On Aug 6, 2014, at 12:08 pm, Brian Walters <[email protected]> wrote:
> Quoting David Mann <[email protected]>: > >> I've now rearranged the photos a bit so they're grouped by location (I've >> also grouped each state together). I have also tidied up a handful of the >> captions. The ones I couldn't place are collected near the end. I'm not >> sure about the Broughty Ferry one; as far as I can tell that's in Scotland >> so how it came to be in this collection is beyond me (It's in the middle of >> the second-last row). >> >> http://www.multi.net.nz/empire/ > > > I'm pretty sure you're right. When I viewed the previous set, I tried to > find a Broughty Ferry location in Australia without success - all searches > ended up in Scotland. The picture doesn't "look" like an Australian scene > either. > > The "Better Farming Train" set interested me so I went Googling. It seems > that this operated in Victoria from 1924 "promoting the idea that the land > could be tamed and that it was the patriotic duty of every farmer to increase > his yields." > > You might find the following link on the Victorian Energy & Earth Resources > site of some interest. Its Photo Gallery on the Better Farming Train > contains several images similar to those in your gallery - so similar, in > fact, that it's obvious that they came from the same set of slides as yours. > The last 7 images in your set are all part of the "Better Farming Train" and > those images all appear in the Energy & Earth Resources' gallery. > > http://www.energyandresources.vic.gov.au/about-us/publications/library/virtual-exhibition/better-farming-train > > The 'Babcoon Festina' image is actually a 'demonstration of the "Babcock" > method for testing the butterfat content of milk.' The title may be 'Babcock > Testing' rather than Babcoon Festina. Fascinating. Thanks for the input, Brian. I just looked at the slide and I think you're right. I'll update the caption at some stage. The area for writing on the tape at the edge of the slide is about 3mm wide and doesn't play well with cursive handwriting. I just took a photo of the label so you know what I'm up against: http://gallery.multi.net.nz/photo/813/ My wife has had many years of practice with reading difficult handwriting from her family history research and I've been wanting to recruit her to decipher some of the difficult ones. I'm not sure what to do with the Broughty Ferry photo as it doesn't really belong in this gallery. Cheers, Dave -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
