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By The Free Thinker
_-_History Snippets_-_
A collection of historic photos and documents selected for interest
and importance, but also constant variety. Additions made
intermittently from items in the collection of The Free Thinker.
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Victorian Railways NewsLetter, Jan. 1971
Cover
Our False Idol the Car
Fire Prevention Award
Melbourne Yard Commissioned (Vic. Premier "humping" :) )
Melbourne Yard continued
Authority for Building the Underground Loop
First Steam Engine
Men You Meet in Melbourne Yard
Aerial View of Melbourne Yard
"Going Underground" brochure, Front
"Going Underground" brochure, Back
--- Added 2025-05-07
Nuggets, by D. O. Haynes & Co., mid/late 1890s
Cover
Start
Things Worth Remembering
Cement for Rubber Tires for Bicycles
Unlooked for Causes of Conflagration
Water Purification by the Alum Method
Lemonade
Bugs Rule the World
Acne
The Danger of Allowing Dogs to Lick the Face
Fishes of Mighty Power
The Nuisance of Flies and How to Cure It
Fall of Meteors
Wages of the World, 1
Wages of the World, 2
Men of Genius - How They Won Their Honors
Death of English Kings
How to "Salt" Almonds
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Mid 19th Century Wood Block Prints
Arc De Triomphe, Paris
St. Malo, France
Burgos, Spain
Pass of Pancorbo, Spain
Cathedral of St. Basil, Moscow
Constantine, Algeria
Dome of the Rock, Jerusalem
Abraham's Grave, Hebron
Dordogne Suspension Bridge, France
Esztergom, Hungary
Hannover, Germany
Braunschweig, Germany
Jerash, Jordan
Residence of Turkish Pasha in Orsova, Romania
Roskilde Cathedral, Denmark
Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Royal Palace, Brussels
Traunfall Waterfall, Austria
Falmouth Harbour
Panama
Quebec, Canada
Peking in China
Suspension bridge over Dordogne River (Saint Andre-de-Cubzac)
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Photographs of London by Valentine & Sons, 1880s/90s
Albert Hall (1885)
Bank of England
Fleet Street
Houses of Parliament
House of Lords
London Bridge
Rotten Row (1894?)
St. Paul's
The Nave - St. Paul's
Thames Embankment and St. Paul's
The Crystal Palace
Trafalgar Square
Westminster Abby
Valentine & Sons - Gopherpedia
--- Added 2024-06-05
The Radio Experimenter Magazine Vol. 1 No. 3, Feb. 1924
(Melbourne, Australia)
Contents
A Simple Crystal Receiver for the Beginner, pg. 1
A Simple Crystal Receiver for the Beginner, pg. 2
Overseas Long Wave Transmitters, pg. 1
Overseas Long Wave Transmitters, pg. 2
Overseas Long Wave Transmitters, pg. 3
Overseas Long Wave Transmitters, pg. 4
Items of Interest, pg. 1
Items of Interest, pg. 2
Cover Advertisement - New System Wireless
Cover Advertisement - Excelsior Motor Co.
Catalogue of early Australian radio publications and magazines
--- Added 2023-09-11
17,000ft. in Light Plane, 25th of May 1931
Newspaper article
Aircraft history and replica at QLD Air Museum
Aircraft history
Aircraft later built by the pilot in England - Gopherpedia
Pilot's England-Australia flight aboard WWII Halifax bomber
Pilot's own account of the England-Australia flight
--- Added 2023-02-22
Shell Motor Tours - Victoria, mid 1920s
Cover
Title Page
Tour 1, Lorne
Tour 1 Photograph: Great Ocean Rd, Big Hill
Tour 5, Blacks' Spur, Merton & Euroa
Tour 5 Photograph: Blacks' Spur Rd, Fernshaw
Tour 6, Ballarat & Castlemaine
Tour 16, Healesville, Blacks' Spur, Marysville
Tour 16 Photograph: Shell Crossing the Blacks' Spur
Tour 19, Christmas Hills, Kangaroo Ground, Watson's Creek
Tour 19 Photograph: Kangaroo Ground
Omeo-Tallangatta Route
Grampians
Mt Buffalo
"Save Our Forests" Colour Advertisement
Shell Colour Advertisement
--- Added 2022-08-18
A-O-A Hong Kong Night-Life & Shopping, 1971
Cover (long-exposure night scene)
Index
Introduction
Hong Kong Facts
Comments for Single Men and Girls
Tailoring
Mohan's LTD. Tailors
Tailor Zee and Princeton Custom Tailor
Night Tour
Escort LTD.
Chinese Movies
Chinese Festivals
Shopping Tips
Check List
SCENES
Small Boats
City
City at Night
Women and Children in Boats
Nighttime Street Scene with Neon Signs
MAPS
Hong Kong Central District
British Chinese Regions
Tsimshatsui Kowloon
--- Added 2022-03-08
Australian Commonwealth Celebrations Sydney, January 1901
Stereoscopic Slides
Original slides for stereoscope
Coal Arch
Ceres Arch
French Arch
Victorian Arch
Converted to anaglyphs for viewing with Red/Blue glasses
(not as good)
Coal Arch
Ceres Arch
French Arch
Victorian Arch
Federation of Australia - Gopherpedia
Regular Photograph of procession (Ceres Arch)
Original film of the Inauguration of the Commonwealth of Australia:
Clip 1, Procession - NFSA
Clip 2, Signing In Ceremony - NFSA
Inauguration of the Commonwealth documentary - Gopherpedia
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Geological Survey of Victoria
Mines of the Bright, Wandiligong, and Freeburgh Gold-Field
Index
Bright, Wandiligong, and Freeburgh Gold-Field - Map
Butler's Reef & Evening Star Mine - 1906
Oriental & Scandanavian Mines, Plan - 1922
Oriental & Scandanavian Mines, Sections - 1922
Long Tunnel - 1912
London & Myrtle Mine - 1915
Home Reef & Golden Bar Workings - 1908
The John Bull Mine - 1907
Woolshed Mine - 1917
Homeward Bound Mine - 1917
The Elgin Mine - 1925
Geological Survey of Victoria - Gopherpedia
Victorian gold rush - Gopherpedia
150 Years of the Geological Survey of Victoria
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Radio, Television & Hobbies magazine, May 1959
Cover
Mercury Capsule Tests
Uranium for Atom Power Rods
Nuvistors
Grain-Boundary Cryogenic Transistors pg. 1
Grain-Boundary Transistors pg. 2 + Nuvistors cont.
Cold-Cathode Valves
News
Tape Recorders Ad
Electronics Australia (formerly R,TV&H) - Gopherpedia
Nuvistor - Gopherpedia
Nuvistor Valves - The National Valve Museum
Nuvistor, Vacuum's Last Gasp - HackADay
--- Added 2021-10-15
Wartime Motoring, 1940s
The Amazing Jeep - Battle Wagon Described
Canada-Alaska Road and Tyre Thieves Actives
Willys MB - Gopherpedia
Alaska Highway - Gopherpedia
--- Added 2021-07-23
Ash Wednesday, 1983
Ash Wednesday 1983, cover
Ash Wednesday 1983, 1
Ash Wednesday 1983, 2
Ash Wednesday 1983, 3
Ash Wednesday 1983, 4
Ash Wednesday 1983, 5
Ash Wednesday 1983, 6
Ash Wednesday 1983, 7
Ash Wednesday 1983, 8
Ash Wednesday 1983, 9
Black Friday 1939, 1
Black Friday 1939, 2
Black Friday 1939, 3
Ash Wednesday bushfires - Gopherpedia
Black Friday bushfires Bushfires - Gopherpedia
--- Added 2021-06-23
Paillard-Bolex 16mm Model H Cameras Manual, 1950s/60s
Cover
Bolex H8
Bolex H16 1
Bolex H16 2
Bolex Loading
My photos of a Bolex H16
Bolex - Gopherpedia
Bolex Collector
Bolex H16 User
Earlier Bolex H8 and H16 manual (1.3MB PDF)
Later Bolex H16 manual (30MB PDF)
--- Added 2021-04-01
WWII Hand-Drawn Japanese Military Ordnance Diagrams
20mm Anti-Aircraft Machine Gun Ammunition
Artillery Fuze, Impact Detonated
Type 98 20 mm AA machine cannon - Gopherpedia
Japanese Type 100 20mm Cannon Rounds - Inert-Ord.Net
Japanese Type 88 Large Artillery Fuze - Inert-Ord.Net
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Victorian Railways - Century of Service, The Sun 13th Sep. 1954
Page 1 Century of Service
Page 2
Page 3 Our First Train
Page 4 The New Ruhr
Page 5
Page 6
Page 7 Pacing History (historical map of lines)
Page 8 Growth of a Giant
Page 9
Page 10 Those Glamor Expresses
Page 11
Page 12 From Donkey to Diesel
Page 13
Page 14 Guage War
Page 15 Any Boy's Dream
Page 16 The Big Haul
Page 17
Page 18 Driving Power
Page 19 Made at Newport
Page 20 Suburban Bonanza
Page 21 In (60,000) Good Hands
Page 22 Signal Safety
Victorian Railways - Gopherpedia
Network maps and station histories
Victorian Railways Timeline
--- Added 2021-03-08
American Telegraph Equipment, 1890
Telegraph Equipment 1
Telegraph Equipment 2
Telegraph Equipment 3
Telegraph Equipment 4
From Modern Practice of the Electric Telegraph by Frank L. Pope,
1890
Franklin Leonard Pope - Gopherpedia
Modern Practice of the Electric Telegraph, 1891 - Internet Archive
Modern Practice of the Electric Telegraph, 1881 in HTML
Frank L. Pope Telegraphic and Electrical Engineer
Franklin L. Pope's GALLERY OF THE TELEGRAPH
--- Added 2021-02-06
Moving the Lara Hotel (Victoria, Australia), 1915
Moving the Lara Hotel
Lara - Gopherpedia
--- Added 2021-01-30
RAAF WWII Photographs (probably at a UK airbase)
Operational Debreifing
Inside Lancaster (radio operator)
Operational Debreifing back (with names)
Inside Lancaster back (with names)
A66 Avro Lancaster - RAAF Museum
Avro Lancaster - Gopherpedia
--- Added 2021-01-23
Nuclear Reactors in the UK and France, 1960s
Windscale and Calder Works Aerial View
Windscale Advanced Gas-cooled Reactor
Calder Hall Refueling
Dungeness B Nuclear Power Station Cut-Away Diagram
Dungeness B Reactor Cut-Away Diagram
Chapelcross Reactor Refueling
Chinon Nuclear Power Stations Aerial View
Chinon EDF3 Power Station Cut-Away Diagram
Sayclay EL3 Experimental Test Reactor
Forging a Uranium Ingot
Global Sources of Uranium (1960s)
Sellafield (Windscale and Calder Works) - Gopherpedia
Sellafield awaits nuclear power's rebirth - BBC News, 2006
Windscale Accident 1957
Windscale: Britain's Biggest Nuclear Disaster, documentary (YouTube)
Equinox: A Very British Bomb, documentary (YouTube)
Dungeness nuclear power station - Gopherpedia
A history of Dungeness nuclear power station - BBC Kent, 2010
Dungeness: How Visiting a Nuclear Power Station is a Great Day Out?
Dungeness B power station - EDF Energy
Dungeness A Flickr Album
Chapelcross nuclear power station - Gopherpedia
Chapelcross Nuclear Power Station - Secret Scotland
Chapelcross Fire 1967 - Cold War Scotland
Chinon Nuclear Power Plant - Gopherpedia
Nuclear Museum of Chinon
chinon-b1 Nuclear Power Plant History
Saclay Nuclear Research Centre - Gopherpedia
--- Added 2020-12-15
Australian Army Portable Sawmill Plans, April 1969
Portable Sawmill Assembled
Portable Sawmill Trailor 1
Portable Sawmill Trailor 1
Portable Sawmill Trailor 2
Portable Sawmill Trailor 2
Article about an unrelated portable sawmill in military use
--- Added 2020-11-03
Power Stations in Victoria, Australia, 1940s
Yallourn Coal Power Station 1
Yallourn Coal Power Station 2
Yallourn Coal Power Station 3
Yallourn Coal Power Station 4
Yallourn Coal Power Station 5
Yallourn Coal Power Station 6
Yallourn Coal Power Station 7
Kiewa Hydroelectric Power Station 1
Kiewa Hydroelectric Power Station 2
Kiewa Hydroelectric Power Station 3
Kiewa Hydroelectric Power Station 4
Kiewa Hydroelectric Power Station 5
Kiewa Hydroelectric Power Station 6
Kiewa Hydroelectric Power Station 7
Yallourn Power Station - Gopherpedia
Kiewa Hydroelectric Scheme - Gopherpedia
--- Added 2020-10-27
Motorola IC Databooks, mid-late 1980s
Motorola IC Databook Covers
MECL IC Production Photo from MECL Handbook
Motorola - Gopherpedia
--- Added 2020-10-17
Cutty Sark and Worcester, early 1940s
Cutty Sark and Worcester on the Thames
Cutty Sark - Gopherpedia
HMS Frederick William (Worcester) - Gopherpedia
Thames Nautical Training College - Gopherpedia
Worcester II - Association of Old Worcesters'
--- Added 2020-10-07
SALT - Australian Army Magazine, 21st of May 1945
Cover "Kaput!" (victory in Europe)
Victory section 1
Victory section 2
Victory section 3
Victory section 4
Victory section 5
Victory section 6
Victory section 7
Victory section 8
--- Added 2020-09-27
Zulu Movie Poster, 1964
Poster (top section only)
Other Zulu posters
Zulu (1964) - IMDB
Zulu (1964 film) - Gopherpedia
--- Added 2020-09-20
Coronation of Elizabeth II, 1953
Amateur Photographs
London streets prepared for coronation procession 1
London streets prepared for coronation procession 2
London streets prepared for coronation procession 3
Coronation procession 1
Coronation procession 2 (great shot)
Austrlian Woman's Weekly feature
Page 1
Page 2
Page 3
Page 4 ("The Royal Progress")
Page 5
Page 6 ("Australians at Ceremony")
Page 7 ("The Queen at Westminster Abby")
Page 8
Page 9
Page 10 ("Coronation Peagent Ball at Albert Hall")
Page 11
Page 12 ("Guests of the Queen at Garden Party")
Page 13
Page 14
Page 15
Page 16 ("Coronation Contest winner flies home")
Coronation of Elizabeth II - Gopherpedia
--- Added 2020-09-15
Apollo Bay Tourist Brochure, approx. 1940s/50s
"Where Nature displays Her Versatility"
Side 1, Photos
Side 2, Information
Side 2, Banner
Apollo Bay in 2019
2019 photo by Grace Tarbuck, Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 Inter…
Apollo Bay - Gopherpedia
--- Added 2020-09-06
Cessna Super Skymaster Service Manual, 1968
Flap Control Systems
Rudder Control Systems
Heating, Ventilating, and Defrosting System (pre-1967)
Cessna 337 Photograph
Photo by bomberpilot, Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.0 Generic
Cessna Skymaster - Gopherpedia
--- Added 2020-08-29
Lord Kitchener of Khartoum, 1900
Coloured Photograph
Contemporary Biography
Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener - Gopherpedia
Kitchener: The most famous pointing finger (WWI poster)
--- Added 2020-08-22
Statistics for the Railway Network of Victoria, Australia, 1936-37
Railway Stats
Rail transport in Victoria - Gopherpedia
Network maps and station histories
--- Added 2020-08-19
The Australasian Radio World, Oct 1939
Cover, showing STC London air raid shelter
Magazine history and PDFs
Standard Telephones and Cables - Gopherpedia
--- Added 2020-08-09
R34 Airship, 1919
R34 Airship
R34 (Airship) - Gopherpedia
R34 - The Record Breaker
--- Added 2020-08-01
Main Street of Broome, Western Australia. 1954.
North Side
South Side
Sun Pictures in 2018
2018 Photo by Gnangarra, Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 Australia
Broome, Western Australia - Gopherpedia
--- Added 2020-07-27
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