• Photos Anciennes: Photos provenant de la bibliothèque nationale de l'Australie

    Par Frawsy dans Photos anciennes le 13 Novembre 2013 à 14:55

     

    Photos provenant de la bibliothèque

    nationale de l'Australie

     

     

    Group of Aboriginals at Chowilla Station on the lower Murray River, South Australia, 1886





     



    Grocery section, Bell and Macaulay's Store, Drouin, Victoria, ca. 1944





     



    Women shopping with coupons during world War II in Drouin, Victoria, ca. 1944





     



    An incident in March soon after completion of the hut, Hodgeman, the night watchman returning from his rounds outside pushes his way into the veranda through the rapidly accumulating drift snow, Adelie Land (Australasian Antarctic Expedition, 1911-1914)





     



    Synchronised surfing,Manly beach, New South Wales, 1938-46





     



    Woman and child buying shoes in the shoe section of Bell and Macaulay's Store, Drouin, Victoria, ca. 1944





     



    El Alamein (lone soldier on guard in silhouette). Between 1914 and 1945





     



    Athlete Nick Winter performing a standing high jump, Camden Showground, New South Wales, ca. 1925





     



    William Russell putting the four gallon monthly ration of petrol into a customer's car, Drouin, Victoria, ca. 1944. Home town Australia. Drouin's biggest service station (there are two) is owned by a company consisting of 80 year old William D. Russell and his family. Mr Russell is putting the four gallon monthly ration of gas onto a customers car.





     



    Three men at the Warragul cattle sales, Victoria, ca. 1944





     



    Group of Aboriginals at Dunlop Station homestead, Darling River, New South Wales, 1886





     



    Santa Claus at Canberra Airport, ca. 1929





     



    Mrs Gleeson pours a beer for a customer at the Drouin Hotel, Drouin, Victoria, 1944. Wife of Drouin publican (Mrs. James J. Gleeson) pours beer for customers. A pot like this (11oz.) costs 81/2 d. about half of which goes in excise to Australian government. Australian beer has 8% alcohol – heavier than American beer but about the same as British. Mrs Gleeson has two sons fighting the Jap; says she has never had a customer she could not handle in her 23 years at the Drouin Hotel.





     



    Private Wallace Tratford arrives home on leave, Drouin, Victoria, ca. 1944. A.I.F. Private Wallace Tratford, son of 1st Constable James Tratford, Drouin's only policeman (responsible for area of 105 square miles; 3,000 people), arrives home on his first leave from New Guinea battlefronts since he was married.





     



    The icy face of a member of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition team, 1911-1914. Probably the face of the team meteorologist, C.T. Madigan





     



    Main Street, Drouin, Victoria, ca. 1944. Really the Prince's highway – one of the two main roads linking Sydney and Melbourne – but for a few hundred yards it is still Main Street in the language of Drouin folk. It is busiest on Tuesday and Thursday afternoons (Market days). In foreground, service stationhand puts his car jack under horse-drawn tradesman's cart.





     



    Tall bullrushes (surrounding train as seen) from top of train carriages, (where some soldiers of the 8th Light Horse Regiment travelled during the journey from Suez to Cairo, April 4, 1915)





     



    Wes Colquhoun and Fred Phair talking to the girls at the ball in the Soldier's Memorial Hall, Drouin, Victoria, ca. 1944. Pride of the stag line at Drouin's weekly dance were bachelors – gay Warrant Officer Wes Colquhoun (23), R.A.A.F., and Corporal Fred Phair (25), A.I.F. Wes, son of Drouin's butcher, was sole surviving member of a Lancaster Crew... Fred, son of Drouin's fruiterer, served in New Guinea...





     



    Main Street, Drouin, Victoria, ca. 1944



     



    Josephine Smith digging a grave at the Drouin Cemetery, Victoria, ca. 1944. Meet Mrs. Josephine Smith, aged 84, whose hobby is digging graves. She lives in Drouin, a typical little farming town (1100 people), in southern Australia, 60 miles out of the Victorian capital, Melbourne.





     



    Q.M. Maloney shaving, (as another soldier holds up a mirror for him, June(?) 1915)

     

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    andrée matitou
    Mercredi 9 Avril 2014 à 19:31

    Bonjour Francine ,

    ces photos anciennes sont

    très belles , merci ma douce !

    Bon mercredi , gros bisous !

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