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Written by Sam Wilson on 2024-12-27 at 08:55

Mostly I don't like AI tools, but there are some things that I really think it could help me with. Like identifying random locations in photos of early 20th century Western Australia.

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Children_on_parade_in_front_of_buildings_(cropped).png

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Descendants

Written by kgoetz on 2024-12-27 at 09:56

@samwilson uh oh, that looks interesting... I better scroll on fast before I start investigating 😂

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Written by Sam Wilson on 2024-12-27 at 10:13

@kgoetz hehe yes I must admit I was slightly fishing for ideas! 😜

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Written by kgoetz on 2024-12-27 at 10:55

@samwilson I couldn't figure it out. Hopefully there aren't too many buildings marked Mercery (I think "

MERCERY (...?) SHOES" on the top) and your state archives are searchable 🤞

possibly 1937, if I squint hard enough at the corner but that feels too late . maybe the rest of the archive has information to guide that bit of the search - i looked around but couldn't see what I needed.

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Written by Sam Wilson on 2024-12-27 at 11:33

@kgoetz It's a tiny print, but I'll re-scan it to see if there's any more detail. I'm thinking it could be Carnarvon, and 1937 mightn't be too far off (it's possibly slightly related to this photo: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:St_Mary%27s_Star_of_the_Sea_Catholic_School#/media/File:Carnarvon_Convent_1927-28_(cropped).png ). But yeah, that's all conjecture really!

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Written by David Coombe on 2024-12-27 at 10:15

@samwilson Looks like “Mercer … Shoes”. A little image manipulation might resolve it better. I use an old program Paint.net.

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Written by Alex Lum on 2024-12-28 at 13:51

@samwilson Found it!

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Written by Sam Wilson on 2024-12-29 at 06:44

@metacoretechs That is amazing!!! How on Earth did you manage that?! 😲

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Written by Alex Lum on 2024-12-29 at 08:29

@samwilson So you'd already narrowed it down to Carnarvon and possibly associated with the Catholic school. I noted the distinctive angled corner and patterned bricks of the building on the right, and the building with the tall chimneys in the centre. I looked at the satellite images for a building with angled corners near the school and the first one I found was this one near the roundabout. As soon as I looked at it in StreetView I saw the building with the chimneys (the ANZ building).

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Written by Alex Lum on 2024-12-29 at 08:44

@samwilson I should do more geolocation of Australia/NZ photos on Commons – I've got a 5 for 5 hit rate so far, and I really enjoy doing it.

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Written by Sam Wilson on 2024-12-30 at 07:19

@metacoretechs I'll send you any more fun ones I find! 😃

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