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This image forms part of the digitised photographs of the Ross and Pat Craig Collection. Ross Craig (1926-2012) was a local historian born in Stockton and dedicated much of his life promoting and conserving the history of Stockton, NSW. He possessed a wealth of knowledge about the suburb and was a founding member of the Stockton Historical Society and co-editor of its magazine. Pat Craig supported her husband’s passion for history, and together they made a great contribution to the Stockton and Newcastle communities. We thank the Craig Family and Stockton Historical Society who have kindly given Cultural Collections at the University of Newcastle, NSW, Australia, access to the collection and allowed us to publish the images. Thanks also to Vera Deacon for her liaison in attaining this important collection.
Please contact Cultural Collections at the University of Newcastle, NSW, Australia, if you are the subject of the image, or know the subject of the image, and have cultural or other reservations about the image being displayed on this website and would like to discuss this with us.
Some of the images were scanned from original photographs in the collection held at Cultural Collections, other images were already digitised with no provenance recorded.
You are welcome to freely use the images for study and personal research purposes. Please acknowledge as “Courtesy of the Ross and Pat Craig Collection, University of Newcastle (Australia)" For commercial requests please consider making a donation to the Vera Deacon Regional History Fund.
These images are provided free of charge to the global community thanks to the generosity of the Vera Deacon Regional History Fund. If you wish to donate to the Vera Deacon Fund please download a form here: uoncc.wordpress.com/vera-deacon-fund/
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Maker: Adolphe Block (1829-1903)
Born: France
Active: France
Medium: albumen tissue stereocard
Size: 3 1/2 in x 7 in
Location: France
Object No. 2020.041b
Shelf: E-14-PARIS
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Notes: French tissue stereocard techniques were developed by J.L. Tardieu in 1853. Tissue stereocards consist of a print on translucent paper mounted on a card cut to frame the print and often with a tissue added . The image could be tinted and the tint visible when lit from behind as a transparency. The tissue format of stereocards were available commercially by 1855. The largest amount of tissue stereocards were produced between 1858 and 1875. Many tissue stereocard producers are still unidentified. Many are marked only by initials such as these which are marked B.K. Photos and J.M.
Adolphe Block (1829 - 1918) was a studio photographer and from 1863, a publisher of stereoscopic views that he signed with the letters B.K. In 1868, he succeeded Segoffin then took over the collections of François Benjamin Lamiche and Louis Augé. In 1876, he bought the holdings of Jean Andrieu then that of Jules Marinier. He ceased activity in 1915.
The Hôtel de Cluny was partially constructed on the ruins of the third century Gallo-Roman baths known as the Thermes de Cluny, thermal baths from the Roman era of Gaul. Now called the Musée de Cluny or the Musée national du Moyen Age, is located in the Latin quarter in the 5th arrondissement of Paris at 6 Place Paul-Painlevé, south of the Boulevard Saint-Germain, between the Boulevard Saint-Michel and the Rue Saint-Jacques. The museum consists of two buildings: the frigidarium ("cooling room"), within the vestiges of the Thermes de Cluny, and the Hôtel de Cluny itself, which houses its collections.
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Zipliner at A Maze in Corn, St. Adolphe, Manitoba.
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Adolphe Mouron Cassandre
(1901 - 1968)
Normandie, French Line, 1935
Alliance Graphique, France
Colored lithograph
Maker: Adolphe Braun (1812-1877)
Born: France
Active: France
Medium: carbon print
Size: 8 1/4 in x 6 1/4 in
Location: France
Object No. 2022.513
Shelf: L-12
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Notes: Procede Poitevin et Swan. Printed on mount, AD BRAUN, PHOTOGRAPHIE
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Claude Monet, French
b. 1840, Paris; d. 1926, Giverny, France
Metropolitan Museum of Art
New York City
IMG_5231
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Maker: Adolphe Braun (1812-1877)
Born: France
Active: France
Medium: carbon print
Size: 10 5/8 in x 7 in
Location: France
Object No. 2022.512
Shelf: L-12
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Notes: Procede Poitevin et Swan. Printed on mount, AD BRAUN, PHOTOGRAPHIE
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Later in the evening, Bruce delivered his Encounter, which focused on the music of Mendelssohn's mid-teenage years, during which he composed his famous Octet. Bruce delved into Mendelssohn's magical musical depictions of fairies, the night, and the sounds of nature in a compelling lecture that included recorded sounds of flies and bees, and a brilliant harmonic analysis of the Midsummer Night's Dream overture. After the lecture, he was greeted by the next Encounter Leader, R. Larry Todd (right) and descendent of Fanny Mendelssohn Thomas Leo (left).
Banque et Caisse d'Épargne de l'État, abbreviated to BCEE, is a Luxembourgish bank, established and owned by the Luxembourgish government.
Pont Adolphe and Pétrusse Valley
The most unique aspect of Luxembourg is the dramatic valley that runs through the centre of it, and the Pont Adolphe is one of three main bridges that connect one side of the city to the other
Luxembourg City, Luxembourg '09
The PONT ADOLPHE, built at the begining of the 20th century according to a design by the French engineer P.Sejourne, is named after the then Grand Duke. It was the first bridge made of natural stone to be build with
suchba large span and is an excellent example of technical skill. The bridge is build on a steep-wall sandstone rock and spans two little rivers, the Alzette and the Petrusse.
Maker: Adolphe Bilordeaux (1807-1872)
Born: France
Active: France
Medium: photolithograph
Size: 7.5" x 9.5"
Location: France
Object No. 2015.244m
Shelf: N-4
Publication: Histoire Générale de Paris. La Seineaux âges antéhistoriques par E. Belgrand, Inspecteur général des Ponts et Chaussées, Directeur des Eaux et des Egouts de la ville de Paris. Planche de Paléontologie, Paris, 1889, pl 54
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Provenance: Tableaux Modernes & Contemporains - Sculptures - Photos, Marc-Arthur Kohn, October 16, 2020, Lot 209
Notes: TBAL
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This image forms part of the digitised photographs of the Ross and Pat Craig Collection. Ross Craig (1926-2012) was a local historian born in Stockton and dedicated much of his life promoting and conserving the history of Stockton, NSW. He possessed a wealth of knowledge about the suburb and was a founding member of the Stockton Historical Society and co-editor of its magazine. Pat Craig supported her husband’s passion for history, and together they made a great contribution to the Stockton and Newcastle communities. We thank the Craig Family and Stockton Historical Society who have kindly given Cultural Collections at the University of Newcastle, NSW, Australia, access to the collection and allowed us to publish the images. Thanks also to Vera Deacon for her liaison in attaining this important collection.
Please contact Cultural Collections at the University of Newcastle, NSW, Australia, if you are the subject of the image, or know the subject of the image, and have cultural or other reservations about the image being displayed on this website and would like to discuss this with us.
Some of the images were scanned from original photographs in the collection held at Cultural Collections, other images were already digitised with no provenance recorded.
You are welcome to freely use the images for study and personal research purposes. Please acknowledge as “Courtesy of the Ross and Pat Craig Collection, University of Newcastle (Australia)" For commercial requests please consider making a donation to the Vera Deacon Regional History Fund.
These images are provided free of charge to the global community thanks to the generosity of the Vera Deacon Regional History Fund. If you wish to donate to the Vera Deacon Fund please download a form here: uoncc.wordpress.com/vera-deacon-fund/
If you have any further information on the photographs, please leave a comment.
A group led by interim CEO Charles Stewart meets Heifer staff and visits projects in Haiti, almost 8 months following the magnitude 7.0 earthquake that struck the country on January 12, 2010. Traveling with Charles Stewart was Edwin Rocha, Director of Programs and Change Management for the Americas, Donna Stokes, Managing Editor of World Ark, Bryan Clifton, photographer and Corporate Relations Manager, and Hervil Cherubin, consultant to Heifer on Haiti.
Photos by Bryan Clifton, courtesy of Heifer International
The Postcard
A carte postale bearing no publisher's name.
Dinant
Dinant is a Walloon city located on the River Meuse, in the Belgian province of Namur. It is around 90 kilometres (56 mi) south-east of Brussels.
The city suffered extreme devastation at the beginning of the First World War.
On the 15th. August 1914, French and German troops fought for the town in the Battle of Dinant. Among the wounded was Lieut. Charles de Gaulle.
On the 23rd. August, 674 inhabitants were summarily executed by troops of the German Army — the biggest civilian massacre committed by the Germans in 1914.
Within a month, some five thousand Belgian and French civilians were killed by the Germans on numerous similar occasions.
Abba Eban
"History teaches us that men and
nations behave wisely when they
have exhausted all other alternatives".
This was said during a speech in London UK on 16th. December 1970 by Abba Eban (1915-2002), an Israeli diplomat and writer.
The Use of Artillery in the Great War
Artillery was very heavily used by both sides during the Great War. The British fired over 170 million artillery rounds of all types, weighing more than 5 million tons - that's an average of around 70 pounds (32 kilos) per shell.
If the 170m rounds were on average two feet long, and if they were laid end to end, they would stretch for 64,394 miles (103,632 kilometres); the line would go round the equator over two and a half times. If the artillery of the Central Powers of Germany and its allies is factored in, the figure can be doubled to 5 encirclements of the planet.
During the first two weeks of the Third Battle of Ypres, over 4 million rounds were fired at a cost of over £22,000,000 - a huge sum of money, especially over a century ago.
Artillery was the killer and maimer of the war of attrition.
According to Dennis Winter's book 'Death's Men' three quarters of battle casualties were caused by artillery rounds. According to John Keegan ('The Face of Battle') casualties were:
- Bayonets - less than 1%
- Bullets - 30%
- Artillery and Bombs - 70%
Keegan suggests however that the ratio changed during advances, when massed men walking line-abreast with little protection across no-man's land were no match for for rifles and fortified machine gun emplacements.
Many artillery shells fired during the Great War failed to explode. Drake Goodman provides the following information on Flickr:
"During World War I, an estimated one tonne of explosives was fired for every square metre of territory on the Western front. As many as one in every three shells fired did not detonate. In the Ypres Salient alone, an estimated 300 million projectiles that the British and the German forces fired at each other were "duds", and most of them have not been recovered."
To this day, large quantities of Great War matériel are discovered on a regular basis. Many shells from the Great War were left buried in the mud, and often come to the surface during ploughing and land development.
For example, on the Somme battlefields in 2009 there were 1,025 interventions, unearthing over 6,000 pieces of ammunition weighing 44 tons.
Artillery shells may or may not still be live with explosive or gas, so the bomb disposal squad, of the Civilian Security of the Somme, dispose of them.
A huge mine under the German lines did not explode during the battle of Messines in 1917. The mine, containing several tons of ammonal and gun cotton, was triggered by lightning in 1955, creating an enormous crater.
The precise location of a second mine which also did not explode is unknown. Searches for it are not planned, as they would be too expensive and dangerous. For more on this, please search for "Cotehele Chapel"
The Somme Times
From 'The Somme Times', Monday, 31 July, 1916:
'There was a young girl of the Somme,
Who sat on a number five bomb,
She thought 'twas a dud 'un,
But it went off sudden -
Her exit she made with aplomb!'
This image forms part of the digitised photographs of the Ross and Pat Craig Collection. Ross Craig (1926-2012) was a local historian born in Stockton and dedicated much of his life promoting and conserving the history of Stockton, NSW. He possessed a wealth of knowledge about the suburb and was a founding member of the Stockton Historical Society and co-editor of its magazine. Pat Craig supported her husband’s passion for history, and together they made a great contribution to the Stockton and Newcastle communities. We thank the Craig Family and Stockton Historical Society who have kindly given Cultural Collections at the University of Newcastle, NSW, Australia, access to the collection and allowed us to publish the images. Thanks also to Vera Deacon for her liaison in attaining this important collection.
Please contact Cultural Collections at the University of Newcastle, NSW, Australia, if you are the subject of the image, or know the subject of the image, and have cultural or other reservations about the image being displayed on this website and would like to discuss this with us.
Some of the images were scanned from original photographs in the collection held at Cultural Collections, other images were already digitised with no provenance recorded.
You are welcome to freely use the images for study and personal research purposes. Please acknowledge as “Courtesy of the Ross and Pat Craig Collection, University of Newcastle (Australia)" For commercial requests please consider making a donation to the Vera Deacon Regional History Fund.
These images are provided free of charge to the global community thanks to the generosity of the Vera Deacon Regional History Fund. If you wish to donate to the Vera Deacon Fund please download a form here: uoncc.wordpress.com/vera-deacon-fund/
If you have any further information on the photographs, please leave a comment.
This image forms part of the digitised photographs of the Ross and Pat Craig Collection. Ross Craig (1926-2012) was a local historian born in Stockton and dedicated much of his life promoting and conserving the history of Stockton, NSW. He possessed a wealth of knowledge about the suburb and was a founding member of the Stockton Historical Society and co-editor of its magazine. Pat Craig supported her husband’s passion for history, and together they made a great contribution to the Stockton and Newcastle communities. We thank the Craig Family and Stockton Historical Society who have kindly given Cultural Collections at the University of Newcastle, NSW, Australia, access to the collection and allowed us to publish the images. Thanks also to Vera Deacon for her liaison in attaining this important collection.
Please contact Cultural Collections at the University of Newcastle, NSW, Australia, if you are the subject of the image, or know the subject of the image, and have cultural or other reservations about the image being displayed on this website and would like to discuss this with us.
Some of the images were scanned from original photographs in the collection held at Cultural Collections, other images were already digitised with no provenance recorded.
You are welcome to freely use the images for study and personal research purposes. Please acknowledge as “Courtesy of the Ross and Pat Craig Collection, University of Newcastle (Australia)" For commercial requests please consider making a donation to the Vera Deacon Regional History Fund.
These images are provided free of charge to the global community thanks to the generosity of the Vera Deacon Regional History Fund. If you wish to donate to the Vera Deacon Fund please download a form here: uoncc.wordpress.com/vera-deacon-fund/
If you have any further information on the photographs, please leave a comment.