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Description: Vintage illustration c1849 of a male (bottom) and female (top), Gouldian finch, Erythrura gouldiae, (illustration by Marc Athanase 1804-1878). The Gouldian finch was once found right across northern Australia but it’s now thought there are fewer than 2500 left in the wild in 2022.
Description: A digitally enhanced copy from an original lithograph poster. Poster shows a steam engine pulling passenger cars through the Absaroka Range. The range stretches across the Montana–Wyoming border, forming the eastern boundary of Yellowstone National Park. Artist Gustav Krollmann c1920
Description: AB 778 (entered service in 1925). In December 2012 the Kingston Flyer was taken offline, due to the discovery of leaks in AB 778’s boiler. The Kingston Flyer was a steam train in New Zealand that originally was a passenger express. It was operated by the New Zealand Railways Department from the 1890s to 1957. Photo by Bernard Spragg. (image is in the public domain)