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Tag Archives: USA
2015: Clubfoot
Charlie Carroll: Portrait of Clubfoot 2 (2015)
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Tagged 2010's, 21st Century, Animals, Art, Birds, Charlie Carroll, Crows, Photography, Portraits, USA
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1990: Dictionary
Donald Lipski: U-90-45 (1990)
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Tagged 1990's, 20th Century, Art, Aviation, Books, Dictionaries, Donald Lipski, Sculpture, USA
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1976: In the Heart of Civilization
Jungle Action Vol. 2, #19 (January, 1976) Cover Artists: Gil Kane, Dan Adkins, & Irv Watanabe
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Tagged 1970's, 20th Century, Africa, African-Americans, Art, Black Panther, Comics, Dan Adkins, Gil Kane, Irv Watanabe, USA
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1935: Fixing her Hair
Serge Sudeikin: Fixing her Hair (Ruby Elzy in “Porgy and Bess,” 1935) (1935) (listen)
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Tagged 1930's, 20th Century, African-Americans, Art, Music, Opera, Painting, Portraits, Ruby Elzy, Russia, Serge Sudeikin, Theater, USA, Women
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1957: Krazy Ikes
Krazy Ikes!
1897: Steelworks
Lionel Walden: Steelworks, Cardiff, at Night (1897)
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Tagged 1890's, 19th Century, Art, Factories, Great Britain, Lionel Walden, Painting, Trains, USA, Wales
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1927: The Pat, Pat, Pat of the Sleepy Sheep
From Katherine Morris Lester’s Great Pictures and Their Stories, Book Three (1927): Picture Study is rapidly becoming an important factor in our public school education. “Nearly every progressive city,” says the Bureau of Education, Washington, D.C., “is making use of … Continue reading
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1890: Low Tide
Thomas Alexander Harrison: Low Tide, Brittany (c. 1890)
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1964: Satyrs MC
Members of the Satyrs Motorcycle Club at Salton Sea in southern California, 1964; founded in 1954, the club is the oldest continuously operating gay organization in the United States.
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1732: The Morals of Chess
Although Benjamin Franklin likely composed his essay “The Morals of Chess” as early as 1732, it was first published in 1786, during the height of interest surrounding Wolfgang von Kempelen’s mechanical chess-playing Turk; Franklin himself had lost to the machine … Continue reading
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