Tag Archives: 1910’s

1915: Help the Furrier Strikers

Posted on May 1, 2018 by corvusfugit

Happy May Day!

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1912: Many-Headed

Posted on April 8, 2018 by corvusfugit

Demons associated with astrological signs—from a Persian manuscript on magic and astrology, 1912.

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1918: Bursting Shell

Posted on February 25, 2018 by corvusfugit

Christopher Richard Wynne Nevinson: Bursting Shell (1915)

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1918: Steel Works

Posted on February 24, 2018 by corvusfugit

Charles John Holmes: A Two-Year-Old Steel Works: Erected during the War for Messrs. Steel, Peech & Tozer, Ltd, Phoenix Works, Rotherham (c. 1918)

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1919: Park

Posted on February 15, 2018 by corvusfugit

Ivan Fedorovich Choultse: Park in Neskuchnoye (1919)

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1953: A Piece of String

Posted on January 28, 2018 by corvusfugit

The most celebrated of all British practical jokers was William Horace De Vere Cole…He was a citizen of substance and had a large house in a fashionable section of London. One day he was hanging some paintings in his home … Continue reading →

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1915: Sugar Factory

Posted on January 26, 2018 by corvusfugit

Daniel Putnam Brinley: Hudson River View (Sugar Factory at Yonkers) (1915)

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1915: Art Smith

Posted on January 21, 2018 by corvusfugit

A timed exposure of stunt pilot Art Smith flying his biplane over the Battleship Oregon, 1915. (source)

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1964: Revolution

Posted on January 13, 2018 by corvusfugit

During the shooting of David Lean’s Doctor Zhivago [set in Russia during WWI and the Russian Revolution] in a Madrid suburb in 1964, a crowd of Spanish statists had to sing the “Internationale” in a scene involving a mass demonstration. The … Continue reading →

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1913: Christmas Massacre

Posted on December 27, 2017 by corvusfugit

In July, 1913 there were about 15,000 miners working for the Calumet and Hecla Mining Company in several mines in Michigan’s northern peninsula—about 9,000 of them were members of the Western Federation of Miners. When the union demanded recognition, management … Continue reading →

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