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Tagged: 1870s

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Spirit slides
These 19th century photographic glass slides purport to show images of both the living and the dead. The ghostly apparition pictures come from the collection of AJ Abbott, a practising spiritualist...
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19th century ghost photos
These 19th century photographic glass slides purport to show images of both the living and the dead.
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A history of the Ekka
This clip from a Seven News Brisbane special includes early footage from the Royal Queensland Show, or Ekka ('Exhibition') for short. The annual agricultural show is a Queensland institution and the...
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Ned Kelly: The siege at Glenrowan
A large number of police have surrounded the Glenrowan Inn. Ned Kelly and his gang attempt to release the hostages, but the nervous police open fire in the darkness and heavy rain. Superintendent...
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Ned Kelly: Stringybark Creek
Ned (Heath Ledger), Dan Kelly (Laurence Kinlan), Steve Hart (Philip Barantini) and Joe Byrne (Orlando Bloom) lie in wait at the police bush camp near Stringybark Creek. Ned has already shot Constable...
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Ned Kelly: Trouble with coppers
While Ned Kelly (Heath Ledger) dallies with Julia Cook (Naomi Watts), the English wife of his employer, Dan Kelly (Laurence Kinlan) and Joe Byrne (Orlando Bloom) throw Constable Fitzpatrick (Kiri...
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Man looking up at an illuminated spirit
In this glass slide, a man looks up to his right at an illuminated spirit. Many spirit images seem to be of people partially covered in robes that are superimposed into the image. The 'spirit' in...
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Man looking at a hovering spirit
A black-and-white glass slide showing a man sitting on a chair with arms folded over his knees. He is looking to his left at a spirit, partially superimposed over his left arm and chest. This is a...
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Seated man with spirit
A black-and-white glass slide showing a fashionably dressed man sitting sideways on a chair, elbow resting over the side, with a spirit hovering at his left. This is a typical example of the...
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Glass slide with two spirits
A black-and-white glass slide showing two spirits - one behind and one to the left of a woman sitting on a chair. In many of these glass slides the photographer has left a convenient space in which...
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