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1945: The Conrad Catzen Shoe Fund

Posted on June 26, 2017 by corvusfugit

Since 1945, the Actors Fund of America has administered the Conrad Catzen Shoe Fund. The fund provides $40.00 towards a pair of new shoes for out-of-work actors and other workers in the performing arts. Cantzen bequeathed his estate to create … Continue reading →

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1934: Self-Portrait with Pipe

Posted on June 26, 2017 by corvusfugit

Samuel Joseph Brown: Smoking My Pipe (1934)

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1882: Ragweed and Crows

Posted on June 26, 2017 by corvusfugit

Thomas Millie Dow: Ragweed and Crows (1882)

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1851: Portrait

Posted on June 25, 2017 by corvusfugit

John Adams Whipple: The Moon (1851) Whipple, an inventor and photographer, worked with William Cranch Bond, director of the Harvard College Observatory, to photograph the moon using Harvard’s Great Refractor telescope, at that time the largest in the world.

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1954: Far Out

Posted on June 25, 2017 by corvusfugit

The 1954 Ford FX Atmos debuted on March 15 at the Chicago Auto Show and featured a radar screen in its one-seat cockpit. (source)

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1982: Excess—The Factory

Posted on June 25, 2017 by corvusfugit

The great factory, the universe, the one that breathes for you. There’s no other air but what it pumps, expels. You are inside. All space is occupied : all has become waste. The skin, the teeth, the gaze. You move … Continue reading →

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1789: Gifts from the Ebb Tide

Posted on June 25, 2017 by corvusfugit

Kitagawa Utamaro: Pages from Gifts of the Ebb Tide (probably 1789) (source)

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1916: The King of the Cats

Posted on June 24, 2017 by corvusfugit

In Padraic Colum’s children’s classic The King of Ireland’s Son, this tale is told to the son by the king’s steward: The King of the Cats stood up. He was a grand creature. His body was brown and striped across … Continue reading →

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1892: Its Leaves Began to Turn to Flame

Posted on June 24, 2017 by corvusfugit

From The Gateway (“A magazine devoted to literature, economics, and social service”) Vol. XIX, No. 2 (September 1912): Two friends, at a distance of some miles from each other, had the same bizarre dream. The first account comes to us … Continue reading →

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1967: The Girl in the Air with the Most Beautiful Hair

Posted on June 23, 2017 by corvusfugit

    Ralph William Williams: TWA Hostess Judy Neumann (1967) [Breck shampoo ad] (source)      

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