Uploads from LJMcK, tagged edwardian, with geodata

Young Adelaide Man

nobody@flickr.com (LJMcK) — Fri, 24 May 2013 07:32:01 -0700

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Small format studio portrait by the American Photo Co. of Adelaide, South Australia.

Eleanor Twigg feeding her chickens

nobody@flickr.com (LJMcK) — Sun, 07 Apr 2013 05:11:25 -0700

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My great grandmother feeding the chooks in her farm yard, taken by her daughter Ruth.

Robert Harkness

nobody@flickr.com (LJMcK) — Sat, 23 Mar 2013 07:00:00 -0700

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HARKNESS, ROBERT (b. Bendigo, Vic, 2 March 1880; d. London, 8 May 1961). Hymnwriter and evangelist.

Robert was the son of Abraham and Jane Elizabeth Harkness, two staunch Methodists and deeply committed Christians. He was educated at Bendigo, worked for a short time in a printing firm and then in his father's foundry. At a very early age he displayed a remarkable musical ability on the piano and organ, and soon began to compose hymns. The whole direction of his life changed in 1902 when the Torrey-Alexander Mission team visited Bendigo. His brilliant piano playing immediately caught the attention of Charles M Alexander, the mission's song leader, who arranged for him to join the mission group. Several months later he dedicated his life completely to Christ during a mission at Dunedin, New Zealand. From that time onwards, for the next sixty years, he devoted the whole of his many talents, energy and expertise to the presentation of the gospel through music, song and the spoken word.

Harkness was the accompanist and composer with Alexander from 1902-16, from 1902-09 as a member of the Torrey-Alexander team and from 1910-6 with the Chapman-Alexander group. He travelled with them around the world on numerous occasions and took part in all their major missions.

During the 1909 Chapman-Alexander Mission in Australia he became engaged to Adela Ruth Langsford, and the couple were married on 16 Feb 1912 on the team's next visit to Australia. Ruth was a trained singer and after their marriage often sang at missions at which Harkness played. They had no children.

During the 1909 Australian tour Alexander used his very popular Alexander's hymns Not for the First time. This hymn book had been compiled at Alexander's Birmingham home during a break in their mission program. Harkness wrote the tunes for 61 and the Lyrics for 14 of the hymns in this book, 9 other lyrics being written by Fred P Morris, another Bendigonian.

Harkness and his wife moved to the United States after World War One where they spent the remainder of their lives giving sacred concerts and composing sacred songs. He composed, in all, over 2500 gospel hymns. They lived at Pasadena near Los Angeles on the west coast. Here he formed the Harkness Music Co by which he published three very popular correspondence courses for hymn playing; founded and edited a very popular monthly music magazine called The Sacred Musician, compiled a slender hymn book called New Harkness Hymns and Sacred Hymns; and wrote a 127 page book called Reuben Archer Torrey: the Man and his Message.

During their forty years in the United States Harkness and his wife conducted many sacred concert tours throughout North America, England, Scandinavia and the Continent. He returned to Australia and his home city of Bendigo seven times. On each occasion he gave sacred concerts and played hymns tunes on his father's foundry whistles. A feature of the concerts was his invitation to the audience to suggest a text to which immediately he would compose and play a tune.

Ruth died in the United States in 1958 and he died in a London clinic on 8 May 1961. He was buried in the Alexander family plot in Birmingham, England.

Keith Cole, Robert Harkness: the Bendigo hymnwriter (Bendigo, 1988)

KEITH COLE

webjournals.ac.edu.au/journals/adeb/h_/harkness-robert-18...

Ray

nobody@flickr.com (LJMcK) — Sat, 08 Dec 2012 21:30:45 -0800

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Vintage real photo postcard of Melbourne boy playing cricket in his backyard.

The message on the back is a letter the family's American relatives.

Picnicing at Indooroopilly

nobody@flickr.com (LJMcK) — Thu, 20 Sep 2012 00:43:27 -0700

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Picnicing at Indooroopilly

nobody@flickr.com (LJMcK) — Mon, 17 Sep 2012 07:19:22 -0700

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Jesslands

nobody@flickr.com (LJMcK) — Sun, 16 Sep 2012 21:45:07 -0700

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Farmyard Pets

nobody@flickr.com (LJMcK) — Sun, 16 Sep 2012 08:38:31 -0700

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Jesslands, Queensland

Jesslands

nobody@flickr.com (LJMcK) — Sat, 15 Sep 2012 23:43:25 -0700

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Likely members of the Clifton family.

Castlemaine Town Hall

nobody@flickr.com (LJMcK) — Tue, 10 Apr 2012 03:21:04 -0700

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Edwardian postcard from the studio of Castlemaine photographer A. Verey. Sent postally in October, 1905 from Footscray to Alf Parker of Glenferrie Road, Malvern.

Marching Band

nobody@flickr.com (LJMcK) — Sun, 15 Jan 2012 16:31:38 -0800

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Edwardian era snapshot of a marching band with two men in front carrying British and Australian flags. Thanks to Flickr user pellethepoet who found an advertisement for the plumbers in the background locating them in Toowoomba, Queensland

Hargreaves Street, Bendigo

nobody@flickr.com (LJMcK) — Sun, 25 Dec 2011 16:41:16 -0800

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View from Mitchell Street of what is now the Hargreaves Mall.

Edwardian era postcard sent postally in 1907.

Lily

nobody@flickr.com (LJMcK) — Mon, 04 Jul 2011 00:34:17 -0700

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Real photo postcard by W. E. Perroux of Townsville, Queensland

William and Mary Ann Barber

nobody@flickr.com (LJMcK) — Thu, 21 Apr 2011 02:08:22 -0700

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Wedding photo of my great great aunt Mary Ann Griffiths and her second husband William Charles Barber, taken by Kalma of Bendigo in 1905.

Jack McKinnon

nobody@flickr.com (LJMcK) — Wed, 20 Apr 2011 02:21:55 -0700

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Edwardian photo of my grandfather, taken at Cole's Book Arcade in Melbourne, Victoria.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_William_Cole

King William Street, South Adelaide

nobody@flickr.com (LJMcK) — Fri, 20 Aug 2010 03:50:06 -0700

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A c.1900 card mounted photo of a bustling Adelaide street scene.

Hallie Twigg

nobody@flickr.com (LJMcK) — Mon, 16 Aug 2010 07:36:53 -0700

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My great great aunt Hallie Twigg (1862-1939), pictured in a phaeton outside her farm at Gladfield, Victoria, with her ponies Rob and Roy.
With this photo the series of 84 cartes-de-visite, cabinet cards, and tintypes from her album (which I have posted in the order in which she arranged them) comes to a fitting end.

Picnic at Southport

nobody@flickr.com (LJMcK) — Thu, 20 Sep 2012 02:05:09 -0700

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Alice Bramley?

nobody@flickr.com (LJMcK) — Mon, 18 Apr 2011 23:55:44 -0700

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Edwardian real photo postcard by Yeoman of Bendigo, Victoria - the subject has been tentatively identified as my grandma's cousin Alice Bramley.

Montana Trio

nobody@flickr.com (LJMcK) — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 21:14:33 -0700

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Edwardian card mounted photo.