A lantern slide of a "Swiss Raiffeisen Bank" from the Mason Collection with a query that it may have been in Ireland. Over the years we have had Swiss watchmakers, Swiss Cottages, and even Swiss cheese but I never heard of a Swiss bank here! Looking at the conditions I must admit that I am not convinced that it is here.
Photographer: Thomas H. Mason
Collection: Mason Photographic Collection
Date: 1890-1910
NLI Ref: M7/12
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Tags: Thomas Holmes Mason Thomas Mayne Thomas H. Mason & Sons Limited Lantern Slides National Library of Ireland Swiss Raiffeissen Bank glass negative Ireland Raiffeisen Sparkasse Friedrich Wilhelm Raiffessen Friedrich Raiffesen Raiffeisen Selbsthilfe Selbstverwaltung Selbstverantwortung Credit Union
The Gifford sisters, Muriel and Sidney, in a studio with an enormous dog will help us to start this week. We have seen Muriel in the past, but Sidney and the dog are newcomers to Flickr! The Gifford girls are well-remembered, but all too often for their choice of husband rather than their character, and there is no doubt but that they had character in buckets full!
Photographer: Unknown
Collection: Thomas MacDonagh Family Papers
Date: 1911
NLI Ref: NPA TMD 1
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Tags: National Library of Ireland 20th Century National Photographic Archives Dublin 1911 widow of 1916 leader Rathmines Ireland Leinster Postcard Muriel Gifford Muriel MacDonagh Sidney Gifford Sidney Czira Thomas MacDonagh Papers Dogs John Brennan Mná na hÉireann
A typical scene from a Bishop's Palace in times gone by no doubt, but I do hope that the fella climbing up the curtains didn't fall down on to that bayonet! A strange one from the Mason Collection, a drawing that could have come straight from the pages of "Punch" with what appears to be a party gone completely out of control. To make matters worse the military, who were called to restore order, appear to have succumbed to the general malaise of drunkenness and debauchery!
Photographer: Thomas H. Mason
Collection: Mason Photographic Collection
Date: 1890-1910
NLI Ref: M43/33
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Tags: Thomas Holmes Mason Thomas Mayne Thomas H. Mason & Sons Limited Lantern Slides National Library of Ireland glass negative Ireland Leinster William Lawrence Carousel at Palace of Bishop graphic drawing drunkenness and debauchery caricatures Carousal Ferns George Cruikshank
The shop with the quirky door and window belonged to Sheila and Nora Wallace and was/is situated on Brunswick Street in Cork. That angled door and the fancy window overhead would be at home in a scene from any Dickens book. Who were the ladies Wallace and why was the shop worthy of being recorded - apart from all of the above?
Photographer: Unknown
Collection: Florence O'Donoghue Papers
Date: Undated but likely between 1920-1940
NLI Ref: MS 31,514/1
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Tags: National Library of Ireland National Photographic Archive Florence O'Donoghue Florence O'Donoghue Papers Sheila Wallace Nora Wallace Shop Brunswick Street Cork City County Cork Munster Quirky door and window 20th Century Ireland
Another portrait of a woman from the Sheehy-Skeffington Photographic Collection and this time a young woman with a very intense gaze! Elisabeth Freeman appears to be a US citizen, and Mary is intrigued by the brooch/pendant she is wearing.
Photographer: De Young's
Collection: Sheehy Skeffington Photographic Collection
Date: Thursday, 10 July 1919
NLI Ref: NPA SHE56
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Tags: National Library of Ireland National Photographic Archive The Sheehy-Skeffington Photographic Collection USA US citizen brooch portrait 20th Century Ireland Elisabeth Freeman Thursday July 1919