PHOTOGRAPHIC JOURNEY TO TIMES GONE BY

An introspective journey into American history.       Miss America 1924     Helen Keller Meeting Charlie Chaplin     Leather gloves worn by Lincoln to Ford's Theater on the night of his assassination. Blood stains are visible at the cuffs.     Phoebe Mozee (aka: Annie Oakley). Famed for her marksmanship by 12 years old, she once shot the ashes off of Kaiser Wihelm II's cigarette at his invitation. When she outshot famed exhibition marksman Frank Butler, he fell in love with her and they married. They remained married the rest of their lives.     Very Young Lucy Lucille Ball around 1930     Two Victorian sideshow performers boxing - the fat man and the thin man.     Amy Johnson, English aviator 1903-1941 One of the first women to gain a pilot's licence, Johnson won fame when she flew solo from Britain to Australia in 1930. Her dangerous flight took 17 days. Later she flew solo to India and Japan and became the first woman to fly across the Atlantic East to West, she volunteered to fly for The Women's Auxiialry Air Force in WW2, but her plane was shot down over the River Thames and she was killed.     Prison Garb 1924. Belva Annan murderess whose trial records became the musical "Chicago."     Female photojournalist Jessie Tarbox on the street with her camera, 1900s.     Roald Amundsen was the first person to reach the South Pole. At approximately 3pm on December 14, 1911, Amundsen raised the flag of Norway at the South Pole and named the spot Polheim Pole Home.     The extraordinary life of Maud Allen: Seductive US dancing girl who was sued for being too lewd, outed as a lesbian, and fled London after being branded a German spy who was sleeping with the prime minister's wife.     John Fitzgerald Kennedy     Wedding day photograph of Abraham and Mary taken November 4, 1842 in Springfield,Illinois after three years of a stormy courtship and a broken engagement. Their love had endured.     Billie Holiday at two years old, in 1917     Washington, D.C., circa 1919. "Walter Reed Hospital flu ward." One of the very few images in Washington-area photo archives documenting the influenza contagion of 1918-1919, which killed over 500,000 Americans and tens of millions around the globe. Most victims succumbed to bacterial pneumonia following influenza virus infection.     Filming the MGM Logo     Amelia Earhart     Mae Questel ca. 1930s, the voice of Betty Boop and Olive Oyl, Minnie Mouse, Felix the Cat (for three shorts by the Van Beuren Studios), Little Lulu, Little Audrey and Casper, the Friendly Ghost     Bea Arthur (née Bernice Frankel) (1922-2009) SSgt. USMC 1943-45 WW II. Enlisted and assigned as typist at Marine HQ in Wash DC, then air stations in VA and NC. Best remembered for her title role in the TV series Maude and as Dorothy in "Golden Girls".     In 1911, Bobby Leach survived a plunge over Niagara Falls in a steel barrel. Fourteen years later, in New Zealand, he slipped on an orange peel and died.     Emily Todd was Mary Todd Lincoln's half-sister. In 1856 she married Benjamin Helm, a Confederate general. After Helm's death in 1863 Emily Helm passed through Union Lines to visit her sister in the White House. This caused great consternation in the Northern newspapers. Emily Helm took an oath of loyalty to the Union and was granted amnesty.     Three days before his 19th birthday, George H.W. Bush became the youngest aviator in the US Navy.     Market Street, San Francisco after the earthquake, 1906.     All-American Girls Baseball, 1940s     Sacajawea. Stolen, held captive, sold, eventually reunited the Shoshone Indians. She was an interpreter and guide for Lewis and Clark in 1805-1806 with her husband Toussaint Charbonneau. She navigated carrying her son, Jean Baptiste, on her back. She traveled thousands of miles from the Dakotas the Pacific Ocean. The explorers, said she was cheerful, never complained, and proved to be invaluable. She served as an advisor, caretaker, and is legendary for her perseverance and resourcefulness.     A Confederate and Union soldier shake hands during a celebration at Gettysburg in 1913. Image from the Library of Congress. July 1-3, 2013 marks the 150th Anniversary of the Battle of Gettysburg.     Geraldine Doyle, who was the inspiration behind the famous Rosie the Riveter poster.     Vintage Baked Potato Cart. A legitimate fast food lunch option back in the day.     Cyclists ride in the first running of the Tour de France, in 1903.     Sergeant Stubby (1916 or 1917 April 4, 1926), was the most decorated war dog of World War I and the only dog to be promoted to sergeant through combat. America's first war dog, Stubby, served 18 months 'over there' and participated in seventeen battles on the Western Front. He saved his regiment from surprise mustard gas attacks, found and comforted the wounded, and even once caught a German spy by the seat of his pants (holding him there til American Soldiers found him).     Nightwitches - Female Russian bombers who bombed Germany during WW2. They had old, noisy planes & the engines used to conk out halfway through their missions, so they had to climb out on the wings mid-flight to restart the props. To stop Germans from hearing them & starting up the anti aircraft guns, theyd climb to a certain height, coast down to German positions, drop their bombs, restart their engines in midair & get the hell out of dodge. Their leader flew 200+ missions & was never captured.       Marilyn Monroe meets Queen Elizabeth II, London, 1956 Both women are 30 years old.     Chief Petty Officer Graham Jackson plays Going Home as FDRs body is borne past in Warm Springs, GA, where the President was scheduled to attend a barbecue on the day he died. April, 1945.

OLD MELBOURNE PICTURES!

OLD MELBOURNE PICTURES...

50s signaling device for pedestrians
 

 
1923 Ford Ambulance
 

 
Altona Explosives Pier
 

 
Alexandra Gardens looking up towards Flinders St railway station
 

 
1940 Mountford's parking garage and service station in Bourke St Melbourne
 

 
Checking the rising level of water across the Snowy River flats at Orbost  1971
 

 
An overcrowded East Preston tram in Brunswick Street Fitzroy North back in 1944
 

 
Mr Whippy
 

 
The Sorrento Pier was constructed in 1870

1970's local green grocer
 

 
Golden Fleece Service Station 1969
 

 
Lilydale CBA late 60s
 

 
Dentist Chair
 

Berwick Primary School, circa 1880
 

 

News

 
Yellow cabs
 

Kew Traffic School on Cotham Rd during the 1960s

Melbourne Dust Storm 8th Feb 1983

Old Holden and caravan

 
Tarax North Rd Huntingdale

 
WW1 troopship WARILDA underway from Melbourne

1976 International Motor Show
 

The Concorde visits Tullamarine
 

 
Victorian Brewery
 

 
Old Toy Car Sept 1939

 
William Street circa 1960
 

 

and just for variety..

Darwin WW2  Bombing Identity Card
 

 
Located in Melbourne TAA

 

ANZAC DAY...2014

As children we proudly marched on ANZAC DAY, bearing wreaths if we were among the lucky few chosen to do such an important task. It was a very special day for many of us, we knew our family stories about who had fought in the various wars... and we knew that some of the men and women of the small town in which I grew up had died in those wars. 

Their names were on the War Memorial for all to see. I was always

 saddened to see several of the same names, all from the same families.

photographs by John and Barb Piggott

When I lived in Urunga, NSW, this memorial had no paved surroundings and had a different fence.

It is in the bottom corner of the Urunga Public School grounds, so was very familiar to us schoolchildren. The link below gives details of the memorial as well as the names of those who fought and died.

http://www.warmemorialsregister.nsw.gov.au/content/urunga-war-memorial

 However, many children today know little of the history of ANZAC, understandable, as we are approaching the 100th anniversary of the landing at Gallipoli in 1915.

Though the stories are still taught in schools, you might find the following small selection of books very helpful to foster the understanding of the day's importance for the younger ones.

● My Grandad Marches on Anzac Day, by Catriona Hoy (picture book) ● Anzac Cottage: The House That Was Built in a Day, by Valerie Everett (picture book) ● In Flanders Fields, by Norman Jorgensen (picture book) ● Memorial, by Gary Crew (picture book) ● Simpson and Duffy (Mary Small's website), by Mary Small (picture book, true story) ● Caesar the Anzac Dog, by Patricia Stroud (true story) ● The Donkey of Gallipoli: A True Story of Courage in World War I, by Mark Greenwood (true story) ● Harry and the Anzac Poppy, by John Lockyer (learning from reading soldier's letters) ● Scarecrow Army: The ANZACS at Gallipoli, by Leon Davidson (history for young adults) ● A Rose for the ANZAC Boys, by Jackie French (novel for young adults) Courtesy of... http://www.anzacwebsites.com/publications/books.htm

PREVIOUS ANZAC DAY POSTS

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HAPPY ST. PATRICK'S DAY 2014

In Memory of all our Irish Ancestors

Happy St. Patrick's Day!

I have chosen just two amazing women to feature. 

Our Irish ancestry begins with Bridget Heslin/Eslin/Haslin, born 1766 in Dublin, 

who was awarded a free passage to Australia in 1793 via the OLD BAILEY booking office. 

She travelled on the "Sugar Cane"with a 7 years free accommodation voucher.

"Bridget was tried in July 1792 in Dublin Ireland and was then transported to Cork by ship to await transportation aboard the Sugar Cane.  The ship sailed on 13th April 1793 so she would have been in custody for about 9 months waiting to sail.  Sh e was only 18 years old but at least had a friend or relative, Mary Hughes on board with her, along with Joseph Kearns who would have also been known to the family.  Bridget's brother, Patrick, was aboard another ship of that fleet, The Boddingtons, but whether Bridget knew this or not is unknown. Unlike Robert's trip, all aboard the Sugar Cane arrived on the 17th September 1793 in good health with the loss of one life (execution) on the trip.

Never-the-less Bridget was only 18, her father had been executed, her mother and another brother (John) had been transported elsewhere and she and Patrick were now in a new colony just over five years after it had been first settled.  Things would have looked so alien, I can only feel that she felt scared and frightened at what lay ahead of her.  At this stage we can only guess that she was either sent to the Female Factory at Parramatta or to the farms at Toongabbie, however sometime possibly in in late 1795 she met Robert Hobbs and their first of nine children was born (registered Sydney) on the 19th September 1796.  All other children after that were born in the Hawkesbury area, most of them at Pitt Town.

I often sit and think what they may have felt, initially elated that the trip was over, scared about the prospects for spending the rest of your life in a strange alien place.  Sailing into Sydney Harbour they would have seen nothing but bushland , with strange trees and huge rocky outcrops, strange birds with strange sounds, strange beasts (kangaroos), aborigines quietly observing this strange sailing vessel and the white people on board, and on arrival on shore, looking aghast at the pri mitive conditions that they would have had to accept in their daily life. They were plunged into a society primarily made up of the military and convicts - and they would have been plunged into the middle of the worst of society, all battling to cope with their own nightmares.  Hopefully for Bridget some kindly person gave her a roof over her head and helped her through these first couple of years until she married Robert.

What is known after that is that she lived the rest of her life with Robert, raised nine children, lived and laboured at Pitt Town on their own land and died in on the 25th October, 1843, four and a half years after Robert who died on the 23rd February 1839.  They are both buried together in Pitt Town Cemetery although there is no mention of Bridget on Robert's well preserved head stone. We should all feel very proud of what this couple endured and that they fought hard to survive and raise a family in the harshest of conditions."

Courtesy of Bev Woodman

Old Dublin Town

Our Irish Grandmother was Bridget Theresa/Teresa Dillon,

 born in Clonboula, Kilmaley Parish, Co Clare on Feb 10th 1901.

 She married Roy Leonard Swadling on Aug 21, 1924, had four children, 

but sadly passed away on Jan 11th, 1942, a month short of her 41st birthday.

She rests in Dorrigo cemetery, New South Wales.

I have written about her a number of times, including this recent post.

http://thatmomentintime-crissouli.blogspot.com.au/2014/03/happy-international-womens-day-2014.html

Around County Clare, Ireland

HAPPY INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S DAY 2014!

INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S DAY... 

not filtered by license

THE WOMEN IN MY LIFE

 Funnily enough, the first woman in my life was my Mother

at the very early stages of my life, I knew no other

She was my everything, and as I grew that didn't alter

in my eyes, she could not falter.

We laughed, we cried, we yelled out loud

my much loved mother stood out in a crowd.. 

she was always ready to lend a helping hand..

to explain all things I didn't understand.

She picked me up when I fell down

she could tease a smile from the saddest frown..

a hug, a kiss and the world was fine

I am so blessed that she was mine…

© crissouli Mar 2014

(c) crissouli 

Simplistic verse, for a very complicated woman.. Mum didn't have an easy life. She was just eleven when her much loved mother Bridget Theresa (Dillon) succumbed to the scourge of that time, tuberculosis… a disease rarely seen these days in most countries, but in 1942, there was little that could be done to ease the dreadful pain and save the sweet Irish lass, aged just 41, who was to leave her husband, son and three daughters far too early. Mum and her sisters were left in the convent to make their own way in the world, and that they did. My Mum also left us far too early, at just 51.. I will love and miss her always. 

(c) crissouli

So many wonderful women have been part of my life, my much loved daughter, my wonderful granddaughter, my aunts, my numerous female cousins, friends all over the world, teachers.. particularly Patty (Bruce) Keating, and Miss English.. I won't even try to name them all for fear of missing someone…  but I am ever grateful for the inspirational women in my life, those who have passed included…

So, whatever you do this International Women's Day, spare a thought for all those who have entered and influenced your life, for all who have paved the way to make the world a better place for women and all who continue to do so...

Helen Reddy "I am Woman"