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Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip in Australia 1954

A photograph from the Australian Royal tour in 1954. Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip can be seen standing on the back of a moving vehicle. The Queen accessorizes her outfit with gloves, a string of pearls and a hat.

The tour was heralded as a great success by British royal watchers and Australian monarchists alike. Australians fell in love with the young couple and the 8-week tour, stopping at 70 towns and cities, was documented in the film The Queen in Australia (1954).

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Date palm tree, Phoenix dactylifera

Date palm tree, Phoenix dactylifera, Dattier. Handcoloured steel engraving by Oudet after a botanical illustration by Edouard Maubert from Pierre Oscar Reveil, A. Dupuis, Fr. Gerard and Francois Herincq's La Regne Vegetal: Planets Agricoles et Forestieres, L. Guerin, Paris, 1864-1871. Date palm tree, Phoenix dactylifera, Dattier. Handcoloured steel engraving by Oudet after a botanical illustration by Edouard Maubert from Pierre Oscar Reveil, A. Dupuis, Fr. Gerard and Francois Herincq's La Regne Vegetal: Planets Agricoles et Forestieres, L. Guerin, Paris, 1864-1871. Date:

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Spring - Summer Wind by Herta Zuckermann

Girl with her arms filled with Spring flowers - painting by child artist Herta Zuckermann, student at the Vienna School for Arts and Crafts (Professor Cizek's course). Frantz Cizek was an artist teacher and reformer of art education-he opened his Juvenile Art Class in Vienna in 1897 and encouraged his students aged 5-14 years old to express themselves freely in an unencumbered atmosphere -some of the results are outstanding this being one of the works by pupil 14 year old Herta Zuckermann of a young girl gathering spring flowers Date: 1920