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1874: Seascape
Alfred Thompson Bricher: Seascape (1874)
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1979: Westside Dreams
Daniel Salazar: Westside Dreams (1979) This photo shows the National Chicano Dance Theater posing in front of the Denver skyline in 1979, I think probably as part of a promotional shoot for Daniel Valdez’s play Zoot Suit, which debuted that … Continue reading
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Tagged 1940's, 1970's, 20th Century, Art, Cars, Daniel Salazar, Daniel Valdez, Film, Latino/as/x, Photography, Theater, USA
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1939: Revolt
Hale Woodruff’s murals commemorating the revolt on the Spanish slave ship Amistad were installed in Talladega College’s Savery Library in 1939, the centennial of the uprising. The first mural depicts the moment when, on or about July 1, 1839, kidnapped … Continue reading
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Tagged 1830's, 1930's, 19th Century, 20th Century, Africa, African-Americans, Art, Hale Woodruff, Law, Libraries, Murals, Painting, Resistance, Ships & Sailing, Sierra Leone, Slavery, USA
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1933: Dreams of the Third Reich
A selection from Charlotte Beradt’s Dreams of the Third Reich. Beradt was a journalist in Germany when Hitler took power and, inspired by the first dream below “set out to collect the dreams the Nazi regime had generated”—which she did … Continue reading
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Tagged Adolph Hitler, Books, Charlotte Beradt, Dreams, Fascism, Germany, Posters, Resistance, Shoes, Sophie Scholl, USA, Women, WWII
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1971: Kirby
Jack Kirby: page from A “King” Kirby Portfolio (1971)
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Tagged 1970's, 20th Century, Art, Comics, Jack Kirby, Science Fiction, USA
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1967: Alice in Wonderland
The 1967 report of the National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders opens with a now-famous conclusion: “Our nation is moving toward two societies, one black, one white–separate and unequal.” The closing of the report is less well known: One of … Continue reading
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Tagged 1960's, 20th Century, African-Americans, Alice, Chicago, Civil Rights, Detroit, Film, Harlem, Kenneth B. Clark, New York City, Riots, USA
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1966: Dublin Sky
Evelyn Hofer: Dublin Sky (1966); from Dublin: A Portrait (1967).
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Tagged 1960's, 20th Century, Art, Books, Cityscapes, Dublin, Germany, Ireland, Photography, Rivers, The Sky, USA, Women
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2018: memo for labor
memo for labor you cannot separate the job from the house from the rent from the earth from the food from the healthcare from the water from the transit from the war from the schools from the prisons from the … Continue reading
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Tagged 2010's, 21st Century, Books, Environment, Labor, Poetry, Prisons, Ryan Eckes, USA
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1957: South to Southwesterly Winds Tomorrow
Kay Sage: South to Southwesterly Winds Tomorrow (1957)
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1930: PCA-2
A Pitcairn PCA-2 Autogiro during its certification flight over New York City, 1930
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