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My Ear-Trumpet Has Been Struck By Lightning

The Common-place Book of the Mercurius Aulicus, a Reactionary Tory Gentleman, who armed only with a Steampowered Babbage Engine and Pure Intentions, wanders the Time Streams and Aetheric Plane gathering an Eccentric Hodgepodge of Curiousities, Frivolities, Whimsicalities and Nonsense. Q. Why is your Tumblelog called "My Ear-Trumpet Has Been Struck by Lightning"? A. Because "My Grandmother's Ear-Trumpet Has Been Struck by Lightning" wouldn't fit in the available space.

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A postcard featuring a black and white photograph of a group of five women. Handwritten on the back of the postcard is ‘Mrs Whiteheads Life Saving Team / Winners of the Heape Shield / 1906’.

This image is part of an archive series consisting of photographs relating to the career of champion Australian swimmer, diver and vaudeville entertainer in Australia and the United Kingdom Beatrice Kerr. Australian National Maritime Museum collection, Object number ANMS1032[009] ANMM Collection Gift from Michael Williams

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