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Weekly @PhotosOfThePast Twitter digest w/c 2020-08-21

RT @bl_eap: If you have a spare few minutes today, why not help us, and other users of the archive, by contributing to this #crowdsourcing… -> RT @SOTG_SandH: A wonderful bit of Pathé video of Strand on The Green from … Continue reading

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Weekly @PhotosOfThePast Twitter digest w/c 2020-08-14

RT @JayneShrimpton: Brilliant snapshot photograph courtesy @PhotosOfThePast The Jaeger family of fashion house fame, playing bowls in thei… -> A #Genealogy challenge I've not been able to easily solve. Who are the MILLER family, seen here at Keoldale Lodge (… … Continue reading

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Weekly @PhotosOfThePast Twitter digest w/c 2020-07-31

Sad to hear about the passing of Alan Parker. I have many sets of images of him on set directing famous TV adverts… https://t.co/S2tm6k6Wd9 -> RT @JayneShrimpton: My first #August dated family photograph for the new month is this Velox … Continue reading

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Weekly @PhotosOfThePast Twitter digest w/c 2020-07-24

Found on Flickr: Victorian young lady from sctatepdx – https://t.co/KXUY8entpm https://t.co/2KXvfxplqg -> Found on Flickr: Canoeing in the 1930's from sctatepdx – https://t.co/4kWDDwAAg3 https://t.co/8sgcFeFqSA -> Found on Flickr: Body of Lt. Col. James O’Brien Lying in State in Charlestown, Mass., … Continue reading

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Weekly @PhotosOfThePast Twitter digest w/c 2020-07-10

RT @JayneShrimpton: Why do butchers wear blue/white striped aprons? My History in the Details column @DYAncestors periodical, July issue, e… -> RT @KateTeltscher: In the 60s, Kew was the unlikely setting for psychedelic photo shoots. In 1967, Jimi Hendrix was … Continue reading

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Weekly @PhotosOfThePast Twitter digest w/c 2020-07-03

RT @Elredein1: this is the only marking on the tintype, located on the back @PhotosOfThePast do you recognize this? https://t.co/9m2ktxHPhD -> One for @rugbyhistorian? Intriguing early #rugby portraits. Cap appears to have date '1894'. Anyone recognise the j… https://t.co/ZDdICERBgi -> … Continue reading

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Weekly @PhotosOfThePast Twitter digest w/c 2020-06-26

Absolutely love these two glass plate negatives. Ca 1900 https://t.co/Cq1HjBLrEP -> RT @JayneShrimpton: Just received a new client photograph for dating in which the subject wears fashionable dress very similar to that worn… -> Horse Guards Parade, London. Glass plate … Continue reading

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Weekly @PhotosOfThePast Twitter digest w/c 2020-06-19

Found on Flickr: Inside the Photographer’s Office from Ron Coddington – https://t.co/llkKW7HNFw https://t.co/Nlrq9z1w3M -> Found on Flickr: Daimler YC-type water flusher tanker, Parramatta Council, Sydney, ca. 1926 from State Library of N… https://t.co/lQYGDXQqS3 -> Found on Flickr: Alfortville – Marché … Continue reading

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Weekly @PhotosOfThePast Twitter digest w/c 2020-05-29

Found on Flickr: Edmund Thomas Cornish and Walter Thomas Cornish – WW1 from Aussie~mobs – https://t.co/5S3ObAEN8I https://t.co/wECI4o5LJR ->

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Weekly @PhotosOfThePast Twitter digest w/c 2020-04-17

RT @TonyFourtoes: I have to thank my friend Moo Pa for putting me onto this process. He started a FB group for artists during this pandemic… ->

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