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1871: The Day’s Doings
October 21, 1871: “Startling appearance of a monster sea-serpent off Kilkee on the Irish coast” (source).
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Tagged 1870's, 19th Century, Animals, Cryptids, Ephemera, Ireland, Oddities
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1960’s: Totem
Chief Henry Speck: Totem: Eagle (1960’s) (source)
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Tagged 1960's, 20th Century, Animals, Art, Birds, Canada, Chief Henry Speck, Eagles, Native Americans, Painting
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1884: Marine
William Trost Richards: Marine (1884) (source)
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Tagged 1880's, 19th Century, Art, Painting, Seascapes, The Ocean, USA, William Trost Richards
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1850: The Veil
Giovanni Strazza: The Veiled Virgin (c. 1850)
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Tagged 1850's, 19th Century, Art, Christianity, Giovanni Strazza, Italy, Sculpture, Women
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1948: Poets’ Party
A party at the Gotham Book Mart in New York City to welcome poets Sir Osbert and Dame Edith Sitwell (seated, left of center) to the US for a series of readings. W. H. Auden is perched on the ladder … Continue reading
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Tagged 1940's, 20th Century, Books, Bookstores, Charles Henri Ford, Delmore Schwartz, Edith Sitwell, Elizabeth Bishop, Gore Vidal, Horace Gregory, José Garcia Villa, Lisa Larsen, Marianne Moore, Marya Zaturenska, New York City, Osbert Sitwell, Photography, Poetry, Randall Jarrell, Richard Eberhart, Stephen Spender, Tennessee Williams, USA, W. H. Auden, William Rose Benét
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1806: Journey to the West
Katsushika Taito II: 画本西遊全伝 [Picture Book – Journey to the West] Vol. 3 (c. 1806) (source)
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Tagged 1800's, 19th Century, Animals, Books, Japan, Katsushika Taito II, Monkeys, Printmaking
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2002: In the Encyclopedia
Marc Steinmetz: Radio Receiver (2002) “Sometime in the seventies an inmate of Ludwigsburg prison, Germany, built this radio on the sly and hid it inside an encyclopedia.” From a series of photographs of prison escape tools (here).
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Tagged 1970's, 2000's, 20th Century, 21st Century, Books, Germany, Marc Steinmetz, Prisons, Radio, Technology
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1883: You are Wheat and Belong in the Wheatfield
Pages from a letter from Vincent van Gogh to his brother Theo, 28 October 1883: to cause despondency for six months, until one eventually sees after all that one shouldn’t have let oneself be disoriented. There are two people whose intense … Continue reading
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Tagged 1880's, 19th Century, Animals, Art, Drawing, Gustave Doré, Horses, Letters, Melancholy, Netherlands, Oxen, Painting, Ravens, Theo van Gogh, Vincent van Gogh
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1885: Explain Yourself!
Unattributed frontispiece for an 1885 edition of Alice’s adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-glass (source) —from the University of Florida’s “Afterlife of Alice” collection, part of the extensive Baldwin Library of Historical Children’s Literature (here). The Caterpillar and Alice … Continue reading
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Tagged 1880's, 19th Century, Alice, Animals, Art, Books, Caterpillars, Children, Drawing, Illustration, Insects, Lewis Carroll
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2012: Technology
Jeremy Enecio: Technology (2012, I think) (source)
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Tagged 2010's, 21st Century, Art, Jeremy Enecio, Painting, Science Fiction, USA
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