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Primo giorno di questa settimana manciesteriana, speriam bene...
First day of this week here in Manchester, hope all is well...
The Finch Building is located on Wyoming Avenue, just north of US 11 and PA 307, in downtown Scranton, Pennsylvania, United States. It is a stone building designed by William Scott-Collins in the Renaissance revival style and completed in 1899.
It takes its name from the Finch Manufacturing Company, a maker of finished steel products such as manhole covers that had been based in the city for much of the later 19th century. Its first occupant was the International Correspondence School, a business that offered study-by-mail classes to the many coal miners in the Northeastern Pennsylvania region. The school, founded in 1894, had quickly outgrown its offices at the nearby Coal Exchange Building and needed the space. Later it was used as offices for the Hudson Coal Company.
In 1976 it was added to the National Register of Historic Places. Today it has been remodeled into an apartment building called Finch Towers.
Layered paper, stamp and subtle color enhancing and highlighting with colored pencil. The metallic pencil didn't show up that well on the keys under the camera but you can see it better in the light. Traded to sibylla5
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I barely have the time to shoot... some oldies that I thought looked nice together and seemed to tell a story.
Writing letters, a forgotten art form.
Playing with window light.
Third place in the Open class at Poynton Show 2019.
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Circa 1917, a diver of the Kaiserliche Marine is photographed as he descends a ladder into a calm sea. A narrative from a colourised copy of this card reads:
"Mittels dem Kranen waren bald die gröbsten Teile weg und der Schweißbrenner half nach, und bald sah es oben nicht mehr so gefahrlich aus. Dann kam ein Taucher, der die Unterwasserschaden feststellt und auch hier mit dem Schneide-brenner möglichst "glatt" abrasierte."
La Nature est un temple où de vivants piliers
Laissent parfois sortir de confuses paroles;
L'homme y passe à travers des forêts de symboles
Qui l'observent avec des regards familiars.
Comme de long échos qui de loin se confondent
Dans une ténébreuse et profonde unité,
Vaste comme la nuit et comme la clarté,
Les pafums, les couleurs et les sons se répondent.
Il est des parfums frais comme des chairs d'enfants,
Doux comme del hautbois, verts comme les prairies,
- Et d'autres, corrompus, riches et triomphants,
Ayant l'expansion des choses infinies,
Comme l'ambre, le musc, le benjoin et l'encens,
Qui chantent les transports de l'esprit et des sens.
[La Natura è un tempio ove pilastri viventi
lasciano sfuggire a tratti confuse parole;
l'uomo vi attraversa foreste di simboli,
che l'osservano con sguardi familiari.
Come lunghi echi che da lungi si confondono
in una tenebrosa e profonda unità,
vasta come la notte e il chiarore del giorno,
profumi, colori e suoni si rispondono.
Vi sono profumi freschi come carni di bimbo,
dolci come oboi, verdi come prati,
altri, corrotti, ricchi e trionfanti,
che posseggono il respiro delle cose infinite:
come l'ambra, il muschio, il benzoino e l'incenso;
e cantano i moti dell'anima e dei sensi.]
Charles Baudelaire
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when I saw Parker's photo (which is absolutely beautiful) a few months back and realized I had the same painting, I knew I had to take a picture with it.
I've actually been waiting a long time to shoot in this spot, but I had to wait til everyone was out of the house, haha. I'm actually pretty pleased with this :D
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Men from 2. Landsturm Infanterie Bataillon 'Stade' (IX. 13) somewhere on the Eastern Front circa late 1916 .
The combination of steel helmets and Pickelhaubes tells us this is the transition period, when Stahlhelme were replacing the totally inadequate spiked helmet in the field. The Stahlhelm was first issued to frontline troops fighting on the Western Front in early 1916. Landsturm formations on the Eastern Front could expect to receive their helmets much later.
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Notes:
Mobil ab 15.11.1914. (10. Armee, 1916/1917: zugeteilt der 17. L.Div., Armee-Abtlg. D, Heeresgruppe Eichhorn-Kiew).
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View of a bedroom with its beds, its wood stove and these 3 fellows busy around a table.
Note the routing of the stovepipe in this wooden barracks, possibly built not far away from the theater of operations.
Sans correspondance.
Vue d'une chambrée avec ses lits, son poêle à bois et ces 3 gaillards occupés autour d'une table.
Notez le cheminement du tuyau de poêle dans ce baraquement en bois, peut-être construit non loin du théâtre des opérations.
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The body of a German soldier lies on a muddy battlefield, eerily clutching a clump of soil in his right hand. His identity disc, or Erkennungsmarke is snapped in half. with one half remaining on the body, the other half being taken for recording purposes.
"Upon death, the identity disc was removed for records, leaving the body with no identification.
Even though it would be known that the particular soldier was dead, if the body was not able to be recovered until later (for whatever reason), there would be no way, especially if discovered by a different unit, that identification could be given to the corpse.
The first attempts at solving this problem was done at a regimental/company level by stamping the identical details onto a 1915 disc twice, separated by a score mark. The intention of this was to break the disc in half, taking half (with full details) for records and leaving the other half (also with full details) on the body should the need for future identification arise."
www.westernfrontassociation.com/world-war-i-articles/iden...
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An old farmhouse in the middle of nowhere in Wales. Visited with Wiffsmiff23 and Martyn.
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The litzen on his collar and Edelweißabzeichen on his cap tell us this decorated Bavarian NCO is from the Infanterie-Leib-Regiment.
From the scholarly Marshall Daut:
"The pre-war light-blue uniforms in this regiment had Swedish cuffs, but they were changed to Brandenburg on the M1907 field-grey tunic. Litzen were supposedly worn on the field-grey cuffs during peacetime, but were to be removed in time of war. The vast majority of photos showing BLIR soldiers have no cuff Litzen. The Bavarian government finally relented during the war and permitted BLIR soldiers to purchase cuff Litzen on their own and install them on their cuffs. This was a rare occurrence, though."
Concerning the Prussian Koppelschloß, Marshall writes,
"Prussian belt buckle other than to suggest he may have swapped with a Prussian, which lots of soldiers did who were stationed near or relieved by troops from other states. The Bavarian clothing depots would not have had Prussian belt buckles to distribute, even in a pinch. Other army corps supply depots did do that, Hesse being the most common user of Prussian items. Anything Prussian was abhorrent to Bavarian military people. I think a soldier to soldier informal swap is probably the most likely explanation."
Featured in Uniforms & Equipment of the Imperial German Army 1900 - 1918 by Charles Woolley.
Letters from far.
Shot taken for and ispirated by the Weekly Creative Contest from IGP: Cos'hai in mano? (What are you holding in your hand?)
:P
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