Tag Archives: 19th Century

1852: What, to the Slave

Posted on July 4, 2017 by corvusfugit

What, to the American slave, is your 4th of July? I answer: a day that reveals to him, more than all other days in the year, the gross injustice and cruelty to which he is the constant victim. To him, … Continue reading →

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1896: Stand True

Posted on July 2, 2017 by corvusfugit

TRADE-UNIONS FROM THE STANDPOINT OF A TRADE-UNIONIST by John F. Sheehan I have been asked to defend trade-unionism. It is unnec­essary; trade-unions are their own defense: by the added comforts they bring into thousands of homes, through increased wages and … Continue reading →

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1819: Kahikona arrives in Hawai’i

Posted on July 2, 2017 by corvusfugit

Beginning in the early part of the last millennium, Polynesians explored 16 million square miles of ocean by canoe, navigating by the stars, sun, clouds, ocean swells, and currents; they settled on every habitable island in the Pacific and likely … Continue reading →

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1876: The Bowsprit Got Mixed with the Rudder Sometimes.

Posted on June 29, 2017 by corvusfugit

He had bought a large map representing the sea, Without the least vestige of land: And the crew were much pleased when they found it to be A map they could all understand. —Lewis Carroll: The Hunting of the Snark … Continue reading →

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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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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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1710: Anonymous Violin

Posted on June 23, 2017 by corvusfugit

Then indeed the marvellous instrument appeared in all its unrivalled splendor. Its graceful curves, its fugitive lines of beauty were such as might drive a Stradivarius wild. Its glaze was of an incomparable limpidity, and the blue in its design … Continue reading →

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1830: What Color is Your Face Type?

Posted on June 20, 2017 by corvusfugit

Joannes Bemme, after David Pièrre Giottino Humbert de Superville: Drie gezichtstypen met bijbehorende kleuren [Three Face Types with Corresponding Colors], an illustration from Essai sur les signes inconditionnels dans l’art [Essay on Universal Symbols in Art] (1827-1830) (source)

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1898: Hope

Posted on June 20, 2017 by corvusfugit

Luc-Olivier Merson and Charles Girault: L’Espérance (1897-98) (source)

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