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