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Tag Archives: USA
1989: Drain
Robert Gober: Drain (1989)
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1953: Work
Charles White: Work (1953)
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1890: The Sheepfold
William Trost Richards: The Sheepfold, Easton’s Point, Newport (1890)
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2017: Desperate Measures
Alison Pebworth: Desperate Measures (2017)
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1935: Found Photo
I took a guess on the date.
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2018: The Sky
Earlier this evening.
1915: Help the Furrier Strikers
Happy May Day!
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1951: An Elusive Charm
Endpaper maps from William T. Innes’s Exotic Aquarium Fishes (13th ed., 1951), with a grid the reader can use to find the location of the various fishes listed in the book.
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1969: On the Moon
Thomas Schmagmeier made this map of the Apollo 11 landing site overlaid on a soccer field to give a sense of scale to the distances traveled by the astronauts. He also made a baseball version. (These are revised versions of … Continue reading
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1898: The Moon
This model of the moon—made of 116 sections of plaster on a framework of wood and metal—was prepared by Johann Friedrich Julius Schmidt for the Field Columbian Museum in Chicago; the museum was located on the grounds of the World’s … Continue reading
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