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Tag Archives: 20th Century
1915: Children of Eve
Capitalist Henry Clay Madison is unmoved by the specter of a child laborer in John H. Collins’s Children of Eve (1915).
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1924: The Diamond Palace
Diamantový zámek visí nad červeným mořem… (O zlatých zámcích.) Illustration by Artuš Scheiner for a collection of Fairy Tales by Božena Němcová (1924). The first line of the caption means “the diamond palace hung over the red sea,” and I … Continue reading
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Tagged 1920's, 20th Century, Art, Artuš Scheiner, Books, Božena Němcová, Castles, Czechoslovakia, Fairy Tales, Illustration
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1921: Swans
Frank William Brangwyn: The Swans (1921)
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Tagged 1920's, 20th Century, Animals, Birds, Frank William Brangwyn, Great Britain, Painting, Swans, Wales
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1921: Beware the Ides of March
The National Association for the Promotion of Labor Unionism Among Negroes was founded in 1918 by A. Philip Randolph—the great union organizer who would later form the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters—and writer Chandler Owens; it was promoted through their … Continue reading
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1919: Queen Alice
Illustrations from a 1919 photoplay edition of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass (source). The photos are stills from the 1915 silent film adaptation of the books, which starred Viola Savoy as Alice.
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1906: Martyr
F. Holland Day – Saint Sebastian (1906) Although the traditional iconography shows Saint Sebastian pierced by arrows, this is not actually how he dies and becomes a martyr. The 13th century Legenda aurea, a collection of hagiographies by Jacobus de … Continue reading
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1930: Work Must Not Cease
A performance of Karel Capek’s R.U.R. at the Haohel Theater, Tel Aviv in 1930. The play opens in Rossum’s Universal Robots (thus the title), a factory which manufactures artificial humanoids designed to be perfect obedient workers. At first, the robots … Continue reading
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Tagged 1920's, 1930's, 20th Century, Automata, Czechoslovakia, Drama, Israel, Karel Capek, Labor, Language, Palestine, Photography, Rebellion
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