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1870: Storm in the Mountains
Albert Bierstadt: Storm in the Mountains (c. 1870) (source)
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1855: Your Very Flesh Shall Be a Great Poem
This is what you shall do: Love the earth and sun and the animals, despise riches, give alms to every one that asks, stand up for the stupid and crazy, devote your income and labor … Continue reading
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Tagged 1850's, 19th Century, Books, Poetry, Portraits, Printmaking, USA, Walt Whitman
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1964: World’s Largest Miniature City
Built for the 1964 World’s Fair at a cost of $672,000 (about $5.3 million in 2017), the Panorama of New York City at the Queens Museum is the world’s largest architectural model of a city. It includes about 895,000 miniature … Continue reading
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Tagged 1960's, 20th Century, Architecture, Cities, Miniatures, New York City, Sculpture, USA
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1898: The Keeper of the Threshold
Elihu Vedder: The Keeper of the Threshold (1897-1898)
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1902: Orchid and Hummingbird
Martin Johnson Heade: Orchid and Hummingbird near a Mountain Waterfall (1902) The orchid pictured is Cattleya labiata (known also as the Crimson Cattleya or Ruby-lipped Cattleya), which grows in the states of Pernambuco and Alagoas in northeastern Brazil. The plant … Continue reading
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1937: Celebration
Workers’ wives celebrate end of CIO strike of Caterpillar Tractor Company East Peoria, Illinois, April 9, 1937 When the historic UAW sit-down strike in Flint, Michigan, ended after a month and a half on February 11, 1937, it unleashed a … Continue reading
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Tagged 1930's, 20th Century, Food and Drink, Labor, Strikes, Unions, USA, Women
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1864: Blue Morpho
Martin Johnson Heade: Blue Morpho Butterfly (c. 1864)
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Tagged 1860's, 19th Century, Animals, Art, Butterflies, Insects, Martin Johnson Heade, Painting, USA
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1935: Red Butte
Maynard Dixon: Red Butte with Mountain Men (1935)
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Tagged 1930's, 20th Century, Art, Landscapes, Maynard Dixon, Native Americans, Painting, USA
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2016: Adrift
Sam Yeats: Adrift (2016)
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Tagged 2010's, 21st Century, Animals, Art, Monkeys, Music, Painting, Ships & Sailing, The Ocean, USA
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1979: James Baldwin’s Inkwell
Q. How do you see the role of the black American writer in particular? A. Well, you have to understand that presently you’re going to be obsolete, because America is going to be obsolete. But if one substitutes the word … Continue reading
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Tagged 1970's, 20th Century, Activism, African-Americans, Books, James Baldwin, LGBTQ, Objects, The New York Times, USA, Writing
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