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Tag Archives: USA
1851: Portrait
John Adams Whipple: The Moon (1851) Whipple, an inventor and photographer, worked with William Cranch Bond, director of the Harvard College Observatory, to photograph the moon using Harvard’s Great Refractor telescope, at that time the largest in the world.
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Tagged 19th Century, Astronomy, John Adams Whipple, Photography, Science, USA
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1954: Far Out
The 1954 Ford FX Atmos debuted on March 15 at the Chicago Auto Show and featured a radar screen in its one-seat cockpit. (source)
1892: Its Leaves Began to Turn to Flame
From The Gateway (“A magazine devoted to literature, economics, and social service”) Vol. XIX, No. 2 (September 1912): Two friends, at a distance of some miles from each other, had the same bizarre dream. The first account comes to us … Continue reading
1967: The Girl in the Air with the Most Beautiful Hair
Ralph William Williams: TWA Hostess Judy Neumann (1967) [Breck shampoo ad] (source)
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Tagged 20th Century, Advertising, Art, Drawing, Portraits, Ralph William Williams, USA, Women
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1969: Big Sea
Vija Celmins: Untitled (Big Sea #1) (1969)
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Tagged 20th Century, Art, Drawing, Seascapes, USA, Vija Celmins, Women
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2012: The Geography of Incarceration
“The United States is the prison capital of the world. This is not news to most people. When discussing the idea of mass incarceration, we often trot out numbers and dates and charts to explain the growth of imprisonment as … Continue reading
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Tagged 21st Century, Geography, Josh Begley, Photography, Prisons, USA
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1900: Would Christ Belong to a Labor Union?
At the end of Cortland Meyer’s 1900 novel Would Christ Belong to a Labor Union? or Henry Fielding’s Dream (here), the title character—a working man and staunch trade unionist—has a dream of what it would be like to own and … Continue reading
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Tagged 19th Century, Books, Christianity, Cortland Meyer, François Lafon, France, Labor, Painting, Unions, USA
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1958: Rothko / Television
Mark Rothko: No. 37/No. 19 (Slate Blue and Brown on Plum) (1958) (source) RCA Model CTC-7 (1958)
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Tagged 20th Century, Art, Mark Rothko, Painting, Technology, Television, USA
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1920’s: Portraits
Winold Reiss: Turtle (1920) Japanese Student II (1925) Nenauaki , Queen Woman (1928) Harlem Girl I (1925)
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Tagged 20th Century, African-Americans, Art, Germany, Japan, Native Americans, Painting, USA, Winold Reiss, Women
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