Four miners with tools, 1897
Miners at the Hecla-Cutain Mine at Zeehan
Going on shift
Silver-lead mine
Silver Spray
Western Silver Mine
Friday, July 18, 2008
Old Hospital
From Zeehan, including interior of dispensary, wards, operating theatre
http://images.statelibrary.tas.gov.au/Detail.asp?ID=au-7-0016-125442038
http://images.statelibrary.tas.gov.au/Detail.asp?ID=au-7-0016-125442038
Thursday, May 1, 2008
Monday, January 14, 2008
Lion Monument
Löwendenkmal -- a memorial to the Swiss Guards who were killed during the French Revolution
I'd forgotten the story that went with the Lion Monument at Lucerne.
One page with photo and short blurb.
Close up photo
Lots of good photos. Not much information. Too many aimed at tourist sites.
From Wikipedia
The most famous episode in the history of the Swiss Guards of the Royal household was their defense of the Tuileries Palace in Paris during the French Revolution. Of the nine hundred "Gardes Suisse" defending the Palace on August 10, 1792 more than six hundred were killed during the fighting or massacred after surrender. An estimated two hundred more died in prison of their wounds or during the September Massacres that followed. Apart from a few Swiss who were helped to escape from the Tuileries by sympathetic Parisians the only survivors were a 300 strong detachment which had been sent to Normandy to escort grain convoys a few days before August 10. The heroic but futile stand of the Swiss is commemorated by Bertel Thorvaldsen's monument in Lucerne dedicated in 1821 and showing a dying lion collapsed across symbols of the French Monarchy.
Link from above article The Attack on the Tuileries
From http://www.everything2.com/index.pl?node
(They) were given no orders as to what they should do when the murderous revolutionary mob approached. They did not know that the King and Queen had escaped the palace, and faced with overwhelming odds, laid down their arms in the face of annihilation by the irate peasants. Having searched the palace and finding the king gone, the crowd sated their blood-lust by turning on the Swiss guards who were overwhelmed by the 30,000 strong mob.
Sunday, January 13, 2008
Signal Stations
One of those topics that I can never find anything about when I need it (on web, too many photos, too many aimed at tourist sites, that sounds famiiar).
Mt Nelson Semaphore from State Library collection
Signals were sent from (Tasman Peninsula to) Mt Nelson to the signal station at Battery Point (doesn't seem possible these days, too many trees) e.g. notification of arriving ships
Three rows of arms. To represent a number, top row is digits, midde is tens, bottom is hundreds.
Each sets of arms can be in one of nine positions.
Can't remember the numbers which go with each postions, so for now I'll go
123
456
789
Using that, this
would be 0 9 1. Then one looks up 91 in the book to see the corresponding message: Out of tea, send more.
The Tamar Valley network.
Mt Nelson Semaphore from State Library collection
Signals were sent from (Tasman Peninsula to) Mt Nelson to the signal station at Battery Point (doesn't seem possible these days, too many trees) e.g. notification of arriving ships
Three rows of arms. To represent a number, top row is digits, midde is tens, bottom is hundreds.
Each sets of arms can be in one of nine positions.
Can't remember the numbers which go with each postions, so for now I'll go
123
456
789
Using that, this
would be 0 9 1. Then one looks up 91 in the book to see the corresponding message: Out of tea, send more.The Tamar Valley network.
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