Marketing is essential if one is to have a successful business and Mr. Poole was no slouch when it came to the task! Here is his stall at an exhibition with a display of his wares and work. He is also advertising painting and priced in "Guineas" no less, none of your Mickey Mouse pounds for such fine work!
Photographer: A. H. Poole
Collection: Poole Photographic Studio, Waterford
Date: between ca. 1901 and 1954 Most probably 1888 or 89
NLI Ref: POOLEWP 0173a
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Tags: A.H. Poole Arthur Henri Poole Poole Collection Glass Negative National Library of Ireland Exhibition stall display advertising paintings frames
A strange one today from the Mason Collection. It is obviously a type of "selfie" of our Mr Mason. I wonder what the headline "Zoo's" New Arrival refers to? Our catalogue date is ca. 1890-1910 which is obviously wrong!
As with our other recent Mason photo (in which the text didn't match the photo), it seems that we may have the same thing here. Perhaps Mr. Mason just liked the "joke" of his image being associated with another headline :)
While the headline above deals with an unrelated (though interesting) story from July 1933, the caption below (and Carol Maddock) confirm that this image was taken during a lecture on "Archaeology in Ireland", at a meeting of the Dublin Rotary Club, in the Metropole Restaurant (O'Connell Street) on 3 July 1933. Apparently he covered the growth in finds of bronze age artefacts with the draining of bogs and cutting of turf which was becoming more industrialised at the time (the Turf Development Board, precursor to Bord na Móna, was formed in the same year)...
Collection: Mason Photographic Collection
Date: 3 July 1933
NLI Ref: M20/29/10
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Tags: Thomas Holmes Mason Thomas Mayne Thomas H. Mason & Sons Limited Lantern Slides National Library of Ireland Coypu rats Malayan monitor Lincoln Murphy Monitor Lizard Probable catalogue correction Dublin Rotary Club Metropole O'Connell Street Dublin July July 1933 Lecture Rotary Club Luncheon Lunch Talk Speaker Irish Times Thomas Mason Thomas Holmes Mason (1877-1958) Thomas H Mason
A visit to the Wiltshire Collection to start this week and I can honestly say that the shade of Elinor Wiltshire is looking down on the scene! She has photographed the iconic St. Audeons Church in the centre of Dublin though her point of view has truncated the tower.
Photographer: Elinor Wiltshire
Collection: Wiltshire Photographic Collection
Date: 1968
NLI Ref: WIL 38[3]
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Tags: Elinor Wiltshire Rolleiflex Camera Rolleiflex Wiltshire Photographic Collection National Library of Ireland Elinor O’Brien Wiltshire St. Audeons Church Dublin tower city walls buttresses Cook Street Saint Audeons Dublin walls City gate Bridge Street Corn Market High Street St. Audoen's Gate Church Walls Schoolhouse Lane
Today we visit the Clonbrock Collection for a shot of Edith Dillon and her husband with a pair of shooting devices. She holds a camera while he holds a pistol and they are gathered beside paper targets fixed to a wall.
Sir William Mahon (5th baronet) lived with his wife Edith (née Dillon) at Castlegar House in Ballinasloe. While this image could also have been taken at the nearby Clonbrock estate, we've decided to map it to there (mainly for a bit of variation on the theme :) ).....
Photographers: Dillon Family
Contributors: Luke Gerald Dillon, Augusta Caroline Dillon
Collection: Clonbrock photographic Collection
Date: Catalogue range c.1900
NLI Ref: CLON1315
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Tags: Luke Gerald Dillon Baron Clonbrock Augusta Caroline Dillon Baroness Clonbrock Dillon Family National Library of Ireland Edith Dillon camera bellows pistol revolver gun targets puttee Castlegar House Ahascragh Ballinasloe County Galway Target Shooting William Mahon Edith Mahon Sir William Clonbrock Photographic Collection
It must have been a rainy day in Oberland and somebody who was getting bored began playing around with the camera! Just for the craic can we identify the three people in the cabinet cards?
The general consensus is that image was captured in a photographic studio or darkroom - perhaps as a test of a camera, new plates or to copy the images laid-out on the floor. A box of photographic dry plates is just visible at the top. A view of the same type of box and plates, from the Ilford photographic company, is seen on spanrz's stream on Flickr.....
Photographers: Dillon Family
Contributors: Luke Gerald Dillon, Augusta Caroline Dillon
Collection: Clonbrock photographic Collection
Date: c.1894
NLI Ref: CLON1956
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Tags: Luke Gerald Dillon Baron Clonbrock Augusta Caroline Dillon Baroness Clonbrock Dillon Family National Library of Ireland Cabinet cards Tripod base three people three pictures Chancellor Mansfield Ilford Ilford Dry Plates Dry Plates Photography Photography plates Dry plate Developing Lafayette Studio Clonbrock Photographic Collection