Images Dated 17th February 2009

The House, Dyffryn

Watercolour on board of a scene at Dyffryn House, South Wales by Edith Helena Adie. Adie was born in London and studied at the Slade School of Art and the Royal Academy. She was a member of the New Watercolour Society specialising in landscapes and garden views. Adie also lived and painted in Bordighera, Italy. Her paintings of the gardens at Dyffryn House designed by Thomas Mawson in 1906, were commissioned by the owner Reginald Cory (1871-1934) a passionate gardener and benefactor to horticultural causes. This painting is dated August 24th 1923

GILBERT & SULLIVAN: MIKADO. Sketches from The Mikado, Gilbert and Sullivans new comic opera at the Savoy Theatre in London. Line engraving from an English newspaper of 1885

GILBERT & SULLIVAN: MIKADO. Sketches from The Mikado, Gilbert and Sullivan's new comic opera at the Savoy Theatre in London. Line engraving from an English newspaper of 1885

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Two HH-60G Pave Hawks sit at a helipad at Farallon Island

February 17, 2009 - Two HH-60G Pave Hawks sit at a helipad at Farallon Island waiting to transport old photovoltaic batteries. The unit is assisting the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service by helping to swap photovoltaic batteries to power a lighthouse and workshop at the FWS research facility on the Farallon Island sixty miles off the coast of San Francisco, California

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