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vetraio50
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I just love the colours on this card from Maude Lankester's collection. It is a card of a country lane outside the capital of South Australia, Adelaide. One of the better known photographers of the nineteenth and early twentieth century was an Irish immigrant Terrence McGann. Mc Gann specialized in landscapes and I find this a beautiful image. I love the tyre marks on the wet road leading down to that little bridge that crosses the stream. Are they tyre marks of a 1910 car or are they cart marks?
My third photo is added to show you an image of South Australia in 1910. A year later the map would change and South Australia would be divided in two to create the Northern Territory.
Title: Country Lane near Adelaide.
Photographer: Terrence McGann (1847/8 – 1913) 3 Leigh Street, Adelaide, South Australia
Year: c1910
Size: 14.1cm x 9cm (5½" x 3½")
Description: colour card by McGann with view "Country Lane near Adelaide" – unused. Signed McGann in bottom left hand corner. Printed in Germany. Numbered: 207410.
His obituary in the Adelaide Advertiser Friday 20 June 1913 reads:
The death occurred at the Adelaide Hospital on Tuesday of Mr. Terrence McGann at the age of 64 years. Mr. McGann was born in county Clare, Ireland, and arrived in South Australia 25 years ago. He was long considered, the most expert outdoor photographer in Adelaide, and many beautiful pictures came from his camera. It was he who took the photographs of the members of the Federal Convention and the journalists who were engaged thereat in Adelaide in April, 1897 and he did similar work in connection with many other historic gatherings. His work was always artistic, and he took a deep pride in it. Many of his best pictures appeared in "The Chronicle."
Stunning and very beautiful my freind Kevin , i really love the colors and the history of these postcards:)
Many thanks Sean. Just getting lost in these cards.
They look like cart marks. When I was about 10 in Nebraska I saw on TV Wagon Train marks still there from way before 1860! This might sound silly, but that statue of mine, do you think it is a man or a woman? Beautiful lips on it! bye time for tucker!
Many thanks Sean, nldionne, mustangT, miKKo and to you too toracat for those comments.
your very welcome Kevin:)
Many thanks blunderbuss2!
Many thanks czechman!
i could totally se you getting lost in these stunning postcards , i would to as well Kevin:)
it is a beautiful photo of a country lane! i love adelaide and the surrounding countryside - even though the climate can be mysterious and extreme at times. i was in a dust-storm there in 1980.
Many thanks ho2culture. I remember a heat wave there in the sixties that had bitumen flowing and concrete bending. The City of Churches and heat waves. Those dust storms can be spectacular too! Thanks again for your kind comments!
Hello Kevin do you Guys and Gals get snow there or when does the fall season begin?
and how does that work for you guys and gals for fashion?
Autumn began with March. We have a warm autumn happening. Today it was 80 F. March average here in Sydney is 74 F. It has never snowed in Sydney in my sixty three years. Though it did snow here in 1836.
http://wikiski.com/wiki/index.php/Unusual_snow_events_in_Australia
Shorts in winter!
I love it shorts in winter , i still wear shorts here only when going to the gym:( you have it so made in the shade mate!!!!!!!!!!!!
your very lucky ducky:) thanks for the link:)
Many thanks Alfredo!
Many thanks Manikin and to you too Tonino!
Many thanks walksoftly!
Many thanks, Phil!
Many thanks mark!
Many thanks marty!
Many thanks birdie!
Lovely scene!...One place we haven't been too!..need to rectify that!..:-)
Many thanks inky! Adelaide can be hot. I remember a phenomenal heat wave when I visited friends there in the 50's.