-commerce sites often provide good places to see work of famous photographers – http://bit.ly/lgmIEi (Julia Margaret Cameron) #
- That last link was to @memoryprint – 159 Cameron images, 177 Emerson, 302 Ray -Jones, 88 Suttcliffe … etc http://bit.ly/imgR9q #
- "4 years old, 19,000 images" – http://www.bathintime.co.uk/ @bathintime. Lots of mysteries to solve – http://bit.ly/l3lTFe #
- I'll be aiming to add a pic to http://www.historypin.com each day until their official launch on 11 July. Here's the first http://bit.ly/jDtOIO #
- @Historypin MT @EastMarple1: @PhotosOfThePast Like. Will add some also. Particularly from #vintagealbum http://t.co/l1etkZP #
- @JayneShrimpton thanks Jayne. c. 1900? flic.kr/p/5yPmP7 & flic.kr/p/5yLHjE in reply to JayneShrimpton #
- Is this the first ever indoors photograph placed on Google Street View using @Historypin ? Palm House at Kew interior http://bit.ly/kocWLB #
- Thanks Jayne 🙂 MT @JayneShrimpton: Both http://t.co/yLmkvFg & http://t.co/sbMM8Ml c.1891-95. Main dress clues sleeve shapes & hat styles #
- Time for some more, very belated personal welcome messages for new followers,. #
- @RyanD Go on, I'm sure you have a few boxes of dags you don't really want any more @EastmanHouse. It's good to share 🙂 in reply to RyanD #
- @RyanD I know them well – I'm 'whatsthatpicture' in comments on e.g. http://flic.kr/p/6D96f5 in reply to RyanD #
- Have just been reminded just how gorgeous these Eugene Atget Paris shots are from @EastmanHouse – do take a look: http://bit.ly/miHj4E #
- @RyanD Thanks for the invite! Hoping to get to MW2012 so maybe see you there? Likewise if you're in London, come and visit @kewgardens in reply to RyanD #
- Some vintage Mumbai, to welcome follower @vvsapar "Bombay GIP Station (Chatrapati Shivaji Terminus, Mumbai), c.1900" http://flic.kr/p/5zVkmG #
- Welcome @ancestorsfound, this is the Richmond near where I work, the other side of the pond! http://flic.kr/p/6GDKzg #
- To welcome prolific #Flickr sleuth @EastMarple1, an example of her detective work! "Temperate House Kew, 1865" http://flic.kr/p/8UbeB8 #
- And the full story of that last one, identifying both the sender and the recipient of the images, is on my blog – http://bit.ly/eE0kIB #
- @RyanD You'll have thousands (millions?) of old pictures @EastmanHouse I'd like to lay my hands on … in reply to RyanD #
- @RyanD but I may at least have just one but you'd quite like – union case with four ambrotypes from Newark: http://bit.ly/mevPh7 in reply to RyanD #
- Stop distracting me with great images! http://tinyurl.com/6fejfbh RT @JayneShrimpton: Great photos of ordinar… (cont) http://deck.ly/~1DpTP #
- @dbbarrymore I have quite a few Richmond images, incl 1860s stereoviews along the river, but those aren't online yet http://bit.ly/mcInK2 in reply to dbbarrymore #
- @ancestorsfound thanks. It looks like eyes! in reply to ancestorsfound #
- @RyanD was reminded of this pic by your comment about curating Flickr set. You must come to Kew too – http://flic.kr/p/4Vz9L5 #namedropping #
- New on Flickr: Inside the Palm House, Kew Gardens. Stereoview c. 1890: whatsthatpicture posted a photo:
A v… http://bit.ly/lAL1F6 #
- Some interior design, to welcome @littleaugury "Mirror self portrait, c.1920s Elsie de Wolfe similarities." http://flic.kr/p/8HKvYB #
- Welcome @SkMirajulIslam. It has been suggested that this image may be from Bangladesh. What do you think? http://flic.kr/p/5ywN8W #
- Welcome @chrisilt. You won't find any technology in this classroom "Church / School, probably Ireland, c.1900" http://flic.kr/p/6Gpt45 #
- A beautiful young German lass. Willkommen @komiska "Unknown portrait of young lady by J F Stiehm, Berlin" http://flic.kr/p/7CHwST #
- Superb! RT @nytimesphoto: #Photo mystery solved, in just hours. #Nazi album photographer was Franz Krieger. http://nyti.ms/mO5SO6 #
- My earliest dated image, to welcome follower @ICPlibrary "Wife of Horace Poinier, Mayor of Newark, dated 1854" http://flic.kr/p/8mD8CW #
- A fellow traveler to welcome @Lillyrose4 "Lady on early Levis motorcycle, c. 1915" http://flic.kr/p/8zRexn #
- Welcome @MarDixon. I rescued this lovely image from an old box in a shop, the day after we met in Edinburgh http://flic.kr/p/9N4mXu #
- My timeline of early images, courtesy of Flickr Commons, to welcome new follower and photo curator @Geoffmuse http://bit.ly/lsbpjs #
- Welcome @DapperDaddyDon I think this Victorian chap is perhaps rather too plump to be dapper? http://flic.kr/p/8HiT2y #
- A solved mystery, to welcome follower @footnoteMaven http://bit.ly/jd8Z1I But what about all these unknowns? http://bit.ly/j7FzMi #
Latest mystery images
TBC
Heidelberg (right way around now too, thanks Ray and SPS).
Ghent looking East from Sint=Michielsburg (thanks SPS)
Detail
La Rochelle, France (thanks SPS!)
Méva, l'apôtre de la vie naturelle
Tamil lady in rickshaw, Colombo
Femme du Thaï-Binh
A Day at the Beach
What factory is this. Pontypool, South Wales?
Where is this War Hospital? Hamilton
Where is this snowy town?
Zoo Humain Jardin d'Acclimatation Paris 1903
Ship camouflage, possibly the USS Salem (CL-3)?
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United States lightship Swiftsure (LV-83)?
United States lightship Swiftsure (LV-83)?
![](https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51739352616_3b50d30721_m.jpg "Tintype portrait of a man (4" x 5.5")")
Tintype portrait of a man (4" x 5.5")
Vintage bad trigger discipline
Studio portrait of a man in dress uniform and Stetson
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